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Single-player games like Outbreak: The New Nightmare

Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak: The New Nightmare, 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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    Infernax — Steam game cover

    Infernax

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VERSUS SQUAD — Steam game cover

    VERSUS SQUAD

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

    2016ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ben and Ed - Blood Party — Steam game cover

    Ben and Ed - Blood Party

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Welcome to the Blood Party! Play together with up to 3 people and compete in deadly game shows. Customize your zombie, build your own levels, share them via Steam Workshop and die a lot.

    2018ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil Revelations 2 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil Revelations 2

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Beast Terror Fright — Steam game cover

    Space Beast Terror Fright

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?

    2022ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Loco Parentis / 孤女咒怨 — Steam game cover

    Loco Parentis / 孤女咒怨

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Surreal survival horror, where you alone or with a friend have to solve puzzles and try to survive in the endless entrance among the monsters

    2019ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake — Steam game cover

    THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake is a remade version of the game introduced in 1997 in arcade platform. A classic arcade rail-shooter receives a whole new entourage and gameplay changes to suit modern gaming standards.

    2022Action24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    墲人之境-无人之境 — Steam game cover

    墲人之境-无人之境

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    《Ashland》 is the subject of 1 v4 non-equilibrium games. Players can play the role of adventurers into the tomb, crack the mechanism, take away treasures. You can also act as a gravekeeper to stop and destroy them. Rich tomb exploration tools and tomb guarding skills for you to experience and play

    2023ActionSportsStrategySingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    SILENT HILL 2

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 3 — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 3

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.

    2020Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.

    2026ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak — Steam game cover

    Outbreak

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles — Steam game cover

    Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak: Lost Hope — Steam game cover

    Outbreak: Lost Hope

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak: Epidemic — Steam game cover

    Outbreak: Epidemic

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak: Endless Nightmares — Steam game cover

    Outbreak: Endless Nightmares

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    The nightmare continues for Lydia and her fellow survivors. Experience true horror in this co-op survival horror roguelike.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak: Contagious Memories — Steam game cover

    Outbreak: Contagious Memories

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dinobreak — Steam game cover

    Dinobreak

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows — Steam game cover

    Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows

    Single-player alternative to Outbreak: The New Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outbreak: The New Nightmare.

    Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →