Single-player games like The Hateful Dead
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Hateful Dead, 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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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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Blood Reaver
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
A Dark-fantasy, Round-based FPS. Become the Blood Reaver in solo or 4-player co-op. Harness forbidden magic and weaponry to shoot, blast and slice your way through endless hordes of demons. Upgrade your arsenal and survive long enough to discover the ancient secrets of the gods of hell.
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Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hateful Dead.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
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Devil Daggers
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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CRUEL
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Project Warlock
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.
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Call of Zombie
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Hateful Dead.
Call of Zombie is a survival shooting game set in the World War II era. As waves of zombies approach, your task is to protect the armory. By skillfully utilizing the remains of zombies, you can achieve unexpected effects and outcomes.
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Aliens vs. Ghosts
Single-player alternative to The Hateful Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Hateful Dead.
Use Nukes, Electricity, Heat Rays and powerful Minions in this wave-based first person shooter providing endless hours of Ghost-slaying entertainment, solo or Co-Op. Only Ghosts stand in the way of your invasion of Earth.