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Single-player games like Wailing Heights

Below are 10 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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    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. Zjistítěte s námi co tam vyváděl a jak se vlasntě 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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    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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    Pushing Kids Off Bikes — Steam game cover

    Pushing Kids Off Bikes

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

    You'll run around 10, 3D levels, as a hand drawn 2D Chinchilla gathering seeds, growing pumpkins, and pushing kids off bikes! Your chinchilla Bazooka will make sure those kids don't get in your way. You'll look for happiness orbs to jump and seeds to fire your Bazooka, in this arcade farming game!

    2026ActionIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die! — Steam game cover

    Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!

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

    Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-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 →
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    Tax-Force — Steam game cover

    Tax-Force

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

    Hunt down tax-evading billionaires and rebuild society in a hand-drawn, action-roguelite platformer inspired by 90's comicbooks.

    ActionIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →