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Single-player games like Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker, 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 Bureau — Steam game cover

    Detective Bureau

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.

    2026AdventureEarly Access17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Code: 9 — Steam game cover

    Code: 9

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    To save your life, an underground resistance group fused you with a hostile entity. Now as 'partners', you need to work as investigators to pay off your debt… and find out what truly happened to you.

    IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silver Creek Town — Steam game cover

    Silver Creek Town

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    A town that lives its own life — powered by AI on your own PC. Eight residents keep their own routines, form friendships and grudges, pass on what they hear, and remember — one of them, what the town would rather forget. Talk to anyone by voice or text, and change how their stories unfold.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Call into the Hollow : [ 2300 ] — Steam game cover

    Call into the Hollow : [ 2300 ]

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    Not just a movie—a cinematic experience you step into. Powered by generative AI and real-time voice interaction, you play as an operator speaking across space and time to a lonely girl. Every word you say actively alters her destination.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cathedral of Sorrow — Steam game cover

    Cathedral of Sorrow

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    A experimental horror game run by a dynamic fear director. Survive emergent scares and procedural horror in the depths of the Cathedral. Evade its terrors and free its captive souls.

    IndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia — Steam game cover

    The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.

    2026IndieAdventure12.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tide of Lone Stars-孤星之潮- — Steam game cover

    Tide of Lone Stars-孤星之潮-

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    Tide of Lone Stars is an ADV / AVG with conventional gameplay and unconventional apocalyptic sci-fi narrative. As a disabled girl living outside the walls, Blanka, you will meet a strange man, Adrian. An amazing adventure of “Love, Rebirth and Death” is ready to begin.

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Contradiction: Spot The Liar — Steam game cover

    Contradiction: Spot The Liar

    Single-player alternative to Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker.

    Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →