Single-player games like Detained: Too Good for School
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Detained: Too Good for School, 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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LingYuanLu:The Abyss of Spirit
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detained: Too Good for School.
Lingyuan Records is a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania action-adventure game. In the Five Elements world, learn and collect enemies' spells, and use the mutual generation and restraint of Five Elements to defeat stronger foes.
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STRANGER THAN HEAVEN
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Detained: Too Good for School.
A fifty-year, action-adventure saga of men with nowhere to go and their desperate struggle to find a home. Use extreme violence to survive, and musical talent to thrive as a showman across five cities and eras of modern Japan.
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Leafblade
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detained: Too Good for School.
An ARPG monster caretaker. Fight along the Mons you meet in your adventure to recover the bond between humans and Mons. Take care of your Mons in your farm, improving their combat and farm skills while ensuring their happiness.
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Glaze Cup: Journey to the West
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detained: Too Good for School.
This is a side scrolling action Rougelike game set in the three realms of humans, demons, ghosts, and gods. It tells the story of Lao Sha and other characters from Journey to the West before they learn from the classics
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Yakuza 0
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Detained: Too Good for School.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
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Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Detained: Too Good for School.
Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, must face the ambitious Ryuji Goda, the Dragon of Kansai, in an all-out war between two rival yakuza clans. An extreme recreation of one of Yakuza’s most beloved entries, now in stunning 4K and unlocked framerates. There can be only one dragon.
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Beast of Reincarnation
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Detained: Too Good for School.
Game Freak's brand-new title: Beast of Reincarnation is an action RPG with a fusion of real-time and turn-based combat. Experience the innovative "one-person, one-dog action RPG" in the beautiful yet harsh world of Beast of Reincarnation. What awaits at the end of Emma and Koo's journey?
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Tales of Berseria™
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Detained: Too Good for School.
Players embark on a journey of self-discovery as they assume the role of Velvet, a young woman whose once kind demeanor has been replaced and overcome with a festering anger and hatred after a traumatic experience three years prior to the events within Tales of Berseria.
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The Vagrant
Single-player alternative to Detained: Too Good for School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detained: Too Good for School.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?