Single-player games like Detective School Club
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Detective School Club, 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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As Long As It's Not Illegal: Act I
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Detective School Club.
It's Friday night, you and the other Senior Elites devise a plan to throw a party at the rival campus. Carpool across Suncity limits, down into the lawless land of the Undercity. It's Illegal for these two cities to mingle. But is it illegal if... you're never caught?
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Plan B from Outer Space: A Bavarian Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
Escape the grasp of the Barbvarians! Plan B from Outer Space is a stellar adventure in the style of an interactive book and takes inspiration from classic science-fiction stories and Bavarian culture. Every decision will affect the outcome of your mission; to leave this strange planet unscathed!
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Dating Life 2: Emily X Miley
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
Play as Emily as she goes on her second date with Miley, after they unexpectedly hit it off from a strange and wonderful night before. Is love in the air or just a bit of lust between the two. Can Emily find something special or is this just another night of fun among many.
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I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
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Bard Harder!
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
BARD HARDER! is a tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance! So brush up on your pick-up lines and prepare some sexy tunes…what’s the worst that could happen?
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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Detective School Club.
Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games.
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The Neverland of the Mountain and Sea
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
Falling in love!! With a robot girl (fool)!!
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Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
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Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
Follow the story of Xandria, the iron alchemist. Seeking revenge, she accepts the dangerous mission to put an end to the evil that resides in Dracula's castle and torments the people of Transylvania. Fight with an iron whip in this retro-style & Classic-Vania adventure.
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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists
Single-player alternative to Detective School Club — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective School Club.
This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.