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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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    Now you can't see me — Steam game cover

    Now you can't see me

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Niko: Through The Dream.

    First person puzzle. Solve riddles by closing your eyes or blinking them. While your eyes are closed, time freezes and gravity has no power over you. There is a funny voice acting and non-trivial tasks included.

    2021ActionIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kairo — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Unfinished Swan — Steam game cover

    The Unfinished Swan

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.

    From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

    2020IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Ball — Steam game cover

    The Ball

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.

    As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

    2010ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Attempt[42] — Steam game cover

    Attempt[42]

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Niko: Through The Dream.

    Challenging first person puzzle platformer.

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Etherborn — Steam game cover

    Etherborn

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.

    Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.

    2019IndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NaissanceE — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014IndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FRACTER — Steam game cover

    FRACTER

    Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Niko: Through The Dream.

    FRACTER follows a veiled young hero who has set out on a perilous quest for light through a cryptic labyrinth of shadows.

    2019IndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Myst — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Portal — Steam game cover

    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.

    2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Q.U.B.E. 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Talos Principle — Steam game cover

    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).

    2014ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Master Reboot — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nevermind — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Void — Steam game cover

    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.

    2009ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →