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Games like Homicide Desk

  • 19 games
  • Updated Sep 1, 2026

Players who liked Homicide Desk also play

The closest matches to Homicide Desk: Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, The Operator, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

  1. Rank 02

    Why this

    Shares puzzle solving with Homicide Desk.

    • $13.99 (Price checked Nov 6)
    • 2024
  1. Rank 06

    No Case Should Remain Unsolved

    Why this: Shares evidence collection and dialogue choices with Homicide Desk.

    • $6.99 (Price checked Nov 6)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2024
  2. Rank 08

    Cellveillance

    Why this: Also Choose Your Own Adventure and Interactive Fiction, like Homicide Desk.

    • $9.59 (Price checked Nov 7)
    • Deck Playable
    • 2025

The full ranked list: top 24 games like Homicide Desk

Best match first, as plain text. The same list for AI assistants:
  1. 1
    Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

    Shares evidence collection and investigation with Homicide Desk.

    • 98% of 883 reviews
  2. 2
    The Operator

    Shares puzzle solving with Homicide Desk.

    • 90% of 3,406 reviews
  3. 3
    Confidential Killings - A Detective Game

    Shares evidence collection and puzzle solving with Homicide Desk.

    • 84% of 222 reviews
  4. 4
    Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

    Shares deduction and evidence collection with Homicide Desk.

    • 98% of 1,779 reviews
  5. 5
    Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

    Also Noir and Crime, like Homicide Desk.

    • 82% of 148 reviews
  6. 6
    No Case Should Remain Unsolved

    Shares evidence collection and dialogue choices with Homicide Desk.

    • 98% of 1,560 reviews
  7. 7
    Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    Genres: Indie, Adventure

    • 92% of 690 reviews
  8. 8
    Cellveillance

    Also Choose Your Own Adventure and Interactive Fiction, like Homicide Desk.

    • 89% of 53 reviews
  9. 9
    JudgeSim

    Also Crime and Text-Based, like Homicide Desk.

    • 84% of 504 reviews
  10. 10
    Her Story

    Also Crime and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Homicide Desk.

    • 88% of 5,029 reviews
  11. 11
    The Last Case of John Morley

    Shares investigation and puzzle solving with Homicide Desk.

    • 76% of 76 reviews
  12. 12
    The Rise of the Golden Idol

    Also Crime and Interactive Fiction, like Homicide Desk.

    • 95% of 2,412 reviews
  13. 13
    Loretta

    Shares dialogue choices with Homicide Desk.

    • 91% of 64 reviews
  14. 14
    HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator

    Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation

    • 87% of 255 reviews
  15. 15
    Murdered: Soul Suspect

    Genres: Action, Adventure, RPG

    • 83% of 4,239 reviews
  16. 16
    Unheard - Voices of Crime

    Same atmospheric mood as Homicide Desk.

    • 91% of 2,751 reviews
  17. 17
    Mindcop

    Also Noir and Interactive Fiction, like Homicide Desk.

    • 93% of 184 reviews
  18. 18
    The Detail

    Genres: Indie, Adventure

    • 70% of 330 reviews
  19. 19
    Trials of Innocence

    Genres: Indie, Adventure, Simulation

    • 96% of 92 reviews
  20. 20
    The Shell Part II: Purgatorio

    Shares investigation and dialogue choices with Homicide Desk.

    • 98% of 86 reviews
  21. 21
    SIMULACRA 2

    Shares evidence collection with Homicide Desk.

    • 86% of 632 reviews
  22. 22
    Darkway: Murder of King Mere

    Also Noir and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Homicide Desk.

    • 97% of 59 reviews
  23. 23
    Late Shift

    Genres: Indie, Adventure

    • 86% of 1,748 reviews
  24. 24
    Homicipher

    Shares dialogue choices and puzzle solving with Homicide Desk.

    • 99% of 2,886 reviews
Homicide Desk — Steam game cover
  • Released: 2026
  • Developer: Shu'la Lab LLC
  • Price: $5.99checked Nov 7
  • Steam Deck: Deck Playable
  • 67% of 86 reviews
  • Genres: Indie, Simulation, Casual
  • Platforms: Windows

Players highlight

  • Building evidence to issue arrest warrants
  • Connecting clues without objective markers
  • Free form interrogation system asking suspects anything
  • Atmospheric
  • Contemplative
  • Mysterious

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About Homicide Desk

The closest matches to Homicide Desk: Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, The Operator, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Homicide Desk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, The Operator and Confidential Killings - A Detective Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, contemplative and mysterious, and single out its deduction and dialogue choices. 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.

About Homicide Desk: Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.

Is Homicide Desk worth buying?

Players are split

A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.

  • 67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive.
  • We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
  • Price: $5.99 (checked Nov 7).
  • People who recommend it had played a median of 5 h when they wrote their review.
  • Critics had played a median of 4 h before their negative review.
  • Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.

What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews

Top critical reviews

The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.

“[spoiler] Every single time the criminal is extremely obvious and you're just hoping there's a twist somewhere but it never comes. Also the criminal is always the first person in the list to interrogate or when you're choosing to arrest…”
4 h played
“I enjoyed being able to ask questions without premade prompts but the AI model had issues with consistency and at points just making up details. One of the characters made up a story about working with someone else at a roofing job in the…”
8 h played
More negative reviews on Steam ↗

People who play it also play: Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, The Operator, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game

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Frequently asked about Homicide Desk

Can I run it?

Does Homicide Desk run on Steam Deck?

Homicide Desk is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.

How much does Homicide Desk cost?

Homicide Desk is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).

What games are most similar to Homicide Desk?

Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Homicide Desk are Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, The Operator, Confidential Killings - A Detective Game.

Who developed Homicide Desk?

Homicide Desk was developed by Shu'la Lab LLC.