Single-player games like 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective, 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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十月怪谈-Insane Rules
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
When you live alone at home, you suddenly encounter all kinds of strange things, such as hair in the water pipe, strange figures on TV, eyeballs in the refrigerator, and so on. What's the matter?
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不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
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村庄-The Village
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
After you graduated from college, you were assigned to a small village as a doctor.It looks like an ordinary village, but there are many strange things in it.A man knocking at the door in the middle of the night may not be asking for a doctor.The person you saw may not be alive.Haunted?
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死亡编码-Death Code
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
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残雪凝辉录-Truth in Turbulent
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
Truth in Turbulent "Truth in Turbulent" is an AVG mystery set in a chaotic era. As Meng Xubai, uncover truths behind your uncle's disappearance and find the truth with wit and courage.
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16叠谋杀之谜
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
Sixteen Layers of Mini Murder" is a video adventure game of the detective puzzle genre, where level-based puzzles drive the story's progression through video narration. Players must complete the level puzzles and uncover the identities of the various participants in order to clear the game.
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Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
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迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
Single-player alternative to 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.