Games like The Emperor Penguin Incident
If The Emperor Penguin Incident is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Emperor Penguin Incident 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.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
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Top pick for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Second-strongest match for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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.
Subsurface Circular
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Ranked #4 for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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.
Dinocop
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Ranked #5 for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
When dinosaurs were brought back to life, none wanted to be a cop, so humans made you: Dinocop. Investigate the guests of the Cretaceous hotel to crack a meaty case that will confront you with your most profound existential dilemma. Who brought human meat to the dinosaur rights convention ?
The Silver Case
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Ranked #6 for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
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Ranked #7 for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Overboard!
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Ranked #8 for The Emperor Penguin Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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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 Emperor Penguin Incident.
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 The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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 The Emperor Penguin Incident.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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 with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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 The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
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.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Emperor Penguin Incident.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Frequently asked about The Emperor Penguin Incident
- What games are most similar to The Emperor Penguin Incident?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Emperor Penguin Incident are The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Sarawak.
- Who developed The Emperor Penguin Incident?
- The Emperor Penguin Incident was developed by Mantaray161.
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