Single-player games like Scene Investigators
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Scene Investigators, 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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Case Files: Internal Affairs
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
The 3rd installment in the Case Files series. An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
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An Exercise in Mortality - Chapter I
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Slip into the role of a detective and find out why a seemingly peaceful village suddenly has to hold a funeral every other day. To solve the mysteries, act as the perpetrator and simulate the crimes. Left completely to your own devices, it’s up to you to prove your ingenuity and wit.
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The Adventures of LinShanHai - Chapter3:The Headless Woman
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
The third Lin Shanhai case involves a severed female corpse found hanging in an abandoned factory, missing from City A's hospital morgue. With the body assaulted and police stumped, you'll search multiple crime scenes to unravel this mysterious case.
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Alex Hill: The Body at Clearwater Bay
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scene Investigators.
When a body mysteriously washes up on the shores of Clearwater Bay, you, as Detective Alex Hill, are hired to investigate. Was it a tragic suicide or is something more sinister at work? Solve puzzles, look for evidence, and confront a web of lies as you work to uncover the truth.
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Forest Grove
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
In Forest Grove, a teenage heiress has gone missing. Foul play is suspected. Uncover a cast of characters, collect evidence, and find the truth in this futuristic detective game!
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The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Brian Fisher wakes up 30 years in the past as a small child, in an unfamiliar place, with no memory of how he arrived there. He is trapped in a different dimension of time and space, and his mission is to find something hidden within this dimension of time and space and bring it back to the present.
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DETECTIVE - Scene Crime
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Step into the role of a detective in DETECTIVE Scene Crime, a challenging mystery game where you’ll investigate five gripping crime scenes. Each level presents clues, testimonies, and puzzles to analyze carefully in your quest for the truth. Do you have what it takes to solve them all?
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Detective - The Test
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Test your detective instincts across three challenging cases. No hints, no help—just you, your intuition, and your ability to piece together the truth. Can you solve the mystery?
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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Shadows of Doubt
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
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Nancy Drew®: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scene Investigators.
Catch this train — it’s your ticket to solving a century-old mystery!
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scene Investigators.
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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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to Scene Investigators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scene Investigators.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?