Single-player games like Wail of Despair
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Wail of Despair, 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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PUTRID/SHARP
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wail of Despair.
Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
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Not Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
Your eyes cannot be trusted. A girl finds herself questioned by a twisted psychiatrist, helping a fallen angel, and followed by a bizarre stalker, descending to a beautiful, terrible world where nothing is as it seems.
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Bonded in Darkness
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wail of Despair.
Fall in love with your worst enemy in this gothic vampire romance BL visual novel about two men pushed to the edges of society learning to trust each other.
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Mediterranea Inferno
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wail of Despair.
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
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A Chamber of Stars
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
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What's Your Gender?
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wail of Despair.
An antichamber inspired educational puzzle game, that allows you to simultaneously explore a non-euclidean maze and concepts and terms related to gender, identity and expression in a playful and reassuring manner.
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Mercury Elopement Syndrome
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wail of Despair.
Short visual novel. A 24-hour romance at its worst; a 24-hour escape at its sweetest.
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The House in Fata Morgana
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wail of Despair.
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
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Red Haze
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed. Society has forgotten you; it won't lift a finger for that which is tossed away. You're just prey that the true prowlers who lay in shadows await to feast upon.
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Close Me
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.
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![Close Your Eyes [Old Version] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/377330/c8d8c555e37e28190ecd34dae23ca4b0d73ce5bc/header.jpg?t=1746732306)
Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
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Take the Dream IX
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
What would you do for the person you love? Are you sure you're actually in love with them? They say love is all about sacrifice. What are you willing to lose for the one you supposedly love?
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The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
Once upon a time, there was a miserable girl in a crimson hood. Her mother was unwell, so the girl was sent away to go stay with her grandmother, who lived deep within the woods in a strange house. People say that around those parts there resides a monster called the Gobbler, who preys on the weak...
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PeeTee Babybuu
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
Down the road, the neighbors knew...
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Close Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.
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Feast Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Wail of Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wail of Despair.
A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection... You may have closed your eyes, but now it's time to feast.