Single-player games like Arctic Awakening
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Arctic Awakening, 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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Adios
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.
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OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
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Fort Solis
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.
- 4
Bohemian Killing
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.
- 5
Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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As Long As You're Here
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
- 8
Last Days of Lazarus
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
- 10
Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Arctic Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arctic Awakening.
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.