Games like ESPecial Jobs
If ESPecial Jobs is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet, Just in Crime and Star Apprentice: Dazzling Danmaku Detective — 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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Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet
WHY THIS
Top pick for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
Just in Crime
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Second-strongest match for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
Star Apprentice: Dazzling Danmaku Detective
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
Find evidence, interrogate suspects, and shoot down contradictions in this magical girl detective game! Your magic turns each interrogation into a bullet hell logic battle - use it to prove your skills and uncover the truth of each magical mystery! Will you live up to the ideals of a true detective?
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
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Ranked #6 for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ESPecial Jobs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
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 ESPecial Jobs.
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 ESPecial Jobs.
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 ESPecial Jobs.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ESPecial Jobs.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with ESPecial Jobs.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
Frequently asked about ESPecial Jobs
- What games are most similar to ESPecial Jobs?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ESPecial Jobs are Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet, Just in Crime, Star Apprentice: Dazzling Danmaku Detective.
- Who developed ESPecial Jobs?
- ESPecial Jobs was developed by ZLASH STUDIOS.
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