Single-player games like Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, 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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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Gamedec - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
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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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community.
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Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.