Single-player games like Waking
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Waking, 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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Mosaic
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
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Lucifer Within Us
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.
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Luto
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
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Indecision.
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
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INDIKA
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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Heal
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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The Path
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.
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Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
You are a dead, failed video game character wandering through the recesses of the Random Access Memory, trying to find peace in the final moments of your existence before being deleted forever......but forget that. The real story is that Continue?