Games like Crime or Punishment
If Crime or Punishment is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Posthumous Investigation, Blacksad: Under the Skin and Chinatown Detective Agency — 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 Crime or Punishment: Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
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Steam players who put hours into Crime or Punishment 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.
The Posthumous Investigation
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Top pick for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
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.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Chinatown Detective Agency
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Third-strongest match for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Back to the Dawn
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Ranked #4 for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Post Mortem
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Ranked #5 for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Still Life
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Ranked #6 for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
Still Life 2 also now available!
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
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Ranked #7 for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
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.
L.A. Noire
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Ranked #8 for Crime or Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Crime or Punishment.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
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.
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 Crime or Punishment.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crime or Punishment.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Frequently asked about Crime or Punishment
- What games are most similar to Crime or Punishment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crime or Punishment are The Posthumous Investigation, Blacksad: Under the Skin, Chinatown Detective Agency.
- Who developed Crime or Punishment?
- Crime or Punishment was developed by Scale Issue.
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 Crime or Punishment.
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