Single-player games like Guard Duty
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Guard Duty, 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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Tales of the Neon Sea
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
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The Order of the Thorne - The King's Challenge
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Be a Bard! The challenge awaits!!Join Finn the bard as he undertakes "The King's Challenge" and see if he has what it takes to not only survive, but to write the greatest song in all of the land of Uir!
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Paradigm
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
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Four Last Things
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
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Twilight Oracle
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Journey to a strange world in search of the fabled Oracle in this fantasy comedy point & click adventure. Play as Leo, a struggling student with the ability to breathe underwater, and explore a desert island and the depths of an alien ocean to uncover your school’s dark past.
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Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
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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Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.
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Simon the Sorcerer Origins
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
Summoned to a strange magical world, Simon must complete an ancient prophecy to return home. Solve crazy puzzles, cast spells, brew odd potions and uncover the origins of a legendary saga!
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Hollowbody
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
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Chasing Static
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.