Single-player games like NIDANA
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to NIDANA, 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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BLACK WALLS
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Explore a silent, impossible world of puzzles and obstacles. Make symbolic choices whose consequences may not be clear, your decisions shape your ending. Choose Chill Mode for a calm, mysterious journey with nothing hunting you, or Horror Mode for fear, danger, and something that wants you dead.
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POOLS
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
- 3
What's Your Gender?
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An antichamber inspired educational puzzle game, that allows you to simultaneously explore a non-euclidean maze and concepts and terms related to gender, identity and expression in a playful and reassuring manner.
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Box of Broken Nails
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Fibrillation HD
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
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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Iron Lung
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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halfmoon
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
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She Doesn't Know
Single-player alternative to NIDANA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NIDANA.
A visual novel set in Japan in 1999. You relive a single day in the lives of Haruka and Shiho, two high school sophomores.