Single-player games like The Shapeshifting Detective
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Shapeshifting Detective, 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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The Complex
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.
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Night Book
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
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Late Shift
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.
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Five Dates
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.
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Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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The Occupation
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.
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MazM: The Phantom of the Opera
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
A thrilling love story unfolds in a majestic Parisian opera house.
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Murderous Muses
Single-player alternative to The Shapeshifting Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shapeshifting Detective.
Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.