Games like The Occult Detective
If The Occult Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nobody Nowhere, 子归 - Blossom and Rubbings — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 Occult Detective: A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
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Nobody Nowhere
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, dialogue choices, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Top pick for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
子归 - Blossom
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, choice driven narrative, horror and an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Second-strongest match for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...
Rubbings
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, investigation, horror and an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Third-strongest match for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
《诡拓》是一款中式民俗微恐风的悬疑推理游戏。你将扮演一名民俗杂志编辑，根据匿名信件中的拓片线索，深入封闭、神秘的睖睁村，这里多年来流传着失踪旅人和诡异祭祀的传说。通过亲历村志中的诡异故事，并在村庄中展开调查，你将逐步揭开埋藏数十年的真相。
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Ranked #4 for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
Sanfu
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Ranked #5 for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
2000年，山城市新闻频道的电视画面莫名跳出一则旧广告，而广告的代言人是已经去世的特异功能少年——三眼神童。有传闻三眼神童的亡魂劫持了电视信号。 调查局受命展开调查。随着调查的深入，一个藏在黑暗处的犯罪团伙逐渐浮出水面。
Murders on the Yangtze River
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Ranked #6 for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
蜉蝣之国的囚徒
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Ranked #7 for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor". They are strangers, but now forced to partake in an ancient and eerie ritual—"the Feather-Burning Rite". A bloodstained drama spanning millennia has silently unfolded...
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Occult Detective.
Ranked #8 for The Occult Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Occult Detective.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Occult Detective at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
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 ~63% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Occult Detective.
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 ~41% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
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 ~54% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
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 ~41% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
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 ~63% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
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 ~63% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Occult Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
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 Occult Detective.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Occult Detective.
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 with The Occult Detective.
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 Occult Detective.
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 Occult Detective.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Occult Detective.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Occult Detective
- Does The Occult Detective run on Steam Deck?
- The Occult Detective 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 Occult Detective cost?
- The Occult Detective is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Occult Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Occult Detective are Nobody Nowhere, 子归 - Blossom, Rubbings.
- Who developed The Occult Detective?
- The Occult Detective was developed by Battlecry Studio.
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