Single-player games like While We Wait Here
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to While We Wait Here, 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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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Project Looking Glass
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother. A signal that won't stop transmitting. Step through the Looking Glass — a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era apparatus that peers into places mankind was never meant to reach.
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Robot Anomaly
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
Your job is to inspect all produced robots. Investigate unauthorized hardware modifications and rogue behavior. And escape the building! You are the only human there, but you are not alone.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
- 6
The Wreck
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with While We Wait Here.
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
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The Test
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with While We Wait Here.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Tides of Tomorrow 🌊
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
From the makers of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking narrative adventure. Your choices shape the story for other players! Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions and choose the fate of this plasticpunk world.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Beyond: Two Souls
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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Ravenous Devils
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
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Sexual Void
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with While We Wait Here.
Nothing in here, except Vicky, sexy outfits and a JOI game
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Hippocampus
Single-player alternative to While We Wait Here — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with While We Wait Here.
Challenging gothic Hack & Slash with gore action and platform phases.