Single-player games like NeonCode
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to NeonCode, 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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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NeonCode.
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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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Pecaminosa
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NeonCode.
Activate your detective skills in this noir-influenced police action RPG. Grab your gun and prepare to face the strangest case of John Souza's career by helping the ghost of a dead mobster get "justice". Hit the streets in search of intel, befriend the scum and beat those who will try to stop you.
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L.A. Noire
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
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This Bed We Made
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NeonCode.
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NeonCode.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NeonCode.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NeonCode.
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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Flux Caves
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NeonCode.
Flux Caves is a 3D puzzle game. My plan is to create something which can be a challenge, but still you enjoy to play. I want to create a soothing environment and this is enhanced by slow piano-based music.
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Neon Wings: Air Race
Single-player alternative to NeonCode — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Want to race without the constraints of the ground? Then Neon Wings is your game! Neon Wings: Air Race is an adrenaline-filled, fast-paced air racing game with a lot of single and multiplayer fun!