Single-player games like Saints Row: The Third
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Saints Row: The Third, 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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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
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Saints Row 2
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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Saints Row
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
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Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
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Grand Theft Auto III
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
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Mafia
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Sunset Overdrive
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
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Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.
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Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.
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Red Faction®: Armageddon™
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
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Red Faction
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.
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Red Faction II
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
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Summoner
Single-player alternative to Saints Row: The Third — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Summoners have toppled empires and challenged gods. They are venerated as saviours and feared as destroyers. With rings crafted by the ancient Khosani, the gifted can call forth demons, dragons, and elementals, but only the strongest can control the forces they unleash.