Single-player games like Mandated Fate
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mandated Fate, 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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Almanac: Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
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Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance is pretty tricky on a good day but it’s damn near impossible when your boss threatens foreclosure on your mortal existence. As the new bartender at DEAD-END, you’ll make new friends, mix weird drinks, all while navigating Life, Death and everything in between.
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SideEye High
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
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Agarta
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Mandated Fate.
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
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A Case of Distrust
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
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Mindcop
Single-player alternative to Mandated Fate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mandated Fate.
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.