Single-player games like Puzzle Agent
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Puzzle Agent, 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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Puzzle Agent 2
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
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The White Door
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
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Mutropolis
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
Enjoy Strong Bad's wacky comedic adventures over 5 full episodes!
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Hector: Badge of Carnage - Full Series
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
All 3 episodes available now - get the full season!
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
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Twin Peaks VR
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
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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Batman - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
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Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Puzzle Agent.
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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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
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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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Puzzle Agent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Puzzle Agent.
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.