Detective games like Responding

Loved how tense and cinematic Responding can get? These detective games line up well for what comes next.

Police Chief Simulator
You run the Winston Springs county station from an empty outpost to a working complex. Civilians bring reports to the front desk, you check the forms, build the case file, and send officers and detectives out to close it. A management take on detective games, with paperwork as the investigation.
74% of 1,110 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 146$15.99
The Precinct
Averno City, 1983: you are rookie Officer Nick Cordell Jr., patrolling rain-soaked neon streets while digging into the gangs behind your father's murder. This is cop work from the other side of the windshield — tickets, searches, arrests, car chases — with a gang conspiracy to unravel between shifts.
Tense, Atmospheric
87% of 8,068 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 197$20.09
Police Officer
Police Officer is a first-person police station simulator where you manage a police station: process suspects, hear citizens' pleas, and manage the daily chaos of law enforcement—one decision at a time.
62% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Accident
You play a journalist reopening old car crashes. First you work the scene in real time: check breathing, stop bleeding, call for help and choose who gets help first. Then, with everyone treated, you walk the wreckage for evidence and put the events in order to learn what really happened.
Tense
76% of 1,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Contraband Police
You are a border inspector in 1981 Karikatka, where every passport, cargo list, and stamp could be a lie. Check papers, scan cars with a UV flashlight, pry out hidden contraband, and decide who gets into Acaristan. For armchair detectives who like catching tiny mistakes, it turns paperwork into a tense little whodunit at every window.
Tense, Atmospheric
95% of 25,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 366$29.99
Shadows of Doubt
As a private investigator in a rain-dark 1980s city, you take murder cases from City Hall and hunt a serial killer through fingerprints, emails, CCTV and bribes. Every citizen has a job, an apartment and a routine, so the culprit is always someone with an address. Slow, methodical clue work that actually asks you to think.
Tense, Atmospheric
82% of 14,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$24.99
This Is the Police
Send officers to emergencies, assign detectives to investigations, and piece together evidence against the gangs while the mayor, the mafia, and the press all pull at you. Dark, funny, and full of hard calls.
Tense, Cinematic, Atmospheric
82% of 9,206 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$14.99
JudgeSim
You are a judge in the Banana Republic, where anarchists roam and the law is more of a suggestion. Read case files, weigh evidence, question the accused, then rule guilty or not and set the punishment. Bribes, threats, bills and family life pull at every verdict, and your choices steer one of several endings.
84% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
Scrutinized
You are Luna Youngman, a criminal analyst working reports from your home computer. You read texts, social posts, police records and purchases, crack phones, then mark each person threat or not. Ten nights of case files and home-invasion dread, with calmer modes for armchair detectives.
Tense, Atmospheric
89% of 1,326 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Beat Cop
Jack Kelly was a detective until someone framed him for murder. Now he walks one Brooklyn block in 1986, writing tickets and working off quotas while quietly turning over stones to find who set him up. A retro pixel-art adventure with black humour, timed days, and choices that lead to multiple endings.
Tense, Atmospheric
81% of 4,868 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$1.49
The Operator
You are the FDI's newest Operator, stuck at a desk while field agents call in murders, missing people and cyber attacks. You dig through databases, photos and terminals to hand them answers, and the case files keep pointing somewhere darker. Short, slick and conspiratorial.
Tense, Cinematic, Atmospheric
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Night Call
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.
Tense, Cinematic, Atmospheric
76% of 409 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Responding

Police Chief Simulator

You run the Winston Springs county station from an empty outpost to a working complex.

$15.99

The Precinct

Averno City, 1983: you are rookie Officer Nick Cordell Jr., patrolling rain-soaked neon streets while digging into the gangs behind your father's…

$20.09

Police Officer

Police Officer is a first-person police station simulator where you manage a police station: process suspects, hear citizens' pleas, and manage the…

$11.99

Accident

You play a journalist reopening old car crashes. First you work the scene in real time: check breathing, stop bleeding, call for help and choose who…

$14.99

This Is the Police

Send officers to emergencies, assign detectives to investigations, and piece together evidence against the gangs while the mayor, the mafia, and the…

$14.99

JudgeSim

You are a judge in the Banana Republic, where anarchists roam and the law is more of a suggestion.

$6.99

Scrutinized

You are Luna Youngman, a criminal analyst working reports from your home computer.

$9.99

Beat Cop

Jack Kelly was a detective until someone framed him for murder.

$1.49

The Operator

You are the FDI's newest Operator, stuck at a desk while field agents call in murders, missing people and cyber attacks.

$13.99

Night Call

Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people.

$14.99

Backseat

A psychological taxi horror game where every passenger may be dangerous.

$9.99

Fingered

GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using…

$1.87

Hidden gems like Responding

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

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

Police Chief Simulator

You run the Winston Springs county station from an empty outpost to a working complex.

$15.99

JudgeSim

You are a judge in the Banana Republic, where anarchists roam and the law is more of a suggestion.

$6.99

Airport X-Ray Simulator

Step into the critical role of a baggage security operative in Airport X-Ray Simulator.

$12.99

The Precinct

Averno City, 1983: you are rookie Officer Nick Cordell Jr., patrolling rain-soaked neon streets while digging into the gangs behind your father's…

$20.09

The Operator

You are the FDI's newest Operator, stuck at a desk while field agents call in murders, missing people and cyber attacks.

$13.99

Security 51

You are the security officer in Area 51's underground bunker, checking papers, clearances and faces at the elevator checkpoint.

$9.99

Grey Instinct

In this cyberpunk 2D point-and-click adventure game, play as Grey, an amateur detective.

Free

Truckful

A hand-drawn countryside, one trusty pickup, and a forest that watches back.

$19.99

Occult Crime Police

The Truth Is Pretty Out There. Only you can decipher the mystery of Boomtown USA.

Free

Backseat

A psychological taxi horror game where every passenger may be dangerous.

$9.99

Newest detective games like Responding