Single-player games like Alone in the crowd
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Alone in the crowd, 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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Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
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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Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
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Uncover the Smoking Gun
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
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BROK the InvestiGator
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Not Tonight
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
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Mind Scanners
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
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Beholder
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
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Lifing
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Alone in the crowd.
Lifing is a challenging turn-card-roguelike base game, set in a mix of fantasy/sci fi/random universe breaking limits of card and deck manipulation. Explore, fight, upgrade, repeat.
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Pandora's Sack
Single-player alternative to Alone in the crowd — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alone in the crowd.
Pandora's Sack is a deck builder roguelike auto battler where the players use a slot machine system to create a ridiculously silly, destructive army to fight Pandora's minions.