Free games like A Detective's Novel
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to A Detective's Novel, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with A Detective's Novel.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Tails Noir: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Everlasting Summer
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
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Blameless
Free-to-play alternative to A Detective's Novel — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Detective's Novel.
Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.