Single-player games like Noir Syndrome
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Noir Syndrome, 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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Pecaminosa
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Noir Syndrome.
Activate your detective skills in this noir-influenced police action RPG. Grab your gun and prepare to face the strangest case of John Souza's career by helping the ghost of a dead mobster get "justice". Hit the streets in search of intel, befriend the scum and beat those who will try to stop you.
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Single Malt Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Save the sleepy mining town from a cosmic threat in this late 80s-style adventure with RPG elements. Retro to the core!
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Lockheart Indigo
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
A private-eye must deceive a rich family into revealing their darkest secrets, before the killer amongst them silences everyone.
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Precinct 2099
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
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JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
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GAZE IN SHADOWS
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
GAZE IN SHADOWS is a narrative detective adventure. In Prohibition-era Ashford, PI Zack Brennan solves five deadly cases shrouded in greed and lies. Search crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and confront corruption with hard evidence. A murder can be closed... but who will put this city on trial?
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Legacy Of The Depths
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
A dark narrative adventure in the spirit of Northern Noir, set in an alternate Russia of 1929. Explore forgotten places, uncover fragments of lost coordinates, and follow a family mystery beyond the Barents Sea.
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Shadows of Doubt
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
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Defragmented
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Noir Syndrome.
Defragmented is a lightning-fast cyberpunk action RPG with a pulsing synth soundtrack. Welcome to Entropolis – New World, Bad Blood.
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Heliophobia
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Heliophobia is a first-person horror/mystery adventure presented through a surreal, non-linear narrative. You awake on a vacant plane, given only a singular task: kill the one with the initials "J.R.".
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Ad Infernum
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.