Games like Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows
If Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Almanac: Detective Agency, The Millhaven Murders and Dahlia View — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. 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 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows: A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.
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Almanac: Detective Agency
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
The Millhaven Murders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A hand-drawn and story-rich deduction mystery set in 1887. Pearl Lundgren is dead and two men have been arrested for her murder, but the full truth remains to be discovered, and only you can piece it together.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection and an atmospheric mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Third-strongest match for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, point and click, slice of life and a mysterious mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Ranked #4 for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, investigation, slice of life and an atmospheric mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Ranked #5 for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, visual novel style, narrative driven and a mysterious mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Ranked #6 for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, visual novel style and atmospheric with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Ranked #7 for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, investigation and atmospheric with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Ranked #8 for Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 ~70% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 Casual with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection and an atmospheric mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Shares evidence collection, point and click, slice of life and a mysterious mood with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, visual novel style and atmospheric with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows.
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.
Frequently asked about Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows
- How much does Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows cost?
- Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows are Almanac: Detective Agency, The Millhaven Murders, Dahlia View.
- Who developed Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows?
- Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows was developed by Sungazer Software LLC.
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