Single-player games like Heavy Memories
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Heavy 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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Valfaris
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Volgarr the Viking
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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Zzzz-Zzzz-Zzzz
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
When you sleep, you are dreaming. Some dreams are beautiful and vivid, the others are strange, and the rest of them are horrible... We've having them all the night, and then wake up and forget them. But what if one day your "awakening" would be a difficult task? Could you find a way out of the dreams and wake up?
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Sig.NULL
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
Push and rotate blocks, placing them at their places. Discover mono-drones abilities, step by step learn rules of that somber techno world. Solve more than 100 amazing puzzles!
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Mind Trap
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
Why do people lie? Try to find a way out of mind labyrinths!
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Tower Bombarde
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
If you can't shoot and there is a wall of turrets against you - you're not defenseless! Let your enemies kill each other!
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Brain Storm : Tower Bombarde
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
"The best defense is offense" is the wrong slogan for this game. "The best offense is defense" - there is the tactic that can help you survive in virtual world.
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Beyond Minimalism
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
This small experimental first person minimalistic style game gives one and only quest for you. Walking around rooms of strange labyrinth look for clues to reach nature.
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Danger!Energy
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
Connect the points with neon rays to liberate virtual city of Santermonia from the Main Virtual Controller's tyranny.
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DATAFLOW
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Heavy Memories.
Control the network dataflow! Pass data packets, catch e-mails and bonuses, destroy spam and viruses! Earn points and buy upgrades! Show your skill to get all things done at once!