Single-player games like Precinct 2099
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Precinct 2099, 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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No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Precinct 2099.
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Precinct 2099.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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Dry Drowning
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Precinct 2099.
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.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Precinct 2099.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Precinct 2099.
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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NeonCode
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Precinct 2099.
NeonCode is a one hour long cyberpunk-retro adventure game made by one developer. It was inspired by classics such as the Blade Runner-movies, Miami Vice, Grim Fandango and the games of Telltale.
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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Precinct 2099.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
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Let Bions Be Bygones
Single-player alternative to Precinct 2099 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Precinct 2099.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.