Single-player games like Necro Mutex
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Necro Mutex, 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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Sinister Halloween
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Experience Halloween Horror in PC or VR. You go out with your friends, trick or treating, entering haunted attractions, as you make your way to the big party, but this year's holiday of the afterlife brings something sinister.
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Fast and Low
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Play in VR or with traditional FPS controls as you breach and clear your way through 23 handcrafted levels. Fast and Low is the only tactical shooter where a VR player and a keyboard player can team up side-by-side, locally or online, in intense co-op missions.
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Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
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Deadness
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
Deadness is a VR game of the horror genre that will literally knock you off your feet. Experience real fear and anxiety helplessly confined to a wheelchair in a super-realistic VR environment. Not for the faint of heart! This is no game anymore!
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Zombie Army VR
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
Zombie Hitler may have been defeated, but the zombie hordes are still at large and Europe remains in the throes of war. Return to the field as part of the Deadhunters, an elite squad fighting to end the zombie apocalypse!
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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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Dead Effect 2 VR
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.
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Don't Knock Twice
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Necro Mutex.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Painkiller
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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BioShock™
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Necro Mutex.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Attack Of The Retro Bots
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
10,000 levels of retro robot sci-fi action. Choose which maps you play, from super easy to practically impossible. Save Earth from the Retro Bot invasion. Playable as a desktop first person shooter, or in VR on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and WMR.
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Extermination Overdrive
Single-player alternative to Necro Mutex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Necro Mutex.
Extermination Overdrive is a single player 2D arcade shooter set in space. Battle swarms of enemy space craft and massive dreadnoughts.