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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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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THE LAST HUNT
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
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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Dead Purge: Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
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 Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
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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J.A.W.S
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
An RNG, dynamic and strategic FPS. Test your mettle against endless waves of super soldiers. How long can you last?
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Darkness Assault
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
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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Xmas Zombie Rampage 2
Single-player alternative to Zombie Desperation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Desperation.
John Iron is back, the Marine Killing Machine. Zombie invasion in China! Alert! Alert! They have stolen the Xmas presents and the priceless girlie photo collection from the famous Sakura Gallery with all the lovely girlie photos. Time to strike back! The chaos strike back! Hooray!
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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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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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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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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.