Single-player games like Heavy Rain
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Heavy Rain, 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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Beyond: Two Souls
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Heavy Rain.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Blacksad: Under the Skin
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
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The Quarry
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Heavy Rain.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) was a breakthrough in interactive narrative. This newly remastered edition features updated textures in HD, expanded controller support, and is based on the uncut and uncensored international version of the game.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
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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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heavy Rain.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Heavy Rain.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
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Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Single-player alternative to Heavy Rain — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"I have many things to tell you and very little time… I come from a universe parallel to yours. My world is desperately in need of your help. Only YOU can save us."Responding to the desperate pleas of a mysterious character from another dimension, your soul must enter the dark and futuristic city of Omikron.