Single-player games like Across Crime
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Across Crime, 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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Dean Archer Stories: The Missing Detective
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
A detective vanished. An office locked from the inside. You were his last appointment. Investigate every corner and uncover what Dean Archer hid. A noir point & click adventure in a city that prefers not to look.
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The Millhaven Murders
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
A hand-drawn and story-rich deduction mystery set in 1887. Pearl Lundgren is dead and two men have been arrested for her murder, but the full truth remains to be discovered, and only you can piece it together.
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Curtain Call in Flames
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
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The Clues
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
A detective investigates nine seemingly unrelated deaths in a corrupt 1949 port city. Search for clues, question witnesses, connect every piece of evidence through pure deduction, and uncover the conspiracy hiding behind every case.
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Wild East: The Straw Man
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
A 2D point-and-click mystery set in the wild 1990s of Slovakia and Czechia. As two young reporters, follow a dead straw man, missing files, locked doors, and paper trails into a case that was never meant to be opened.
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Dark Alley
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.
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Paradise Killer
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
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Scene Investigators
Single-player alternative to Across Crime — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Across Crime.
Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.