Single-player games like Smash & Grab
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Smash & Grab, 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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Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smash & Grab.
A solo deduction roguelite with over 200 roles, set in a noir city run by a criminal syndicate. Investigate everyone, make arrests and protect your reputation. Take down the syndicate and don’t get duped like the rest. Everyone is a suspect, trust no one. No friends required.
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1930: Ink & Bullets
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smash & Grab.
A turn-based tactical strategy game featuring a 1930s cartoon art style. Face your opponent in a tense tabletop duel, use your perks wisely, manage your resources, and try to survive each round in this suspenseful noir universe.
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Hillthorn
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smash & Grab.
A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
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Dean Archer Stories: The Missing Detective
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Smash & Grab.
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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Detective Solitaire Inspector Magic
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Smash & Grab.
120 unique deals – investigate a mysterious crime!
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Omertà: Mafia Novel
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Smash & Grab.
Noir visual novel set in 1950s New York. Infiltrate a prison, build a smuggling network, and shape fates through tough choices across branching paths.
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KNUCKLEBOUND
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smash & Grab.
KNUCKLEBOUND is a turn-based roguelite deckbuilder. Choose your fighter, build your deck, combine punches, kicks, bleed and poison, collect equipment, and fight your way through the streets to take down the Crime King.
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Rotten Chamber
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Smash & Grab.
A single-player logic puzzle disguised as social deduction. Read the claims of a corrupt city council, catch the liars and arrest them, but every wrong call brings you closer to losing it all.
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Gravi
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smash & Grab.
Gravi is an intense puzzle-platformer that will test your tolerance for pain. Shoot and swing your way towards victory as Gravi, an adorable blue ball of energy. While you’re launching through terrorizing traps and bending gravity to your will, Anti-Gravi, an atomic ball of rage, is barreling down on your position.
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Mage Guard: The Last Grimoire
Single-player alternative to Smash & Grab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smash & Grab.
Mage Guard is one of the world's first truly gesture based spell casting games for VR. Take on the role of a Guild Mage, tasked with guarding the Guild’s most powerful relic, "The Grimoire". Being the last of its kind, you will defend it against countless waves of enemies that are trying to obtain the precious relic.