Games like The Detail
If The Detail is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Wolf Among Us Remastered, The Posthumous Investigation and Bohemian Killing — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its graphic novel art style, moral gray areas and atmospheric. 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 Detail: The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
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The Wolf Among Us Remastered
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Detail.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
The Posthumous Investigation
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Second-strongest match for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
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.
Bohemian Killing
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Third-strongest match for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Ranked #4 for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Ranked #5 for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Ranked #6 for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Detail.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
QUIET DAN
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Shares branching narrative, dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Ranked #7 for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Ranked #8 for The Detail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
FBI agent Erica Reed has an uncanny talent: she can see the past and piece together how a crime unfolded. But not even this sixth sense could save her younger brother, Scott, from a brutal serial killer. Three years later, the investigation into Scott’s murder has gone cold -- but Erica’s work has only just begun.
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The Wire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Detail cross-mention this title as a similar play.
"The Wire" is a casual puzzle game with plenty of levels, which is designed to suit the needs and abilities of players of all ages. Play with the electronic background music, you just need to move the controller to go forward. The most import thing is making sure it is going on the track.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Reviewers of The Detail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Thief of Thieves
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Detail.
Reviewers of The Detail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Detail at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Detail.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Detail.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Detail.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Detail.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under The Detail on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Detail.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 Detail.
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 Detail.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Detail.
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 Detail.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Detail.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detail.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about The Detail
- Does The Detail run on Steam Deck?
- The Detail 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 Detail cost?
- The Detail is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Detail?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Detail are The Wolf Among Us Remastered, The Posthumous Investigation, Bohemian Killing.
- Who developed The Detail?
- The Detail was developed by Rival Games Ltd.
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