Games like The City Knows
If The City Knows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curtain Call in Flames, Uncover the Smoking Gun and Sarawak — 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 The City Knows: A story-driven deduction game set in Okayama, Japan, where everyone has an answer—but you need evidence. Examine evidence and records, cross-reference witness accounts, reconstruct timelines, and separate plausible theories from provable facts across six murder investigations.
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Steam players who put hours into The City Knows 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.
Curtain Call in Flames
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Top pick for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
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Second-strongest match for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
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?
Telling Lies
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Ranked #4 for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Ranked #5 for The City Knows 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.
The Roottrees are Dead
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Ranked #6 for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
The Silver Case
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Ranked #7 for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
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Ranked #8 for The City Knows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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!
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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 The City Knows.
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.
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.
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 The City Knows.
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 with The City Knows.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The City Knows.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Other recommendable Steam games by DaiFire, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Naval Supremacy
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Another title from DaiFire, the studio behind The City Knows.
Design warships, build your naval industry, and lead a nation through a turn-based grand strategy campaign of diplomacy, fleet deployment, and automated naval warfare.
Chinese Basketball Manager
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Another title from DaiFire, the studio behind The City Knows.
Manage your team, train your players, build your dynasty, and watch young prospects with a passion for singing, dancing, rapping, and basketball live up to their talent!
Dead Tube
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Another title from DaiFire, the studio behind The City Knows.
DEAD TUBE is a single-player auto-simulation and behind-the-scenes intervention game built around a closed survival battle royale featuring 12 contestants.When a sole survivor emerges, add her to your collection, or let her carry her scars, reputation, and combat record into the next challenge.
Frequently asked about The City Knows
- What games are most similar to The City Knows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The City Knows are Curtain Call in Flames, Uncover the Smoking Gun, Sarawak.
- Who developed The City Knows?
- The City Knows was developed by DaiFire.
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 The City Knows.
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