Single-player games like From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure, 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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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
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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BROK the InvestiGator
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
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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TR-49
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Lacuna: Prologue
Single-player alternative to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.