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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TheManSkiesNoLimit!: Escape The Matrix
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
The Man: Skies No Limit! An Action-Adventure RPG. Meet Ebu, a naive, arrogant, boastful man who sets sail across a world consumed by corruption—not to save it, but to build his own legacy. As traps, trials, and twisted truths unfold, he'll discover the man he truly is.
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Peace Island
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Twenty years ago, the paradise was revived. After the signing of the "Tide City Peace Agreement", the Atlantic United States and the Blazing Sun Empire hired desperate individuals to delve into the cursed inner islands in search of those lost angels.
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Hakimi's Ocean Drift
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
A survival shooter game set at sea, where players must gather supplies, locate hidden shelters, and build rafts to survive. On the ocean surface, you'll need to fish with a rod, diligently collect drifting supplies with hooks, construct rafts, and grow food to stay alive.
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Master Π
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
A fast-paced action shooter where dual-pistol combat, resource-driven abilities, and rhythm-based boss encounters combine into a skill-focused combat experience set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Toad On Fire
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
Smokey the toad is not your average amphibian. With a propane-fueled weed burner in hand, he charges into battle against a relentless force of hostile frogs in a race war that threatens to tear his world apart. It's up to him to emerge victorious and save his kind.
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Zodiac Requiem
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
"Zodiac Requiem" is a top-down shooter RPG based on the Chinese zodiac. You play as Lin Xiaoman, a mysterious girl who embarks on a perilous journey through thorns and trials to uncover the truth about her origins.
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flappy bird ultra
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Memories.
A casual game that spans 2D and 3D dimensions. In the process of advancing, players need to dodge bullet attacks and attack enemies. The game features a seamless transition between 2D and 3D dimensions. Players can control a bird to embark on their journey.
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Bullet Rift
Single-player alternative to Painted Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Memories.
Bullet Rift is a top-down shooter ARPG packed with loot, builds, dungeons, rifts, crafting, bosses, and deep character progression. Blast through hordes, chase legendary gear, perfect your build, and push deeper into an endgame built for players who love grinding for power.
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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.