Games like The Case of the Dungeon Descent
Looking for games like The Case of the Dungeon Descent? Here are top puzzle recommendations with a fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic, Arcane Investigations or Return of the Obra Dinn.
1 90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicatmosphere, optimization96% User Score 45 reviewsBirmingham, England: 1993. A shocking ritual murder compels a world-weary forensic investigator to discover a hidden realm of witchcraft, gods and demons. Follow clues and use magic to solve the case, with moral choices leading to multiple possible endings.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability100% User Score 40 reviewsIt's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and everyone is woken up by signs of a MAGICAL ROBBERY! Players take on the role of Kabili as you tumble out of bed and work to solve your first ever mystery as a newly accredited arcane investigator. Along the way, you'll meet your new investigative co-workers, question suspects, and search for evidence at the scene of the crime. Ultimately, you w…
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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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91%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability96% User Score 712 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsNarrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsmusic, replayability100% User Score 32 reviewsDark Fantasy! Mature themes! A story filled with hope! Introducing Knights of Messiah IF: Castle in an Alternate Dimension! Traverse the colorful world of Knights of Messiah as the leader of your very own party of adventurers! When your wife Alicia and little sister Maya are kidnapped by the Prince of Windsor, Ritz, you and your friends decide to locate the "Gemstones" hidden away in…
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75%Game Brain Scoremusic, humorstory, gameplay77% User Score 48 reviewsThe year is 1995. A young heiress named Victoria Mason has gone missing.As the newest hire at the Gumshoe Detective Agency, you’ve been assigned your very first case, and all you’ve got to go on is a clunky desktop, a dial-up connection, and a handful of suspicious files. You'll dig through emails, websites, chat logs, and glitchy software in search of the truth. With every document you decrypt,…
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View Game92%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability92% User Score 132 reviewsUtter a Name is a challenging detective adventure with strong emphasis on atmosphere and investigation. Several disembodied souls linger in the premises of an old manor. The goal is to explore the vicinity for information, then deduce the identities of the souls and their murderers.
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89%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, optimization89% User Score 2,943 reviewsThe Painscreek Killings is a first-person, explorable mystery solving game set in a fictional town of United States in the 1990s. As a young and upcoming journalist, you are to uncover the secrets behind the town killings and publish the truth in the city papers.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding96% User Score 303 reviewsElsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover. Can Ophelia prevent the tragedy that lies before her?
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability82% User Score 56 reviewsRocwood Academy is a text-base choice-matters adventure game set in the wizard world hidden inside US society early 1900s. In the role of a first-year student, player is going to make friends, study wizardry and uncover the mystery beneath the school-back garden.
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