Single-player games like Detective Gallo
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Detective Gallo, 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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Nine Noir Lives
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
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Bear With Me - Episode One
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.
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Dominique Pamplemousse
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Dominique Pamplemousse in “It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!” is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst into song.
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Lamplight City
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
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Sam & Max Save the World
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Mutropolis
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
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Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The super-suave agent, SPY Fox, must find Mr. Udderly, rescue all the cows, and stop William the Kid from depleting the worlds supply of milk. Using ingenious SPY gadgets, keen wits, and daring moves, SPY Fox, jumps out on an udderly exhilarating adventure!
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Detective Gallo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?