Games like Investigation
If Investigation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Death's Playground, The Light Keeps Us Safe and Doorways: The Underworld — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into 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.
Death's Playground
WHY THIS
Top pick for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Invite your friends over to play this nice lovely game and then.. BAM! Out of nowhere, you scare them to death, leaving them with nothing but paranoia and trust issues! Run, hide, shoot, scream.. try to survive the cursed mansion's creepy environment in this multiplayer (4v1) Psychological Horror.
The Light Keeps Us Safe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
THE LIGHT KEEPS US SAFE is a procedurally-generated apocalypse in which only The Light can save us. Use stealth and evasion to avoid terrifying machines that patrol the desolate world, and employ the powers of Light to unpick their deadly traps.
Doorways: The Underworld
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Doorways: The Underworld is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.
Uventa
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Ranked #4 for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Investigation.
The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Manhunt
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Investigation.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Friday the 13th: The Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Investigation.
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th!
Fear Therapy
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Ranked #8 for Investigation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Investigation.
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Investigation at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Investigation.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Investigation.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Investigation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with 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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Investigation.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Investigation.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Investigation.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Investigation.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Investigation
- How much does Investigation cost?
- Investigation is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Investigation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Investigation are Death's Playground, The Light Keeps Us Safe, Doorways: The Underworld.
- Who developed Investigation?
- Investigation was developed by ShockyyDoc and published by ShockyyDoc Games.
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 Investigation.
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