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Single-player games like Forensics: Crime Scene Detective

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Forensics: Crime Scene 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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    FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol — Steam game cover

    FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.

    Put on your gloves and enter the crime scene. In this investigation simulator, you will have to solve 9 unique and independent cases full of plot twists. Use drones, robots, and chemical analysis to discover what really happened. Here, you don't shoot the bad guys; you catch them with science.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Test: Secrets of the Soul — Steam game cover

    The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Operator — Steam game cover

    The Operator

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scene Investigators — Steam game cover

    Scene Investigators

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2023IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Post Mortem — Steam game cover

    Post Mortem

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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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    Uncover the Smoking Gun — Steam game cover

    Uncover the Smoking Gun

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.

    A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Supernormal — Steam game cover

    Supernormal

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter — Steam game cover

    Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…

    2016ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Parking World: Build & Manage — Steam game cover

    Parking World: Build & Manage

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.

    Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.

    2025StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tunnel VR — Steam game cover

    Tunnel VR

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Like racing trough endless tunnels in space? Then look no further, this is the game for you. Because it is all about racing. In a tunnel. In space.

    2019IndieCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Beam — Steam game cover

    Beam

    Single-player alternative to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure18.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →