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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Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
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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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Cyberpunk 2077
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Quadrilateral Cowboy
Single-player alternative to Cradle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
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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.