Single-player games like The Awakening Program
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Awakening Program, 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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Lightmatter
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
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Gloomy Juncture
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
A neo-noir psychological thriller with a point & click core. Set in the 90s, the story unfolds in a decaying and morally bankrupt urban setting. Step into the shoes of a mundane janitor on the verge of a breakdown and find yourself entangled in the aftermath of a pivotal gunshot.
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ASTRAL
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
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Creaks
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
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Bionic Bay
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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The Franz Kafka Videogame
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Awakening Program.
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
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Fleximan
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Awakening Program.
Simple, you're Fleximan and you have to remove all the speed cameras in the city.
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ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKET!
Single-player alternative to The Awakening Program — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Awakening Program.
You're a pickpocket, being hunted but refusing to get a regular job. Don't get caught with the loot.