Single-player games like Heavy Burden
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Heavy Burden, 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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The Ball
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.
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The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Burden.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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The Last Cube
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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Niko: Through The Dream
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Niko is a spiritual journey through the dreams, where adventure, puzzles and mysteries come together in an oneiric and minimalist world. Dare to dream!
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The Pedestrian
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
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Candleman: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
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Time Loader
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Burden.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Only Up !
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
⭐⭐⭐ Embark on an exciting journey in Only UP ! Play as Jacky, a teenager from the ghetto who wants to get out of poverty and join the wealth of the Space ! As you explore a huge world full of secrets and mysteries, you will have to climb as high as possible ! ⭐⭐⭐
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We Are The Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves
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DEPLOYMENT
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
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Synthwave Burnout
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
The lost highway awaits you to take you beyond the horizon. Relax and let the sounds of synthwave open the way into the realm of neon - a world of revived imagination and fantasy, more real than reality itself.
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The Divine Invasion
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Strange events occur in the cyberpunk age: a mysterious criminal steals museum pieces, historical documents in order to make certain corrections and then puts everything back. Someone is trying to prove that Good and Evil have swapped places in the past… But why?
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Cybernetic Fault
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!
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NeverSynth
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
NeverSynth is a 3rd person game that is a rhythm driving simulator.This game is a dynamic action game in which you have to drive a car to rhythmic music and collect beats. The more beats you collect, the more game points you earn.
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Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Summon demonic invasions, punish heretical enclaves, punish traitors and renegades. Do not deny yourself anything - after all, you are the hand and anger of the highest good. Give the apostates darkness, so that they learn to appreciate the light!
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Dofamine
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.