Games like Desktop Explorer
If Desktop Explorer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Uncover the Smoking Gun, Telling Lies and No Case Should Remain Unsolved — 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 Desktop Explorer: Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Players who liked Desktop Explorer also play
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Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Top pick for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desktop Explorer.
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
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…
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Her Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Desktop Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desktop Explorer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Explorer.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop Explorer.
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 ~51% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop Explorer.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Explorer.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop Explorer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Desktop Explorer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desktop Explorer.
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 Desktop Explorer.
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 Desktop Explorer.
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 Simulation with Desktop Explorer.
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 Desktop Explorer.
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 Desktop Explorer.
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 Desktop Explorer
- How much does Desktop Explorer cost?
- Desktop Explorer is listed on Steam at 16.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desktop Explorer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desktop Explorer are Uncover the Smoking Gun, Telling Lies, No Case Should Remain Unsolved.
- Who developed Desktop Explorer?
- Desktop Explorer was developed by Recurring Dream and published by Recurring Dream, Outersloth, indienova.
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