Single-player games like Half-Life: Alyx
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Half-Life: Alyx, 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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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Relive Half-Life.
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Vertigo 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Vertigo 2 is a single-player VR adventure. Explore the depths of the vast Quantum Reactor as you descend to finish your journey home.
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BONEWORKS
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.
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Metro Awakening
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Red Matter 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.
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Red Matter
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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Bastion
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.