Single-player games like Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Apocryph: an old-school shooter, 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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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
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Hellbound
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Classic First Person Shooter style game. Like the good old days. An action game focused on speed, gore, guns, and metal music. Inspired by the 90s’ classics with modern visuals and audio!
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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METRO CONFLICT: THE ORIGIN
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Metro Conflict: The Origin is a futuristic FPS experience offering unique characters, weapons, and suit skills in a team-based competitive gameplay. Choose your mercenary and become one of two factions in this strategic warfare and enter the battlefield.
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STRAFE: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
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Redemption: Saints And Sinners
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Violent with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Squad of professional soldiers was sent to scout distant space station. After the accident, that station were evacuated long ago and all the exits were blocked with power shields. But the incoming signal from there made the Commander concerned. Squad's ship were fired upon and the survivors woke up at the station.
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Painkiller
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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Descent 3
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
The vertigo continues as the highly anticipated sequel to Descent I and II takes the mind-bending, pulse-pounding experience to another level!
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Strife: Veteran Edition
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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UnderDread
Single-player alternative to Apocryph: an old-school shooter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
A first-person horror adventure game that will take you on a journey through an ancient castle and that lies beneath. Dangers and forgotten horrors await in the dark...