Single-player games like Max Payne
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Max Payne, 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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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Max Payne 3
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
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Vanquish
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.
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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Grand Theft Auto III
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
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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Hitman: Absolution™
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
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Trepang2
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
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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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
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Severed Steel
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.
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My Friend Pedro
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
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Maximum Action
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.
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Sniper Elite
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.
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Alan Wake
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
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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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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Death Rally
Single-player alternative to Max Payne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne.
Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.