Single-player games like Please Wake Up
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Please Wake Up, 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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Fremdganger - The Cheating Demon
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
In this twisted meta-game, you follow four friends on their cursed journey of love and betrayal, told through a long-forgotten Storyteller. Solve puzzles, make meaningful decisions, and unravel the mystery behind the Storyteller with the help of a reality-breaking RETURN-mechanic.
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Angels In Orbit
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
The year is 2170. An anomaly has ripped through the AIO Station, leaving a lone technician fighting to survive. As the silence of deep space closes in, biblical angels descend, beginning trials of morality, judgment, and the price of human ambition.
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Mutational Loading
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
In this experimental singleplayer 3D horror game, a man struggles with adopting a familiar child off the street while outrunning the consequences of an agreement he made with his nightmarish stalker.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
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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Fourth Time Around
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
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Prediction Error
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
Prediction Error is a first-person psychological meta-game. Wander a void maze of geometry and synapses under a cynical narrator's gaze. Endure the dread of high free energy, break the fourth wall, and face cognitive choices. No dopamine rewards here—only an existential stress test.
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KARMA: The Dark World
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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Demons Never Lie
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake! An incredible and dark story with elements of the classic point&click and visual novels. An exciting interactive experience with a unique atmosphere.