Detective games like The Operator

If The Operator left you wanting something mysterious and story-driven, you have options. These detective games line up well for what comes next.

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, Cinematic
78% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
SIMULACRA 2
A young influencer is dead and the case is already closed, but Detective Murilo hands you her phone anyway. You dig through messages, videos, and social media, question three flawed suspects, and connect the lies into a darker truth. A phone-screen detective game with live-action footage, tough choices, and multiple endings.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
87% of 1,385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.99
Dahlia View
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
85% of 283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
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, Atmospheric
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$9.99
A Hand With Many Fingers
Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
83% of 521 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare. Short, text-led detective work built on reading closely and connecting the dots, with a retro desktop frame around it.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
The Case of the Golden Idol
Twelve strange deaths, fifty years, one cursed idol. As an 18th-century investigator you freeze each death scene, pick apart pockets, letters and lies, then fill in who did what and why. Fair, tricky and very satisfying for armchair detectives.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 9,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$17.99
Mystery of the Malign
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
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, Atmospheric
75% of 774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
79% of 239 Steam reviews are positive$11.89
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, Atmospheric
89% of 1,327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.99

Cheaper than The Operator

Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure

How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret.

$9.99

SIMULACRA 2

A young influencer is dead and the case is already closed, but Detective Murilo hands you her phone anyway.

$7.99

Cyber Manhunt

You are a hacker hired to take on dangerous cases, and you solve them from behind a screen.

$9.99

A Hand With Many Fingers

Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives.

$4.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.

$4.99

Keyword: A Spider's Thread

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve…

$11.89

Scrutinized

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

$9.99

CaseCracker

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

$3.99

CaseCracker2

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

$7.19

The List

A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police…

$5.99

Case Files: Behind Closed Doors

An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.

$9.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

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

$3.99

Hidden gems like The Operator

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.

$4.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

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

$3.99

Legion Was Here

You are Legion, a secret agent who can change his face at will.

$9.99

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

Mindcop

Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming.

$14.99

Utter a Name

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

$6.99

The Ratline

A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller.

$14.99

LumineNight

Play father-and-daughter detectives Kelvin and Selen Foster in 1950s Summerset, working a chain of unsolved murders stretching over a decade.

$24.99

CaseCracker2

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

$7.19

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.

$14.99

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…

$7.99

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