Single-player games like Wake
Below are 10 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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Bookbound Brigade
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
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Super Dangerous Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Guide Timmy the treasure hunter through dangerous dungeons in search of the legendary treasure!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
- 4
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
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Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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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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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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UnEpic
Single-player alternative to Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
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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!
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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