Games like Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
If Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, UnQuollified and Duck Detective: The Secret Salami — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters feel vividly human, atmospheric and emotional. 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 Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved: A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
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Top pick for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
UnQuollified
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Second-strongest match for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
A charming Australian point & click detective mystery about a struggling artist investigating the mysterious death of his childhood best friend. Explore the small town of Bridgegully, interrogate quirky locals, & sketch clues to expose the truth. Are you ready to solve a crime years in the making?
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
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Shares hidden object search, point and click, mystery and a mysterious mood with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Third-strongest match for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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
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Shares investigation, point and click, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Ranked #4 for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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!
Case Solved: The London Files
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Ranked #5 for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Solve logic puzzles and crack multiple cases in a cosy noir London using reason, not guesswork. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and the alibis don't add up. Everyone has a motive, and only clear logic reveals the truth.
Dahlia View
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Ranked #6 for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Ranked #7 for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie hit comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features! Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
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Shares investigation, character interaction, investigation and an atmospheric mood with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Ranked #8 for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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 Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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?
Inscryption
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Priced ~60% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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...
Noita
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Priced ~60% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~95% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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?
Papers, Please
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Priced ~50% under Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
- Is Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved cost?
- Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, UnQuollified, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami.
- Who developed Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved?
- Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved was developed by Armonica LLC.
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