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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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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Redemption: The Sin Eternal
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
Redemption: The Sin Eternal is a supernatural horror action-adventure game where a priest returns to a haunted orphanage filled with demonic forces, missing children, disturbing secrets. Featuring split-screen co-op, and first- or third-person gameplay.
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The Memories That Shape Us
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waking.
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
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VR Mad Asylum
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Escape in 45 minutes. Complete Virtual Reality Game Play. Terrible events take place in an old mental asylum. The crazy doctor is doing crazy experiments. But where it leads?
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BrokenLore: FOLLOW
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking.
BrokenLore: FOLLOW is a psychological first-person horror game that immerses players in the haunting narrative of Anne, as she grapples with issues of self-acceptance, bullying, and worthlessness while encountering metaphorical surreal creatures that heighten the terror of her journey.
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Buried Under Rocks
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Would you choose the lie over the truth? Buried Under Rocks is an action and puzzling game with two different endings.
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The Mare of Jonah
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
A first-person psychological horror game where a young boy is trapped in a haunted, decaying mansion. Run, hide, and outsmart vengeful spirits as you uncover dark, twisted secrets. Can you survive the nightmare that waits in every shadow?
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Evil Manor
Single-player alternative to Waking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Waking.
Evil Manor is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mansion full of mystery where AHMED seeks the truth about his father, a journalist who disappeared in that mansion 5 years ago. Enjoy a true horror experience.
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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?