6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Sexy Brutale. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Sexy Brutale.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and change their actions...
Release Date: 30/08/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Filmed
Immortality is a mystery horror game where you investigate the lost movies of Marissa Marcel to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. As you paw through the footage, you uncover a story that spans three decades in unnerving and horrific ways. It's...
Release Date: 21/05/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Deathloop is a shooting game where you play an assassin stuck in a time loop. You wake on a beach while residents of Blackreef island have gathered for a party that seemingly lasts forever. Your mission is to assassinate 8 guests but at the end of each...
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...
Release Date: 28/07/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure. You explore and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. It starts as a bewildering array of characters, locations and information but over multiple goes your...
Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time-loop. After 20 minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the...
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Sexy Brutale. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Sexy Brutale.
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic based puzzles.
Release Date: 12/12/2014, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, GBA, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a courtroom murder mystery series where you piece together clues to challenge testimonies and uncover the truth. It’s like a visual novel, although you must interact with characters and evidence to progress.
Release Date: 19/06/2010, updated in 2023
Platforms: DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to find out how he...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks and Open World
Shadows of Doubt is an open-world detective game set in a fully simulated city of crime and corruption. You explore the city to discover criminality, find clues, solve crimes and earn money to fund bringing a serial killer to justice. It stands out for...
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels
You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...
Release Date: 19/08/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
12 Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click and drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
In Heaven’s Vault you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices can open or close vast swathes...
Release Date: 25/07/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Stadia
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
A Place for the Unwilling is a narrative adventure set in the final 21 days of a dying city. You investigate the city and its inhabitants to piece together what has happened. However, the clock is always ticking and the city carries on, with or without...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
"Have you ever made a mistake, or hurt people you care about?" Asks the Photographs trailer. It's a puzzle game that aims much higher than to distract you while on the way to work.
Release Date: 07/03/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tick Tock: A Tale For Two is a narrative-driven puzzle game played simultaneously with a friend, where you must escape an eerie world created by a clockmaker. It's unusual because each player's game is slightly different and must be combined to solve...
Release Date: 31/07/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: Filmed
Telling Lies is from the same developer as Her Story. It's named as an investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling by the developer.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...
Release Date: 22/07/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of rooms patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...
Release Date: 27/04/2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a running, jumping and fighting game where a demon invites you to explore the minds of the recently deceased. You work through an old mansion to uncover the mystery of a double murder and missing child. It's an elegant...
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...
Release Date: 28/08/2020
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sensorium is a puzzle game set in a freely explorable island. You need to solve puzzle to access rooms, which usually contain more puzzles granting access to deeper recesses of the buildings.
Release Date: 27/07/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Blackhaven is a narrative adventure where you play a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned down during the American Revolution. Play involves exploring the building and discovering a trail of secrets and misdeeds that span centuries.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a stealth puzzle game where you play Mittens the cat who can use quantum theory to divide in two. You play by controlling Mittens and infiltrating a secret research facility and taking advantage of being able to be in two...
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