Games like Dead By Murder
Looking for games like Dead By Murder? Here are top action recommendations with a mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Lamplight City, Contradiction: Spot The Liar or Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders.
1 83%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability89% User Score 632 reviewsCritic Score 78%11 reviews"A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?"
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, stability95% User Score 4,710 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviews"Contradiction is an interactive crime drama game that uses live-action video for the entirety of the game play. It’s a brand new take on the concept of an interactive movie and brings the genre to a whole new level of playability. Contradiction plays as smoothly as a 3D graphic game. You can wander freely around the game environment, collecting evidence and witnessing constantly changing events.…
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73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding77% User Score 1,363 reviewsCritic Score 65%11 reviewsThe ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. You are the famous private detective Hercule Poirot and, once again, you find yourself up against a mysterious serial killer who goes by the name of "ABC".
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding90% User Score 1,752 reviewsCritic Score 76%28 reviewsBecome the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization90% User Score 2,586 reviewsBecome the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic. Will you follow your moral compass, or will you apply the letter of the law? The great freedom of action in Crimes …
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65%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability74% User Score 5,430 reviewsCritic Score 54%32 reviewsJack Boyd, beloved police chief of Freeburg, has 180 days before he's forced to retire. But Jack won't be going out quietly. Over the next six months, he'll be going all out to fulfill a dream: earn half a million dollars, any way he can. That might be play money for a corrupt cop, but up until now, Jack has been playing by the book. Even with overtime, in six months he wouldn't make fifty grand. …
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding88% User Score 6,189 reviewsCritic Score 73%17 reviewsA real life crime story where you play detective.
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding97% User Score 18,211 reviewsCritic Score 88%22 reviewsIn this 1-bit first-person mystery game, a merchant ship called the Obra Dinn has appeared at a London harbor, years after being declared lost at sea. As an insurance adjuster, the player must examine the ship for clues.
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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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76%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding78% User Score 2,466 reviewsCritic Score 74%34 reviewsIn this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death. As Sherlock, your legacy is written by the decisions you make in this open world. Deception, violence, and deduction are just a few resources in your arsenal—your mysterious companion and soun…
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