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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Noir Syndrome page.
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!
- 3
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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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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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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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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The Shivah
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Noir Syndrome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Noir Syndrome.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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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.