Single-player games like The Darkside Detective
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Darkside Detective, 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 Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
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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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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Lucy Dreaming
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Discover a dark family secret and rid a young girl of her nightmares in this splendidly British point & click comedy adventure. Playing as sharp-witted Lucy, explore both dreams and reality to meet all the colourful characters who'll help you solve puzzles, gather clues and find a murderer.
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Loco Motive
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Lumino City
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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The Case of the Golden Idol
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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The Séance of Blake Manor
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.