Single-player games like Crime and Punishment
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Crime and Punishment, 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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The Lady with the Dog
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Colossals
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crime and Punishment.
Colossals tells the story of a vagrant, who, together with his love interest, the soon-to-be-Empress Khalida, interpret the fairy tales they read in front of a windmill to be fact, telling them of a faraway land where, once upon a time, giants roamed.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
Three brothers come back to the house of a father none of them loves: one for the money, one for the truth, one to save them all. Something terrible is about to happen here. Dostoevsky's whole novel, word for word.
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Painting Werther
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
Painting Werther is a Paintable Visual Novel where all the visuals are living paintings, all the music are classics (with a twist) and the novel was written by Goethe in 1774.
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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最后的送别
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crime and Punishment.
改编自家里姥爷的亲身经历，一位老共产党员的平淡故事。 或者也不算平淡呢，毕竟在那时年代，没有人的一生是能平淡度过的。
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Prose & Codes
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple cryptograms. 10% of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
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Corners Arena
Single-player alternative to Crime and Punishment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
Lead a squad of 3D sentinels across a living strategy board. Step, build long jump chains, and occupy the rival corner first in local two-player matches or against an easy or tactical computer opponent.