Single-player games like NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE, 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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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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Beware of the Cartographer!
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
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Last Night Last Call
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
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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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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KUUKIYOMI: Consider It
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The world, THIS IS JAPAN.
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Japanese Rural Life Adventure
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Japanese Rural Life Adventure is a relaxing slow-life simulation where you can experience the charm of traditional Japanese countryside living, all in a beautifully crafted pixel-art world.
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KUUKIYOMI 2: Consider It More! - New Era
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
New situations added. A game that determines whether you have the skills to be considerate in this new world.
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Hero must die. again
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The hero defeated the demon Guile, but lost his life in the process. Given five more days to put his affairs in order, guide him to the best possible funeral in this anti-RPG where he grows weaker.
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G-MODEアーカイブス01 フライハイトクラウディア
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A JRPG whose story takes place in the sky!
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G-MODEアーカイブス09 フライハイトクラウディア2
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fulfilling a promise made a long time ago, to a faraway place in the sky.
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OU
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE.
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
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KUUKIYOMI 3: Consider It More and More!! - Father to Son
Single-player alternative to NEXT：THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Third time's a charm. This is a game that checks your ability to be considerate to attain happiness.