Single-player games like Deadburg
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Deadburg, 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 Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Dysterra
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
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Survival Machine
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
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Crushed
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadburg.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
'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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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadburg.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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CastleMiner Z
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Deadburg.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadburg.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!