Detective games like 死亡编码-Death Code

Miss the tense and mysterious pull of 死亡编码-Death Code? These detective games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Birth ME Code
The second entry of the Abime Series. Play as the mastermind in a death game where you must find the traitor while concealing your identity. Six hours, one school, six deaths. Nine participants fight for survival: it's kill or be killed, trust or deceive, escape or die.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
85% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Death Game Report
You are the clerk after the killing is over. From an aging terminal you reopen each victim's last record, match it against the student roster and island map, and file the cause, weapon, and culprit for every death. Short, plain, and built for armchair detectives who like reading closely and closing cases.
Mysterious, Dark, Story-driven
95% of 2,417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$3.99
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
The Joker's Game
"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes. Outwit rivals, uncover truths, or perish? Every move decides survival... or the deadly prize.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
81% of 486 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Soulslayer～灭魂·误佳期～
An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
95% of 661 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Misty Judgment
You are Qi Yi, a mystery writer who cannot remember his own name, caught in a loop of murders across a campus, a mental hospital, a villa, and an office. Search scenes, press suspects, and present the right evidence to break their stories in this live-action detective story with multiple endings.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$6.29
BURIED STARS
Trapped under a collapsed audition studio with a killer still in the room, you pick through talk, timelines and public gossip to work out who did it, why, and how. A slow, talky visual novel where suspicion builds between rescues that never quite come.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
82% of 2,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99
Beyond R: Rule Ripper
An evolving death game set in a bar, where getting to know its players is the only way out. Each person hides one of the game's rules. Discover them through their pasts, tastes, and finding hidden clues, then face them in an all-out discussion. Only three can survive, unless you fight back.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live
Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.' Is he merely a kindred spirit born of crisis, or a forgotten soul from your distant memories? A heart-pounding romance adventure across the dreamscape—begins now!
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
85% of 899 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
True Game
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Replayable
88% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
12 Hours to Die
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Also in Visual novel · Tense, Mysterious, Dark
74% of 227 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free

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Suicide Countdown: 7 Days

Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…

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7 Days Before the End

一个普通的早晨，五个大学生踏入同一间教室，却在陌生的空间醒来。纸条上写着： “在七天内找到真相，否则这里就会崩塌。”——你将如何度过这七天？

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The Deed

A murder mystery played backwards: you are the killer. You return to Dunshiel House to murder your sister for the inheritance, then pick a weapon…

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√Letter - Root Letter -

When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared.

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目盲/Blind

「Sometimes what the eye can't tell, the heart can.」《Blind》 is a light fantasy game for girls set in a modern city.

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木夕镇的午夜轮回 Midnight cycle in Muxi Town

What kind of work is this? This is an experimental multi storyline game.

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Please close the doors

"Please close the doors" is a quest with elements of the detective and thriller in which the player should find out who of seven people, which got…

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Nothing To Remember

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

$1.99

The Almost Gone

Trapped between life and death, you search small dioramas of homes, streets and an abandoned hospital for clues.

$9.99

16叠谋杀之谜

Sixteen Layers of Mini Murder" is a video adventure game of the detective puzzle genre, where level-based puzzles drive the story's progression…

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Xi

"Xi" is a horror puzzle game set in the context of modern Chinese folklore. The story takes place in an long-abandoned mountain mansion.

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The Boogie Man

"You are the player, and must chase the Boogie Man. If you catch him, you win! And that's the happy ending, but if you don't..."

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The Death Game Report

You are the clerk after the killing is over. From an aging terminal you reopen each victim's last record, match it against the student roster and…

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Elton Manor: Requiem of the Cursed Roses

At the beginning of the 20th century, you awaken in a quiet manor where everyone calls you “Anna”, a maid.

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Misty Judgment

You are Qi Yi, a mystery writer who cannot remember his own name, caught in a loop of murders across a campus, a mental hospital, a villa, and an…

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Yet Another Killing Game

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

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我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live

Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.'

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Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time

Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!

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咒影 Curse of the Shadow

"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…

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The Joker's Game

"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes.

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子归 - Blossom

Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village.

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Back to the Dawn

A prison-break RPG where you are also the investigator. As a framed reporter or an undercover agent, you gather evidence on two conspiracies, work a…

$23.99

Lam Lam

One night, "I" noticed that the neighbor was making some noise as usual. Just at this moment, I heard the cry of a girl from Room F.

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Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

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