Single-player games like Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division, 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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Unprompted
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Type to guess the words used to create machine-made artworks, while slowly uncovering the algorithm's reflections on its own work. Come investigate more than 1,500 generated artworks across 7 carefully curated galleries.
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Conge's Crunch Time
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
'Conge's Crunch Time' is a puzzle game where you solve factory tasks through intuitive drag-and-drop programming. Write code for your robot to clear each level, delve deeper into the factory, encounter new puzzle concepts and data-structure creatures, and uncover the truth.
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Who is the Liar?
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
In Who is the Liar you are Wadson, the only and best detective in town!Use your detective nose to solve the troubles that happen at Madmily Mansion parties.Organize the testimonies of the residents, find the liar of each case and beat this crazy family in their fun minigames!
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Death at Fleming Manor
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
"Your job is to write the death certificate." In 1959, a mysterious death awaits inside a grand British manor. Investigate eerie scenes and complete forensic documents, including death certificates and emergency reports. Stylish 1960s detective comic art. Perfect for fans of vintage whodunits.
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The Shell Part III: Paradiso
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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The Ratline
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.
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A Case of Fraud
Single-player alternative to Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division.
A short non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.