Single-player games like The Dark Story: Starving Child
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Dark Story: Starving Child, 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 Silver Case
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
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Crime O'Clock
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
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Roman's Christmas / 罗曼圣诞探案集
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Roman, the wolf detective plans to spend his Christmas vacation in his favorite tavern, but murder cases happened in the tavern put him to work again.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to The Dark Story: Starving Child — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.