Single-player games like Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone, 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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Back to the Future: The Game
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
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Sam & Max Save the World
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
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Not Another Weekend
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A hilariously madcap point-and-click adventure as a determined bellboy tasked with clearing out a bustling hotel in just one wild weekend! Can he manage the chaos and evict all the guests? The clock is ticking!
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A suave secret agent adventure game. Your mission (should you choose to accept) is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge’s secret hideaway and put a stop to her evil plans!
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Puzzle Agent
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
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SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
The latest title of the party battle games series SUPER BOMBERMAN R! With new adventures and game modes, it has the largest content volume in the series' history!
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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
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Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!