Games like Inspector Detective: Private Eye
If Inspector Detective: Private Eye is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard, Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island and Duck Detective: The Secret Salami — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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!
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
To Hell With The Ugly
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
This Bed We Made
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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!
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Inspector Detective: Private Eye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Inspector Detective: Private Eye at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Inspector Detective: Private Eye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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 Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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 Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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 Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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. Shares Indie with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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.
Frequently asked about Inspector Detective: Private Eye
- How much does Inspector Detective: Private Eye cost?
- Inspector Detective: Private Eye is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Inspector Detective: Private Eye?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inspector Detective: Private Eye are Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard, Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami.
- Who developed Inspector Detective: Private Eye?
- Inspector Detective: Private Eye was developed by Michael Gilmour and published by A Winter's Night 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 Inspector Detective: Private Eye.
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