Games like Methods: The Detective Competition
If Methods: The Detective Competition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Methods: The Canada Files, Death Comes Skiing and The Stepfather Remake — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and lighthearted. 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 Methods: The Detective Competition: One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
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Methods: The Canada Files
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Top pick for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
Death Comes Skiing
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
When a retired cross-country ski team meets to celebrate their past victories, the past soon catches up to them. It's up to you to make sense of the slaughter that follows in this comedic point-and-click murder mystery.
The Stepfather Remake
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
A classic point-and-click adventure full of mystery, humor, and clumsy mobsters. Solve puzzles, talk to quirky characters, and uncover the truth in this fully remastered detective story!
Glitchy: Not So Sweet
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Ranked #4 for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
This looks like a super cute spot-the-difference game, but it isn’t!
Strangers of the Power 3
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Ranked #5 for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Young adventurer's trial by fire gets out of hand and threatens the lives of multiple people.
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Ranked #6 for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
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Ranked #7 for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
RE0: VTuber Life
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Ranked #8 for Methods: The Detective Competition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
RE0: VTuber Life is a VTuber simulation game where you manage the protagonist’s daily life, livestream schedule, friendships, gossip intake, and fan interactions—all leading to multiple possible endings.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Methods: The Detective Competition at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
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 Methods: The Detective Competition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Methods: The Detective Competition.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Methods: The Detective Competition.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Methods: The Detective Competition
- Does Methods: The Detective Competition run on Steam Deck?
- Methods: The Detective Competition 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 Methods: The Detective Competition cost?
- Methods: The Detective Competition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Methods: The Detective Competition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Methods: The Detective Competition are Methods: The Canada Files, Death Comes Skiing, The Stepfather Remake.
- Who developed Methods: The Detective Competition?
- Methods: The Detective Competition was developed by LockedOn Games and published by Erabit, LockedOn Games.
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