Games like File Tricks

If File Tricks left you wanting something mysterious and hand-drawn, you have options. Start with these games when you are ready.

Methods: The Canada Files
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
93% of 314 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Midnight Files: THE NOIR CUT
Truth hides in the details. Investigate crime scenes, photograph evidence, analyze case files, and search the police database. Connect clues on the detective board, return to locations when something does not add up, and identify the culprit in each standalone case.
Mysterious, Story-driven
67% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
CaseCracker
A hardcore text-based detective game with no flashy visuals, just pure deduction. Search a huge case database with keywords, cross-reference receipts, transcripts and warrants, and piece together five interconnected cases. The devil is in the details, and every detail is yours to find.
Mysterious, Story-driven
89% of 3,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$3.99
Detective Kobayashi - A Visual Novel
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
79% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Mini Murder Mysteries
Solve cozy, crafty whodunits. Puzzle your way through nine unique investigations – and use your noggin to make intelligent deductions. Explore the evidence, scrutinize statements, and connect the dots.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
96% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Scene Investigators
Scene Investigators puts you through a near-future licensing test: a set of reconstructed crime scenes where you observe, take notes, and answer what happened and why. No hints, no handholding, just clues and gaps you must reason through. Built for true-crime and escape-room brains who like hard deduction.
Mysterious, Story-driven
74% of 974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE
A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour. Can you solve the cases narrated in this beautiful pixel-art adventure?
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
77% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Police Detective: Tokyo Beat
Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Little Locked Rooms
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
86% of 149 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
LumineNight
Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset. Search neon-lit streets for clues, crack locks and ciphers, sneak past security, and talk lying suspects in circles. A slow-burn noir for puzzle fans who like their mysteries hand-drawn and dramatic.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
87% of 547 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Death Trick: Double Blind
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
84% of 224 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
세이프타운 탐정 넬의 사건 수첩 오션 아일랜드의 살인사건
“Use your intellect and intuition to uncover the secrets tangled like a maze!”
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than File Tricks

CaseCracker

Dig through case files, cross-reference every receipt and transcript, and follow the evidence through five connected mysteries.

$3.99

Police Detective: Tokyo Beat

Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?

$2.99

Detective School Club

Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville.

$1.49

How Many Secrets Under Ceiling

The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here!

$2.99

执念刑警之消失的证人

Lu Yan has 9 days to bring five missing witnesses back alive. Scrutinize raw surveillance, dashcam, and interrogation footage as actual evidence.

$3.99

Visitor 来访者

Visitor is a full-motion video (FMV) detective suspense game.

$3.99

Oniria Crimes

Oniria Crimes is an interactive noir novel with point & click mechanics.

$1.99

Detective Agency: Murder at the Manor

The owner of the Golden Rose Manor died mysteriously in the secret room. Everyone in the manor has an alibi, but their speech is full of loopholes...

$3.99

Detective Super Star

Join the famous Detective Doyle to solve a series of murder cases in this captivating hidden object, adventure game.

$1.99

Nangong Detective Agency

A detective themed game where players transform into the son of a famous detective and freely explore crime scenes and question suspects.

$3.99

Crowded Mysteries

There's a lot of trouble and intrigue in Mystery City... And where there's trouble and intrigue, there has to be a detective capable of tracking…

$3.99

Interrogation Simulator

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices.

$1.99

Hidden gems like File Tricks

Mini Murder Mysteries

Solve cozy, crafty whodunits. Puzzle your way through nine unique investigations – and use your noggin to make intelligent deductions.

$4.99

REWIND

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues.

Free

Methods: The Canada Files

Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition.

$12.99

Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery

There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow.

$9.99

执念刑警之消失的证人

Lu Yan has 9 days to bring five missing witnesses back alive. Scrutinize raw surveillance, dashcam, and interrogation footage as actual evidence.

$3.99

CaseCracker 3

Interrogate suspects, cross-check their stories and break them with evidence in five demanding text-based cases.

$10.39

Paper Perjury

It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed.

$19.99

LumineNight

Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset.

$24.99

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.

$14.99

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

A divorced, bread-addicted duck detective takes on a stolen lunch case and stumbles into a sausage conspiracy.

$9.99

Little Locked Rooms

Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries!

$7.99

Death Trick: Double Blind

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on!

$15.99

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