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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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?
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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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.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.
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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Blackwell Deception
Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
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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.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to The Midnight Crimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Midnight Crimes.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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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!
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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.