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Single-player games like Slayer Shock

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Slayer Shock, 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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    Eldritch — Steam game cover

    Eldritch

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blood West — Steam game cover

    Blood West

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!

    2023ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Invisible War — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Invisible War

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer Shock.

    Approximately 20 years after Deus Ex, the world is only beginning to recover from a catastrophic worldwide depression. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Slayer Shock.

    You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...

    2013ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Slayer Shock.

    You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

    2016ActionRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Void Bastards — Steam game cover

    Void Bastards

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Slayer Shock.

    Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

    2019ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer Shock.

    The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Persistence — Steam game cover

    The Persistence

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines — Steam game cover

    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer Shock.

    Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

    2007Action19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    State of Decay — Steam game cover

    State of Decay

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Slayer Shock.

    The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

    2013ActionSimulationRPGDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NEON STRUCT — Steam game cover

    NEON STRUCT

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    You are Jillian Cleary: an ex-spy on the run, framed for treason and hunted by your former agency. You must move in secret, survive off the grid, and find a way to clear your name. Old friends and new allies will lend their support; but with the eyes of the world upon you, who can you trust?

    2015ActionIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DOOM — Steam game cover

    DOOM

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer Shock.

    Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.

    2016Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Slayer — Steam game cover

    Vampire Slayer

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Other vampire hunters would just slay vampires and get the reward. But this crazy huntress, she was different. She would fight a vampire until it was helpless and weak, and then she would completely subdue it and use for her very own and very dirty purposes...

    2024IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Win the Game — Steam game cover

    Super Win the Game

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

    2014ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    You Have to Win the Game — Steam game cover

    You Have to Win the Game

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

    2014ActionIndieFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gunmetal Arcadia — Steam game cover

    Gunmetal Arcadia

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    War is coming. How will you serve?

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gunmetal Arcadia Zero — Steam game cover

    Gunmetal Arcadia Zero

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer Shock.

    Unrest brews in the city of Arcadia, and a monstrous enemy approaches.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    EPONYMOUS — Steam game cover

    EPONYMOUS

    Single-player alternative to Slayer Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slayer Shock.

    EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →