Single-player games like The Emperor Penguin Incident
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Emperor Penguin Incident, 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 Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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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Dinocop
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
When dinosaurs were brought back to life, none wanted to be a cop, so humans made you: Dinocop. Investigate the guests of the Cretaceous hotel to crack a meaty case that will confront you with your most profound existential dilemma. Who brought human meat to the dinosaur rights convention ?
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The Silver Case
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Queen Slayer
Single-player alternative to The Emperor Penguin Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
A tightly focused, streamlined turn-based roguelike RPG you can finish in 2–3 hours. Challenge the short but razor-sharp journey to slay 8 corrupted queens.