Single-player games like Wake Explorer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Wake Explorer, 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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Alchemistry
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Wake Explorer.
Practice Alchemistry, aka the art of merging elements to discover new ones! Solve challenges or play freely to discover every element. Craft the entire world from fire to life.
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Doodle Harmony Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Wake Explorer.
Find and match 100 cute doodle pairs scattered all over the screen in this point-and-click game. Can you match them all
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The World of a Mermaid
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wake Explorer.
Welcome in the underwater world of a mermaid, with aquatics creatures & the queen, welcome in The World of a Mermaid!
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Voxel Miner: Dwellers of The Deep
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Wake Explorer.
Voxel Miner: Dwellers of the Deep, is a single player game where you mine resources to upgrade different skills, abilities, and fight the creatures you come across along the way! Strategize your upgrades, fight monsters, or just sit back and enjoy the satisfying mechanics. The choice is yours...
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Plantera
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Wake Explorer.
In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.
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Spider Hunter
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wake Explorer.
Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones!
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Valkeala Birds
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wake Explorer.
Puzzle game where mission is to use slingshot and shoot and kill all pigs at different levels. Player can use 3 different birds at each level
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Hidden Capybaras with Orange
Single-player alternative to Wake Explorer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Wake Explorer.
Set out on an adventurous journey, searching for capybaras with orange during both day and night in this exceptional hidden object game.