Single-player games like Unknown 9: Awakening
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Unknown 9: 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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Wonderfall
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Paris, 1920. The city is collapsing into sand. Play as Léon, an orphan able to manipulate sand, as you explore a reimagined Paris consumed by Entropy. A story-rich narrative adventure where exploration reveals what happened to the city and what still lies beneath its ruins.
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A Plague Tale: Requiem
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
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Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Experience an isometric, narrative-driven stealth game and join Hanna’s adventure in the vibrant city of Eriksholm. The mysterious disappearance of her brother, Herman, ignites a chain of catastrophic events that will forever change their lives and the fate of the entire city.
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Black Tides Draga's Wake
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Clinging to his fading humanity, he must survive the nightmare he is becoming. Black Tides Draga’s Wake is a visceral third-person action horror-adventure set in an alternate 1900s where ancient Gods and vessels of steam and steel collide. Find your crew, escape the horrors within, or die trying..
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ORUN
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Follow Orun through his journey to restore the guardian flame that once defended the city from creatures that now have devastated the land.
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The Ecdysis
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
The Ecdysis is an episodic Action/ Adventure game that immerses players in the life of Robin Jr., a professional photographer, guiding them through the thrilling adventures and enigmatic mysteries he experiences on his journey.
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Souls of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
A bio-catastrophe has engulfed the world, transforming people into bloodthirsty creatures. The only way to stop this plague is to damage the infected's brain. Try to survive this hell – alone or with a partner – while trying to maintain the line between a human and what you're forced to destroy.
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OZARK
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
A search and rescue gone wrong, crash landing in a remote mountain. A derelict facility, signals lost. Nothing is quite as it seems. Fight for your life in this side-scrolling action adventure and unravel the mysteries that lie beneath.
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Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
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Tomb Raider: Legend
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
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Starship Wars
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Destroy enemies, bosses and everything you see ahead!! Get crystals to buy better starships and get stronger. Have fun in three different game modes.
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Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Unknown 9: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Unknown 9: Awakening.
Embark on a perilous journey to rescue your brother and prevent a looming war. Harness the power of devastating magical abilities to conquer enemies, traverse treacherous landscapes, and unveil the hidden history of Aema.