Single-player games like Methods: The Detective Competition
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Methods: The Detective Competition, 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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Murder by Numbers
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
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The Low Road
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Lie, blackmail, and steal your way down The Low Road. Rookie agent Noomi Kovacs must navigate her way through the world of corporate espionage in this dark spy comedy set in the 1970s.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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Nine Noir Lives
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
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Dinocop
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
When dinosaurs were brought back to life, none wanted to be a cop, so humans made you: Dinocop. Investigate the guests of the Cretaceous hotel to crack a meaty case that will confront you with your most profound existential dilemma. Who brought human meat to the dinosaur rights convention ?
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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Methods: The Canada Files
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
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Wuppo: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Methods: The Detective Competition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.