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Games like The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory

If The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Uncover the Smoking Gun, Telling Lies and Sarawak — 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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About The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory: Desktop mystery: you're journalist Max Drascher, reopening Jory Michener's 2016 disappearance for a GlimmerTV documentary. Email, web searches, social feeds, phone calls. Every clue lives on your machine. Evansburg would rather you let it rest.

2026IndieWindowsby JasperMarie
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  1. Uncover the Smoking Gun

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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?

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Telling Lies

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Sarawak

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

    2021IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Paradise Killer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Back to the Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Subsurface Circular

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Unheard - Voices of Crime

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

    2019IndieSimulationRPG2.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

    2014Adventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Paradise Killer

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Back to the Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.

    Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

    2014Adventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory

What games are most similar to The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory are Uncover the Smoking Gun, Telling Lies, Sarawak.
Who developed The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory?
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory was developed by JasperMarie.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory.

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