Single-player games like J.A.W.S
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to J.A.W.S, 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 Purge: Outbreak
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
Dead Purge: Outbreak is a modern first-person shooter set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world where every minute can be your last.
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Project Alpha 002
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
Abandoned wilderness awaits you, every day is a struggle to survive. Fight against hunger, the nature and the remaining residents. Collect resources to build a fortress, gain experience to earn supply drops to improve your survival chances in survivalmode.
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Uventa
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Violent with J.A.W.S.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
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Darkness Assault
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.
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Space of Darkness
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?
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Lone Leader
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
Lone Leader is a unique zombie apocalypse survival game. Your only aim in life is to survive. Explore the spine chilling open world map in a quest to survive.
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THE LAST HUNT
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
November 2029, 4 years after the great war nearly all life forms on earth are dead. You are one of the last survivours. You have to fight your way thru the hordes of undead creatures. If you love old school arcade shooters like Commando, Dogs of War, Mercs... then this is the right game for you!
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Visceral Cubes
Single-player alternative to J.A.W.S — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with J.A.W.S.
After losing contact with a space station on mars, you are sent to retrieve a high value item for the company. It didn’t take very long for our protagonist to find out that something went very very wrong in this place. Use stealth to get past your enemies or run for your life hoping that they don't catch up and explode in your face.