Games like Detective - The Test
If Detective - The Test is your kind of game, the closest matches are DETECTIVE - Scene Crime, Forest Grove and FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol — 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 Detective - The Test: Test your detective instincts across three challenging cases. No hints, no help—just you, your intuition, and your ability to piece together the truth. Can you solve the mystery?
Players who liked Detective - The Test also play
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DETECTIVE - Scene Crime
WHY THIS
Top pick for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Step into the role of a detective in DETECTIVE Scene Crime, a challenging mystery game where you’ll investigate five gripping crime scenes. Each level presents clues, testimonies, and puzzles to analyze carefully in your quest for the truth. Do you have what it takes to solve them all?
Forest Grove
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
In Forest Grove, a teenage heiress has gone missing. Foul play is suspected. Uncover a cast of characters, collect evidence, and find the truth in this futuristic detective game!
FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Put on your gloves and enter the crime scene. In this investigation simulator, you will have to solve 9 unique and independent cases full of plot twists. Use drones, robots, and chemical analysis to discover what really happened. Here, you don't shoot the bad guys; you catch them with science.
Scene Investigators
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
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.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Detective - The Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Detective - The Test at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detective - The Test.
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 ~55% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Detective - The Test.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Detective - The Test.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detective - The Test.
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 ~55% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Detective - The Test.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detective - The Test.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Detective - The Test on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Detective - The Test.
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 Detective - The Test.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Detective - The Test.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
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 and Simulation with Detective - The Test.
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 Detective - The Test.
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 Detective - The Test.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from k148 Game Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by k148 Game Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
After You
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
After You is a narrative game with puzzles, but it is not an easy game, here you will not have indicators or tutorials, nor can you save when you want. In After You you need to put all your attention and use paper and pencil to move forward, if you're looking for an easy game, this is not your game.
TEMPUS
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
The Creature: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
You are a detective sent to investigate the mistreatment of a mysterious creature. In this escape room there are not only puzzles, but also characters and history.
FINIS
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
FINIS is a puzzle game with a difference, we create a psychological evaluation based on your choices. Each universe offers a different experience, terror, calm, destruction, war, progress... You can choose between 8 completely different paths and each path will take you to a unique ending.
DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
DETECTIVE: Stella Porta Case, puts you in the shoes of a detective who investigates three strange disappearances. In all cases there is a contract signed by the disappeared, that contract is from an organization called "Stella Porta".
DETECTIVE - Minerva case
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
DETECTIVE Minerva Case is a crime deduction and solving game, with an adult and original story. Visit the crime scene, look for all the evidence and understand what happened.
DETECTIVE - The Motel
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.
DETECTIVE - Rainy night
WHY THIS
Another title from k148 Game Studio, the studio behind Detective - The Test. Shares Indie and Adventure with Detective - The Test.
Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.
Frequently asked about Detective - The Test
- How much does Detective - The Test cost?
- Detective - The Test is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Detective - The Test?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detective - The Test are DETECTIVE - Scene Crime, Forest Grove, FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol.
- Who developed Detective - The Test?
- Detective - The Test was developed by k148 Game Studio and published by JanduSoft.
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