Single-player games like BioShock™
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to BioShock™, 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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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™.
In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.
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BioShock Infinite
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
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.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™.
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...
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INDUSTRIA
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Black Mesa
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Relive Half-Life.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with BioShock™.
"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.
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DEATHLOOP
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
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.
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Singularity™
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
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Thief
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to BioShock™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock™.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.