Games like Card Detective
If Card Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last Kids on Earth: Hit the Deck!, Inscryption and Orb Devils — 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 Card Detective: Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!
Players who liked Card Detective also play
Steam players who put hours into Card Detective 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.
Last Kids on Earth: Hit the Deck!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
The Monster-Zombie Apocalypse means no homework, no parents, and no rules! Become zombie-fighting, monster-bashing heroes in this action-packed rogue-like strategy card game.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Card Detective.
Second-strongest match for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
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...
Orb Devils
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
A short experimental deck building roguelike! Use Attack Cards on enemy intentions to weaken their attacks, Use Heal Cards on status effects to increase their effects! Play as a Demon bounty hunter looking for their Target in purgatory as you combine and use Orbs.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat, deck building and an atmospheric mood with Card Detective.
Ranked #4 for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Fight with love - deckbuilder datingsim
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
We combined card games, dating sim and roguelikes to create the most unique game about love and sex. Date your lover in turn based card combat, have sex in rhythm game boss battles and Fight with love!
Knights of the Card Table
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Card Detective.
Ranked #6 for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Master over 100 dungeons and 3 worlds in this dungeon crawler card game that puts YOU in control of the dungeon cards. Rearrange the dungeon cards to collect loot before rolling dice to slay foes with your nunchucks.
デュエホロ (DUEHOLO)
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety, indie and a lighthearted mood with Card Detective.
Ranked #7 for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
Rogue-like card RPG where you build your deck with cards of hololive members! Fight against holomem to strengthen your deck and defeat boss holomem!
The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, turn based combat, indie and an atmospheric mood with Card Detective.
Ranked #8 for Card Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike combines manga, tactical puzzles, and roguelike gameplay into one thrilling experience. Enjoy stylish pixel-art action while testing your flexible thinking and precise strategy!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Card Detective at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Card Detective.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Card Detective on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 with Card Detective.
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.
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. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Card Detective.
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?
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 Card Detective.
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 with Card Detective.
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 Card Detective.
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 with Card Detective.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Card Detective
- How much does Card Detective cost?
- Card Detective is listed on Steam at 2.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Card Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Card Detective are Last Kids on Earth: Hit the Deck!, Inscryption, Orb Devils.
- Who developed Card Detective?
- Card Detective was developed by 神探饭店制作组.
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 Card Detective.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.