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33 Great Games Like Backbone Games Rated General (G) and Older

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Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective. As a detective, you search for clues and evidence, talk to witnesses, and choose which leads to follow.

Unfortunately, Backbone is not available on Android or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Backbone

Game Details

Release Date: 24/04/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Players: 1

Genres: Brain Game, Role-Play (Adventure, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Stealth and Traversal)

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Developer: Egg Nut Games (@EggNutGames)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Backbone. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Backbone.

Hotel Dusk

Release Date: 22/01/2007

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS and DS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game about detective Kyle Hyde staying in a Twin-Peaks-like, rundown motel near 1979 Los Angeles. You move around the hotel to find clues, talk to other guests and ultimately solve what happened to his...

Beholder

Beholder (Series)

Release Date: 09/11/2016

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On

Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...

Sunday Gold

Release Date: 13/09/2022

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Side-On

Sunday Gold is a point-and-click adventure game set in a grim future London. You play three criminals out to uncover the dark secrets of an evil corporation and billionaire. It's an unusual mix of collecting items to solve puzzles and strategic...

Disco Elysium

Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2021

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Disco Elysium The Final Cut is a role-playing game set in the fictional city of Revachol where you play Harrier "Harry" Du Bois who must solve a complex murder. Unusually, your choices and actions not only determine how the story unfolds but affect...

Rivals

Release Date: 21/09/2020

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Side-On

Rivals is a puzzle game where you piece together the story of Josh and Luke and the breakup of their band. Playing detective, similarly to Return of the Obra Dinn, but rather than murder it's musical betrayal you are sleuthing here. You inspect sources,...

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I.

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. is a mystery adventure where you play a detective cat in a fictional 1930's New York. It combines point-and click adventuring with e first person perspective. Solve murders, flirt badly, maybe discover a wormhole to another...

14 Similar Games Long List

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Tangle Tower

Release Date: 19/09/2019

Platforms: PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each...

Fire Escape

Release Date: 29/04/2020

Platforms: Android and PC

Components: 2D Side-On

Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...

Aviary Attorney

Release Date: 22/12/2015, updated in 2020

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Aviary Attorney is a courtroom drama set in nineteenth-century Paris, populated with beautifully drawn animals. Guiding JayJay Falcon, defence attorney, you help investigate each case before each of the four court dates; combing crime scenes,...

Persona

Persona (Series)

Release Date: 20/09/1996, updated in 2022

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Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

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Beat Cop

Release Date: 27/11/2018, updated in 2019

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Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels

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Framed

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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A Case of Distrust

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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

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Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

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12 Younger Content Rating than Backbone

If Backbone is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.

Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books

Tangle Tower

Hotel Dusk

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I.

A Case of Distrust

Pitch Black: A Detective's Demise

Rivals

Aviary Attorney

16 Video Games Like Backbone Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Backbone. This includes games from the Role-Play, Puzzle, Adventure, Point-and-Click, Stealth, Brain Game and Traversal genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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Ghost Trick

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Cris Tales

Rough Justice '84

Beholder

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Doki Doki Literature Club

Pony Island

Streets of Rogue

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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
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33 Great Games Like Backbone Games Rated General (G) and Older

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6 Similar Games Short List

14 Similar Games Long List

12 Younger Content Rating than Backbone

16 Video Games Like Backbone Based on Genre

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