Games like The Council

Loved how mysterious and story-driven The Council can get? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Untale: King of Revinia
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk? The story for those who are brave enough to dive in a dark story and are able to think reasonably.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
74% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Sovereign Syndicate
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
79% of 586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
CONSORTIUM
A murder mystery, on a plane, in the future. You are Consortium Bishop Six, a global peacekeeper in the year 2042. Play an active role in the ongoing narrative. Every choice counts.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
75% of 591 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Vice Signalling
Vice Signalling is a short narrative game where you infiltrate a secret society of the rich and powerful. Decipher secret signals and use them to uncover a conspiracy against the Emperor.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 51 Steam reviews are positiveFree
One Day in London
Take active part in a nonlinear, interactive visual novel set against the atmospheric backdrop of the 19th century England.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
87% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
A hand-drawn detective adventure about a sharp young sleuth whose mother is accused of murder. Explore the town of Arthurton, read suspects for tells, and make choices that bend the story the narrator is writing. Witty, atmospheric and surprisingly heartfelt, with a mystery that keeps pulling you forward.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
86% of 1,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
The Necromancer's Tale
A gothic RPG about earning dark power the slow way: deciphering an ancient spellbook, digging up what killed your father, and talking your way past 180 townsfolk who would hang you if they knew. A 400,000-word descent into necromancy, madness and 18th-century intrigue.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
90% of 983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Overboard!
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
90% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Whateverland
Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
86% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cinematic
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Hidden gems like The Council

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

The Necromancer's Tale

Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.

$24.99

Cabernet

Play Liza, a new vampire in a 19th century town, and let every choice decide whether she keeps her humanity or loses it for good.

$19.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

Agent of Strange: Arrival

Return from exile to a frozen, surreal city and scheme your way past the regime hunting you, one choice at a time.

Free

Lil' Guardsman

Interrogate over 100 visitors at the castle gate and decide who gets in, one shift at a time.

$3.99

FREERIDE

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

$19.99

This Bed We Made

A 1950s hotel noir where a chambermaid's snooping turns tidy rooms into a murder case.

$24.99

The Operator

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

$13.99

Sovereign Syndicate

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult.

$19.99

Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives

Dominate undead politics through cunning and violence! Will a missing Prince give you the opening to betray your sire and seize power?

$11.99

Eternal Threads

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

$19.99

Newest games like The Council

Agent of Strange: Arrival

Return from exile to a frozen, surreal city and scheme your way past the regime hunting you, one choice at a time.

Free

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

Vice Signalling

Vice Signalling is a short narrative game where you infiltrate a secret society of the rich and powerful.

Free

RUNT

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

$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

The Necromancer's Tale

Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.

$24.99

FREERIDE

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

$19.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

Cabernet

Play Liza, a new vampire in a 19th century town, and let every choice decide whether she keeps her humanity or loses it for good.

$19.99

The Operator

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

$13.99

CONSORTIUM

A murder mystery, on a plane, in the future. You are Consortium Bishop Six, a global peacekeeper in the year 2042.

$14.99

Let Bions Be Bygones

Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest…

$14.99