Single-player games like The Great Escape
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Great Escape, 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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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Faces of War
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Faces of War puts you in the heart of World War II – not as a distant commander, but as the leader on the ground. Combining the tactical depth of real-time strategy with the immediacy of direct control, it lets you issue precise orders or jump straight into battle as one of your soldiers.
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Arma 2
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.
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Survivalist
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Where Time Stood Still
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Your plane has ditched on a mountain plateau somewhere in deepest Tibet. You and your companions are alive but recovery from the impact is short lived; a large shape is moving towards you. As it gets closer you rub your eyes in disbelief: a Dinosaur! Where are you?... and when?
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Last Rites
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Great Escape.
"We are food, but not for long." The Zombie apocalypse has come, and your squad is the last line of defense. Command a Special Forces unit with high-tech weaponry in this mission-based FPS with sprawling indoor and outdoor environments.
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Central Intelligence
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Central Intelligence is the ultimate test of your strategic skills. In this CIA-style mission you can operate in three areas, Propaganda, Military, and Political, to achieve your objectives.
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ELF
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Great Escape.
The brave elf Cornelius must set out on a quest to save his true love from the clutches of Necrilous the Not Very Nice. Many villainous creatures, devious puzzles, traps, and tricky platforming challenges stand between Cornelius and his beloved, but they will be no match for him and his magic ring!
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Sleepwalker
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Great Escape.
Lee sleepwalks on city rooftops, through the local zoo, down into a cavernous crypt, and across an active construction site! It’s up to Lee’s loyal dog Ralph to watch over him, neutralize hazards, and safely guide him home to his bed without waking him up in this hilarious puzzle platformer.
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Pushover
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Great Escape.
G.I.Ant is extremely clever, and highly trained in tactical maneuvers. What's more, he is extraordinarily strong, and super smart. His latest mission is to gain access to the crazy world of Captain Rat's Treasure Caves. Straight forward, huh?...... NOT!
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Motor Mash
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Great Escape.
Get Into the Mash! And Get into the 3D Cartoon Madness, 12 different cars and drivers in a fast, varied, style and weapons, lots of weapons!
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Battle Command
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Great Escape.
Take control of a futuristic assault tank, dropped by Helicarrier right into the action! With multiple camera views and an array of weaponry, this much-loved ‘command’ game focuses more on outright fighting than the strategic elements of similar retro titles.