Single-player games like Guard Duty
Below are 14 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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Memory's Dogma CODE:01
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
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Dreamfall Chapters
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
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Epitasis
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
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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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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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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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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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METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Single-player alternative to Guard Duty — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
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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.