Games like L.A. Noire
If L.A. Noire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blacksad: Under the Skin, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files and Murdered: Soul Suspect — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its facial expressions reveal lies, atmospheric and cinematic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →L.A. Noire is an adventure and strategy game set in 1940s Los Angeles, released in 2011 at $19.99. Players take on the role of LAPD detective Cole Phelps, investigating a series of arson attacks, murders, and conspiracies. The game combines case-management and clue-examination with a unique facial-interrogation system that reads suspects' expressions for deception. Players explore a recreation of post-war Los Angeles on foot and by driving period-accurate vehicles. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, cinematic, and immersive, with cases feeling like real detective work where interrogations hinge on subtle visual cues and the city feels genuinely alive. The game holds an 84% positive rating from over 15,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About L.A. Noire: In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
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Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Top pick for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Second-strongest match for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files places you directly in the shoes of Detective Cole Phelps as you solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by real cases from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in L.A. history.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Third-strongest match for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
This Bed We Made
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Ranked #4 for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Ranked #5 for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Ranked #6 for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Ranked #7 for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Ranked #8 for L.A. Noire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis
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Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
This new Sherlock Holmes game sends us to 19th Century London where Arséne Lupin, a young French burglar with an impressive track record, has just challenged Scotland Yard and the most famous of detectives - Sherlock Holmes.
Nobody Wants to Die
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Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Mafia
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Shadows of Doubt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Reviewers of L.A. Noire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below L.A. Noire at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with L.A. Noire.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with L.A. Noire.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under L.A. Noire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with L.A. Noire.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Murdered: Soul Suspect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with L.A. Noire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with L.A. Noire.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Frequently asked about L.A. Noire
- Does L.A. Noire run on Steam Deck?
- L.A. Noire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does L.A. Noire cost?
- L.A. Noire is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to L.A. Noire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside L.A. Noire are Blacksad: Under the Skin, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files, Murdered: Soul Suspect.
- Who developed L.A. Noire?
- L.A. Noire was developed by Team Bondi, Rockstar Leeds and published by Rockstar Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on L.A. Noire.
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