Single-player games like Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum, 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: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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: Overseer
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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.
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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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Neon Noir
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
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The Space Bar
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
Play as Alias Node, a human detective working on planet, Armpit VI. Your assignment? Catch a shifty criminal, wanted for grand theft and murder, before whatever it is, escapes to another world!
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
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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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum.
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.