Single-player games like 智探
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to 智探, 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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Keystone Library
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
An expandable library of RPG stories and mini-games. Enter a living library where every book is a new adventure. Solve puzzles, complete quests, battle foes, and restore the library to its former glory using a unique keyword-based interface.
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《道格拉斯警督的日记》
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 智探.
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
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Book of Infinity: 1001 Nights
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
Can you survive an evil King who kills a bride every night by telling stories? A story-crafting game based on a unique narrative system — Become the storyteller Scheherazade from Persian folklore, weave tales to the King through typing, and guide his words to forge magical weapons for your revenge!
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Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with 智探.
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
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声息- La Voix
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
Navigate complex relationships and unexpected revelations as a transfer student with amnesia in this visual novel adventure. Uncover the truth behind a mysterious dream and the wishes of the campus crush.
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Causal Effect
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
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松峰镇:诅咒
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
This is a suspenseful puzzle visual novel game. You play as a character who was born in Pine Peak as a child and returns to this long-lost town after many years. You get involved in a series of mysterious disappearances happening in the town and try to explore and solve the mystery.
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My Mud Game
Single-player alternative to 智探 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with 智探.
Do you know Mud? It was a popular multiplayer online game 20 years ago ~ It is only declining with the development of graphical games, and My Mud Game is to let everyone recall the past and even create games developed by their own games.