Single-player games like Sam & Max Save the World
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Sam & Max Save the World, 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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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
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Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Sam is a dog in a suit. Max is his naked rabbity partner. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. Jump into the not-quite-right world of Sam & Max via the wonder science of virtual reality, and join the multimedia darlings in their never-ending quest to slap the stupid grin off the face of evil.
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James Peris 2: The fountain of eternal drunkenness
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The long awaited new adventure by James Peris, after No License, No Control, Much more of everything! A point-and-click adventure with adult humor and a touch of hooliganism. Totally open gameplay and non-linear puzzles.
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Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
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Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic comedy saga. In The Devil’s Playhouse, an otherworldly power for controlling matter and space calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it -- intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Poker Night 2
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The chips are down and the ante is up in this sentence already bursting with poker clichés! Take the fifth seat in Poker Night 2, at a table featuring Claptrap (Borderlands 2), Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.), Ash (Army of Darkness) and Sam (Sam and Max series).
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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Poker Night at the Inventory
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max Save the World — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Seven years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club has reopened for business. Play No Limit Texas Hold’em with four video game icons in a high-stakes battle of cards, bets, and trash talk.