Games like DEAR SUSPECT
If DEAR SUSPECT is your kind of game, the closest matches are Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator, The Test: Secrets of the Soul and Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido — 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 DEAR SUSPECT: Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
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Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator
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Top pick for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with DEAR SUSPECT.
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
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Second-strongest match for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEAR SUSPECT.
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..."
Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
A noir detective gamebook where careless reading gets you killed. A tycoon has vanished: 4 suspects, 780 choices, 11 endings — 85% of all runs end in death or prison. Every clue you uncover stays in your case file forever. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese. The case is yours.
AI探案集
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Ranked #4 for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEAR SUSPECT.
《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
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Ranked #5 for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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?
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
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Ranked #6 for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEAR SUSPECT.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
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Ranked #7 for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Ranked #8 for DEAR SUSPECT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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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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 DEAR SUSPECT.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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.
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 Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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.
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 Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with DEAR SUSPECT.
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..."
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with DEAR SUSPECT.
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 DEAR SUSPECT
- What games are most similar to DEAR SUSPECT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DEAR SUSPECT are Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator, The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido.
- Who developed DEAR SUSPECT?
- DEAR SUSPECT was developed by ELEGISTS STUDIO.
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