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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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Half-Life: Alyx.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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Alien: Rogue Incursion VR
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.
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HordeZ
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
If you are looking for a on-rails arcade experience that blends between classics like Doom, Left 4 dead and House of the Dead then we got you covered! Fast and simple gameplay that will bring you into a creepy world of zombies and demons. Show your skills to the world through our global leadboard system!
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The Lab
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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DOOM VFR
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
DOOM® VFR brings the fast-paced, brutal gameplay fans of the series love to virtual reality. Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.
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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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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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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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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Half-Life: Alyx — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Half-Life: Alyx.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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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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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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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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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.