Games like Dance Dance Detective
If Dance Dance Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are Just in Crime, Curtain Call in Flames and Code: 9 — 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 Dance Dance Detective: Go undercover as a ballroom dance teacher on a cruise ship full of wacky murder suspects. Create dance routines to uncover their dark secrets, follow the leads, and combine clues to find who killed the head scientist of the Bolero Chocolate Company.
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Just in Crime
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Top pick for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Curtain Call in Flames
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Code: 9
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Resurrected through fusion with the hostile entity K.L.A.R.A., you now owe a debt to the Resistance. Explore crime scenes without quest markers, write your deductions in your own words rather than choosing pre-made answers, and expose lies during intense interrogations.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
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Ranked #5 for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Telling Lies
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Ranked #6 for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
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Ranked #7 for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
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Ranked #8 for Dance Dance Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
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…
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
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. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dance Dance Detective.
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 with Dance Dance Detective.
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 with Dance Dance Detective.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dance Dance Detective
- What games are most similar to Dance Dance Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dance Dance Detective are Just in Crime, Curtain Call in Flames, Code: 9.
- Who developed Dance Dance Detective?
- Dance Dance Detective was developed by Blue Tango Street.
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