Single-player games like Wake
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Wake, 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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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Aquaria
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wake.
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.
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Lunnye Devitsy
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wake.
An alien lost on a strange planet needs help returning home
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MindSeize
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Waking Mars
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.
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Haydee 3
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Haydee III is a hardcore metroidvania with third-person shooter mechanics, platforming, puzzles, a sexy heroine and cake!
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1000 Amps
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wake.
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
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Really Big Sky
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
A super fast, twin analogue shooter for the modern age!