Single-player games like Detective Story
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Detective Story, 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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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detective Story.
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?
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Story.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Beat Cop
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Furry Sex
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Detective Story.
An erotic memory game with furry characters and explicit illustrations.
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Hentai Big Tits
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Hentai Big Tits - is the simplest 2D puzzle the final goal of which to give you pleasure!
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Furry Orgasm
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Furry Orgasm - is an amazing 2D puzzle with images of furry beauty ladies the final purpose of which to give you some pleasure!
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Alien X
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Alien X - is a hardcore game where you will have to survive playing like a monster Bomber who is on an unknown planet.
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Battle Cube
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Battle Cube - is really hardcore 2D platformer with surviving elements where you will have to do different levels playing like a cube.
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Smoked Gun
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Smoked Gun - is a hardcore 3D shooter with surviving elements done as DOOM, where you will have to fight against the whole criminal world alone, against mafia.
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STRAY KITTEN
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
STRAY KITTEN - is a short 2D platformer with surviving and hardcore elements where it is described a story about one lost kitten Silver.
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Z.O.M.B.I.E.
Single-player alternative to Detective Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Story.
Z.O.M.B.I.E. - is an unusual 3D shooter with surviving elements where you will have to survive in a zombie apocalypse, playing as a girl named Zoe.