Single-player games like Dry Drowning
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Dry Drowning, 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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Biocybernetic Trap
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
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Neon Noir
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
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a permanent echo
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Uncover Sabotage, Conspiracy and Counter-Revolution in this cyberpunk detective mystery. Using a mind-probing interface, you explore and act within memories, collect facts, meet agents of change and enormous corporations. Build your case against a person torn between idealism and turmoil.
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Runway 66
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
A weaponless psychological thriller. Become trapped in the dark simulation within Gabriel’s mind after surviving a deadly plane crash. Run, hide, and piece together your memories to wake from this dystopian nightmare before Protocol 66 is activated.
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Neighbors
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
A folk noir detective horror game. An old time detective trying to find out the truth behind a missing girl in a mysterious place.
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Tails Noir
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dry Drowning.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Dry Drowning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dry Drowning.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.