Single-player games like SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES, 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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Ghost Mission
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Inspired by stealth-action classics of the past, take control of an elite commando with the ability to turn invisible on a tense adventure where staying out of sight is the best way to stay alive, where the line between truth and fiction is always blurry, and where nothing is ever as it seems.
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Starlight Squad
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Lead an elite squad of heroines in this high-energy vertical shmup! Blast through enemy waves, dodge deadly patterns, and take down epic bosses as you fight to free the galaxy from the grip of the Merlian Empire.
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Jack Big Chin: Alien Invasion
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Save humanity! Help Jack Big Chin defeat the alien invaders, in a hard action-adventure game with 3D platform elements, where you must improve your weapons and activate cannons to complete your missions.
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Riley In The Abyss
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Riley In The Abyss is a stealth action shooter. You wake up as 'Riley'in an underwater facility to research the depths of the ocean. Upon waking up, something is wrong... Everyone is seemingly dead. Sink or swim in this short psychological horror game.
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R.T.O. Tales of the Dark Lands - Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
R.T.O. Deluxe Edition Platform action retro 16-bit style.
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GyroGunner
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
An omnidirectional scrolling twin-stick shooter with pixel art reminiscent of the 80's.
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Hyper Bullet
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Hyper Bullet is a top-down action game replenished with agreeable vaporwave aesthetics, pure joy of combat and gunplay rhythm.
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Hexapoda
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere making it unbreathable. The richest to fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground. Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity !
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QUACK ATTACK 1985: TURBO DX EDITION
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
Duckster doesn't give a crap about any one or any thing.
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THE GREY MAN
Single-player alternative to SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOS: SPECIAL OPERATIVE STORIES.
An extra dimensional experience through the campgrounds of Tinderboone National Park. The Grey Man has a job to do, but what could it be?