Games like Return of the Obra Dinn

4.6average player rating•5 games

Return of the Obra Dinn's pull is disciplined deduction: frozen vignettes, a casebook, and identities and fates solved by cross-checking. These picks prize evidence-first investigation, freeform reasoning, and diegetic tools that make you prove it yourself.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic85

Avg. player rating4.6/5

Avg. playtime4h

Main genreAdventure

Released2015–2023

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Adventure5 of 5
Indie5 of 5
RPG2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Chants of Sennaar
AdventureIndie
Deduction that only confirms when a whole set is right, so a wrong hunch costs the page and not the answer.
4.9/5Player ratingMC86View game
2
The Case of the Golden Idol
AdventureIndie
Cold-case dioramas you label by hand: names, motives, methods, until the truth locks into place.
4.9/5Player ratingView game
3
The Forgotten City
AdventureIndieRPG
A tight time loop forensics run: probe rules, provoke outcomes, then carry hard-won knowledge into the next pass.
4.8/5Player ratingMC85View game
4
Paradise Killer
AdventureIndieRPG
Open investigation with no rails; build a case from clues, then risk the trial on what you can prove.
4.6/5Player ratingMC81View game
5
Her Story
AdventureSimulationIndie
Nonlinear sleuthing through a video archive: hunt keywords, cross-reference details, and assemble the timeline yourself.
4.0/5Player ratingMC88View game