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Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 78% — of 188 reviews
Released: 2023-12-14
Developer: 神探饭店制作组
Genres: Indie, RPG, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchVery Positive82% of 181 reviews2024
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    Windows

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  2. #2 Dead Town Tales
    96% matchVery Positive83% of 478 reviews2023
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    Windows

    Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay. You can learn about this romantic and mysterious world by fighting and exploring, meeting people, ghosts and monsters in Dead Town and experiencing the unknown and making choices together with them.

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  3. #3 Prison Notes
    96% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2025
    Dev: 闻岚工坊(Vinland Studio)Pub: Starsea Games
    Windows

    Prison Notes is a RPG with text-based ADV and cultivation elements. You act as a young migrant worker, wrongly imprisoned in the prison known as "The Coral Reef".What challenges and adventures are awaiting? Will you finally find a way out? Your choices and actions will decide the end of your story.

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  4. #4 The Magister
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 144 reviews2021
    Dev: Nerdook Productions
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.

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  5. #5 The Occult Detective
    94% matchMostly Positive72% of 323 reviews2025
    Dev: Battlecry Studio
    Windows

    A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.

    Why similar: Drama 21.1%, Story Rich 18.1%, Mystery 17.6%, Puzzle 17.5%, RPG 12.6%

  6. #6 Vegangsters
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 81 reviews2025
    Dev: Poison Pill Games
    Windows

    Embark into a deck-building roguelike where real-time action will challenge your reaction and strategy skills. Face the deadliest criminals in intense turn-based combat, where each card defines the pace of the battle and save the city from the Vegangsters!

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    93% matchMixed53% of 76 reviews2024
    Dev: SHIZU KANO UMIPub: PLAYISM
    Windows

    Use various cards to solve randomly generated murder cases in this roguelite deduction adventure game. The culprit always lies, and the innocent always tell the truth. Make too many mistakes, and it's back to square one. Put your wits to the test and solve as many cases as you can!

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    92% matchMostly Positive71% of 90 reviews2024
    Dev: SWDTech Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Untangle a gripping conspiracy in this noir-influenced mystery, laced with classic RPG elements. Navigate seedy streets to collect clues, upgrade skills and customize weapons. Brawl in turn-based combat with timed hits & combos, to reveal the dark truth that plagues the city’s core and your sanity.

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    91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,956 reviews2024
    Dev: Bone Nail
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.

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    91% matchVery Positive85% of 67 reviews2025
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    Windows

    Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.

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  11. #11 Card-en-Ciel
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 819 reviews2024
    Dev: INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Card-en-Ciel is a roguelite card-battling RPG featuring over 300 different cards and 50 unique vocal songs! Play as Neon, the "Gaming Chair Detective" famous for solving net-crimes, as he encounters a strange new case when he dives into an in-development game world.

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  12. #12 Methods: The Canada Files
    88% matchVery Positive97% of 330 reviews2026
    Dev: LockedOn GamesPub: Erabit
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  13. #13 Deck of Ashes
    89% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,061 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac
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  14. #14 Detective Grimoire
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,328 reviews2014
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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    82% matchMixed67% of 201 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows
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    80% matchVery Positive95% of 128 reviews2019
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    Windows

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  35. #35 Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
    74% matchVery Positive94% of 3,907 reviews2023
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    73% matchVery Positive98% of 435 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,171 reviews2022
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    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,839 reviews2019
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    71% matchVery Positive84% of 517 reviews2024
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    73% matchVery Positive82% of 116 reviews2021
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    75% matchMixed67% of 183 reviews2014
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    69% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2021
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    Windows

    A sci-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about building your own starting deck, equipping gadgets, summoning allies, and salvaging cards for different effects. Discover strange events, go fishing and gather Intel to uncover a conspiracy to take over the galaxy!

    Why similar: Card Battler 32.2%, Card Game 22.8%, Deckbuilding 21.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%, RPG 7.6%

  57. #57 烧尾宴
    65% matchVery Positive88% of 93 reviews2025
    Dev: 有点正经
    Windows

    This detective interactive game casts you as an officer solving a murder at a remote inn. Freely type to question NPCs, who react dynamically. Uncover the truth or enjoy playful interactions—it’s your call. Immerse yourself in The Ancient unsolved cases!

    Why similar: Puzzle 23%, RPG 20.9%, Story Rich 20.4%, Strategy 19.3%, Exploration 16.4%

  58. #58 A Solitaire Mystery
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 271 reviews2025
    Dev: Hempuli Oy
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.

    Why similar: Card Game 59.9%, Puzzle 25.7%, Strategy 8%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 2.9%

  59. #59 Sovereign Syndicate
    66% matchVery Positive81% of 606 reviews2024
    Dev: Crimson Herring StudiosPub: Zugalu Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 34.9%, Card Game 23.3%, RPG 16.2%, Story Rich 14.3%, Mystery 7.9%

  60. #60 Quartet
    63% matchVery Positive97% of 336 reviews2025
    Dev: Something Classic Games LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this turn-based RPG.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27.8%, RPG 14.2%, Story Rich 14.1%, Colorful 13.4%, Combat 12.7%

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