Games like Backbone
Looking for games like Backbone? Here are top role playing recommendations with a mystery and thriller focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Tails Noir, Tails Noir: Prologue or Nobody Wants to Die.
1 69%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, replayability65% User Score 1,831 reviewsCritic Score 78%3 reviewsUnfold the mysteries of a dystopic animal society inhabiting retrofuturistic Vancouver in a noir stealth adventure coming in 2019. Backbone is a pixel art cinematic adventure with stealth and action elements. As a private investigator Howard Lotor you are set to solve detective cases, interrogate witnesses, explore the intriguing retrofuturistic Vancouver, and sneak your way to safety using smell…
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97%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, monetization97% User Score 2,961 reviewsYou’re not special. You’re not a hero. Thrust into unfortunate circumstances, you find yourself with no other option than to unravel what might be your biggest case yet. There is no choice. We change, but we change nothing. Get to work, detective. Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you un…
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View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability86% User Score 2,560 reviewsCritic Score 75%24 reviewsLose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization93% User Score 984 reviewsCritic Score 84%8 reviewsA 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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70%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding70% User Score 1,810 reviewsCritic Score 70%3 reviewsCoteries of New York presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple. It's a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed, globally recognized universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, optimization87% User Score 6,625 reviewsCritic Score 66%29 reviewsA neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding80% User Score 3,984 reviewsCritic Score 70%4 reviewsThe Council is an episodic game that delivers a fresh new take on the narrative adventure genre. Make hard-hitting decisions, develop an array of skills, and directly impact how the story unfolds. With permanent, long-lasting consequences, there is no going back. Plunge into a tale of intrigue and manipulation in the style of a classic murder mystery, interacting with a cast of alluring characters…
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability77% User Score 8,396 reviewsCritic Score 67%1 reviewsDeveloped by seasoned studio Cyanide, Call of Cthulhu is an RPG-Investigation game with psychological horror and stealth mechanics, set in a deeply immersive world. On a mission to find the truth behind the death of an acclaimed artist and her family on a backwater island, the player will soon uncover a more disturbing truth as the Great Dreamer, Cthulhu, prepares its awakening...
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, optimization95% User Score 608 reviewsRoui, a resilient city dandy, a decipherer, a half-educated jeweler and the author of scientific magic articles, was met with a colossal failure AND must return to his gypsy homeland: Latori.
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, character development71% User Score 650 reviewsCritic Score 76%2 reviewsThe Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
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