Single-player games like The Detective's Computer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Detective's Computer, 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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Cyber Manhunt
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
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The Operator
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
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.
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Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
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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Uncover the Smoking Gun
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
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?
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Heaven Does Not Respond
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Detective's Computer.
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Single-player alternative to The Detective's Computer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Detective's Computer.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.