Single-player games like Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case, 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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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
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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The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
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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Dahlia View
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
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Doki Doki AI Interrogation
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
A short interrogation game taking full advantage of ChatGPT! You are tasked with interrogating the suspect [AI] of a murder case as an [excellent police officer]. How you choose to interrogate the suspect is up to you. How the AI reacts is rendered in real-time through ChatGPT.
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Dry Drowning
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tokachi Detective: The Balloon Case.
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.