Games like The Posthumous Investigation
If The Posthumous Investigation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!, The Wolf Among Us Remastered and Subsurface Circular — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic 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 The Posthumous Investigation: A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
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Steam players who put hours into The Posthumous Investigation 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.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, investigation and atmospheric with The Posthumous Investigation.
Top pick for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
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.
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Third-strongest match for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Ranked #4 for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Mind Diver
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Ranked #5 for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
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.
Trials of Innocence
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, point and click, story heavy and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Ranked #6 for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Ranked #7 for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Blake: The Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Ranked #8 for The Posthumous Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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The Sexy Brutale
WHY THIS
Shares character schedule tracking and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Reviewers of The Posthumous Investigation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares time loop and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Reviewers of The Posthumous Investigation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Mind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Reviewers of The Posthumous Investigation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Posthumous Investigation.
We fuse transforming Mecha and Roguelite gameplay elements and combine game mechanics, such as weight, armor pieces, heat, and power for you to forge a unique weapon of war to fuel your killing spree!💀💀💀
Detective Grimoire
WHY THIS
Shares character interaction and an atmospheric mood with The Posthumous Investigation.
Reviewers of The Posthumous Investigation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, seemingly killed by the mythical creature his attraction is based around... Explore the area, inspect the crime scene, grill suspects, solve puzzles, hunt for clues & uncover the secret of the swamp!
Detective Bot
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Posthumous Investigation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
Detective Bot is a silly physics based detective game which you can play on your own or in co-op with up to 4 players. Solve quirky mysteries by investigating crime scenes, talking to weird characters and piecing together clues. Can you make Detective Bot the greatest detective who has ever lived?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Posthumous Investigation at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Posthumous Investigation.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Posthumous Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
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?
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Posthumous Investigation
- Does The Posthumous Investigation run on Steam Deck?
- The Posthumous Investigation 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 The Posthumous Investigation cost?
- The Posthumous Investigation is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Posthumous Investigation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Posthumous Investigation are Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!, The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Subsurface Circular.
- Who developed The Posthumous Investigation?
- The Posthumous Investigation was developed by Mother Gaia Studio and published by CriticalLeap, Infini Fun.
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 The Posthumous Investigation.
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