Single-player games like Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock, 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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Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Sam & Max Episode 3 - The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball - The commissioner is looking into an underground operation at the Ted E. Bear Mafia-Free Playland and Casino, but the mole he sent in has suddenly gone quiet. To find the mole, Sam & Max must infiltrate the operation and become members of the Toy Mafia themselves.
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Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Sam & Max Episode 4 - Abe Lincoln Must Die - The president's lost it. Federally mandated group hugs, a pudding embargo... what's next, gun control? Sam & Max are off to Washington to take care of this bozo, but the political climate will only get stormier... and a new power will rise...
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Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
He's the most ancient and powerful opponent they've ever faced, a hairy, bloated, pagan God - Santa Claus! With Christmas presents on the attack and carols of gunshots drowning out the bells, Sam & Max must storm the North Pole to bring down a less-than-jolly foe.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
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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The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
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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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games.
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
Single-player alternative to Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!