Single-player games like Highwater
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Highwater, 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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Soar: Pillars of Tasneem
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Transform into a dragon and soar through a vast, beautiful new land above the clouds.
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Miasma Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Highwater.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
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Blacken Slash
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Highwater.
Hack and slash through a corrupted retro computer system in this challenging roguelite with turn-based combat and tons of loot.
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Chains of Freedom
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
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Cartographer
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Cartographer is a turn-based game, where you decide how the world map looks. Build the map to build the world! The combat system is very simple and each enemy has its own attack pattern, which you can learn and exploit to defeat them in glorious turn-based battle!
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Potentia
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Third person shooter action adventure game with post-apocalyptic theme. Witness the adventures of Victor and his friends in this abandoned world.
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Saghala: Heroes of the Last World
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
2081. Earth, now known as Saghala, was destroyed by nuclear war and coronal mass ejections. Despite the devastation, humanity lingers on. Sixty years after the End, four factions vie for control of the Core, the last fusion reactor. Decide the fate of Saghala in a classic, top-down cRPG!
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Howl
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Howl is a turn-based tactical folktale set in medieval times. A sinister "howling plague" has ravaged the land, turning all who hear it into feral beasts. You play a deaf heroine plunging into danger in search of a cure.
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The Cub
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.
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Submerged
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Highwater.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Golf Club Nostalgia
Single-player alternative to Highwater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.