Games like Cold Case
If Cold Case is your kind of game, the closest matches are Big Ear Detective, Sarawak and Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders — 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 Cold Case: Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Players who liked Cold Case also play
Steam players who put hours into Cold Case also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Big Ear Detective
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
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.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
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?
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cold Case fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
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.
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 Cold Case.
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
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
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 Cold Case.
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 with Cold Case.
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.
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More from BANJIHAGAMES
Other recommendable Steam games by BANJIHAGAMES, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Roll & Rob the Hero
WHY THIS
Another title from BANJIHAGAMES, the studio behind Cold Case. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Roll & Rob the Hero is a unique Roll-and-Write Auto-Battler. As a genius gambler who won the hero’s destiny in a bet, you must roll dice to build stats, collect Artifacts, and strategically manage risks to defeat monsters. Experience the thrill of logical strategy and explosive luck.
ELEMENTAIL
WHY THIS
Another title from BANJIHAGAMES, the studio behind Cold Case. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
Draw it, Store it, Strike hard! A charming casual deckbuilding roguelike with magical animal wizards! Strategically combine elemental cards—Water, Fire, and Lightning—and collect over 150 unique relics to build your deck, customize your playstyle, and save a world tainted by elemental corruption.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
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.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Cold Case.
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.
Frequently asked about Cold Case
- What games are most similar to Cold Case?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cold Case are Big Ear Detective, Sarawak, Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders.
- Who developed Cold Case?
- Cold Case was developed by BANJIHAGAMES.
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 Cold Case.
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