Single-player games like Defend the Dawn
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Defend the Dawn, 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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Blood Waves
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Hardcore and bloody shooter where you will have to repel the attacks of the living dead using the destroying traps, defensive barricades and also weapon of close and long-range combat.
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defend the Dawn.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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Daymare: 1998
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
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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Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defend the Dawn.
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
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Frontline Zed
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.
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Cepheus Protocol
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.
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10 Miles To Safety
Single-player alternative to Defend the Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.