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
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Moon Princess
Single-player alternative to Niko: Through The Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Niko: Through The Dream.
🌙A daughter-raising game in a world of wuxia and mythology — raise her as a martial arts master in a rich wuxia world. Train, fight, manage, and shape her future! With 50+ branching endings and 60+ story characters, forge your one-of-a-kind heroine and change the fate of the Jianghu!
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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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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.