Single-player games like Big Ear Detective
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Big Ear 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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Ranked picks
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
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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Misadventures of Laura Silver
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
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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Night Book
Single-player alternative to Big Ear Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Big Ear Detective.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.