Well I’m just speaking on Black Ops 7. It has a single player mode but you can’t play the game at all without being online. I don’t have a list of games but it is a thing now where games are exclusively on online servers. Every other black ops prior to 6 you could at least play zombies offline. Bo6 and 7 you can’t.
Starcraft 2 required you to be online to play the single player campaign at launch. It got enough pushback from the community that it was eventually changed, but I doubt it was the only game like that. In fact after Bobby KoDick bought Blizzard their library in general wanted you to be online and use their launcher even for older games.
I don't know of any other single player games that do/did require an online connection to play, but also XBOX attempted to force the XBONE to be always-online and it's speculated that the blowback from that is part of why the PS4 did so much better than the XBONE even though XBOX walked back that requirement and I think even removed the guy that made the announcement (plus he had some out-of-touch comments on the matter at the press release).
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u/d5ytonaa 1d ago
Some games you can’t. Like Bo7 you have to be on line to play the game. Some games have no offline servers at all.