Single-player games like The Dame Was Loaded
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Dame Was Loaded, 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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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
It's April 2043 and you- as Tex Murphy, the last of the old-style gumshoes- find yourself racing against time in the most dangerous game of your life. What is the truth behind the rumored UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico? Why did the military suddenly shut down and seal off the Roswell complex?
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
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.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
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The Dark Side of the Moon: An Interactive FMV Thriller
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
When his 2 young children vanish mysteriously throughout the night, it's up to single-dad Dean Hamilton to do what any good dad would do: Go to the end of the universe and bring them back home in this thrilling FMV/Interactive Movie.
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Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!
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Misty Judgment
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
This is a suspense reasoning interactive work with real people. You will play the protagonist "Qi Yi", find evidence in a series of murders, piece together the truth, and find the ultimate murderer, all of which will lead you to an unpredictable future.
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Still Life
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
Still Life 2 also now available!
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Krush Kill ‘N Destroy 2: Krossfire
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Dame Was Loaded.
Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire is a fast and furious post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game where you have to be quick or be dead. Play as one of three unique factions in the struggle to seek out and conquer oil fields to fuel your army.
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Radical Rex
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
Radical Rex is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus on a skateboard who has to save the dinosaur race under the spell of an evil creature.
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Nightshade
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
The shadows of doom grow long as the ancient Egyptian villain Sutekh envelops Metro City with a wave of crime. But Sutekh's seedy underworld is about to be infiltrated by a superhero unlike the world has even seen. A superhero who can melt into the darkness like a phantom.
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Power Punch II
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's the year 2006. You're Mark "Tough Guy" Tyler and you've just defended your your Heavyweight title from the 9th consecutive time. After demolishing the best boxers on the planet. It's now time to face-off with the best in the Universe.
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Alien Earth
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Dame Was Loaded.
The evil Raksha have taken over the Earth. They hunt humans for sport - and you're next! Can the hunted become the hunter....?
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DethKarz
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You're one of the elite racers chosen to compete at exotic locations around the world and beyond. Strap yourself into a fusion-powered racing machine for an explosive and exhilarating futuristic racing experience.
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Bop'N Wrestle
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grapple your way to the top as Gorgeous Greg in this colorful classic, hailed as one of the first great pro wrestling games. BOP'N WRESTLE puts you in the ring with 10 of the meanest, baddest, biggest, toughest, ugliest pro wrestlers ever to fly off a turnbuckle!
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Penetrator
Single-player alternative to The Dame Was Loaded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this addictive side-scrolling shoot-em-up from 1982, your mission is to penetrate through four defence rings, and blow up an illegal cache of neutron bombs - an almost impossible feat! Enemy missiles and radar bases track your movements, and the landscape is as treacherous as your enemies.