Games like Methods: The Detective Competition
Looking for games like Methods: The Detective Competition? Here are top action recommendations with a mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Chicken Police – Paint it RED!, Return to Shironagasu Island or Murder by Numbers.
1 96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, stability96% User Score 523 reviewsA narrative-driven adventure with a mystery-solving detective gameplay.
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2 91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding91% User Score 594 reviewsA mystery-adventure game set in the solitary "Shironagasu Island". Become detective “Sen Ikeda” and explore the secrets of “Shironagasu Island” with your assistant “Neneko Izumozaki”.
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3 83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, atmosphere86% User Score 1,704 reviewsCritic Score 80%18 reviewsSolve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
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4 81%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding90% User Score 500 reviewsCritic Score 38%1 reviewsActing as Adam Wolfe, an investigator of the paranormal, you will discover a hidden world under the modern San Francisco. In this city, ghosts, artifacts, secret orders and curses are just some of the things that Adam will come across working on his most important case.
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5 73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, character development73% User Score 313 reviewsYou are James Garner, a security engineer at Mantis Corp., a leading tech company in weaponry field. You got a usual task to decrypt company files. Unusual is that these files contain bizarre chat. Things become weirder when you realize that your job is to “hack love story.” Why is this so important for Mantis? What can be hidden in someone's conversation? What will you risk to find out the truth…
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6 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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7 97%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding97% User Score 1,666 reviewsIn Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, you play as a defense attorney who practices law in a world of fantasy and wizards. You must defend clients accused of various crimes committed using magic and use the rules of magic to prove them innocent.
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8 81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability90% User Score 511 reviewsCritic Score 73%18 reviewsJoin forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
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9 89%Game Brain Scorestory, musiccharacter development89% User Score 168 reviewsYour first day as a police clerk... unveils a tapestry of mysteries! You play as Justina Smith, a newly hired clerk at the Azure City Police Department, as she finds out the truth behind a series of suspicious crimes. Work with the eccentric detectives Ernest Hunt and Sophie Swift as you investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and discover the secrets hidden among the paper trails.Five int…
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10 91%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsatmosphere, character development94% User Score 306 reviewsCritic Score 75%1 reviewsA thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
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