Single-player games like WAyE
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to WAyE, 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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Pandemic Isolation
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
In this game you have to help the main character to hold on in self-isolation with limited resources. Every day you face a difficult choice: how to eke out your groceries, whose request you should respond to, and who is to be left without a piece of bread.
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Mischance
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with WAyE.
Mischance is a game about surviving as long as possible with a curse that guarantees an imminent death. Everything in your day-to-day life is now much more likely to kill you. Your objective is to make smart choices and hope that the most simplest of activities don't end up taking your life.
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Survive the Blackout
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
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Chernobyl 1986
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
Chernobyl 1986 is a decision-based game about one of the largest nuclear power plant disasters in history. Play as the manager of a nuclear power plant in a time of a serious crisis that can cost millions of lives.
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Deep Sixed
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Dead In Vinland
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
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Party Hard 2
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with WAyE.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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Amelon
Single-player alternative to WAyE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with WAyE.
It's the year 2047. Amelon extracts parts in the waste dump of the factory producing bionic organs. After the years, he records a message for himself in case of loss of memory. This day comes when we first load the game. We explore the world and rediscover our past. Everything changes.