Games like Rivals

Remember how mysterious and story-driven Rivals felt at its best? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

The Case of the Golden Idol
Twelve strange deaths, fifty years apart, all connected. Examine each frozen scene, gather names and clues, then fill in the blanks to name the killer, the motive and the weapon. A pure deduction game with a dark, twisting story about a cursed family and the idol they would kill for.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 9,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$17.99
Conspiracy!
A detective game that combines written, audio, visual and meta-game puzzles to create an enthralling experience. It plays for roughly 2-3 hours.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Relaxing
62% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present? With frequent plot twists, you never know which is the truth and which is the unexpected; in a dense fog, time buries the past, but the marks remain.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
65% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Utter a Name
Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
90% of 234 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Mind Diver
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
95% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
REWIND
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Relaxing
90% of 464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Detective Ridelle
Detective Ridelle is a cozy murder mystery game featuring escape room style puzzles. Find clues, interrogate suspects, solve the mystery - before it's too late.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Relaxing
97% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
87% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Tangle Tower
A murder, a mansion, and a suspect who is literally a painting. Explore Tangle Tower, question its oddball residents, and piece together clues in a fully voiced, hand-drawn detective story with genuinely funny writing and clever puzzles. Come for the banter and the beautiful rooms; the case itself is one you will want to crack.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
94% of 6,696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
Methods: The Detective Competition
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
Also in Detective and Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
91% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Unheard - Voices of Crime
A detective game you play with your ears. Walk through a top-down blueprint of a crime scene, eavesdrop on every conversation as it happened, and match names to voices to work out who did what. Five cases hide a thread connecting them all, and only careful listening finds it.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
95% of 31,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$6.99
Intelligence
A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!
Mysterious, Story-driven, Relaxing
98% of 85 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Rivals

Conspiracy!

A detective game that combines written, audio, visual and meta-game puzzles to create an enthralling experience. It plays for roughly 2-3 hours.

$0.99

CaseCracker

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

$3.99

The Death Game Report

Type names into an old terminal, piece together the students' final thoughts, and deduce who killed whom and why.

$3.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

Mini Murder Mysteries

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

$4.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

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

$3.99

Puzzle Agent

Question the odd locals of a snowy Minnesota town and crack their brainteasers to find out why the eraser factory stopped.

$4.99

Blue Toad Murder Files™: The Mysteries of Little Riddle

Blue Toad Murder Files™: The Mysteries of Little Riddle is a one to four player co-operative episodic download game published by Relentless Software.

$4.49

Puzzle Agent 2

Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied?

$4.99

Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island

You are a frog, you are a detective, and a haunted island needs your magnifying glass.

$4.99

How Many Secrets Under Ceiling

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

$2.99

Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

A suave spy adventure with a 1960s twist: infiltrate the hideout of enemy agent Ruby La Rouge and crack your way through her labyrinth of hidden…

$1.99

Hidden gems like Rivals

The Death Game Report

Type names into an old terminal, piece together the students' final thoughts, and deduce who killed whom and why.

$3.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

Mini Murder Mysteries

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

$4.99

A Case of Fraud

A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight.

$7.19

REWIND

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

Free

Mind Diver

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

$17.99

Puzzle Spy International

Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure.

$12.50

The Incident at Galley House

Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.

$19.99

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

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

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