Single-player games like Neon Hearts City
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Neon Hearts City, 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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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
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 Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
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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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Murder by Numbers
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
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The Corruption Within
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.
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Void Breach
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Void Breach is a low-res, retro point-and-click adventure game where an experiment has gone unpredictably wrong. Your daughter is whooshed through a tear in space! Embrace the void and follow her. The only way to bring her back.
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Cyber Seraph
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Neon Hearts City.
The alien invaders have launched their final offensive on an already crippled Terra. Only one brave pilot can turn the tide of war. Cyber Seraph is a boss focused vertical shoot 'em up with unlockable abilities.
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Blood Nova
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Princess Love is set to assume the throne of a powerful galactic empire. But when conspirators try to thwart her ascension, Love and her best friend Kel become stranded on an interstellar lighthouse. Prove Love worthy of rule in this thrilling point and click adventure game.
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Twilight Oracle
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Journey to a strange world in search of the fabled Oracle in this fantasy comedy point & click adventure. Play as Leo, a struggling student with the ability to breathe underwater, and explore a desert island and the depths of an alien ocean to uncover your school’s dark past.
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Tachyon Dreams Anthology
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
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Devil's Hideout
Single-player alternative to Neon Hearts City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Hearts City.
Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.