Games like Detective Bureau
If Detective Bureau is your kind of game, the closest matches are Almanac: Detective Agency, Last Night Last Call and One Way Mirror: AI — 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 Bureau: Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.
Players who liked Detective Bureau also play
Steam players who put hours into Detective Bureau 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.
Almanac: Detective Agency
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Top pick for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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?
Last Night Last Call
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Second-strongest match for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
One Way Mirror: AI
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Neon lights. Cold coffee. One case at a time. In One Way Mirror: AI, each investigation is AI generated and every suspect can talk back. Interrogate, connect the clues, break alibis, and expose the killer before the truth slips away into the night. Every question matters. Every lie has a tell.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Her Story
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Ranked #5 for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Telling Lies
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Ranked #6 for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Detective Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Detective Bureau at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~44% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Detective Bureau.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~61% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Detective Bureau.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~56% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
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Priced ~56% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~56% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~94% under Detective Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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?
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.
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 Bureau.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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.
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 Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
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.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Bureau.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Frequently asked about Detective Bureau
- How much does Detective Bureau cost?
- Detective Bureau is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Detective Bureau?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detective Bureau are Almanac: Detective Agency, Last Night Last Call, One Way Mirror: AI.
- Who developed Detective Bureau?
- Detective Bureau was developed by Endless Thyme.
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