Single-player games like The House of Hikmah
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The House of Hikmah, 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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Dwalm
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Work your way through the city by day and navigate strange dreamscapes by night, exploring your memories and recalling what was lost. Dwalm is an adventure platformer that takes you through both childish dreams and traumatic memories alike.
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Unlighted
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Unlighted is a first-person puzzle video game where you enter a dystopian world that reflects the threshold between memory and oblivion, where you experiment with the characteristics of weird materials that materialize when hit by a ray of light.
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An Everyday Story
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
An Everyday Story is a 2.5D story-driven puzzle platformer with a heartfelt twist. Experience life from the view of three trinkets... what do you think happens when our dreams become so real that they stain our reality?
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Always in Mind
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, a living archive of your family’s history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.
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Super Optimal Amount of Punching
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Punch everything. Learn nothing. Lord Evil's shining nipples await you.
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TAMITOS: Tale of Understanding
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
A story-driven platformer where you experience the world through autistic and neurotypical perspectives. Explore a magical world, rescue Tamitos frog creatures representing emotions, and solve meaningful puzzles that teach empathy, understanding, and the beauty of seeing the world differently.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Prepare to be scared! A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly mayhem all over Bikini Bottom. Switch seamlessly between SpongeBob and Patrick, combine their unique skills and save Bikini Bottom from total ghostification!
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Duskfade
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Shatter the shackles of time as you jump, swing, and slash through a fantastic world in this love letter to classic 3D action platformers. Zirian, accompanied by his mechanical Cuckoo, must save his sister from a mysterious Clock Tower that has plunged the land into eternal night.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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The Last Campfire
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
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The Pathless
Single-player alternative to The House of Hikmah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.