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Games Like Meliora’s Detective Simulator

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  1. #1 Save Koch
    97% matchMixed63% of 155 reviews2019
    Dev: Wooden Monkeys
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.

    Why similar: Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.9%, Violent 14.9%, Detective 14%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%

  2. #2 Bashed.OS
    96% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2019
    Dev: Chainsaw Development
    Windows

    Bashed.os is a Home-Invasion Survival game based on trial-and-error, you must search through a hidden Storage Drive given to you by an anonymous source, and on that Storage Drive comes a brand new Operating System, with an interacting world outside of you!

    Why similar: Violent 42.4%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 23.2%, Indie 10.3%

  3. #3 This Is the Police
    96% matchVery Positive82% of 11,246 reviews2016
    Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

    Why similar: Crime 19.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Noir 13.6%, Detective 10.3%, Simulation 8.1%

  4. #4 Abduction Episode 1: Her Name Was Sarah
    92% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Red Iron Labs
    Windows

    After waking up in a hospital, you must recover your memories and find the others if you want to survive the ABDUCTION.

    Why similar: Violent 41%, Strategy 22.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Indie 9.5%, Adventure 4.8%

  5. #5 Bharat Police
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: BharatPoliceGroup
    Windows

    Lead a police force in noir India. Manage officers, respond to emergencies, and upgrade your team. Navigate crime, corruption, and deep-rooted social tensions. Every decision has consequences.

    Why similar: Crime 18.8%, Noir 16%, Violent 14.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 12.8%

  6. #6 Zulu Response
    95% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2017
    Dev: Web Interactive Solutions.
    Windows

    Experience realistic combat gameplay from 1879 as you take command of your own squad of AI British soldiers or Zulu warriors in single, multiplayer or co-op. Configure AI to adjust their abilities and adjust game settings to create games that suit you.

    Why similar: Violent 38.5%, Strategy 25.5%, Simulation 25.2%, Indie 10.8%

  7. #7 Feed Eve
    94% matchMostly Negative36% of 11 reviews2018
    Dev: Womb TeamPub: Womb Technology
    Windows

    Next-Gen VR Action-Shooter experience. Battle hordes of zombies in extremely realistic environments and varying exciting game modes.

    Why similar: Violent 41%, Strategy 22.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Indie 9.5%, Adventure 4.8%

  8. #8 Spy DNA
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Shy Snake Games
    Windows

    Spy DNA is a combat simulation RPG that lets you lead a squad of genetically enhanced agents on the trail of organized crime and international intrigue.

    Why similar: Violent 32.7%, Strategy 27.7%, Simulation 27.4%, Indie 12.1%

  9. #9 Abduction Prologue: The Story Of Jonathan Blake
    94% matchMostly Negative21% of 14 reviews2018
    Dev: Red Iron Labs
    Windows

    In this survival horror game, play as Jonathan Blake who is awaken at night to find that he is not alone. Work your way through the apartment and try to survive your attempted ABDUCTION.

    Why similar: Violent 41.9%, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 21.6%, Indie 9.7%, Adventure 4.9%

  10. #10 Noir Chronicles: City of Crime
    93% matchMixed60% of 237 reviews2018
    Dev: Brave Giant LTDPub: Artifex Mundi
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Step into the shoes of Alfred Fox, a private eye with a knack for getting into trouble, and confront the danger looming over your old flame, Barbara Le Purr. Using your own intuition and wide investigation techniques you will follow the intrigue and face many, sometimes deadly, consequences.

    Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Violent 15.1%, Crime 14.2%, Detective 13.1%, Mature 12.5%

  11. #11 Narco Tycoon
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: TBDPub: SIG Publishing
    Windows

    Narco Tycoon is a simulation game about building a drug empire. Manage and develop your own drug factories. Employ the best people in the "industry" and invest in new technologies. Influence local politics, destroy your rivals or take over their business. Become the real Drug Lord!

    Why similar: Strategy 38.5%, Simulation 37.3%, Indie 16%, Adventure 3.3%, Atmospheric 3%

  12. #12 GOSSAMER DIVORCE
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: molluscdeflation
    Windows

    Spend a week on the microplanet of Archalh, cut off from the wider universe until the next macrocosmic pulse. Through the eyes of the planet's inhabitants and visitors, each with conflicting agendas; unearth what’s emerging within its confines before the next pulse frees it to spread beyond.

    Why similar: Simulation 18.1%, Noir 16.7%, Crime 10.3%, Violent 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%

  13. #13 Night Call
    91% matchMostly Positive74% of 752 reviews2019
    Dev: Monkey MoonPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.

    Why similar: Simulation 27.2%, Noir 25.8%, Indie 12.8%, Detective 8.6%, Visual Novel 8.1%

  14. #14 DETECTIVE - The Motel
    86% matchMixed47% of 19 reviews2024
    Dev: k148 Game StudioPub: JanduSoft
    Windows

    DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.

    Why similar: Crime 21.4%, Detective 18.3%, Noir 13.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%

  15. #15 ZERO ZION
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ThirdEyeAgentPub: 1ManArmy
    Windows

    A Single Player/Coop/Multiplayer Experience.

    Why similar: Violent 47.3%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 17.3%, Indie 11.1%, Adventure 5.6%

  16. #16 Harry's Burgers
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Digital Window
    Windows

    A RESTAURANT SIMULATOR THRILLER: Accompany Harry - the owner of a burger shop in a rundown English town - as he struggles to keep his family safe from a local serial killer. Sell enough burgers each day so Harry can afford to secure the house at night!

    Why similar: Violent 52.5%, Simulation 28.5%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 6.1%

  17. #17 Kingpin Royale
    89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
    Dev: Two Too Many
    Windows

    Welcome to the streets of Kingpin Royale, a drug selling strategy game that puts you in the throne as kingpin!

    Why similar: Simulation 33.2%, Strategy 24.3%, Crime 21.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.7%, Indie 5.4%

  18. #18 RevelationTrestan-尸忆岛
    88% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2018
    Dev: ZBO interactive technology
    Windows

    In 2033, a miniature meteorite from outer space crashed in a part of the south Atlantic ocean, when a country near the crash site led the fishing effort and secretly transported it to the isolated island institute near the crash site to study the virus, an event that attracted the attention of many large groups around the world.

    Why similar: Violent 42.5%, Simulation 21.9%, Strategy 21%, Indie 9.9%, Adventure 4.7%

  19. #19 Prison Planet
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SpringloadedPub: Springloaded
    Windows

    Intergalactic prison building adventure! Design and build your own intergalactic space-prison!

    Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 17.9%

  20. #20 Future Simulation World
    79% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
    Dev: KANNADE
    Windows

    Drawing on the existing real-world data and current state-of-the-art research and exploration results, and taking into account historical data provided by the World Bank, a streamlined and relatively sensible data model that outlines all possible options for future development is built.

    Why similar: Simulation 41.8%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 17.3%

  21. #21 Egony
    85% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2018
    Dev: BoomTownGames
    Windows

    Egony - board game in real time with turn-based battle and unit rental between players.

    Why similar: Violent 55%, Strategy 31.6%, Indie 13.4%

  22. #22 War of Power: The Last Fight
    84% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2019
    Dev: VikTor
    Windows

    In 1941, shot down UFOs were found on the territory of Romania, Poland and the USSR. The captured technology of aliens helped the Allies and the Axis to strengthen their power and go far in development. Parties to the conflict are waging an aggressive war against each other...

    Why similar: Violent 32.1%, Strategy 28.6%, Simulation 26.5%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

  23. #23 The Parchment - For The Realm
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: PatuTec
    Windows

    The Parchment is a turn-based strategie game, pitting different houses against each other in the fight for the crown. Use diplomacy, intrigue, trade and your military to subjugate other houses into vassalship or wipe them from history altogether.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  24. #24 Nauseous Pines
    82% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
    Dev: Rail Slave GamesPub: KPL
    Windows

    Nauseous Pines is the story of two nightschool students, united by fate and charged with creating their very first video game project. "Nauseous Pines"

    Why similar: Violent 42%, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Indie 9.8%, Adventure 4.7%

  25. #25 城市生存计划 / City Survival Project
    82% matchMixed69% of 58 reviews2019
    Dev: HAN GUANG
    Windows · Mac

    The player will play as someone trying to make it in the big city. Within 90 days, the game abstracts the difficulties, pressures, and choices in the form of continuous decision making. This decision-making game is based on a combination of talented and professional pathways, there are over dozens of career paths to advance and over 50...

    Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Strategy 40.4%, Indie 17.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

  26. #26 Twisty Tumble (VR)
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pixel After Pixel
    Windows

    It's a tricky puzzle game in Virtual Reality. Chill out in the calm, hypnotic undersea environment, and challenge your mind to reassemble the pyramids!

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  27. #27 BIGHARDSUN
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pavel Smushkovich
    Windows

    You were exiled to an old castle in the desert. Command people, monitor their condition, explore, improve the castle, and make tough decisions - all to survive! And while you're struggling with the hottest summer, the temperature is only rising, and the storms won't subside.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  28. #28 Jump To Die!!
    80% matchMostly Positive74% of 91 reviews2017
    Dev: WnMStudio
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Now you have a chance to operate your own company....of suicide!

    Why similar: Simulation 41.7%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 17.4%

  29. #29 Initiative
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Indelve
    Windows · Mac

    Initiative is an Aerospace Company Manager. Build and grow your aerospace company on Earth and be the first to establish a self-sustainable colony on Mars.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  30. #30 TOYTANK
    81% matchNo user reviews2019
    Dev: Pudding
    Windows

    First-person haptic turn-based VR game using PC / HTC-Vive

    Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Strategy 40.2%, Indie 17.9%

  31. #31 Onslaught: Armoured Assault
    76% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2020
    Dev: Lazy Friday Studio
    Windows

    Survive the endless onslaught of space, as you create your fleet to take down aliens, pirates and the unknown.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Simulation 40.7%, Indie 18.1%

  32. #32 MULE Returns
    65% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kotori Studios LtdPub: Comma 8 Studios
    Windows

    MULE is a ridiculously fun and addictive strategy game that combines real-time and turn-based styles as you battle for land and resources on a newly colonized planet. The game is easy to grasp but provides great depth of game-play.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 18.3%

  33. #33 Factory Manager
    77% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2018
    Dev: StainlessHeart
    Windows

    Factory Manager is a game about development of your own manufacturing business from scratch. You are going to take loans, hire stuff, buy machines and materials, produce goods according to the recipes and be prepared for the various risks inherent in any business.

    Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Strategy 40.7%, Indie 17.3%

  34. #34 Space Battle Core
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Korion
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Space Battle Core is a new 4X sci-fi game combining turn based hex combat gameplay with a real-time exploration experience.After the Earth’s demise, it is your task to recreate and spread human civilization in space.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Simulation 41.2%, Indie 17.1%

  35. #35 Creation and Conquest:The Future War
    74% match6 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2019
    Dev: Noelone
    Windows

    Players need to design their own DIY Infantrys, Vehicles, and even Aircraft. In the game through DIY It can create hundreds and thousands type of combat units, according to the opponent's tactics, research and development of restraint of the opponent's weapons is the key to victory.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  36. #36 Dream Factory
    77% matchVery Negative18% of 87 reviews2015
    Dev: The Tambourine
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Sitting in front of a screen or TV you might think that the process behind filming and producing a movie is a piece of cake. Try and play Dream Factory first. With this Filming Simulator you will ‘dive’ headfirst into the busy world of movie making. Our approach is to look at the industry in an ironic way.

    Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Strategy 40.7%, Indie 17.3%

  37. #37 Station Commander
    75% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
    Dev: Technically Competent
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Station Commander is a super-indie space engineering game. Players try to destroy a planet and its inhabitants by modifying a space station. Tune your station's heat and performance, and burn the enemy homeworld.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  38. #38 ポエニ戦争 地中海の稲妻
    73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
    Dev: 白新社
    Windows · Mac

    第二次ポエニ戦争を舞台とするストラテジーゲーム。

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  39. #39 Colony Prospector
    73% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2018
    Dev: Colonial Life
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Colony Prospecting - the most profitable occupation on Earth, or the quickest way to bankruptcy. That's if the aliens don't kill you first.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  40. #40 TownCraft
    76% matchMixed40% of 105 reviews2015
    Dev: Flat Earth Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

    Why similar: Simulation 41.4%, Strategy 40.2%, Indie 18.4%

  41. #41 Solar Collector
    74% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2017
    Dev: Emily Peregrine
    Windows · Mac

    Harvest Energy. Sell the energy. Keep up with payments.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  42. #42 Judge SIM 2 Precedent
    58% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: SunsixStudios
    Windows

    Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.

    Why similar: Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 17.7%, Detective 17.3%, Noir 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%

  43. #43 我是院长 - 模拟经营医院游戏
    71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
    Dev: XGame
    Windows

    【培养医生】 1、游戏内所有医生通过招聘获得,医生拥有不同学历,学历影响医生通过临床职称考试的概率; 2、医生的临床职称影响其对不同疾病的治愈率,临床职称可通过参与每年2月份举行的临床职称考试提升; 3、医生的教学职称影响科室科研的成功率,教学职称科通过接受教学任务提升;

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  44. #44 Way of Defector
    72% matchMixed55% of 58 reviews2017
    Dev: Dev Arc
    Windows

    In Way of Defector you experience the process of a North Korean defector escaping to China and arriving in South Korea. You must overcome starvation and break through the surveillance of the Public Security Officers to find the broker who knows the way to get to South Korea and safely arrive at the destination.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  45. #45 Forsaken Realm
    58% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Forester Games
    Windows

    Found your house or lead one of eight noble families in a medieval realm. Raise a castle stone by stone, furnish its halls, command companions and armies, and win the crown through war, trade and diplomacy – or hold what you built against every siege.

    Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Simulation 37.7%, Indie 16.1%, Adventure 8.1%

  46. #46 Crypto Crisis: Education Edition
    69% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
    Dev: Armoured Beans
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Let's help Principal Trotter and technology teacher Kieran build the school of the future. The Education Edition is a simplified and easier to play version of the original Crypto Crisis that has been designed for a younger audience and more casual players.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  47. #47 Rise of Man
    72% matchVery Negative18% of 147 reviews2017
    Dev: Darkcross Games
    Windows · Mac

    Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  48. #48 Gladiators Manager
    57% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ancient GamesPub: Creative Forge
    Windows

    Gladiators Manager puts you in the position of a lanista responsible for training and managing gladiators. Participating in brutal arena fights and cruel intrigues will grant you riches and glory in the ancient Roman Empire.

    Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Simulation 33%, Violent 19.3%, Adventure 6.6%, Indie 3.4%

  49. #49 Wisdom of War
    71% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2017
    Dev: Yang Sun
    Windows

    Wisdom of War is a real-time strategy game with unique style. Different from general real-time strategy game, the game only needs to operate a hero for various activities. This greatly reduces the demands for hands’ operation speed in traditional real-time strategy game so that players can focus on strategy application.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

  50. #50 Detective: Ritual of the Sea
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: InterStudioPub: Awaken Realms
    Windows

    Step into the shoes of an experienced detective and uncover dark secrets while solving criminal cases. In this thrilling detective world, you'll face stressful decision-making moments, reconstruct crime scenes, and utilize cutting-edge technology for evidence analysis.

    Why similar: Crime 19.6%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 16.4%, Noir 14.8%, Detective 14.2%

  51. #51 Dark Alley
    56% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: CheesecakeGamesPub: JanduSoft
    Windows

    A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.

    Why similar: Crime 20%, Simulation 17.6%, Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Mystery 8.6%

  52. #52 Hive Quest
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cotton Drift Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Guide your insect tribe on an unusual journey through a mythical woodland filled with ancient magic, strange creatures & hidden mysteries. Uncover the secrets of the Old Orchard, find and train your very own woodland sprite and lead your Hive to victory!

    Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Simulation 37.8%, Indie 16.2%, Adventure 7.9%

  53. #53 BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!

    Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Crime 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%

  54. #54 INVISIBLE
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Windows

    All of them who hurt me have disappeared But the hatred and revenge for them have not vanished

    Why similar: Violent 31.6%, Simulation 25.7%, Mature 13.8%, Indie 11.4%, Mystery 6.5%

  55. #55 Under His Eyes
    53% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2026
    Dev: HAS Games
    Windows

    Step into the shoes of a rising crime boss in this gritty strategy and management game. Extort local businesses, manage a crew of specialized operatives, and outsmart rival gangs in high-stakes dialogue. Will you build your empire in the shadows, or let the streets run red?

    Why similar: Crime 22.3%, Noir 20.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%

  56. #56 Virtual Robots - Robot programming simulator
    70% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2017
    Dev: Cold-Dark Software™
    Windows

    Virtual Robots is a robot programming simulator. The objective of this game is to write code for your robots. Yes, WRITE.

    Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 41%, Indie 17.6%

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