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Single-player games like Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, 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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    Deus Ex: Invisible War — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Invisible War

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Approximately 20 years after Deus Ex, the world is only beginning to recover from a catastrophic worldwide depression. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...

    2013ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

    2016ActionRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    System Shock® 2 (1999) — Steam game cover

    System Shock® 2 (1999)

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    "Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.

    2013ActionRPGDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: The Fall — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: The Fall

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.

    2014ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fortune's Run — Steam game cover

    Fortune's Run

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Explore a decaying industrial world left behind in humanity's never-ending race to conquer the stars. Beneath its iron skies, desperate souls kill and steal for passage to the still-plentiful frontier worlds. Sink or swim in this high-octane first-person shooter with immersive sim elements.

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Peripeteia — Steam game cover

    Peripeteia

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.

    2025ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cruelty Squad — Steam game cover

    Cruelty Squad

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world

    2021ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Half-Life — Steam game cover

    Half-Life

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.

    1998Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cyberpunk 2077 — Steam game cover

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

    2020RPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE — Steam game cover

    METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    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...

    2014Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN — Steam game cover

    METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.

    2008Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored — Steam game cover

    Dishonored

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

    2012ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout 4 — Steam game cover

    Fallout 4

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Thief: Deadly Shadows — Steam game cover

    Thief: Deadly Shadows

    Single-player alternative to Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

    You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City.

    2007Action8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →