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Single-player games like Time Guard - The Red Menace

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Time Guard - The Red Menace, 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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    Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness — Steam game cover

    Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Join the crazy police detective Francis in his search for a kidnapped cloned beauty and go through countless escapades with him in this classic point & click adventure full of comedy.

    2023IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Polda 7 — Steam game cover

    Polda 7

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Polda Pankrác v podání Luďka Soboty se vrací již posedmé. A je to návrat jaksepatří. Záhadná zpráva Temného lorda Vedra a havárie kosmické lodi odstartují kolotoč událostí, které může vyřešit jen náš elitní detektiv Pankrác.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Earth Must Die — Steam game cover

    Earth Must Die

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

    2026AdventureRPG15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Polda — Steam game cover

    Polda

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Pancras is a neurotic cop investigating a case of mysterious kidnapping in the town of Lupany. Help him find out, who’s behind the abduction of two orderly citizens!

    2024IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Unforeseen Incidents — Steam game cover

    Unforeseen Incidents

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi — Steam game cover

    Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neo Cab — Steam game cover

    Neo Cab

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    2064: Read Only Memories — Steam game cover

    2064: Read Only Memories

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Detective Hayseed - Hollywood — Steam game cover

    Detective Hayseed - Hollywood

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    The list of Oscar winners has been stolen as part of a nefarious plot to overturn the established Hollywood order. Our hero has to struggle through a series of tests and tasks in order to uncover the clues as to who has done it. And, of course, to stop him carrying out his threat.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Polda 3 — Steam game cover

    Polda 3

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Polda Pankrác coby elitní soukromý detektiv řeší případ ztraceného kuchaře, ze kterého se vyklube, jako obvykle, spiknutí obřích rozměrů. Pomozte Pankrácovi v podání skvělého Luďka Soboty opět zachránit svět!

    2022IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Polda 5 — Steam game cover

    Polda 5

    Single-player alternative to Time Guard - The Red Menace — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Time Guard - The Red Menace.

    Elite private detective Pankrac saves the world as an agent of the Time Police. Help him settle all the time anomalies in the history of mankind.

    2024AdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →