Games like Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet
If Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and The Test: Hypothesis Rising — 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 Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet: As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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..."
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
LumineNight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Tokyo Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
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 Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Frequently asked about Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet
- What games are most similar to Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet are The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, The Test: Hypothesis Rising.
- Who developed Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet?
- Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet was developed by Alperen Torun.
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