Single-player games like Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror, 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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Upheaval
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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London: Echoes of the Past
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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Neo Cab
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!