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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Time's Prison
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
A pirate who is burning with love for treasure finally finds the treasure island on the map. However, the pirate has puzzles to solve and adventures to go through. The story of the game starts right here.
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Reality Rifts
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
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Explore Dreams: Dreamcore
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Now you can explore your dreams while solving puzzles...
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Robocoder - Dwarf Mountain
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Free Demo Available!. Fresh new unique gameplay, Like nothing you have played before! Take the role of Niko, programming Mar10 in this entirely new genre of Logic puzzle adventure! Early Access! Get involved now! Discord/Steam Community!
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Joy-N Help Me
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
JOY-N Help ME
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Balls and Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
Challenging spatial puzzle platformer. Open walls and put the balls in the holes. Requires logic and tactics to complete. Lots of levels with increasing complexity. Relaxing and ambient gameplay. How deep can you get?
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Seasons of the Samurai
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
Lead a samurai through a series of puzzles set in the eight provinces of Japan. Solve increasingly challenging puzzles by controlling the season and the time of day in each level.
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Super Marble Brothers
Single-player alternative to Heavy Burden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Precision 3D platform game with cooperative or single player challenges above the clouds.
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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”.