Single-player games like The Detail
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Detail, 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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The Wolf Among Us Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Detail.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
- 2
The Posthumous Investigation
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
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Bohemian Killing
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.
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Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Detail.
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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QUIET DAN
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
FBI agent Erica Reed has an uncanny talent: she can see the past and piece together how a crime unfolded. But not even this sixth sense could save her younger brother, Scott, from a brutal serial killer. Three years later, the investigation into Scott’s murder has gone cold -- but Erica’s work has only just begun.
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The Wire
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"The Wire" is a casual puzzle game with plenty of levels, which is designed to suit the needs and abilities of players of all ages. Play with the electronic background music, you just need to move the controller to go forward. The most import thing is making sure it is going on the track.
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Sally Face - Episode One
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
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Thief of Thieves
Single-player alternative to The Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.