Single-player games like DeadboySkeleton
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to DeadboySkeleton, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Ground Zero
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadboySkeleton.
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
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The Killing Antidote
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadboySkeleton.
This is a TPS game. Shooting, fighting, dress-up, puzzle solving, and more. In the future, a special germ causes humans to be constantly infected and mutated. The protagonist, Jodi, is a brave journalist who goes on her way to find the legendary antidote and is in danger.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadboySkeleton.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
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Alien Shooter 2 - New Era
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadboySkeleton.
A desert, an abandoned city, cramped underground corridors of MAGMAs research centers, and for hundreds of kilometers around there is only darkness and thousands of monsters coming from all sides. You have only two options - to achieve your goal or die.
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Resident Evil 5
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadboySkeleton.
This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadboySkeleton.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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The Haunted: Hells Reach
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadboySkeleton.
Winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, The Haunted: Hells Reach is a fast-paced horror game where your goal is to liberate cursed places and survive the assault of Hell.
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to DeadboySkeleton — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadboySkeleton.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.