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Games like Long Knives

If Long Knives is your kind of game, the closest matches are ShadowLess Light, Beware of the Cartographer! and Travelling At Night — 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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About Long Knives: Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.

2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFree to playWindows · macOSby Jade Hex
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Steam players who put hours into Long Knives 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.

  1. ShadowLess Light

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.

  2. Beware of the Cartographer!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Travelling At Night

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  4. Sarawak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

    2021IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Pentiment

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Long Knives.

    Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

    2022AdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Quarantine Circular

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Expelled!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Uncover the Smoking Gun

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Long Knives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Knives.

    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?

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Long Knives

Is Long Knives free to play?
Yes — Long Knives is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to Long Knives?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Long Knives are ShadowLess Light, Beware of the Cartographer!, Travelling At Night.
Who developed Long Knives?
Long Knives was developed by Jade Hex.

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 Long Knives.

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