Single-player games like WAKE
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to WAKE, 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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HELENA : Cloud District
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
HELENA: Cloud District is an atmospheric first-person exploration game where you explore a decaying mega-structure to photograph strange plants and uncover fragments of melancholic memories.
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Nocturnals: Cacti Coast
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
A narrative-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game where a young survivor must make difficult decisions in order to survive the foggy wasteland of Cacti Coast and find a community to call home.
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Locus Equation
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.
- 4
Burning Bridges
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You discover a suspicious box on your parents attic. Uncover a long hidden family secret by rummaging through old homevideo and letters.
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NIGHTSWEEPER
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
NIGHTSWEEPER is a 3D puzzle adventure about recovering ancient artifacts from an abandoned white desert, sweeping the scars from their spells with Minesweeper-inspired puzzles, and selling them.
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Wishing Well Simulator
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with WAKE.
You are a wishing well in a small seaside town. Eight people return for eight days, tossing coins and whispering what they want most. Your power is limited: every wish you grant makes another impossible. The town remembers everything.
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A Little Lost
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
Sail between mysterious islands in a peaceful 3D exploration adventure. Solve environmental puzzles, collect items, help lonely inhabitants and uncover the story of an abandoned world as you journey toward a distant lighthouse.
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Rusts Of Corruption
Single-player alternative to WAKE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAKE.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?