Games like TR-49

Want something that feels mysterious and story-driven the way TR-49 does? These games could fill that gap nicely.

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Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
79% of 716 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
A journalist in 1990s Eastern Europe gets an anonymous email: dig through a wiki-like database about the town of Kozlovka and report back. Fill in the gaps in your reports, follow links from article to article, and piece together what is wrong with this place. A short, atmospheric mystery that trusts you to connect the dots yourself.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Incident at Galley House
Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past. Work out who was where and when, unlock the scenes, and piece together a mystery that turns darker than any murder case. From the makers of The Roottrees Are Dead.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 4,954 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157$19.99
UNMEMORY
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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, Atmospheric
95% of 31,178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$6.99
YOUR HOUSE
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
79% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Desktop Explorer
A letter asks you to investigate a missing person case with the help of a strange program called Desktop Explorer.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
Truberbrook / Trüberbrook
A sci-fi mystery in 1960s cold-war Germany: American physics student Hans Tannhauser wins a trip to a village he never heard of, and it turns out to be no accident. Explore handmade miniature sets, meet peculiar locals, and find out why the world needs saving.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
73% of 1,487 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Her Story
A woman is interviewed seven times by police about her missing husband. Her Story hands you the fragments: hundreds of live action clips in a police database, unlocked by typing whatever word she says. You decide what to search, what matters, and what really happened. A short, award winning mystery you finish in one sitting.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
89% of 8,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$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.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
83% of 521 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Subsurface Circular
A robot detective, a subway car full of strangers, and a mystery about missing workers. Subsurface Circular is a short, sharp text adventure where words are your evidence: collect phrases, spend them in conversation, and decide a city's future before the end of the line.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than TR-49

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

A Hand With Many Fingers

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

$4.99

Subsurface Circular

Play a robot detective riding an underground train, questioning passengers to solve a string of disappearances.

$2.99

49 Keys

It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy.

$5.49

The Samaritan Paradox

A writer has died. His daughter seeks the help of you, Ord Salamon, to find his secret last novel. During the search, questions will emerge.

$1.99

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.

$4.99

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

$5.99

Meridian 157: Chapter 1

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it?

$3.99

The Room

A mysterious note leads you to an abandoned attic and a cast-iron safe covered in strange carvings.

$4.99

Tales [PC]

When an ancient curse is awakened in an old library, Alfred Walsh must travel to the strangest of places to seek help from many great heroes (and…

$1.99

Hymer 2000

Converse with a fading AI and search its memories to uncover what happened at an abandoned facility.

$4.99

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

Hidden gems like TR-49

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

Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit

Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure!

$24.99

Desktop Explorer

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

$17.99

Mind Diver

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

$17.99

Terminal Lucidity

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.

Free

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.

$4.99

The Incident at Galley House

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

$19.99

The Red Pearls Of Borneo

A colonial noir mystery in 1941 Borneo. As a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, you step into the psychic echoes of one fatal night on a…

Free

Expelled!

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

$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

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