Single-player games like TR-49
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to TR-49, 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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Almanac: Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
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Epsylon - The Guardians of Xendron
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A private eye mystery game where you decide how to solve the case. Use your detective skills to solve the case or rely on the abilities of your little dragon partner to see things from a new angle.
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Curiosity
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but after satisfying it she was resurrected." This game is a visual novel. Features of the game - puzzles and several endings, depending on your choice.
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CHILDREN OF SATURN
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A found footage coming-of-age story about a group of teenagers growing up under an orange sky.
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Moth Cry
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
Moth Cry is a non-linear visual novel about life and its consequences. Experience life alongside the main character. His fate is in your hands.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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The Darkest Files
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?
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Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
- 10
Her Story
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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The Case of the Golden Idol
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
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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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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The Red Pearls Of Borneo
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
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80 Days
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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A Highland Song
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Pendragon: Narrative Tactics
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.
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Sorcery! Part 3
Single-player alternative to TR-49 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TR-49.
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!