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Single-player games like Wailing Heights

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Wailing Heights, 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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    Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor — Steam game cover

    Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    Mort and Phil travel to the world of horror cinema in this adventure, thanks to Dr. Bacterio (of course!).

    2024Adventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lone Wolf — Steam game cover

    Lone Wolf

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    Lone Wolf: A Post Apocalyptic Beat-Em Up Role Playing Game. This action/adventure game lets a player use martial arts skills, weapons, and turn into a werewolf to fight their way through a world set in the aftermath of post nuclear devastation.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Petko and the Black Island — Steam game cover

    Petko and the Black Island

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    A classical 2D point & click adventure taking place on the eve of a tropical zombie apocalypse! Join world traveler Petko in this crazy adventure full of quirky characters and challenging puzzles!

    AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    What Killed Us All? — Steam game cover

    What Killed Us All?

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    Play as Bayun, a ghost girl that lives in a haunted resort with her mom. Bayun suddenly time traveled to the past, and finds out that everyone on the island were used to be a human. Now she need to finds, What Killed Us All?

    IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Polda 5.5 — Steam game cover

    Polda 5.5

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    Starověký Egypt byl vyspělou civilizací, která měla potenciál trvat navždy. Pak se do toho ovšem vložil náš neohrožený detektiv Pankrác. Ten na konci minulého dílu zůstal v Egyptě a stal se faraonem. Zjistěte s námi, co tam vyváděl a jak se vlastně vrátil zpátky do Lupan.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    About a Boy — Steam game cover

    About a Boy

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    “About a Boy” immerses players in a narrative-driven journey set in a future city devoid of humanity as we know it. Through the eyes of Miro, a boy with the unique ability to perceive people based on their animal temperaments, players embark on a puzzle point-and-click adventure.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    High Fantasy (1979) — Steam game cover

    High Fantasy (1979)

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wailing Heights.

    A retro story-rich parody of the fantasy genre.

    IndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sticky Date — Steam game cover

    Sticky Date

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wailing Heights.

    An anti-dating simulator that subverts the genre and provides catharsis through relatable, raw and satirical dates. You play as an underpaid dumpling cook who, in order to make ends meet, gets recruited by a sketchy dating app agent. Now you need to crash dates in order to earn a living wage!

    IndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries — Steam game cover

    Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries

    Single-player alternative to Wailing Heights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wailing Heights.

    In 1921, young French artist Jennifer Chevalier becomes embroiled in death, espionage and revolution, assisted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde. A hand-drawn Point & Click adventure with a unique comic book inventory design.

    2022IndieAdventure15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →