Single-player games like The Surge 2
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Surge 2, 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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The Surge
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand in Kyoto against the encroaching Genma menace. Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
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Darksiders III
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
Return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash Action Adventure where players assume the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The most enigmatic of the Four Horsemen, FURY must bring balance to the forces that now ravage Earth.
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Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
Battle hordes of yokai in this masocore Action RPG. Create your protagonist and embark on an adventure through a myriad of locales across Japan during the Sengoku period. Utilize the new Yokai Shift ability to defeat even the most ferocious yokai and be prepared to brave through Dark Realms created by your enemies.
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Prototype 2
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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ELDEN RING
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
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METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Surge 2.
Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
In solo or co-op, experience Reign of Sand, the ultimate version of Atlas Fallen. Ride the sands of a timeless land and defeat legendary monsters in spectacular Action-RPG combat using devastating powers.
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Venetica - Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge 2.
In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only Scarlett, the daughter of Death, can stand in his way.
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Black Sails - The Ghost Ship
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Best played with the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click adventure game.Two survivors of a shipwreck try to survive in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping for rescue, they are calling, but nobody answers. They manage to go on board. Will this be their rescue?
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Ankh - Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sneak into the pharaoh's pyramid and meet up with Assil and his crew of crazy friends. Just as the party starts to get hot, a silly accident turns life upside down! Help Assil reverse the curse!
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Jack Keane
Single-player alternative to The Surge 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Colonial England. Under a certain amount of duress... Jack takes on a job, which will not only cause him a great deal of trouble, but also bring to light the answer to a mystery out of his distant past. A lack of money leads Jack to accept a charter to take a British secret agent to mysterious 'Tooth Island'.