Single-player games like A Golden Wake
Below are 12 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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Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story is a story-rich visual novel with point-and-click adventure game elements. Featuring a 30,000 word interactive script, hundreds of story choices, challenging puzzles, and a thrilling hard rock soundtrack, Hellfire 1988 is a compelling dramatic adventure.
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Streetlight Syndicate
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
A casual incremental game set in 1920s prohibition-era New York. Run 20 rackets, gamble at The Action, fight rival hitmen, and ascend the ranks of organized crime. A complete story with multiple endings.
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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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The Slaughter: Act One
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.
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Midnight Market
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with A Golden Wake.
Welcome to the seedy side of town, try to make money, while dodging knife fights, and running from the law.
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Green Mist over Portland
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline during the cold war on a globe-trotting adventure following a trail of spies from a quiet English harbour town to a frozen Finnish fishing village and the corridors of an intelligence service rotten at its core.
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Criminal Archives: Alphabetic Murders Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with A Golden Wake.
Are the murders of three different people connected? Or are we dealing with three different incidents? Cunning and logic are your best weapons in solving this case!
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Furies & Magazines - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to A Golden Wake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
Graphic Novel Style Top Down Shooting Action Game which tells the story of Ivan Vinogradov, the victim of the CIA's top-secret project.
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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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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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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.
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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?