Single-player games like The Occult Detective
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Occult Detective, 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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Nobody Nowhere
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
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子归 - Blossom
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...
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Rubbings
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
《诡拓》是一款中式民俗微恐风的悬疑推理游戏。你将扮演一名民俗杂志编辑，根据匿名信件中的拓片线索，深入封闭、神秘的睖睁村，这里多年来流传着失踪旅人和诡异祭祀的传说。通过亲历村志中的诡异故事，并在村庄中展开调查，你将逐步揭开埋藏数十年的真相。
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迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
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Sanfu
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
2000年，山城市新闻频道的电视画面莫名跳出一则旧广告，而广告的代言人是已经去世的特异功能少年——三眼神童。有传闻三眼神童的亡魂劫持了电视信号。 调查局受命展开调查。随着调查的深入，一个藏在黑暗处的犯罪团伙逐渐浮出水面。
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Murders on the Yangtze River
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
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蜉蝣之国的囚徒
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor". They are strangers, but now forced to partake in an ancient and eerie ritual—"the Feather-Burning Rite". A bloodstained drama spanning millennia has silently unfolded...
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Single-player alternative to The Occult Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.