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Curated recommendations based on Murder by Numbers

Tangle Tower
79% match

Tangle Tower

Indie

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

A Case of Distrust
73% match

A Case of Distrust

Indie

A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
72% match

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

Indie

A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.

Killer Motive
72% match

Killer Motive

Indie

Killer Motive is a mystery-solving game based on urban investigations. The protagonist was ordered to investigate a murder case. With a deeper understanding of the case, he found that every suspect involved in the case had a deep hatred for the deceased and a strong killing intent.

Yet Another Killing Game
72% match

Yet Another Killing Game

2D

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES.Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!

Adventure Escape Mysteries
72% match

Adventure Escape Mysteries

Indie

Experience the unique puzzles and critically-acclaimed stories enjoyed by tens of millions of players. Investigate cryptic clues, unravel a mystery, and solve puzzles in beautifully illustrated adventures!

LONELY, LUSTFUL, ARROGANT, HATEFUL
71% match

LONELY, LUSTFUL, ARROGANT, HATEFUL

Singleplayer

Solve puzzles and conquer challenges in a brutal and unforgiving dystopic gameshow. Meet new friends along the way, get to know them and discover their motives. Can you keep everyone alive until the end? Are you after glory, love or vengeance?

Liar Trick -Psychological Crime Mystery-
71% match

Liar Trick -Psychological Crime Mystery-

Indie

Are all your expressions 'real'? The content of a person's words can be both truthful or false. In this new psychological crime mystery game you will unveil 'lies' through emotions! You can play Visual Novel Stories, Facial Expression Analysis Mode, Liar mode, and Deduction Mode.

Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death
71% match

Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death

Pixel Graphics

Embark on a thrilling pixel art adventure with Detective Guy & Cleo as they solve a mysterious murder. Explore an eerie seaside village, search for clues, interview suspects, and unravel the truth in this whodunit mystery.

Overboard!
71% match

Overboard!

2D

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

她杀 - The Suspected Murder
71% match

她杀 - The Suspected Murder

2D

Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.

GENBA no Kizuna
71% match

GENBA no Kizuna

Indie

A Mesozoic murder mystery, 4 suspects, 1 truth. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you set out to unravel the case with your team. Will you be able to accurately determine who took the victim's life? Or will your deductions lead you to arrest someone for a crime they did not commit...?

Unknown Number: A First Person Talker
70% match

Unknown Number: A First Person Talker

2D

An innovative voice-controlled adventure game, played through a series of interactive 'phone calls'. Join the heist and save the world... using nothing but your voice. Will you answer the call? *WARNING: THIS GAME CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS*

Major's Heart
69% match

Major's Heart

Indie

A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.

Memorrha
69% match

Memorrha

Indie

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Mystery in the Office
69% match

Mystery in the Office

Indie

An immersive single-player text-based game that takes you to an eerily empty office, mysteriously locked from the outside. Experience the consequences of terrible management as you investigate the rooms, unlock the exit, and unravel the mystery of why the office was abandoned.

AI: The Somnium Files
69% match

AI: The Somnium Files

Comedy

Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

Unmemory
69% match

Unmemory

Indie

A game you can read. A book you can play.

Murder Mystery Machine
68% match

Murder Mystery Machine

Indie

Join the District Crime Agency in this isometric, modern noir deduction thriller. Explore crime scenes in complex dioramas, organize your evidence effectively, and blur the lines between right and wrong to present your case. Do you have what it takes to be a real detective?

Beast Crimes
68% match

Beast Crimes

Indie

A beastly crime investigation drama.

Detective Grimoire
67% match

Detective Grimoire

2D

Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, found deep within the heart of the marshes, seemingly killed by the very mythical creature his attraction is based around...

Drawn Down
67% match

Drawn Down

Indie

A police artist is plunged into a life shattering conspiracy when his missing brother returns.

Love, Internet, and Murder Magic
66% match

Love, Internet, and Murder Magic

2D

Love, Internet, and Murder Magic is a Roguelike game. You will role-play an agent of a streamer who died because of a murder. You are trying to 'bring her back' through AI technology on the Internet, making her the unique creation of the Internet.

Curious Cases
66% match

Curious Cases

Casual

For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.

Murder Is Game Over
65% match

Murder Is Game Over

Casual

Murder Is Game Over is a pixel art point-and-click murder mystery whodunit involving the untimely death of a famous game designer. You and your trusty companion, Cleo, are on the case!

Case Files: Behind Closed Doors
65% match

Case Files: Behind Closed Doors

Indie

An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.

Murder Is Game Over: Deal Killer
65% match

Murder Is Game Over: Deal Killer

Pixel Graphics

Murder Is Game Over: Deal Killer takes you on an immersive journey through the Italian Alps. Unravel the murder mystery amidst an alpine backdrop, exploring opulent settings and unmasking the killer in this thrilling detective game.

Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
65% match

Murder Mystery Mayhem AI

Pixel Graphics

Find the murderer in this AI-powered 1920s whodunit. Interrogate suspects with rich personalities and piece together clues in procedurally generated cases. Experience infinite replayability as you roleplay a detective in this unique blend of deduction, strategy, and AI-driven storytelling.

Chinatown Detective Agency
65% match

Chinatown Detective Agency

Pixel Graphics

Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.

Master Magistrate
65% match

Master Magistrate

Casual

The samurai detective visual novel! Solve crimes and pass judgment! Vigilantes, officials, inventors, and brigands. A city of eternal cherry blossoms in a turbulent, changing Japan.

Unheard
64% match

Unheard

Indie

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

重返现场
64% match

重返现场

2D

《重返现场》是一款多结局的剧情式互动悬疑推理AVG游戏。都市校园错综复杂的案情,若隐若现的凶手,充满未知的冒险,引人步步深入探索。

Home
64% match

Home

Indie

Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

Murderous Muses
64% match

Murderous Muses

Retro

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

The Faceless Killer
64% match

The Faceless Killer

Minimalist

The Faceless Killer is a first-person survival horror game with retro PS1-style graphics, consisting of 2 chapters. Solve logic puzzles, fight against your enemies, or hide when there's no other option. Unravel this mystery surrounding the Faceless Killer. Who is he, and what are his motivations?

Hidden Investigation: Who did it?
64% match

Hidden Investigation: Who did it?

Casual

In the world of mystery and exciting puzzles follow Agent Sarah on her way to capture the most devious of all criminals. Solve puzzles, find hidden objects and talk to a variety of interesting characters to try to get to the bottom of the crime.

Murder House
63% match

Murder House

Indie

A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!

Noir Syndrome
63% match

Noir Syndrome

Indie

Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.

Hero for Hire
63% match

Hero for Hire

2D

Open world RPG where every quest is small puzzle.

Detective Agency: Murder at the Manor
63% match

Detective Agency: Murder at the Manor

Indie

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... You will go to the crime scene, search for clues, analyze the suspect's statement, make reasonable inferences, reveal the truth of the case!

Pixel of Memory
62% match

Pixel of Memory

Indie

Pixel of Memory is a wholesome minimalist puzzle game about an amnesiac painter piecing himself back together through his childhood mementos.

Paper Trail
62% match

Paper Trail

Indie

Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

Insight
62% match

Insight

Pixel Graphics

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

死亡编码-Death Code
62% match

死亡编码-Death Code

Casual

Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.

Hornet the Vanguard
62% match

Hornet the Vanguard

Indie

'Reveal all, deceive all.' Hornet the Vanguard, a mystery-solving adventure game. Solve mysteries and gather information in the exploration part, and uncover the truth in the deduction part! …The key to the case is always with buddy.

Card Detective
61% match

Card Detective

Indie

Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!

The Case of the Golden Idol
61% match

The Case of the Golden Idol

Pixel Graphics

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Dead Secret Circle
61% match

Dead Secret Circle

Indie

DEAD SECRET CIRCLE is a horror mystery set in Chicago in 1971. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed DEAD SECRET, reality and dreams collide as investigative reporter Patricia Gable sees beyond the flesh to chase a killer with a grisly M.O. Track the killer, narrow the suspects, and above all, stay alive.

Utter a Name
61% match

Utter a Name

Indie

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

Locks
60% match

Locks

Indie

Locks is a horror puzzle-platformer set in a puppet show. The game features a new type of puzzle, and the evil doesn't chase the puppet, as it usually does in platformers, it chases you.