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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Happy Z-Day
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Blood Waves.
Today is supposed to be your daughter's birthday, But something happened in this town. Almost everyone has turn into a Monster. You need to protect your daughter and her birthday party!
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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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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She Will Shoot
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
She Will Shoot - is a cool zombie killer from the third person in a variety of scenery. Choose an arena and use different types of weapons to clear it of zombies.
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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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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to Blood Waves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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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.