Single-player games like The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon, 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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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Space Detective 14
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.
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Murder Is Game Over
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?
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Dimhaven - The Lost Source
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
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Robotherapy
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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The Séance of Blake Manor
Single-player alternative to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.