Games like Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
If Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir, Mandated Fate and Exo's CYOA — 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 Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King: Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
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Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir
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Top pick for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Mandated Fate
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Second-strongest match for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Exo's CYOA
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Third-strongest match for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Exo's CYOA is an LLM-driven choose-your-own-adventure that adapts to you. Guide a party through dangerous places, talk to characters, inspect the world, collect gear, craft solutions, and make choices that reshape the narrative. You describe your next move, and the game responds with new narration.
Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif
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Ranked #4 for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance is pretty tricky on a good day but it’s damn near impossible when your boss threatens foreclosure on your mortal existence. As the new bartender at DEAD-END, you’ll make new friends, mix weird drinks, all while navigating Life, Death and everything in between.
A Case of Distrust
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Ranked #5 for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Let Bions Be Bygones
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Ranked #6 for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Blake: The Visual Novel
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Ranked #7 for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Observer: System Redux
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Ranked #8 for Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
- What games are most similar to Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King are Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir, Mandated Fate, Exo's CYOA.
- Who developed Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King?
- Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King was developed by Play On Words Studios.
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