Single-player games like WaxHeart
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to WaxHeart, 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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KON: Tale of the Darkness
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with WaxHeart.
A dark-fantasy interdimensional adventure. Snap your fingers to explore overlapping realities, face high-intensity platforming sections, solve environmental puzzles, and escape a deadly force threatening to consume everything.
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Creep
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
Experimental dark platform game that takes place inside a struggled man's inner world represented as the worm world. You control the worm form of this man as he shows why this world exists and how it's like to live there. You also visit past memories/analogies and gain new abilities.
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Bobo and the Chest of Nightmares
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
Jump, glide, and outsmart traps in this spooky 3D platformer! Smash obstacles, solve puzzles, and fend off evil spirits to defeat The Dream Master. Collect hidden treasures and restore joy to a world shrouded in darkness!
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Always in Mind
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, a living archive of your family’s history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.
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Al'ulA
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
Al’ulA is a first-person non-euclidean puzzle game set in a strange fractal dimension inspired by medieval Morocco. You will use an alien artefact to solve puzzles while guided by a strange alien entity.
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Moony Mayhem: Cheeks Unleashed
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
You are randomly assigned “Civic Disturbance Duty” and must complete tasks using the power of your butt. Explore a world filled with absurd gameplay, chaotic tasks, and mediocre visuals.
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Bunderkin: The Ocular Eclipse
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WaxHeart.
Trapped in a 3‑day time loop, you must master each moment and live the perfect day or watch the town that despises you fall into darkness.
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Kumarn: The Wandering Spirit
Single-player alternative to WaxHeart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with WaxHeart.
Ripped from his shrine by a forbidden ritual, Kumarn - a young child spirit is cast into a world where haunting ancient folklore has become a terrifying reality. Relentlessly stalked by twisted creatures born from Thai tales, they must brave a land consumed by darkness to find their way home.