Subsurface Circular
You are a robot detective who never leaves your seat on a subway for robots, solving a string of disappearances among the robotic working class.
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Detective games like Decade
Loved how story-driven and atmospheric Decade can get? These detective games are a good place to start.
Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The Forgotten City
You wake by ruins, travel 2,000 years into ancient Rome, and land in a cursed city where if one person sins, everyone dies. To save it you question its residents, connect their stories, and rewind time to try again. A talk-first mystery for armchair detectives who like untangling people.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
95% of 11,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99The Silent Age
Joe is a janitor in 1972 who finds a time-travel device and a dead man, then finds 2012 empty of people. As detective games go, this one is quiet and lonely: you pick through both eras for clues, move small objects across time, and piece together what wiped out humanity.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
93% of 5,971 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Old Skies
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
92% of 989 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99Pentiment
You are Andreas Maler, an illustrator stuck in a small Bavarian town when murder hits Tassing and Kiersau Abbey. You question suspects, follow leads, and name someone — then live with what that choice does to the town over 25 years. Perfect for armchair detectives who like uncertain answers.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
95% of 9,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$19.99Gamedec - Definitive Edition
You are a gamedec, a private investigator for crimes inside virtual worlds in 22nd-century Warsaw City. No gunfights here: you question witnesses, gather clues, and piece together deductions across farm sims, noir streets, and fantasy realms. Worth playing for armchair detectives who like untangling messy human motives through dialogue and choices.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
78% of 1,134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$29.99Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Subsurface Circular
You are a robot detective who never leaves your seat on a subway for robots, solving a string of disappearances among the robotic working class. You gather words and phrases and spend them in dialogue puzzles to open up new testimony. A tight two-hour mystery about robots and humans, built for one sitting.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Three Minutes To Eight
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
63% of 131 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Game 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! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case. Confused and disoriented, you discover that the victim is your own descendant. Gunfire erupts, chaos escalates, and schemes unfold within schemes... Don’t want to be a pawn? How to become the player?
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
85% of 738 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.79
Cheaper than Decade
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
A murder, a hack, and a bombing push the solar system toward war, and CDI agent Neil Conrad catches the case.
91% of 2,192 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$15.99
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.
88% of 413 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
Future Proof
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop.
100% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Through The Fragmentation
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration.
96% of 220 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Quarantine Circular
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.
88% of 434 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later?
68% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Chronoquartz
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress.
98% of 529 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
The Isle Tide Hotel
Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring a cast from GoT, The Witcher, and more.
64% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Au Revoir
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071.
94% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 372 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (Complete Season)
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship?
80% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$2.24
Hidden gems like Decade
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Crushed In Time
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson lose a character from their own in-development game, and you help find them.
90% of 1,392 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Old Skies
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time.
92% of 989 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
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?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
A deduction puzzle game set in the last hour of a lost 90s JRPG complete with original manual, director's commentary, and clips of an unreleased…
87% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case.
85% of 738 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.79
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
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!
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
TEST TEST TEST
Same fifteen minutes, same office, same tired employee: you.
91% of 1,032 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Saltsea Chronicles
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next?
97% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core.
91% of 888 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest detective games like Decade
Crushed In Time
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson lose a character from their own in-development game, and you help find them.
90% of 1,392 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
A deduction puzzle game set in the last hour of a lost 90s JRPG complete with original manual, director's commentary, and clips of an unreleased…
87% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case.
85% of 738 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.79
oneway.exe: Module 1.0
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay.
82% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Old Skies
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time.
92% of 989 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
时忆 Memory of Time
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated…
94% of 33 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Game of Fate 2: A Century's Promise
Sent back to 1920s China by a strange artifact, you land in a revenge plot that spans 1925 to 1935.
78% of 1,055 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
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!
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99