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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 — Steam game cover

    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!

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    隐迹囚笼 Mind Jack — Steam game cover

    隐迹囚笼 Mind Jack

    Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.

    Mindjack is a plot-progression Visual novels and investigation game about social violence. Hijack instructors' vision terminals, eavesdrop on conspiracies, and capture violent acts. You must uncover dark secrets, and decide whether to save your friends trapped within the time limit.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MoonShot — Steam game cover

    MoonShot

    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're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project.  Each day, you have a checklist to complete.  Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern.  The Apollo team are all competent professionals.  Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all.  😛

    2025IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Island of Crossed Destinies — Steam game cover

    The Island of Crossed Destinies

    Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.

    A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.

    AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Midnight Therapy — Steam game cover

    Midnight Therapy

    Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A powerless, FAKE therapist facing raw truth. Balance financial pressure and patients' collapse in this narrative RPG. Use speechcraft and the "Mind Reading Spell" to dive into minds and shatter cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or redemption?

    2027RPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Front Page — Steam game cover

    Front Page

    Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.

    As Editor of an independent newspaper, you are in charge of printing daily front pages. You decide which story you want to publish, and see the world change depending on your choices and actions. What kind of Editor will you become?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    中国式地雷女 — Steam game cover

    中国式地雷女

    Single-player alternative to Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror.

    At Domi Network, I somehow discovered that three completely different "JIRAI Girls" were hiding right under my nose: YUNA, XIUHUA, AIKA L2D+lip sync, 370,000 words, 70+CG, three emotionally intense "Subculture Girls," come experience the most authentic Chinese-style "dating minefield" !

    2026IndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Nights with Poe and Munro — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →