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Single-player games like The Midnight Crimes

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Midnight Crimes, 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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    Medieval Revenge — Steam game cover

    Medieval Revenge

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    Playing a card game where you navigate from the revenge of an English peasant against marauding Vikings in medieval England to the attainment of kingdom power.

    2024Adventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    One Night: Burlesque — Steam game cover

    One Night: Burlesque

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator — Steam game cover

    Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation7.79 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lamplight City — Steam game cover

    Lamplight City

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Pastorate — Steam game cover

    Project Pastorate

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    Project Pastorate is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Subsurface Circular — Steam game cover

    Subsurface Circular

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    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.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow — Steam game cover

    Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Midnight Crimes.

    Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Confidential Killings - A Detective Game — Steam game cover

    Confidential Killings - A Detective Game

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape the Ayurok — Steam game cover

    Escape the Ayurok

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    Escape The Ayurok is a first person horror-adventure videogame, in which you need to escape from a haunted mansion as quiet as possible, to evade the hideous creature called "The Ayurok". Stealth Mode will be your ally!

    2019IndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape the Ayurok DEMAKE — Steam game cover

    Escape the Ayurok DEMAKE

    Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.

    Re-experience the classic Escape the Ayurok adventure through this Demake, solving more complex puzzles and exploring new places with the old camera angles of 90’s horror games.

    2022IndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →