Games like Detective Gallo
If Detective Gallo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nine Noir Lives, Bear With Me - Episode One and Dominique Pamplemousse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its absurdist humor lands consistently, cactus sidekick adds charm and hand drawn animation style. 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 Detective Gallo: Detective Gallo is a point&click comic-noir adventure that is entirely hand-illustrated and hand-animated, and whose protagonist is a feathered and grumpy private eye struggling with a very tricky case, bizarre characters, and puzzles that will put his insight and patience to the test.
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Nine Noir Lives
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Top pick for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
Bear With Me - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Second-strongest match for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.
Dominique Pamplemousse
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Third-strongest match for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Dominique Pamplemousse in “It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!” is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst into song.
Lamplight City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Ranked #4 for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Detective Gallo.
Ranked #5 for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a comedic mood with Detective Gallo.
Ranked #6 for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Ranked #7 for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Ranked #8 for Detective Gallo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a comedic mood with Detective Gallo.
Reviewers of Detective Gallo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Detective Gallo.
Reviewers of Detective Gallo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The super-suave agent, SPY Fox, must find Mr. Udderly, rescue all the cows, and stop William the Kid from depleting the worlds supply of milk. Using ingenious SPY gadgets, keen wits, and daring moves, SPY Fox, jumps out on an udderly exhilarating adventure!
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Detective Gallo.
Reviewers of Detective Gallo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
The Curse of Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Reviewers of Detective Gallo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Detective Gallo at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Detective Gallo on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
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.
Unsolved Case
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
A new lead turns up old doubts about an 'Unsolved Case'. A trap, or a copycat killer? In this co-op puzzle game prequel to the award-winning Cryptic Killer series, put on your detective badges as you collaborate and communicate to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and catch the Cryptic Killer.
Bear With Me - Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.
Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Two city detectives are sent to a small idyllic town in North Carolina called ‘Silver Creek Falls” to investigate a strange series of events that the local sheriff can’t seem to get his mind around. What initially seems like an open-and-shut case unfolds into a truly terrifying mystery that will leave the detectives wondering what is...
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.
Cool Kid Cody
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
In a world of Losers, Cool Kids and Gods, where Losers wish they were Cool Kids, Cool Kids wish they were Gods and Gods rule over all, Cool Kid Cody embarks on his quest for Godhood! All he's gotta do is achieve the impossible: transform the biggest Loser in school into a Cool Kid.
The Sink Gods
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The Sink Gods is a modern adventure game. You play a poor villager who lives in the Sink Valley. When you are evicted from your home, you realise your only hope is the Sink Gods of the Great Basin. Journey to each of their temples, and pass their test to gain revenge for what you have lost.
Hauma - A Detective Noir Story - Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Detective Gallo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a comedic mood with Detective Gallo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Detective Gallo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Detective Gallo.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
Frequently asked about Detective Gallo
- Does Detective Gallo work on Steam Deck?
- Detective Gallo is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Detective Gallo cost?
- Detective Gallo is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Detective Gallo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detective Gallo are Nine Noir Lives, Bear With Me - Episode One, Dominique Pamplemousse.
- Who developed Detective Gallo?
- Detective Gallo was developed by Footprints Games.
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 Detective Gallo.
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