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Games like Dahlia View

If Dahlia View is your kind of game, the closest matches are UnQuollified, The Darkest Files and Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hitchcockian voyeurism with consequences, atmospheric 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.

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About Dahlia View: A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.

2021IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby White Paper Games
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Steam players who put hours into Dahlia View also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. UnQuollified

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    A charming Australian point & click detective mystery about a struggling artist investigating the mysterious death of his childhood best friend. Explore the small town of Bridgegully, interrogate quirky locals, & sketch clues to expose the truth. Are you ready to solve a crime years in the making?

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  2. The Darkest Files

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Second-strongest match for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Third-strongest match for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Ranked #4 for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.

    2021Adventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

    WHY THIS

    Shares evidence collection with Dahlia View.

    Ranked #5 for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Ranked #6 for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

    WHY THIS

    Shares evidence collection and an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Ranked #7 for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!

    2025IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mind Diver

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Ranked #8 for Dahlia View fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.

    2025IndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Dahlia View

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Reviewers of Dahlia View cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2008AdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ether One

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Reviewers of Dahlia View cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

    2014IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Raven Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Reviewers of Dahlia View cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dahlia View.

    London, 1964. An ancient ruby is stolen from the British Museum. At the crime scene: a raven feather. Is somebody trying to follow in the footsteps of The Raven, the legendary master thief who disappeared years before?

    2018Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. White Paper

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Dahlia View cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    What is your subconscious mind trying to tell you when you are mindlessly drawing on a piece of paper? Maybe someone trapped there, in a dark, damp basement and yes, screaming for help and trying to break out?

    2022IndieAdventureEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Battle for Vera

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Dahlia View cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Battle for Vera is a Real-Time Strategy game that draws inspiration from beloved classics, and improves upon many of their ideas to create an exciting new experience.

    2024Strategy6.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dahlia View at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dahlia View.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Dahlia View on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dahlia View.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Darkest Files

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

    WHY THIS

    Shares evidence collection with Dahlia View.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dahlia View.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dahlia View.

    The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dahlia View

Is Dahlia View verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Dahlia View is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Dahlia View cost?
Dahlia View is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dahlia View?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dahlia View are UnQuollified, The Darkest Files, Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure.
Who developed Dahlia View?
Dahlia View was developed by White Paper 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 Dahlia View.

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