Single-player games like Ciella's Casebook
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Ciella's Casebook, 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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DESOPE
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Ciella's Casebook.
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
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A Rum Case in Fogtown
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
Puppet detectives Sherblock & Blockson are on the case to solve a dastardly sabotage against their favorite pub. You control the story in this madcap comedy joyride!
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
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MAELSTROM LEGACY: The Tesla Mystery
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
The Tesla Mystery is a puzzle-driven adventure game. Join the journey of investigation in a Paris infused with steampunk and Art Nouveau styles. Nikola Tesla, mastermind behind the Science Conference, has vanished under mysterious circumstances. Now, and uncover the truth hidden in the city...
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
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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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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In Between All Times
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
"What can we do in the between the times that we wait?" As graduation looms closer, a chance encounter with a campus ghost in an empty clubroom changes a student's final year dramatically with one small goal: to finish writing a short story.
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The Festival Isn't Over
Single-player alternative to Ciella's Casebook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ciella's Casebook.
The Festival Isn’t Over is a Psychological Thriller - Visual Text Adventure that follows a retired war veteran, Isha’s journey regaining her memories from the war she returned a year ago. While in the middle of a massive town festival taking place.