Games like The Archive

Silent Signals is a screen-based detective thriller where your only weapon is your mind. You step into the role of an ethical hacker, hired to investigate the digital remains of missing persons, erased emails, corrupted logs, and locked directories. Each case is self-contained (like a digital cold case file) and demands logical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to connect fragmented …

Uncover a tragedy filed as a footnote. The Kalyma Files is a narrative investigation game where you play as an archivist piecing together a decades-long secret. In 1964, a storm, a cracked crate, and a handful of invisible pellets quietly poisoned a Greek island harbor. The official record calls it a "chemical spill." The truth is buried in classified memos, medical reports, tourist brochu…

A modern-day narrative mystery where players explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data. Blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone. Uncover the secrets hidden in plain sightWhen you pick up an old laptop at a local car boot sale, you’re not just getting a bargain - you’re inheriting a dig…

83%Game Brain Score

story, music

gameplay, graphics

91% User Score Based on 43 reviews

Clock in for the night shift at TEREBRO INC., 1986. As a newly promoted Risk Assessment Data Processor, your job is simple: safeguard the company’s future. But the deeper you dig into the archives, the stranger and more unsettling the details become. Using vintage tools like a GPS and encoder device, you’ll sift through cryptic documents, unravel hidden codes, and piece together fragments of the …

You are alone in the office. Or at least, that’s what you try to believe. In Cutter, a first-person psychological horror game, you follow June, an office worker who starts taking night shifts after the unexplained disappearance of a coworker and close personal friend. What begins as corporate routines, doubts, and quiet questions slowly turns into silent tensions and unsettling mysteries, beco…

91%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, replayability

96% User Score Based on 712 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.

About This GameCompromised Investigator is a narrative-driven investigative RPG set in a town governed by the Compromise. The creatures of the Night and Day have been separated by a curfew with few ever even getting to see one another. Peace is maintained through the Compromise, a collection of rules that value order and stability over truth or justice. You play an investigator tasked with report…

86%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, grinding

91% User Score Based on 3,255 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 6 reviews

WELCOME TO THE FDI, MR TANNER. Time to clear your head, work through your hangover and start your first day as an Operator. There are plenty of cases to solve. Assist our field agents using your computer console and ingenuity to bring criminals to justice. Ready to make the world a better place? Investigate Crimes: Solve cases such as murders, missing people, and cyber attacks. Use FDI Software:…

80%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, grinding

88% User Score Based on 6,189 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 17 reviews

A real life crime story where you play detective.

83%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, replayability

91% User Score Based on 616 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 8 reviews

Another Lost Phone is a game about exploring the social life of a young woman whose phone you have just found. This game is shaped as a narrative investigation: you have to link elements from the different applications, messages and pictures to progress. Scrolling through the phone’s content, you will find out about Laura’s life: her friendships, her professional life and the events that led to h…