Single-player games like Saints Row 2
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Saints Row 2, 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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Saints Row: The Third
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
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Saints Row
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
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Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
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Grand Theft Auto III
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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Sleeping Dogs
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.
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Xenia
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
A Metroidvania in Ancient Greece. Take control of the blacksmith Ardas. Fight epic bosses, find secret rooms and treasures, spend your gold for upgrades, and choose your fate through alternative endings. All this for one purpose. To save queen Xenia.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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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Just Cause
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Your world...Your rules!
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.
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Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.
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Red Faction®: Armageddon™
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
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Red Faction
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.
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Red Faction II
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
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Summoner
Single-player alternative to Saints Row 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Summoners have toppled empires and challenged gods. They are venerated as saviours and feared as destroyers. With rings crafted by the ancient Khosani, the gifted can call forth demons, dragons, and elementals, but only the strongest can control the forces they unleash.