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Single-player games like Deadly Days

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Deadly Days, 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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    Organ Trail: Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Organ Trail: Director's Cut

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

    Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

    2013StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caveblazers — Steam game cover

    Caveblazers

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Doomsday Hunters — Steam game cover

    Doomsday Hunters

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAD — Steam game cover

    RAD

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

    2019Action4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    March of the Living — Steam game cover

    March of the Living

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

    Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Teleglitch: Die More Edition — Steam game cover

    Teleglitch: Die More Edition

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

    2013ActionIndie3.24 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skelly Selest — Steam game cover

    Skelly Selest

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.

    2018ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite — Steam game cover

    Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Days.

    The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deadly Days: Roadtrip — Steam game cover

    Deadly Days: Roadtrip

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Loot, shoot, and mow down zombie hordes in this bullet heaven fever dream. Embark on a deadly roadtrip, fuel your bus, decide when to extract – and get that sweet inventory management kick when that new slot in your backpack fits just right.

    2025ActionIndieEarly Access9.74 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    REVEIL — Steam game cover

    REVEIL

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deadly Days.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Indoorlands — Steam game cover

    Indoorlands

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

    The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shift 87 — Steam game cover

    Shift 87

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales of the Tiny Planet — Steam game cover

    Tales of the Tiny Planet

    Single-player alternative to Deadly Days — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    Tales of the Tiny Planet tells the story of a separated group of planet friends who want to reunite. You have to assist them against the dangers of time and space.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →