Single-player games like Almost Alive
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Almost Alive, 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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Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
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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Strain Tactics
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
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Dustwind
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
ARE YOU READY FOR CLASSIC REALTIME TACTICS? Be the nameless heroine in the wastelands of DUSTWIND's story campaign or find with two friends a new home or fight against and with human players in the elaborate Multiplayer mode or design your very own story campaigns and maps in the mighty map editor!
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GearStorm - Armored Survival
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
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Jaws Of Extinction™
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
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Z ViRus: V.I.R.M Uprising
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
A virus outbreak has spread across the galaxy infecting all human life which are now known as V.I.R.M. The galaxy is now known as a dead space. Explore various ships that have fallen to the virus and fight off waves of enemies to level up your classes and acquire additional assets for your loadout!
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Pocket Universe : Create Your Community
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
Prepare for a brand new adventure in Pocket Universe, a game which combines adored mechanics from strategy and RPG genres. Our vision is an experience which does not solely revolve around the player, but also the world itself which is inhabited by artificially intelligent agents.
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Broken Spell 2
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Almost Alive.
Broken Spell 2 is an ARPG game. You will fight in blood with cruel and ferocious warlock and sorcerers for saving pretty girls.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Almost Alive.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Aris Arcanum
Single-player alternative to Almost Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Almost Alive.
The grand library of Aris now befell into madness — its scholars, corrupted, bear wounds of Ink; a dark, sludge carrying a mind-altering disease. A unique magic-bound roguelite awaits, where a desperate scholar bends the Ink's occult power to spellcraft his path to redemption.