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Single-player games like SideEye High

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SideEye High, 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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    Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill — Steam game cover

    Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.

    A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.

    2027IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Antioch: Scarlet Bay — Steam game cover

    Antioch: Scarlet Bay

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.

    Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blake: The Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    Blake: The Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SideEye High.

    Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.

    2021IndieCasualFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure — Steam game cover

    Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dahlia View — Steam game cover

    Dahlia View

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Post Mortem — Steam game cover

    Post Mortem

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.

    After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…

    2011Adventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blacksad: Under the Skin — Steam game cover

    Blacksad: Under the Skin

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.

    BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!

    2019Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overboard! — Steam game cover

    Overboard!

    Single-player alternative to SideEye High — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.

    GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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