Games like Crime Investigator
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Crime Investigator for fans of indie, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Crime Investigator also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Crime Investigator: Investigate the evidence, expose the lies and bring the perpetrator to justice! In Crime Investigator, you take on the role of an experienced investigator who has to solve brutal murders and complex crimes.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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The Twisting Trail of Clues
Top pick for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
The Twisting Trail of Clues is a captivating and thrilling modern-day murder mystery. Set in a bustling city, the story follows detective Emma as she tries to solve a seemingly impossible case - the murder of a prominent businessman by a mysterious secret society.
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BigBoy - Visual Novel
Second-strongest match for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Witness to the sections of BigBoy's life sucked into a vortex of crime. Is there divine justice?This is the prologue of the story.
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Murder On The Island
Third-strongest match for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Murder on the Island is a Visual Novel story, which takes place on a beautiful tropical island, where one of the 14 vacationers found murdered. Paul Parker, the owner of the island has only one week to find out what happened on the first night.
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The Choice VR (선택VR)
Ranked #4 for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
DEXTER STUDIOS' 3RD VR WEBTOON! A CONJOINED TWINS, HA-EUN AND YE-EUN, BORN WITH A SHARED HEART! WHO WILL … WIN THE HEART?
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Aberration
Ranked #5 for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Aberration, a point & click thriller experience that will lead you down a rabbit hole of suspense, fear and misdirection. Roam through the creaking halls of an abandoned mansion, with secrets buried in the walls. Trudge through a muddied farm property and find what's hidden amongst the hay.
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피랍 일지 - 그 남자로부터의 탈출
Ranked #6 for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
어떻게든 돌아갈 거야. 가족이 기다리고 있는 집으로.
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The Accuser and The Abyss
Ranked #7 for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
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Quinn & Flynn
Ranked #8 for Crime Investigator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
A mature queer visual novel, telling the heated and convoluted story of the love triangle between Quinn, an obsessive police detective, Elias, Quinn's direct superior, and Flynn, a poet with a very talented tongue, caught in a criminal case that spirals rapidly out of hand.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crime Investigator at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
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?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~50% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crime Investigator.
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.
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Peggle Deluxe
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crime Investigator.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
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shapez
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
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!
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Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
"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!
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Insaniquarium Deluxe
Priced ~67% under Crime Investigator on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crime Investigator.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime Investigator.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
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.
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crime Investigator.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Crime Investigator
- How much does Crime Investigator cost?
- Crime Investigator is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crime Investigator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crime Investigator are The Twisting Trail of Clues, BigBoy - Visual Novel, Murder On The Island.
- Who developed Crime Investigator?
- Crime Investigator was developed by BBGS Productions.
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 Investigator.
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