Single-player games like Deadly Escape
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Deadly Escape, 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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Zombie Desperation
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Zombie Desperation is a small horror game where you shoot hordes of zombies until you die, aiming to obtain a higher rank in the online leaderboards while unlocking new scenarios and weapons.
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Defense: Abominations
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.
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Orc Raid
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
The horde is here! fight to the death using the weapons you find scattered across the battlefield. Orc Raid is a first person shooter where you fight hordes of enemies across a randomized environment to rank up via Online Leaderboards.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Frontline Zed
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
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House
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
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10 Miles To Safety
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.
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Endless Horde
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!
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Undead & Beyond
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Take control of Dr. Beyond in his quest to escape the facility! Use the products of your research to create an undead army and cause havoc in the complex while you aim to accomplish your objectives to reach the next area.
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Visceral Cubes
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
After losing contact with a space station on mars, you are sent to retrieve a high value item for the company. It didn’t take very long for our protagonist to find out that something went very very wrong in this place. Use stealth to get past your enemies or run for your life hoping that they don't catch up and explode in your face.
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Time Splatter
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Time splatter is a small episodic rail shooter game where our protagonist, after touching an ancient monolith, is transported to the times where the black plague transformed people into zombie like creatures and knights protected the land.
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Dragon Chase
Single-player alternative to Deadly Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Escape.
Dragon chase is a small game hybrid between a platformer and a runner where you take the control of a knight being chased by a Dragon. Avoid being ripped by the Dragon, dodge traps and fend off enemies on a randomized environment.