Single-player games like The Red Weight
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Red Weight, 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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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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NeonCode
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
NeonCode is a one hour long cyberpunk-retro adventure game made by one developer. It was inspired by classics such as the Blade Runner-movies, Miami Vice, Grim Fandango and the games of Telltale.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Neo Cab
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to The Red Weight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Red Weight.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society