Games like Emerald City Confidential™
If Emerald City Confidential™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackwell Epiphany, Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer and The Blackwell Legacy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its faithfully twists oz lore, atmospheric and mysterious. 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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Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Top pick for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Second-strongest match for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Third-strongest match for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Ranked #4 for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Ranked #5 for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Lamplight City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Ranked #6 for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Ranked #7 for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Ranked #8 for Emerald City Confidential™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Emerald City Confidential™ at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Landlord of the Woods
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Ukrainian ball in search of gas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Hentai Vs Furries
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Hentai VS Furries offers colorful gunshots. Skins, special angles for your enjoyment. And a "Pleasure" mode without a fight if you want to enjoy calm.
Achievement Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Emerald City Confidential™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Children of Silentown: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Sakura Clicker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The latest entry in the Sakura series is more action-packed than ever before! Sakura Clickers is a fast-paced, exciting adventure, full of content, in which you defeat your foes with the power of your mouse!
Realm Grinder
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Soda Dungeon
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Pop the top on some legendary action with Soda Dungeon, the fresh and fizzy hit mobile RPG adventure, now available on your desktop! Manage your team as you raid the local dungeons, upgrade your tavern, and attract new party members. Gold, legendary items, and more await you.
Unsolved Case
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A new lead turns up old doubts about an 'Unsolved Case'. A trap, or a copycat killer? In this co-op puzzle game prequel to the award-winning Cryptic Killer series, put on your detective badges as you collaborate and communicate to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and catch the Cryptic Killer.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Wadjet Eye Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Unavowed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Old Skies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
Shardlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Blackwell Convergence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The third game in the Blackwell series
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Emerald City Confidential™. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Emerald City Confidential™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Emerald City Confidential™.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Frequently asked about Emerald City Confidential™
- Does Emerald City Confidential™ run on Steam Deck?
- Emerald City Confidential™ is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Emerald City Confidential™ cost?
- Emerald City Confidential™ is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Emerald City Confidential™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Emerald City Confidential™ are Blackwell Epiphany, Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer, The Blackwell Legacy.
- Who developed Emerald City Confidential™?
- Emerald City Confidential™ was developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published by Electronic Arts.
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