Single-player games like A Golden Wake
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to A Golden Wake, 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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Lamplight City
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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Loretta
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
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Rosewater
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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NORCO
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
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The Detail
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
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Gold Rush! Anniversary
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Gold Rush! takes you back to the year 1849, when gold was discovered in California. It was certainly one of the most exciting times in American history. Gold Rush! includes the three routes tens of thousands took to the gold regions. Become Jerrod Wilson and experience each trek as you travel from New York to California.
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Deponia
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.