Single-player games like Detective Penguin
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Detective Penguin, 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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The Stepfather Remake
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
A classic point-and-click adventure full of mystery, humor, and clumsy mobsters. Solve puzzles, talk to quirky characters, and uncover the truth in this fully remastered detective story!
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Jason Maxx
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
A man has fallen to his death in Metro City. Mysterious circumstances. Luckily, hardcore detective Jason Maxx is on the case. The city is dark, the suspects are weirdos, and the graphics party like it’s 1999. Explore, interrogate. Can Jason solve the mystery, even when absurdity takes over?
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Tails Noir
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Detective Penguin.
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.
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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
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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To Hell With The Ugly
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
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Voodoo Detective
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Penguin.
Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.
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The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detective Penguin.
The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is a sandboxy physics game for 1-8 players, with everything from sneaky heists to hilarous stupidity to baking pizzas. With continuous updates, plenty of maps, and hundreds of items, clothes and quests, it has something for everyone.
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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Detective Penguin.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
Single-player alternative to Detective Penguin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Penguin.
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.