Single-player games like Cradle
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Cradle, 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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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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The Station
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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Cloudpunk
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Phoning Home
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cradle.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cradle.
Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!
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Stalker
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.