Detective games like Confabulation

Miss the mysterious and tense pull of Confabulation? You will find a few strong contenders among these detective games.

12 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance. Bend reality to recreate the scenes from his diary and expose long-buried secrets. What if your role in this case went beyond that of a simple investigator?
Mysterious, Scary, Surreal
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1
Holly gets a letter from her missing sister and follows it to a sealed, candle-lit house with a twenty-year wait behind the door.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
92% of 1,123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$8.99
Care
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
93% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Rehaunted
As detective Connor Raines, you work a woman's death inside her own house: sweep rooms with UV light, camera and magnifier, pin clues to the evidence board, and argue it out over the radio. Short, dark, and full of contradictions worth untangling.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
71% of 437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Psychroma
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
87% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
GET EVEN
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
76% of 936 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99
Supernormal
You are Detective Wyatt, hired by Masato Sakamoto to find his missing daughter in an ordinary apartment with dark secrets. You search for clues, solve puzzles, and talk to what haunts the place through your microphone to reach one of two endings. Short, tense, and best played with the lights low.
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
72% of 1,144 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Desktop Explorer
You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them. A slow, eerie treat for armchair detectives who like reading files closely.
Mysterious, Scary, Surreal
95% of 2,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
THE NORMAL THING
THE NORMAL THING is a story about a dog who lost his memory. Sunless forests, strange gardens, weird inhabitants... Start a little journey to retrieve your memory.
Mysterious, Scary, Surreal
95% of 491 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Forgotten Hill First Steps
The first three games of the Forgotten Hill series joined together with new contents, new locations, new puzzles and secrets revealed: let's follow Larson's First Steps in Forgotten Hill!
Mysterious, Tense, Scary
94% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than Confabulation

Who am I: Remedy

A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.

$3.14

Forgotten Hill First Steps

The first three games of the Forgotten Hill series joined together with new contents, new locations, new puzzles and secrets revealed: let's follow…

$2.99

We Used to Play Here

Daniel wakes up to the same nightmare every night. A girl he cannot escape.

$3.99

Dark Room

Dark Room is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. You awaken in a mysterious, locked environment with no memory of who you are.

$2.99

Hidden Memories

Lucian wakes up trapped with no memory of how he got there. Explore fragments of the previous night, solve dark puzzles, uncover hidden clues, and…

$3.99

The White Door

Robert Hill wakes in a white-walled facility with no memory, and you piece him back together.

$3.99

Meridian 157: Chapter 1

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it?

$3.99

Echoes of Dread

Explore a haunted mansion, piece together a family's fate and survive what still walks its halls.

$4.99

INPUT6

INPUT6 is a short, fast-paced, first-person horror game. Search through the abandoned robot factory avoiding malfunctioning robot by instantly…

$3.99

The Horror Of Salazar House

Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

$3.99

Quern - Undying Thoughts

Trapped on the island of Quern after your portal closes, you piece together what happened here through old letters, a lingering spirit, and the…

$2.49

Blind Memory

Dive into a haunting mystery where you wake up half-blind and amnesiac, trapped in a time-looping nightmare.

$3.50

Hidden gems like Confabulation

lily's world XD

You find Lily's 2004 laptop and go through her diary, blog, messages and friends to piece together where she went.

$11.99

Desktop Explorer

You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them.

$17.99

I'm on Observation Duty 8

You watch live security cameras for a strange organization and file reports on anything that changes, from a moved chair to something otherworldly…

$11.99

The Wellmonts Case

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine.

$8.99

12 Memory Lane

Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.

Free

Mind Diver

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations.

$17.99

Terminal Lucidity

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.

Free

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

The Gretlow Tapes

Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game.

$9.99

I'm on Observation Duty 7

As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and…

$11.99

Utter a Name

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

$6.99

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