Single-player games like BioShock Infinite
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to BioShock Infinite, 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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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Wolfenstein: The New Order
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Atomic Heart
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
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Metro 2033 Redux
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
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INDUSTRIA
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.
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BioShock™ Remastered
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
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BioShock® 2
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BioShock Infinite.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
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Freedom Force
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From a distant corner of the galaxy, an evil alien race sets in motion a sinister plan to conquer the Earth. They unleash a powerful catalyst — Energy X — that imbues the planet's worst miscreants with super-powers to bring the planet to its knees. Now Earth's only hope lies with a new breed of heroes... The Freedom Force!
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Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
Single-player alternative to BioShock Infinite — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Freedom is threatened yet again and only Minute Man and his heroic Freedom Force can save the day in the follow up to one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2002. Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich brings dynamic storytelling, fast-paced tactical role-play, and larger-than-life characters from the comic book pages to the computer...