Single-player games like Wait: The Patient
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Wait: The Patient, 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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Care
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
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A Mind Apart
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
A narrative puzzle adventure about a girl lost in a fragmented wonderland where memories become places and reality shifts without warning. Explore surreal spaces, meet strange companions, and uncover a personal story about trauma, healing, and finding a way forward.
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The Tartarus Key
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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outside the door
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wait: The Patient.
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
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Saint Kotar
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Sydney Harper, a 23-year-old working at a consulting firm plans a weekend getaway to a Woodbury rental with her college friends. Little did she know what was about to unfold during their stay.
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Hazy Mind
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
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Wait - Extended
Single-player alternative to Wait: The Patient — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
"Wait" is a mystery horror game, inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft and the Silent Hill series. The gameplay is put together by elements of exploration and riddle solving. Experience horror without jump scares or fighting monsters, but with the fear of the unknown and unimaginable.