Single-player games like Ways Unknown
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Ways Unknown, 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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Cursed Dungeon Raider
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
Embark on an exploration adventure with spooky and horror elements, tasked with recovering real historical artifacts from excavation sites around the world. Beware of local traps and monsters inspired by the mythology of each region.
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Don't Fall
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
Climb. Fall. Cry. A 3D platformer-adventure where gravity is your worst enemy. Explore a vertical world full of secrets, alone or with friends — help them, save them, or push them off. Reach paradise and eternal glory… if you don't fall first. Don't Fall!
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Hope in the City
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover dark secrets beneath her peaceful urban life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
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Nomori
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a whimsical spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to solve puzzles that are out of this world.
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Go Home Annie: An SCP Game
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
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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DreadOut 2
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
A third-person horror adventure that draws inspiration from Indonesian urban legend. Play as Linda, a high school student with the ability to sense and see ghosts. This spine-chilling sequel expands on the cult hit original, making DreadOut 2 another terrifying addition to the horror genre.
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The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
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Lemma
Single-player alternative to Ways Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ways Unknown.
Immersive first-person parkour in a surreal, physics-driven voxel world. Every move can modify the environment. Surfaces pop in and out of existence at will.