Single-player games like Painted Memories
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Painted Memories, 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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Larva Mortus
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Larva Mortus is a fast-paced hack and slash top-down shooter. As an agent specializing in exorcism, you are tasked to hunt monsters of the supernatural in a dark, ominous, and randomly generated atmosphere full of undead, terrifying and demonic nightmares.
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Ocean's Heart
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat menacing foes, and unravel the mystery of Ocean’s Heart. All done in beautiful, bright pixel art.
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The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
From Digital Sun, creators of Moonlighter, The Mageseeker is an action RPG in the League of Legends universe. Play as Sylas, a mage now freed from years in captivity. Wield the chains that once bound you and liberate Demacia from the Mageseekers' tyranny.
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Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Explore a huge open game world in classic action-adventure fashion! Prove your worth by fighting through monster-infested dungeons to save the Kingdom of Blossom!
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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Blacksea Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Dream Stone
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Memories.
You wake up and find yourself trapped in a dream. Only thing in your mind is to wake up. The key to wake up lies within 3 Dream Stones which are awaiting at the end of puzzles you encounter through the game in different dream chapters.
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Chaos Town
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Chaos Town is a top-down chaotic shooter game where everything is destructible!
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Deep Sorrow
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.
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Hollow Steps
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Memories.
You are a customer of a virtual world company Dartom Inc. You are one of the many people who wants to test themselves in one of the many worlds created by the company. On your test, a ghost in the system will change your experience.
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Light The Way
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Light The Way is a first-person horror adventure game. It takes place in a storage house after your character is kidnapped by a stranger.
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Chaos Village
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Chaos Village is a top-down chaotic shooter game with various weapons, perks and power ups.
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Soul Valley
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Soul Valley is a survival, text-reading, treasure hunting, story rich, walking simulator game.
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Slay The Bigies
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Slay The Bigies is an anime style hack'n slash action rpg game with randomized loot and inventory system.