Single-player games like Blood Waves
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Blood Waves, 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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Yet Another Zombie Defense
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Blood Waves.
Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
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VERSUS SQUAD
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
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!
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They Are Coming
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.
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Left 4 Dead
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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The Game of Annie 安妮的游戏
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Hi,This is a third person action shooter game. Support for custom character size, support for costume change, use guns and bows for long-distance combat, can also use cold weapons for melee combat, with some training elements. Enemies include monsters and humans.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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PAYDAY 2
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Killing Floor
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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Dungeon Defenders
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Blood Waves.
Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!
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Tomb Raider: Legend
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
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Gravity Quest
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Blood Waves.
Gravity Quest. Plunge into the world of magic 3d mazes! Feel deeply this fairy world free of gravitation.