Single-player games like Zombie Desperation
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Zombie Desperation, 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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Walking Zombie: Shooter
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Zombie Desperation.
The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!
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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zombie Desperation.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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Endless Horde
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!
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THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zombie Desperation.
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake is a remade version of the game introduced in 1997 in arcade platform. A classic arcade rail-shooter receives a whole new entourage and gameplay changes to suit modern gaming standards.
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Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of undead.
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Left 4 Dead
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zombie Desperation.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Deadly Escape
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Deadly Escape is a Survival Horror game made with pixel art graphics, inspired by survival horror games of the '90s.
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Undead & Beyond
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Take control of Dr. Beyond in his quest to escape the facility! Use the products of your research to create an undead army and cause havoc in the complex while you aim to accomplish your objectives to reach the next area.
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Visceral Cubes
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
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.
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Defense: Abominations
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.
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Time Splatter
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Time splatter is a small episodic rail shooter game where our protagonist, after touching an ancient monolith, is transported to the times where the black plague transformed people into zombie like creatures and knights protected the land.
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Dragon Chase
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
Dragon chase is a small game hybrid between a platformer and a runner where you take the control of a knight being chased by a Dragon. Avoid being ripped by the Dragon, dodge traps and fend off enemies on a randomized environment.
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Orc Raid
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
The horde is here! fight to the death using the weapons you find scattered across the battlefield. Orc Raid is a first person shooter where you fight hordes of enemies across a randomized environment to rank up via Online Leaderboards.