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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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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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.
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Pattern
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
Sometimes art isn't the product of a grand vision but rather the process. It's hard to know what you are trying to say until you've already said it.
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The Utility Room
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
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Mango
Single-player alternative to Please Wake Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Please Wake Up.
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.