Single-player games like Outbreak
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak, 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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Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.
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Resident Evil 6
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
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Gears 5
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Wizard with a Gun
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Wizard with a Gun is an online sandbox survival game for 1 - 4 players set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with a friend to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Grim Dawn
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Outbreak: Lost Hope
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
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Outbreak: Epidemic
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.
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Outbreak: Endless Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.
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Outbreak: Contagious Memories
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.
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Dinobreak
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak.
Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.
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Outbreak: Shades of Horror
Single-player alternative to Outbreak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak.
Cross-platform online 4-player co-op survival horror returns in this early 2000s-inspired, undead apocalyptic nightmare.