Games like Detective Patch
If Detective Patch is your kind of game, the closest matches are DISHARMONY, HYPERSOMNIA and Misery Street — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Detective Patch: Detective Patch is an adorable 2D turn-based RPG where you solve mysteries and interrogate enemies. Battle menacing foes, meet quirky characters, and solve the mystery of the stolen ruby.
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DISHARMONY
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Top pick for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
A dialogue-heavy turn-based RPG featuring a rhythm-based battle system, a world inspired by music, and a retro aesthetic. Explore the dreams of the game's characters, solve puzzles, and find cryptic secrets to uncover the true nature of this mysterious world. (Or don't. Most of it is optional!)
HYPERSOMNIA
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Second-strongest match for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
Sometime in the 2010’s, 15 year-old Ross Cambell finds a mysterious amulet in the forest behind his house. Little does he know, this will kick-off a paranormal arms-race between punks, militia, and demons. Crack some skulls and save the world in this rockin' turn-based RPG.
Misery Street
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Third-strongest match for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
A place where lost souls go to find the meaning of their lives.
Rule the Dungeon
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Ranked #5 for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
A pixel-art urban fantasy CRPG. In Elysia, command six underdog hunters as a DAB investigator—dungeons twist entire city blocks into otherworld terrain. Turn-based combat, three-keyword Logos skills, evidence-based judgment. — Many answers. All correct.
WEBSCAPE
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Ranked #6 for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
WEBSCAPE is a surreal narrative RPG set inside a deteriorating version of the 1990s internet. Trapped within the World Wide Web, you will make choices, form alliances, and fight your way toward escape through turn-based battles driven by playable micro-games.
FAT HOBO: Hobocop Saves Christmas
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Ranked #7 for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Detective Patch.
Fat Hobo is a first-person RPG adventure game about an ex-cop, turned vagrant hunting a killer. Convince, steal and piss your way to the bottom of an unbelievable mystery.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody
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Ranked #8 for Detective Patch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
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 Detective Patch.
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. Shares Adventure with Detective Patch.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Detective Patch.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Detective Patch.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective Patch.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Detective Patch.
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 and Adventure with Detective Patch.
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.
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Frequently asked about Detective Patch
- What games are most similar to Detective Patch?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detective Patch are DISHARMONY, HYPERSOMNIA, Misery Street.
- Who developed Detective Patch?
- Detective Patch was developed by AxxessGamez.
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 Detective Patch.
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