Single-player games like DETECTIVE - Scene Crime
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime, 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 - The Test
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Test your detective instincts across three challenging cases. No hints, no help—just you, your intuition, and your ability to piece together the truth. Can you solve the mystery?
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Case Files: Behind Closed Doors
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
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Scene Investigators
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.
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Forest Grove
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
In Forest Grove, a teenage heiress has gone missing. Foul play is suspected. Uncover a cast of characters, collect evidence, and find the truth in this futuristic detective game!
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
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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The Operator
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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Bohemian Killing
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.
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Back to the Dawn
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
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After You
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
After You is a narrative game with puzzles, but it is not an easy game, here you will not have indicators or tutorials, nor can you save when you want. In After You you need to put all your attention and use paper and pencil to move forward, if you're looking for an easy game, this is not your game.
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TEMPUS
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
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The Creature: Escape Room
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
You are a detective sent to investigate the mistreatment of a mysterious creature. In this escape room there are not only puzzles, but also characters and history.
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FINIS
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
FINIS is a puzzle game with a difference, we create a psychological evaluation based on your choices. Each universe offers a different experience, terror, calm, destruction, war, progress... You can choose between 8 completely different paths and each path will take you to a unique ending.
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DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
DETECTIVE: Stella Porta Case, puts you in the shoes of a detective who investigates three strange disappearances. In all cases there is a contract signed by the disappeared, that contract is from an organization called "Stella Porta".
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DETECTIVE - Minerva case
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
DETECTIVE Minerva Case is a crime deduction and solving game, with an adult and original story. Visit the crime scene, look for all the evidence and understand what happened.
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DETECTIVE - The Motel
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.
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DETECTIVE - Rainy night
Single-player alternative to DETECTIVE - Scene Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DETECTIVE - Scene Crime.
Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.