Single-player games like Police Stories
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Police 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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Police Stories: The Academy
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories.
Welcome, trainee! Use tactics and special equipment to become a true cop in the free version of Police Stories: The Academy. Neutralize criminals, search for clues and find a "rat" in the police station alone or in co-op with a partner.
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Door Kickers: Action Squad
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories.
Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.
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Hot Brass
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories.
As an elite SWAT operator, think fast and put your tactics to the test to master a series of missions and save lives. Summon your team of up to four players in online and local co-op, or hone your skills solo. Don’t just be the best—be the best of the best.
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LA Cops
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories.
LA Cops is a fast, action packed 3D top down shooter set to a theme of 70s Cops in LA trying to do a tough job in a tough town.
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Ready or Not
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
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Intravenous
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories.
Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!
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Thunder Tier One
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Police Stories.
Thunder Tier One is a realistic top-down shooter where you join an elite special operations team tasked with stopping a dangerous terrorist organization wreaking havoc across the fictional Eastern European country of Salobia.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Police Stories.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Police Stories.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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SWAT
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Police Stories.
Combines FPS & TPS. It puts players against some of them. And the winning team gets points and coins. There are 3 game modes. There are many weapons to pick up.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Police Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Police Stories.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.