Games like Crime and Punishment
If Crime and Punishment is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lady with the Dog, Bobok and Colossals — 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 Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky’s complete, unabridged Russian text staged as a visual novel, with illustrated scenes and optional choices that preserve the original.
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The Lady with the Dog
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Top pick for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
Colossals
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Third-strongest match for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crime and Punishment.
Colossals tells the story of a vagrant, who, together with his love interest, the soon-to-be-Empress Khalida, interpret the fairy tales they read in front of a windmill to be fact, telling them of a faraway land where, once upon a time, giants roamed.
The Brothers Karamazov
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Ranked #4 for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
Three brothers come back to the house of a father none of them loves: one for the money, one for the truth, one to save them all. Something terrible is about to happen here. Dostoevsky's whole novel, word for word.
Painting Werther
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Ranked #5 for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
Painting Werther is a Paintable Visual Novel where all the visuals are living paintings, all the music are classics (with a twist) and the novel was written by Goethe in 1774.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
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Ranked #6 for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Prose & Codes
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Ranked #8 for Crime and Punishment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple cryptograms. 10% of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
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 Crime and Punishment.
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 Crime and Punishment.
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 Crime and Punishment.
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 and Casual with Crime and Punishment.
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 Crime and Punishment.
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 and Adventure with Crime and Punishment.
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.
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Frequently asked about Crime and Punishment
- What games are most similar to Crime and Punishment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crime and Punishment are The Lady with the Dog, Bobok, Colossals.
- Who developed Crime and Punishment?
- Crime and Punishment was developed by Marat Zimnurov, Digitable and published by Marat Zimnurov, Digitable.
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 Crime and Punishment.
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