Single-player games like Messiah
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Messiah, 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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Binary Domain
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!
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Agents of Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
In Agents of MAYHEM, you run a no-holds barred operation against a shadowy super-villain organization known only as LEGION and their mysterious leader, the Morningstar. Explore the city of Seoul as a variety of Super Agents to thwart LEGION's vile plans to take over the world!
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Deus Ex: The Fall
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Messiah.
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.
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Sniper Elite 5
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Messiah.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
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Sniper Elite: Resistance
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Messiah.
Offering unparalleled sniping mechanics, stealth and tactical third-person combat, Sniper Elite: Resistance turns the attention of the award-winning series towards a hidden war, far from the front lines, deep within the heart of occupied France.
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MDK 2
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
3 Unlikely Heroes, 1 Ultimate Goal Kurt Hectic is back to save the universe. This time he is teamed with the genius Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog, Max. Together they must out-sneak, out-blast and out-think their enemies as they attempt to reclaim earth from a vile alien menace.
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Deus Ex: Invisible War
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
Approximately 20 years after Deus Ex, the world is only beginning to recover from a catastrophic worldwide depression. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
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Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sacrifice is the acclaimed real-time strategy game that focuses on combat instead of resource gathering. The only two resources you'll need to worry about are mana and souls. Need more units? Capture the souls of your enemy. Cast spells of awesome power.
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MDK
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
ON A GOOD DAY, ONLY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE. As vast alien mining cities suck the power and minerals from every major metropolis on Earth simultaneously, time is of the essence as millions of civilians are expiring by the second.
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Earthworm Jim
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Messiah.
Jim wasn't always a studly super-worm. He was once just a spineless, dirt-eater with no real mission in his life...
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Earthworm Jim 2
Single-player alternative to Messiah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Messiah.
Earthworm Jim is back with more side-scrolling platform action. Whip, run, jump, fly, and Snott swing your way to victory!