Games like Forensics: Crime Scene Detective
If Forensics: Crime Scene Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol, The Test: Secrets of the Soul and The Operator — 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 Forensics: Crime Scene Detective: Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.

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FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol
WHY THIS
Top pick for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Put on your gloves and enter the crime scene. In this investigation simulator, you will have to solve 9 unique and independent cases full of plot twists. Use drones, robots, and chemical analysis to discover what really happened. Here, you don't shoot the bad guys; you catch them with science.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
The Operator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Scene Investigators
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
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?
Supernormal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forensics: Crime Scene Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forensics: Crime Scene Detective at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forensics: Crime Scene Detective on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
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.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Binary Impact, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Parking World: Build & Manage
WHY THIS
Another title from Binary Impact, the studio behind Forensics: Crime Scene Detective. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.
Beam
WHY THIS
Another title from Binary Impact, the studio behind Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Forensics: Crime Scene Detective.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
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 Forensics: Crime Scene Detective
- How much does Forensics: Crime Scene Detective cost?
- Forensics: Crime Scene Detective is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forensics: Crime Scene Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forensics: Crime Scene Detective are FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol, The Test: Secrets of the Soul, The Operator.
- Who developed Forensics: Crime Scene Detective?
- Forensics: Crime Scene Detective was developed by Binary Impact, Alchemical Works and published by Aerosoft GmbH.
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