Single-player games like Hear My Light
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Hear My Light, 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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ORMS
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
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Transit
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hear My Light.
Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.
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Firva: Strings of Fate (Part 1)
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
Firva Strings of Fate is a story-driven action-adventure with atmospheric cinematic scenes and set pieces, set in a rich, grimdark world. Experience the unique old-school combat with the art of dodge & parrying. Step into the darkest fate as Firva, driven by vengeance and bound to a path of revenge.
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No Return Dark Oath
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
No Return Dark Oath is a dark action-adventure game that follows a police officer who lost his family and chose vengeance over forgiveness. Take down crime syndicates, cleanse the streets, and descend into the heart of darkness bound by an oath you can never turn back from.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hear My Light.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
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Gruta
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
A child runs away to fight the monster she thought was causing trouble in her family. What she found was not what she was expecting. Fight your way out and find the truth about this mysterious place. A narrative-driven platform game, told through hand-drawn cutscenes, completely without text.
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Devive
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
DEVIVE is an action-adventure game where your life is constantly decreasing. Run into a race against death to bring your child back to life, drain the energy of your enemies to survive, forge your fighting style, and solve a variety of puzzles to harvest the power of a fallen entity.
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The Inspector
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hear My Light.
Explore the mind of your loved one trapped in a coma and recover her memories across shifting moments in time to bring her back.
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Titan Chaser
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hear My Light.
Titan Chaser is a surreal driving and walking experience, meant to evoke a feeling of being lost and discovering something mystical at your own pace instead of structured gameplay mechanics. Your job here is to scout giant creatures and scare them away without fighting or killing.
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Tribal Pass
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.
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Save One More
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
Save One More is a heal'em up game about combat medic, where your task is to save lives instead of taking them
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JASEM: Just Another Shooter with Electronic Music
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
JASEM is insanely hard and ridiculously unforgiving low-poly twin-stick arcade blastathon set to an electronic beat and filled with bright explosions and neon effects.
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Katana Kata
Single-player alternative to Hear My Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hear My Light.
Indie souls-like with innovative fight system where you practice your Katana on the path for endless improvement; again and again.