Single-player games like Awkward Night
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Awkward Night, 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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REQUIRED SYNERGY WORKSHOP: Deja Damnation
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
A psychological horror visual novel. You're trapped in a corporate training simulation with replayable loops. Navigate branching dialogue choices. Reality glitches. People fade away. Your decisions escalate the dread.
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Neo Cab
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
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Phoenix Springs
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
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Minds Beneath Us
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Awkward Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Awkward Night.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.