Games like The List
Looking for games like The List? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Her Story, The Painscreek Killings or Telling Lies.
1 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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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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59%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability63% User Score 1,206 reviewsCritic Score 73%3 reviewsFour private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability82% User Score 822 reviewsCritic Score 61%11 reviews"The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is a horror themed murder mystery FMV game where you play as a therapist questioning patients. The game features the simplest of interfaces, over 1600 HD video responses, six main characters, and a randomly chosen murderer at the start of the game (which determines your story path)."
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68%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaymusic, grinding66% User Score 428 reviewsCritic Score 50%4 reviewsScene Investigators is a deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.
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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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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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97%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization97% User Score 4,311 reviewsThe year is 1998. A private jet belonging to the Roottree Corporation has crashed. On it were the Roottree Sisters and their parents. Combined, they were worth over a billion dollars. Now, due to the eccentricities of their great-great-grandfather Elias, their money must be redistributed to the rest of the family. But who's actually a BLOOD RELATIVE? That's where you come in. Armed only with t…
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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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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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