Single-player games like METAL GEAR SURVIVE
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to METAL GEAR SURVIVE, 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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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Zector 7
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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Black Myth: Wukong
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
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ELDEN RING
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
In this stealth-action thriller, a terrorist group known as the Engineers launches the Blacklist, a series of escalating attacks on US interests. Only one man can stop them: legendary covert agent Sam Fisher.
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FINAL FANTASY XVI
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
An epic dark fantasy where fates are decided by mighty Eikons and the Dominants who wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a tragic warrior who swears revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that leaves naught but calamity in its wake.
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God of War
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
World-renowned Kojima Productions brings the Metal Gear Solid franchise to Steam with METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES. Play as the legendary hero Snake and infiltrate a Cuban military base to rescue the hostages. Can you make it out alive?
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METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
A remake of the 2004 game METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER, with the same gripping story and engrossing world, now with all new graphics and 3D audio that enhance the jungle atmosphere. Get ready for the ultimate survival stealth action experience.
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METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the origin story of Naked Snake and his mentor The Boss and the fifth title in the METAL GEAR series.
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METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
The first 3D title in the METAL GEAR series pioneering a new level of stealth action with live action footage, cinematic cut scenes, and innovative gameplay.
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METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
The fourth game in the METAL GEAR series: set over two incidents in 2007 and 2009, featuring Solid Snake and Raiden, introducing new stealth gameplay features.
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Castlevania Dominus Collection
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Three incredible action adventure games from the Castlevania series have finally returned, for the first time! But wait, there's more! Haunted Castle Revisited, a redesigned version of the very first Castlevania arcade game, makes its debut!
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Castlevania Advance Collection
Single-player alternative to METAL GEAR SURVIVE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Count Dracula is once more back from the dead... Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces!