Games like Chinatown Detective Agency
If Chinatown Detective Agency is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispers of a Machine, Paradise Killer and Voodoo Detective — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Chinatown Detective Agency: 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.
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Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Top pick for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Second-strongest match for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Voodoo Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Third-strongest match for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Ranked #4 for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Still Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Ranked #5 for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Still Life 2 also now available!
The Slaughter: Act One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Ranked #6 for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Ranked #7 for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
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?
Roman's Christmas / 罗曼圣诞探案集
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Ranked #8 for Chinatown Detective Agency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Roman, the wolf detective plans to spend his Christmas vacation in his favorite tavern, but murder cases happened in the tavern put him to work again.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chinatown Detective Agency at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
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...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~96% under Chinatown Detective Agency on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
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
WHY THIS
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 Chinatown Detective Agency.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
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!
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chinatown Detective Agency.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from General Interactive Co.
Other recommendable Steam games by General Interactive Co., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Terroir
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Chinatown Detective Agency.
Another title from General Interactive Co., the studio behind Chinatown Detective Agency.
Terroir is a 3D tile-based tycoon game where you manage your very own vineyard. In Terroir, you grow a variety of different grape varietals, craft your wine, and expand and manage your Chateau, all the while dealing with the weather and events that can either make or break your business.
The Diner at the End of the Galaxy
WHY THIS
Another title from General Interactive Co., the studio behind Chinatown Detective Agency.
Influence the fate of the Nusa star system through your clientele’s stomachs. Grow exotic ingredients, create a menu that appeals to intergalactic palates, and discover treasures in the outer worlds. Come on in! The Diner is always open for business.
The Diner at the End of the Galaxy: Free Appetiser
WHY THIS
Another title from General Interactive Co., the studio behind Chinatown Detective Agency.
Open a diner on a desert planet, grow exotic ingredients, create a menu for intergalactic palates and deal with powerful factions. Free Appetiser is the prologue to Diner at the End of the Galaxy, where you cook and manage your way to intergalactic riches and glory.
Frequently asked about Chinatown Detective Agency
- Does Chinatown Detective Agency run on Steam Deck?
- Chinatown Detective Agency 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 Chinatown Detective Agency cost?
- Chinatown Detective Agency is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chinatown Detective Agency?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chinatown Detective Agency are Whispers of a Machine, Paradise Killer, Voodoo Detective.
- Who developed Chinatown Detective Agency?
- Chinatown Detective Agency was developed by General Interactive Co. and published by Balor Games, WhisperGames.
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