Single-player games like Crime Passional
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Crime Passional, 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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Terminal 81
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.
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Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here. A blend of cozy simulation, horror, and psychological depth, wrapped in a dark, noir-tinged atmosphere.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Nightmare Shift
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Passional.
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Passional.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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![[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3706160/26cd62857c0ad2c5317cb249c664298344901d09/header.jpg?t=1777229535)
[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.
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No, I'm not a Human
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Passional.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
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Revenge Of The Colon
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Passional.
Revenge of the colon is a story driven, single-player, atmospheric, body horror game with multiple endings. Perform colonoscopies on five patients and discover the horrors concealed deep within them. PS1 horror style!
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Chacara
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
Hitting the highway immediately after finishing a crazy party was definitely not a good idea... Now you are stranded on the road, luckily, there is a cozy country house nearby, what could go wrong?
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Mortisomem
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
Donald Barnes is a successful merchant who one day on his way home, starts being stalked by a dangerous demon from the Colonial Times. Now he has to find a way back home or finally defeat Mortisomem.
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Acre Crisis
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
In 1992, a brigade of the Brazilian Military Police ventured into the remote Acre region to investigate mysterious deaths caused by wild animals. Upon arrival, the soldiers found themselves cornered and must now escape from a group of hungry dinosaurs
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Terminal 81R
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
In 2016, a young Uruguayan travels to the neighborhood of 'Terminal 81' a place marked by violence, inequality, and vice, where a dangerous human trafficking network operates. Determined to find his sister, the young man ventures into the perilous and dark world of Terminal 81.
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Fatimopolis
Single-player alternative to Crime Passional — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Passional.
Just after the start of the new year in 2005, Lucas receives a call from his boss asking him to make a few deliveries in Fatimopolis, a mysterious small town that, overnight, lost all of its inhabitants.