Games like Murder by Numbers
Looking for games like Murder by Numbers? Here are top action adventure recommendations with a drama, mystery and anime focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Tales of the Neon Sea, Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane or Call of the Sea.
1 79%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, character development86% User Score 726 reviewsCritic Score 60%3 reviewsTales of the Neon Sea is a retro-styled pixel-art adventure, developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Zodiac Interactive. [Media 2154696] Set in a fully realized cyberpunk cityscape where...
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2 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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3 83%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability87% User Score 3,167 reviewsCritic Score 75%4 reviewsCall of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific, filled with secrets waiting to be unearthed. It’s an otherworldly tale of mystery, adventure, and self-discovery.
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4 96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding96% User Score 2,590 reviewsSolve puzzles, collect clues, explore the swamp, interrogate suspects... and uncover the mystery! Detective Grimoire is a charming and mysterious adventure, featuring a variety of strange and unique interactions with the bizarre residents of the swamp, a compelling and challenging murder mystery to solve, and an original award nominated soundtrack.
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5 71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization78% User Score 5,152 reviewsCritic Score 63%22 reviewsFeaturing taut action and investigative work, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, the eighth and latest entry in the franchise, will push your abilities to the limit in a one-of-a-kind interactive experience.
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6 98%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, atmosphere98% User Score 356 reviewsChelshia is back in her most (only) puzzling adventure yet! In this brand-new story, Chelshia, Amelia and Bernadette arrive on the uncharted, uninhabited Hanji Isle to track down the four ancient (and expensive) tablet pieces. Take on a plethora of nonograms in Story Mode and learn the secrets of Hanji Isle or complete nonograms on a grid to build larger pictures in Mosaic Mode!
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7 83%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsreplayability, grinding85% User Score 2,591 reviewsCritic Score 75%3 reviewsLife on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve puzzles in each of the five chapters of this game. Navigation…
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8 84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability88% User Score 1,089 reviewsCritic Score 79%7 reviewsJenny LeClue is a story focused exploration adventure game with memorable characters, a unique aesthetic, and an epic tangled mystery. Jenny is a brilliant young detective, but nothing exciting happens in her small town of Arthurton, and she longs for real adventure. She gets more than she bargains for, when her mother is accused of murder. Jenny takes on the case of a lifetime and begins an unex…
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9 82%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding88% User Score 1,772 reviewsCritic Score 60%2 reviewsWhen Rosa Blackwell's only relative dies after twenty years in a coma, she thinks the worst is over. This all changes when Joey Mallone, a sardonic ghost from the 1930s, blows into her life and tells her that she is a medium. Whether they like it or not, it is up to them to cure the supernatural ills of New York in this critically-acclaimed series of point-and-click adventure games. When three NYU…
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10 96%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding96% User Score 2,609 reviewsFreya Fellow had been murdered... by an unfinished painting?!
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