Games like Dead Ringer
If Dead Ringer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Detective 14, Antioch: Scarlet Bay and Overboard! — 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 Dead Ringer: It begins with a phone plugged into a faulty socket and an electric malfunction, it ends with seven dead and one missing... Detective Maxwell Morgan must navigate the testimonies of both the living and the dead to find a murderer before it's too late, in this Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
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Space Detective 14
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Top pick for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay
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Second-strongest match for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
7Days Origins
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Ranked #4 for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
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Ranked #5 for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
The Ravendree Oracle
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Ranked #6 for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Meet devils, diviners, bootleggers, and showstoppers in this 1920s whodunit adventure. Grim and macabre, yet darkly humorous. The Ravendree Oracle mixes 1920’s toon style art with a morbid murder mystery, all while exploring the eccentric characters that inhabit a supernatural speakeasy.
ANOMALY CATALOG 1: SCHOOL
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Ranked #7 for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Ringer.
Something is wrong at this school. Strange incidents are spreading, students are hiding secrets, and creatures that should not exist are beginning to appear. Follow the clues, survive the horrors, and discover what is really happening before it is too late.
童谣无忌
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Ranked #8 for Dead Ringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Ringer.
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to the mountain village of Hongluo after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Slowly reveal the truth of the case from back then.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Dead Ringer.
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. Shares Adventure with Dead Ringer.
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 Dead Ringer.
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 Dead Ringer.
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 Dead Ringer.
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 Dead Ringer.
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 Dead Ringer.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Dead Ringer
- What games are most similar to Dead Ringer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Ringer are Space Detective 14, Antioch: Scarlet Bay, Overboard!.
- Who developed Dead Ringer?
- Dead Ringer was developed by Necro Nine and published by Drowsy Drake.
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