Single-player games like In Other Waters
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to In Other Waters, 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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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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You Can Save Everyone
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
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She and the Light Bearer
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
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The Stillness of the Wind
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
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Syberia
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with In Other Waters.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
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Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
London, 1888: The people of Whitechapel live under the ghastly shadow of Jack the Ripper, tempting Arthurian legends - Du Lac & Fey - back to English shores to intervene. Will they stop Jack before more blood is spilt on the cobbled streets? Victorian London awaits you...
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Raft
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Scavenger SV-4
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Signet City
Single-player alternative to In Other Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with In Other Waters.
From the creator of Citizen Sleeper, SIGNET CITY is a first-person fungalpunk RPG. You are a parasite, in a city where strange technologies and radical ideas are taking root. Grow into and through its inhabitants, uncover and change their stories, and witness the terminal season of the signet city.