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Single-player games like Urban Strife

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Urban Strife, 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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    Cyber Knights: Flashpoint — Steam game cover

    Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead State: Reanimated — Steam game cover

    Dead State: Reanimated

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG — Steam game cover

    Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dreadlands — Steam game cover

    Dreadlands

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?

    2020StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Every Day We Fight — Steam game cover

    Every Day We Fight

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.

    Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.

    2025ActionStrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden — Steam game cover

    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.

    A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — Steam game cover

    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    For The King — Steam game cover

    For The King

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified — Steam game cover

    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    State of Decay — Steam game cover

    State of Decay

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.

    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.

    2013ActionSimulationRPGDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    XCOM® 2

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urban Strife.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout 4 — Steam game cover

    Fallout 4

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.

    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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    Wasteland 2: Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.

    From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition — Steam game cover

    State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Urban Strife.

    The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

    2020ActionSimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Xenonauts 2 — Steam game cover

    Xenonauts 2

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urban Strife.

    Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.

    2026StrategySimulationRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jagged Alliance 3 — Steam game cover

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urban Strife.

    The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

    2023ActionStrategy13.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →