Single-player games like Awakening Sarah
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Awakening Sarah, 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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The End of Gameplay
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
droqen's desperate attempt to explain, or explore, or understand the true meaning of "kill gameplay."
- 2

Grønland
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Explore the frozen North, investigate your mysterious past, and try to remember... or forget. Grønland is a peculiar adventure game set in the lower Arctic of the late 19th century.
- 3

Sad Virus
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Walking simulation in open world where player controls virus whose mission is to find beer bottles so he can be happy again
- 4

Where are my potatoes?
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Kake character need find missing potatoes. Solve puzzles in different level to reach level end and collect missing potatoes
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My Eyes
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Use your laser vision to climb and fly your way through perilous caves and make your way back to your body. Keep in mind, it hurts to shoot lasers out of your eyes and you can only stand so much pain. It's also deadly to keep your eyes closed, as the heat from the laser builds up inside your head.
- 6

DISTRAINT 2
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
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Neversong
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.
- 8

103
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Help Lily use her imagination to unlock her memories and relive the events of a night that changed her life. Discover what happened and what is 103.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
- 10

Strange Telephone
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.
- 11

SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Dreaming Sarah
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
- 13

LSD: Dream Emulator Retro
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Immerse yourself in a dreamy and psychedelic platforms world through low poly enviroments and liminal spaces. A Retro game influenced by the original LSD: Dream Emulator from PSX.
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Spooky Station
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Welcome to Spooky Station! Prepare to be amazed and bewildered by our enigmas and puzzles, afraid of our deadly enemies and extremely challenging bosses. Tons of exciting stories and distinct fictional worlds await for you in this mysterious pack!
- 15

Dandy & Randy
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
A 2D top-down old-school arcade game featuring two of the worst archaeologists to ever grace the Earth. Help them in their adventures by finding treasure defeating enemies, fighting bosses and discovering secrets! Can they pay off their debts? It's up to you to find out!
- 16

Dandy & Randy DX
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Play either alone or with a friend on this cute adventure game!
- 17

DekaDuck
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
DekaDuck is a 2D action platformer, featuring fully hand-drawn art and animation. Fight enemies using their own abilities and quirks to solve puzzles and defeat bosses, in a sci-fi world full of conspiracies!
- 18

Toada Brava
Single-player alternative to Awakening Sarah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Awakening Sarah.
Toada Brava is a fully hand-drawn 2D top-down RPG. Battle your way through the Santacrúz Dungeons and help Kako find his mom, while helping the revolution!