Single-player games like Niko: Through The Dream
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Niko: Through The Dream, 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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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!
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Q.U.B.E. 2
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
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NaissanceE
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
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Leaving Lyndow
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes before leaving on a journey she may not return from.
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Neva
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
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Cradle
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Nevermind
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.
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The Void
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
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Master Reboot
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal. Master Reboot is a haunting first-person sci-fi adventure.
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Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.