Single-player games like Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, 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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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
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Sam & Max Save the World
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
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Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Sam is a dog in a suit. Max is his naked rabbity partner. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. Jump into the not-quite-right world of Sam & Max via the wonder science of virtual reality, and join the multimedia darlings in their never-ending quest to slap the stupid grin off the face of evil.
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Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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James Peris 2: The fountain of eternal drunkenness
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The long awaited new adventure by James Peris, after No License, No Control, Much more of everything! A point-and-click adventure with adult humor and a touch of hooliganism. Totally open gameplay and non-linear puzzles.
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Mutropolis
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
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Toonstruck
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Toonstruck combines live action, cell animation, and an all star cast: Christopher Lloyd, Ben Stein, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Curry, and Dom DeLuise, for a not-to-be-missed adventure through a zany cartoon world on the brink of total Malevalation!
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Polda 7
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Polda Pankrác v podání Luďka Soboty se vrací již posedmé. A je to návrat jaksepatří. Záhadná zpráva Temného lorda Vedra a havárie kosmické lodi odstartují kolotoč událostí, které může vyřešit jen náš elitní detektiv Pankrác.
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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Save The World
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!
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Poker Night at the Inventory
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Seven years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club has reopened for business. Play No Limit Texas Hold’em with four video game icons in a high-stakes battle of cards, bets, and trash talk.