Single-player games like Tails Noir
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tails Noir, 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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Tails Noir Preludes
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
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Tails Noir: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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NORCO
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
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Blacksad: Under the Skin
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tails Noir.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tails Noir.
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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Tails Noir: Rebel Rush
Single-player alternative to Tails Noir — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tails Noir.
Rebel Rush is a single-player speedrunning driving platformer where you sacrifice himbos for hideous carkour moves.