Single-player games like Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon, 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: The Pandora Directive
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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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Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
Single-player alternative to Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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: Under a Killing Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
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.