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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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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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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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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VVVVVV
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
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Freedom Planet
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
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Cyber Shadow
Single-player alternative to Heavy Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Memories.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
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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!