The Operator
Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Games like The Occupation
If The Occupation scratched a mysterious and atmospheric itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next.
The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99Need to Know
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Dahlia 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.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
85% of 283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99Song of Farca
A dark cyberpunk detective story where you never leave your chair. Isabella Song, private investigator under house arrest, hacks cameras and drones, digs through darknet data and interrogates suspects to crack a chain of crimes in the city of Farca. Choices carry real consequences, and the truth is rarely clean.
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78% of 1,406 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Crime O'Clock
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven
67% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Interrogation: You will be deceived
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
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77% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99Overboard!
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$14.99Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city. Every citizen has a name, a job and a routine, and somewhere among them is a killer. Break in, hack, tail and deduce your way to the truth before they strike again.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
82% of 14,776 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$24.99Greyhat - 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?
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Keyword: 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.
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79% of 239 Steam reviews are positive$11.89Beholder
You are the State's landlord in a totalitarian country. Bug apartments, sneak into tenants' rooms while they're out, and report anyone who might plot against the regime. Or don't: you have a family to keep alive, and every choice costs something. A bleak, darkly funny story with several endings.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39Cyber Manhunt
A hacker-for-hire puzzle game about the dark side of the internet. Search databases, crack passwords, send phishing links and chat with targets in disguise to solve dangerous cases. Every case touches cyber violence and privacy in ways that feel uncomfortably real, and your choices shape where the story goes.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99
Cheaper than The Occupation
Need to Know
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create…
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
85% of 283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Song of Farca
Play a housebound detective who solves crimes with drones, darknet searches and sharp questions.
78% of 1,406 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Crime O'Clock
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline.
67% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Interrogation: You will be deceived
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its…
77% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Cyber Manhunt
A hacker-for-hire puzzle game about the dark side of the internet.
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99
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.
90% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
90% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city.
82% of 14,776 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$24.99
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…
79% of 239 Steam reviews are positive$11.89
Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Hidden gems like The Occupation
PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION
PARKSIDE is an FPS-Immersive Sim that chronicles the future of biomechanical subterfuge and suffering.
86% of 203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
Mindcop
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming.
94% of 433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
THRESHOLD
Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.
84% of 1,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Welcome to the Game III
Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…
76% of 680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Back to the Dawn
A 21-day race to uncover who framed you, survive behind bars and find your own way out.
94% of 8,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 136$23.99
Peripeteia
A cyborg mercenary works the grimy streets and rooftops of a decaying post-Soviet city, where shooting, sneaking, hacking or talking each get you…
86% of 3,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$24.99
Title_Pending
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Operator
Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Gone Rogue
Gone Rogue is a tactical stealth game with RPG elements. Get into the role of a thief from the city slums.
88% of 284 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Odd Town
Odd Town is a story-driven first-person adventure about being stuck in a town where everything feels just a little wrong.
72% of 104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.99
Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest games like The Occupation
Odd Town
Odd Town is a story-driven first-person adventure about being stuck in a town where everything feels just a little wrong.
72% of 104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.99
PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION
PARKSIDE is an FPS-Immersive Sim that chronicles the future of biomechanical subterfuge and suffering.
86% of 203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
Welcome to the Game III
Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…
76% of 680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Chakana
Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Back to the Dawn
A 21-day race to uncover who framed you, survive behind bars and find your own way out.
94% of 8,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 136$23.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Peripeteia
A cyborg mercenary works the grimy streets and rooftops of a decaying post-Soviet city, where shooting, sneaking, hacking or talking each get you…
86% of 3,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$24.99
The Stone of Madness
The Stone of Madness is a real-time tactical stealth game set in an 18th-century Spanish Monastery.
77% of 202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
THRESHOLD
Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.
84% of 1,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Mindcop
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming.
94% of 433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city.
82% of 14,776 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$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.
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99