Single-player games like Heavy in the Hand
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Heavy in the Hand, 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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EMPTY SHELL 2
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.
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Baitcore
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy in the Hand.
BAITCORE is a survival fishing adventure game. Trapped inside a drifting container after a shipwreck, you are lost somewhere in the open ocean. By day, scavenge for supplies among the wreckage and fish to survive. When night falls, stay hidden—because something is lurking beneath the waves.
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Half Left
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Trapped inside a quarantined research complex, a wheelchair-bound nurse must survive a curse beyond human comprehension.
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The Sleep Experiment
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.
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Dead of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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Lamentum
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Ad Infernum
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
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The Last Cargo
Single-player alternative to Heavy in the Hand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy in the Hand.
The Last Cargo is a dark survival horror - where your road to independence leads through the hell of imprisonment.