Single-player games like Chalk & Blood
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Chalk & Blood, 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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Mystical Riddles: Haunted Portraits Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chalk & Blood.
Can you solve the riddle of the disappearing visitors before you lose yourself in the gallery’s macabre beauty?
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Criminal Archives: Blade of Deceit Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chalk & Blood.
A judge's body is discovered with a clean cut across his jugular, setting the stage for an intense puzzle of motives and clues.
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Rough Justice: '84
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Do what it takes to make your fledgling security agency thrive in this 80s noir crime bustin', dirty crossing, vengeance-seeking board game inspired strategy game with dice and cards.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chalk & Blood.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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Still Life
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Still Life 2 also now available!
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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chalk & Blood.
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.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chalk & Blood.
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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Dry Drowning
Single-player alternative to Chalk & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.