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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 — Steam game cover

    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."

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grønland — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sad Virus — Steam game cover

    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

    2025IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Where are my potatoes? — Steam game cover

    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

    2022IndieAdventureCasual0.69 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  5. 5
    My Eyes — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DISTRAINT 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neversong — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    103 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yume Nikki — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Strange Telephone — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SILENT HILL 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dreaming Sarah — Steam game cover

    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!

    2015IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LSD: Dream Emulator Retro — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Spooky Station — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dandy & Randy — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dandy & Randy DX — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DekaDuck — Steam game cover

    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!

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Toada Brava — Steam game cover

    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!

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →