Single-player games like The Wastes
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Wastes, 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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Blood: Refreshed Supply™
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.
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BROKE PROTOCOL
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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DOOM + DOOM II
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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After the Fall®
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
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Borderlands 3
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
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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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.
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Quake II
Single-player alternative to The Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Wastes.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.