Games like Blackwood's Dilemma
If Blackwood's Dilemma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Telling Lies, The Operator and Back to the Dawn — 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.
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Telling Lies
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Top pick for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
The Operator
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Second-strongest match for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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.
Back to the Dawn
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Third-strongest match for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Her Story
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Ranked #4 for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
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Ranked #5 for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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?
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
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Ranked #6 for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Blackwood's Dilemma.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Post Mortem
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Ranked #7 for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
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Ranked #8 for Blackwood's Dilemma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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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. Shares Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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. Shares Indie with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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 Blackwood's Dilemma.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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 Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
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.
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackwood's Dilemma.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Frequently asked about Blackwood's Dilemma
- What games are most similar to Blackwood's Dilemma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blackwood's Dilemma are Telling Lies, The Operator, Back to the Dawn.
- Who developed Blackwood's Dilemma?
- Blackwood's Dilemma was developed by The K Game Studio.
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