Single-player games like Direct Investigation
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Direct Investigation, 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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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
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The List
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.
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Dry Drowning
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
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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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Direct Investigation.
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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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
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BURIED STARS
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Direct Investigation.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to Direct Investigation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Direct Investigation.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.