Single-player games like Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets, 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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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
It's April 2043 and you- as Tex Murphy, the last of the old-style gumshoes- find yourself racing against time in the most dangerous game of your life. What is the truth behind the rumored UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico? Why did the military suddenly shut down and seal off the Roswell complex?
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
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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Back to the Future: The Game
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
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Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco.
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Tex Murphy: Overseer
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Mean Streets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Mean Streets.
The client is drop-dead gorgeous. Her father is just plain dead—of an apparent suicide. She's certain he was murdered and is willing to do anything to prove it.