Single-player games like A Case of Distrust
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to A Case of Distrust, 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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Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
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The Sinner of the Closed Set
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Case of Distrust.
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
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Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
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Omen Exitio: Hunger
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
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Broken Lands Village
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
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Green Mist over Portland
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline during the cold war on a globe-trotting adventure following a trail of spies from a quiet English harbour town to a frozen Finnish fishing village and the corridors of an intelligence service rotten at its core.
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Last Night Last Call
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
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YOUR HOUSE
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to A Case of Distrust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with A Case of Distrust.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.