Single-player games like Emerald City Confidential™
Below are 16 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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Nine Noir Lives
Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
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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…
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A Golden Wake
Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.
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Nancy Drew®: Mystery of the Seven Keys™
Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A thrilling blend of adventure, mystery, and history! Play as Nancy Drew to uncover the truth behind the theft of a client's heirloom necklace. Solve challenging puzzles, uncover a sinister web of cyber crime, and sleuth through Prague's mysterious streets entwined with medieval legends and alchemy.
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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?
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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.
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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to Emerald City Confidential™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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