Games like The Copperfield Department
If The Copperfield Department is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bombardiro Crocodilo: The Naked Clue, GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989 and Permaban — 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 The Copperfield Department: The Copperfield Department is a text-based puzzle game where players take over the role of a social media detective. As tasked by Big Business Inc., a company controlling the country, your job is to hunt for social media accounts that could prove harmful to their image.

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Bombardiro Crocodilo: The Naked Clue
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Top pick for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Copperfield Department.
A visual novel in the "noir story" genre, where the grit of Sin City meets the humor of The Naked Gun, the madness of Archer, and a dose of Italian brainrot!
GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989
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Second-strongest match for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
A narrative hacking adventure set in an alternate 1989 Japan. Boot your Bradsonic 69000, dial into underground bulletin boards, solve programming puzzles and crack games you can actually play. Tune into pirate radio and earn the trust of a crew whose secrets put more than your computer at risk.
Permaban
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Third-strongest match for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
It's 2007. You moderate a dying internet forum. Ban trolls, enforce contradictory rules, and try not to lose your mind.
Thought Experiment Simulator
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Ranked #4 for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
This is a stupid game that might include Trolley Problem, Ship of Theseus, Brain in a Vat, Infinite Monkey, Sisyphus, Prisoner's Dilemma, Schrodinger's Cat, etc.
Lamplight City
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Ranked #5 for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Copperfield Department.
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?
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #6 for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Sea Chronicles
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Ranked #7 for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
A sinking ship. Too many SpongeBob references. Not enough explanations. Escape the ship. Collect bugs (actual insects).
Ancient Russian Life Simulator
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Ranked #8 for The Copperfield Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
The most realistic simulator of the life of ancient Rus during the war with lizards! A historical saga about the greatness of our ancestors, bravely fighting the green plague that outnumbered them!
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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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Copperfield Department.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with The Copperfield Department.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Copperfield Department.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Casual with The Copperfield Department.
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.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Copperfield Department.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Copperfield Department.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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- What games are most similar to The Copperfield Department?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Copperfield Department are Bombardiro Crocodilo: The Naked Clue, GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989, Permaban.
- Who developed The Copperfield Department?
- The Copperfield Department was developed by Root√Fruit.
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