Detective games like SIMULACRA 2

Want something that feels mysterious and story-driven the way SIMULACRA 2 does? These detective games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

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.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$13.99
Song of Farca
You are Isabella Song, a hacker and private detective solving linked criminal cases in a dark, corporate-run future. You hack drones and cameras, dig through the darknet, question suspects, and piece together evidence where no one is innocent. A grim procedural for armchair detectives who like hard choices.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cyber Manhunt
You are a hacker hired to take on dangerous cases, and you solve them from behind a screen. Search the web, crack passwords, read emails and chats, and piece together what happened. A grim, topical take on cybercrime and privacy for armchair detectives who like following a digital trail.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$9.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 1,327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.99
AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a Tokyo detective hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes. You work crime scenes by day and break into suspects' dreams by night, and every route changes what you think you know. Funny, dark and full of turns, it is built for armchair detectives who like to be wrong twice before breakfast.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$3.99
CaseCracker2
Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 768 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.19
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Case Files: Behind Closed Doors
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Unheard - Voices of Crime
Put on headphones and travel back to crime scenes you can only hear. In this detective game for armchair detectives, you move through a floor plan, catch conversations near you, match names to voices, and answer what really happened across connected cases.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 31,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$6.99
Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror adventure.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
64% of 437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99
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, Story-driven, Dark
71% of 437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
75% of 774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99

Cheaper than SIMULACRA 2

SIMULACRA

You are holding Anna's lost phone, and her video plea for help is still on the screen.

$4.99

AI: The Somnium Files

You are Kaname Date, a Tokyo detective hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes.

$3.99

CaseCracker2

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system.

$7.19

Unheard - Voices of Crime

Put on headphones and travel back to crime scenes you can only hear.

$6.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.

$3.99

CaseCracker

CaseCracker is a hardcore text-based detective game where you solve cases by searching a huge database yourself.

$3.99

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

Twelve years after a girl vanished from a playground, retired inspector Jeon Gyeong reopens the file.

$6.99

The Shapeshifting Detective

You are a detective who can become anyone you have met, and that is how you solve the murder of Dorota Shaw in the small town of August.

$2.54

AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative

Six years ago, only the right half of a body turned up. Now the left half appears, fresh as yesterday.

$5.99

Utter a Name

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

$6.99

Detective Grimoire

Detective Grimoire is called to a marsh where a tourist-trap owner has turned up dead, apparently killed by the swamp creature his own attraction is…

$6.99

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…

$3.99

Hidden gems like SIMULACRA 2

[Redacted] The Safehouse

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.

$3.99

FLAM EVAW

Collect clue cards, build skills, question four very different assistants, and reason your way to one of 12 endings.

$9.99

Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker

Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets.

$19.99

Mind Diver

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

$17.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

Kill The Shadow

Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.

$16.99

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?

$16.99

FAKEBOOK

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

$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!

$10.99

Utter a Name

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

$6.99

Cellveillance

"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for…

$15.99

CaseCracker2

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system.

$7.19

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