Single-player games like Max Payne 3
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Max Payne 3, 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 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Spec Ops: The Line
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
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Vanquish
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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El Paso, Elsewhere
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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My Friend Pedro
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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Into The Matrix
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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Sniper Elite
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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Maximum Action
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
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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God of War
Single-player alternative to Max Payne 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Max Payne 3.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.