- #1 This Is the Police
97% matchVery Positive82% of 11,135 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 25.1%, Management 20.2%, Noir 12.2%, Strategy 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #2 Bharat Police
96% 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 25.8%, Management 19.2%, Noir 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Time Management 9.1%
- #3 Under His Eyes
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
Build a criminal empire. Every choice shapes your rise - or your fall. A crime strategy and management game: make tough dialogue decisions, manage your crew, collect protection money, buy businesses, send operators on missions, and defend your territory from rival gangs.
Why similar: Crime 27.9%, Noir 17.6%, Management 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #4 Data Trader
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kinetic Sparks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sort, analyze and sell dangerous data in a cyberpunk city. Every file you trade affects factions, the economy — and your fate.
Why similar: Crime 28.9%, Management 21.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #5 Row Hard
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Surreal Overflow
Windows · Mac
Paddles, splashing of water and hard racing. Build your team, coach, mentor and lead them through tough choices to Olympic gold. Learn the price of victory! Deep story with resource management and rhythm sports races. What are you willing to sacrifice to win?
Why similar: Crime 26.8%, Management 18%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #6 Gangster Empire: Vendetta
94% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: SimProse Studios
Windows
Ever secretly wanted to run your own Mafia organization, playing the role of a ruthless mob leader? Now you can with Gangster Empire: Vendetta!
Why similar: Crime 34%, Management 27.8%, Strategy 22%, Resource Management 11%, Choices Matter 4.8%
- #7 Ogasm Simulator
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OG Interactive
Windows
From broke donor to city powerbroker earn money through unconventional private clinics, expand your influence, and shape population growth as the city shifts between love, fear, and chaos.
Why similar: Crime 35%, Management 27.2%, Strategy 19.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 4.3%
- #8 My Hotel
92% matchMixed44% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: BrainSwapperPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Step into the 1950s with My Hotel. As the new owner of a mysterious hotel, revive its glory through stylish renovations, solve hidden secrets, and master faction intrigues. A captivating blend of history and adventure awaits.
Why similar: Crime 26%, Noir 19.6%, Management 17.5%, Strategy 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #9 This Is the Police 2
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,527 reviews2018
Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Crime 22.1%, Management 21.7%, Strategy 19.1%, Story Rich 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #10 L.A. Noire
91% matchVery Positive86% of 36,396 reviews2011
Dev: Team BondiPub: Rockstar Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Why similar: Crime 32.7%, Detective 28%, Noir 24.2%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 2.4%
- #11 Drug Dealer Manager
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Exiles StudioPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Build your drug empire in an isometric crime tycoon game. Hire dealers and create supply chains. Avoid or bribe the officials. Spy and fight your competition to take over city districts. Command in real-time with active pause. Be the cartel king!
Why similar: Crime 45.1%, Strategy 17.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 12.5%, Time Management 8%
- #12 Mafia Infiltration
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narreme Works
Windows
Here's some advice for you, pal: If you can't beat them, join them. Befriend them, learn their flaws, sabotage their operations, pit them against each other, climb the ranks. And then—burn it all down from the inside. Turn-based strategy meets choice-driven narrative. Welcome to Mafia Infiltration.
Why similar: Crime 21.5%, Management 18.4%, Strategy 16.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Detective 13.7%
- #13 Leaky Business
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Long Sleeve Games
Windows
A deckbuilder where you expand your deck, take on tougher jobs, and literally stack your reputation to build the ultimate leak fixing business!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 19.5%, Card Battler 16.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 11%
- #14 Omerta - City of Gangsters
89% matchMixed67% of 2,388 reviews2013
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.
Why similar: Crime 57.3%, Management 24.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Atmospheric 0.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #15 Empire of Sin
87% matchMixed48% of 6,252 reviews2020
Dev: Romero GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
Why similar: Crime 41%, Management 25.9%, Noir 17.6%, Strategy 13%, Action 1.4%
- #16 The Matter of Being
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Common Logic
Windows · Mac
Set in the world of Cultist Simulator, haunt mortals and escape divine punishment in this unique relationship and resource management game. Strike Faustian pacts, manipulate mortals, and forsake your immortal life. Developed by Common Logic via Weather Factory's Sixth History License.
Why similar: Management 26%, Time Management 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Story Rich 9%
- #17 Watch Me Stream My Mental Breakdown
86% matchPositive83% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: Ultaan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deckbuilder in a Visual Novel form. Embark on an epically misguided quest to streamer stardom! Play games all day, keep your mental health above zero, and prove your father wrong by grinding your way up to a minimum wage... also pay rent. Mental breakdown guaranteed!
Why similar: Card Battler 19.7%, Card Game 19.6%, Deckbuilding 18.4%, Resource Management 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%
- #18 Obsidian Moon
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Cabinet Games
Windows
Investigate your way in a branching noir horror detective game inspired by Lovecraftian horror and ancient Minoan myth. Analyze evidence, connect clues, and uncover dark secrets through genre-bending deduction mechanics. Face a sinister plot—and an ultimate choice.
Why similar: Crime 25.9%, Noir 16.9%, Detective 13.6%, Choices Matter 11%, Card Game 9.8%
- #19 Sainthood: Confession
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bisong Taiwo
Windows
A European priest serving in West Africa ventures deep into the jungle to aid a dying brother. Build poker hands, bend the rules with saints and relics, and unleash holy combos to save your travel companions from their sins, lest their souls be damned.
Why similar: Strategy 20.6%, Card Battler 18.7%, Card Game 18.6%, Deckbuilding 16.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #20 Crime Union
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 54k Games
Windows
Build your criminal empire from the shadows. Manage global networks, launder black money, hire specialists, and crush rival gangs in tactical card battles. In Crime Union, staying alive while the law watches your every move is just as hard as reaching the top. Don't get busted.
Why similar: Crime 28.5%, Management 18.4%, Noir 18.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Deckbuilding 8.6%
- #21 Mugsy & Mugsy's Revenge
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Beam SoftwarePub: Pixel Games UK
Windows
As a Chicago mob boss at the start of Prohibition, you must make tough decisions to manage your crime empire. How many hoods to employ? How many clients to squeeze? How much to kick back to the cops? Don't be a schmuck, or you'll find yourself at the wrong end of a Chicago Typewriter.
Why similar: Crime 42.8%, Management 24.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Text-Based 5.4%
- #22 Interrogation: You will be deceived
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 379 reviews2019
Dev: Critique GamingPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Why similar: Crime 24.8%, Noir 19.7%, Detective 15.4%, Management 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #23 Last Decree
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Iron Crown Studio
Windows
Rule a dying medieval kingdom. Draw event cards, issue royal decrees, and decide how your realm meets its end.
Why similar: Management 20.7%, Strategy 18.8%, Card Game 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Deckbuilding 12.3%
- #24 The Mnemograph
80% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Thousands of Daggers
Windows
The Mnemograph is a turn-based strategy and card game with roguelike elements. Upgrade your printing plant, strengthen your deck, and become the most powerful newspaper tycoon in this corrupt city!
Why similar: Crime 26.3%, Card Battler 18.6%, Card Game 16.1%, Deckbuilding 15.2%, Management 15.1%
- #25 This Is the Peace
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nokwite Games
Windows
When The President fails to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, he vows to get it next year — by ending every world conflict himself. A darkly funny political strategy inspired by This Is the Police.
Why similar: Management 25.9%, Strategy 20.3%, Noir 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #26 Lacuna: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive91% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Crime 28.8%, Noir 24.9%, Detective 19.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Text-Based 6%
- #27 Echoes of Ash
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ash Studio
Windows
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 26.8%, Crime 25.6%, Management 14.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, Noir 8.5%
- #28 Murder Mystery Machine
79% matchMixed54% of 174 reviews2021
Dev: Blazing GriffinPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Join the District Crime Agency in this isometric, modern noir deduction thriller. Explore crime scenes in complex dioramas, organize your evidence effectively, and blur the lines between right and wrong to present your case. Do you have what it takes to be a real detective?
Why similar: Crime 32.7%, Noir 24.8%, Detective 22.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Adventure 3.9%
- #29 BOOK OF HOURS
76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,309 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Management 15.7%, Card Game 13.4%, Deckbuilding 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Time Management 11.1%
- #30 Dead fighting card
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 威峰独立游戏工作室
Windows
Unleash your boundless imagination to freely build a deck that's uniquely yours, then play cards to fend off wave after wave of monsters! What's more, the unique Relic System lets you equip your cards with all sorts of powerful relics, forging a fantastic playstyle that's entirely your own.
Why similar: Card Game 22.4%, Deckbuilding 20.5%, Noir 19.6%, Card Battler 19.5%, Strategy 17.6%
- #31 Murder at Ironwood Inn
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: SAK70Games
Windows
A shocking murder has rocked the Ironwood Inn. Play as one of four detectives, each with unique interrogation styles. Search for clues, question suspects, and uncover secrets in this high-stakes mystery. Can you solve the case before time runs out?
Why similar: Crime 41.7%, Detective 27%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 5.2%
- #32 Project KILLDANCE
74% matchVery Positive95% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows
Project KILLDANCE is a Noir tactical action featuring a one-army strategy and instant-death combat. Slowly observe surroundings, choreograph each killing move, leave no survivor, and become the spectral death.
Why similar: Noir 26.1%, Strategy 21.5%, Card Battler 19.5%, Card Game 19.3%, Deckbuilding 10.7%
- #33 Angels That Kill - The Final Cut
78% matchMixed45% of 33 reviews2015
Dev: Rising Sun Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Angels That Kill - The Final Cut is a dark, first person adventure game that tells the story of two men as they uncover the truth behind a murder that has shaken the city. Play through both sides of the story and discover the truth behind the murder.
Why similar: Crime 36.7%, Noir 34.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
- #34 Graywood: Noir Detective
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Crime 28.1%, Noir 25.1%, Detective 20.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #35 City of Gangsters
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,548 reviews2021
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
Why similar: Crime 40%, Management 21.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Noir 11.1%
- #36 Crime or Punishment
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scale Issue
Windows
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 31.3%, Detective 19.2%, Crime 17.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #37 Guilds of Greybrook
73% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Brava Games
Windows
Guilds of Greybrook is a roguelike management simulator where you don't play the hero, you pay the heroes! Operate the choppy waters of business ownership, hire adventurers, take contracts, and choose sides in the dangerous power struggles of the frontier.
Why similar: Management 37.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Card Game 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #38 The Sworn
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ironkeel Studios
Windows
A deep US police precinct management simulation. You are the Captain. Hire officers, manage your fleet, respond to a living city, and carry responsibility for every officer under your command. The job has a cost. So does ignoring it.
Why similar: Crime 35.6%, Detective 19.9%, Management 17%, Strategy 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #39 Grimtrace
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HoodaThunk Games
Windows
A monster-themed deduction game focused on solving brutal murders. Investigate crime scenes by uncovering hidden evidence, analyzing fingerprints, and testing blood samples. Identify the killer, determine the creature responsible, and solve seven thrilling cases
Why similar: Crime 29.7%, Noir 28.4%, Detective 26.4%, Story Rich 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #40 Getting Away With Murder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indie Remix Studios
Windows
1954. You killed a man. Now cover your tracks. Getting Away With Murder is a noir point-and-click mystery where every decision is about what you leave behind and whether anyone will find it.
Why similar: Noir 32.9%, Crime 25.9%, Detective 23%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 3.9%
- #41 Lord of Metal
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horns Up Games
Windows
🤘Lord of Metal is a single player story-driven management simulator about organizing 🎸Rock music festivals, bringing a dystopian world back to life. 🎤 Gather your crew 🥁 book bands 🎧 sign sponsors 🔊 claim festival grounds and bring some 🔥Rock to the masses! \m/
Why similar: Management 29.1%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Story Rich 13%
- #42 The Midnight Crimes
72% matchMixed66% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: DeadlyCrow Games
Windows
Point-&-Click Adventure with Deck-builder Cards Combat, Play as a retired detective investigating a missing child case while facing your past demons. Explore Midnight Cove, Victorian city with semi-open world mechanics and characters relationships. The story is episode-based, chapter by chapter.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Detective 20.3%, Card Battler 11.6%, Card Game 11.1%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #43 Geyserlands
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Nebula
Windows
Geyserlands is a deck-building game of modern otherworldly mystery. Gain new cards and upgrade your deck as you explore the mystery of Geyserlands. Unlock secret powers and gain special advantages. How will your story end in Geyserlands?
Why similar: Strategy 22.1%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Deckbuilding 18.8%, Detective 15.9%, Card Game 15.2%
- #44 The Cloudvale Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antidawn Studio
Windows · Mac
A story-rich strategy game where you protect a boy stranded on a collapsing utopian vessel. Use your mysterious device to assign protocols and restore the Astral Ark, or spend them to help the boy. Uncover the Ark’s secrets, the boy’s origins, and his mission. Then decide their future.
Why similar: Management 20.2%, Choices Matter 17%, Resource Management 16.5%, Strategy 15.1%, Story Rich 12.5%
- #45 Staffer Reborn
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 930 reviews2024
Dev: Team Tetrapod
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Staffer Reborn is a game of supernatural abilities and logical deduction set in 1960s America. It tells the story of a man trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection caused by his supernatural ability and the investigator who was recruited to help.
Why similar: Crime 20.3%, Noir 19.7%, Detective 16.5%, Management 14.7%, Story Rich 9%
- #46 Black Market Dealer
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Decompression Interactive
Windows
A real-time crime management sim where you build a black market empire from a single hustle to a global operation. Buy fronts, launder money, smuggle contraband, set prices, and outrun the Police, FBI, and INTERPOL as your heat rises. Every deal is a gamble between profit and prison.
Why similar: Crime 48.7%, Strategy 21%, Noir 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #47 Detective: Ritual of the Sea
70% 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 33.7%, Detective 18.2%, Noir 17.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #48 Meliora’s Detective Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miraoriem
Windows
This game is a text based simulation that focuses on the life of a detective. You must read many different crime stories and find the real criminal in them. An old-school game genre is coming back with modern mechanics and clean graphics.
Why similar: Crime 23.5%, Strategy 21.1%, Noir 18.5%, Detective 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #49 The Wolf Among Us Remastered
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Telltale
Windows
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Noir 21.7%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Crime 17.5%, Story Rich 13.2%
- #50 Walls of Fate
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: elevel
Windows
Rule a fortress on the brink of collapse: listen to the residents’ requests, manage limited resources and time, strengthen relationships with key characters in the fortress, and move closer to solving the mystery of the ruler’s disappearance.
Why similar: Management 23.5%, Resource Management 16.5%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Time Management 11.3%, Strategy 11.3%
- #51 Bouncer Story
70% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Helmi GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Bouncer Story, a retro-inspired film-noir featuring a protagonist working as a bouncer to pay off a gambling debt to the underground mafia controlling the city. As a bouncer you are seeing, hearing and experiencing all kinds of events in the your daily work controlling the entrance to a bar.
Why similar: Crime 35.4%, Management 26%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #52 Man of Nollyn
67% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Slater Chae
Windows
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Crime 33.6%, Noir 28.6%, Detective 23.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 2.9%
- #53 Light Streams In
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Light Games
Windows · Mac
You had a rough night. Use the cards you've been dealt to reveal secrets and uncover your story through conversations with compelling characters. When faced with a life-changing opportunity, will you repair relationships or fan new flames? Change your life...or don't.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Detective 13.6%, Card Battler 13.6%, Card Game 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #54 Back to the Dawn
66% matchVery Positive95% of 10,137 reviews2025
Dev: Metal Head GamesPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Why similar: Crime 29.2%, Detective 23.7%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 14.2%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #55 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
68% matchVery Positive92% of 2,870 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Crime 27.1%, Noir 22.4%, Detective 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #56 Hidden Clues
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Seven Sails Games
Windows
Crack the cases! The murders are escalating in the city! Follow the clues to crack the cases and arrest the killers!
Why similar: Crime 49.7%, Detective 27.1%, Strategy 22.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #57 Pixel Gangsters: Mafia Manager
68% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Gidib Games
Windows
Run your gang of mobsters and conquer the city in this indie mafia tycoon game.
Why similar: Crime 39.1%, Management 21.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Time Management 9.3%
- #58 Placid Plastic Deck - A Quiet Quest
64% matchVery Positive82% of 226 reviews2026
Dev: turbolento gamesPub: turbolento publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A story-driven adventure featuring card battles, multiple-choice dialogue, and funny characters! A friendship to mend, and a cast of opponents to beat, each with a uniquely built deck. But you're in luck… yours is all ducks!
Why similar: Card Battler 22.3%, Card Game 21.2%, Deckbuilding 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 13%
- #59 JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JD Detective Thrillers Studio
Windows
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Crime 29.6%, Detective 19.6%, Text-Based 8.4%, Choices Matter 5.8%