Single-player games like Urban Strife
Below are 13 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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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.
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Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares 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.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Urban Strife.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Every Day We Fight
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Urban Strife.
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly. Transform a trio of ragtag civilians into seasoned soldiers - and escape the alien timeloop.
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG 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!
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Dust to the End
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Urban Strife.
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
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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.
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Dead Grid
Single-player alternative to Urban Strife — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Strife.
Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.