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Single-player games like Emerald City Confidential™

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Emerald City Confidential™, 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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    Blackwell Epiphany — Steam game cover

    Blackwell Epiphany

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    The last game in the Blackwell series.

    2014IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer — Steam game cover

    Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Blackwell Legacy — Steam game cover

    The Blackwell Legacy

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    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.

    2012IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blackwell Deception — Steam game cover

    Blackwell Deception

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blackwell Unbound — Steam game cover

    Blackwell Unbound

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.

    2012IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lamplight City — Steam game cover

    Lamplight City

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Post Mortem — Steam game cover

    Post Mortem

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…

    2011Adventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whispers of a Machine — Steam game cover

    Whispers of a Machine

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    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.

    2019Adventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™ — Steam game cover

    Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    The Man With The Hat Is Back In His Greatest Adventure Yet! 1939 - The eve of World War II. Nazi agents are about to get their hands on a weapon more dangerous than the atom bomb. Only Indy can stop them before they unleash the deadly secret that sank Atlantis.

    2009Adventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Unavowed — Steam game cover

    Unavowed

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    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.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Old Skies — Steam game cover

    Old Skies

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

    2025Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shardlight — Steam game cover

    Shardlight

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blackwell Convergence — Steam game cover

    Blackwell Convergence

    Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.

    The third game in the Blackwell series

    2012IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →