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2025PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive19.99 €

A detective RPG where you play an inspector in a remote village, investigating a mysterious death by questioning villagers, decoding strange symbols and hiding from a threat lurking in the moor.

Historical setting
Choices with consequences
Dread and tension
Strong, story-driven narrative

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The closest matches for Inspector Schmidt: The Ebbing are Call of Cthulhu, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments and The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Inspector Schmidt: The Ebbing special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Call of Cthulhu

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2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified79 % positive19.99 €

As shell-shocked private eye Edward Pierce you investigate a mysterious death on a grim whaling island and slide steadily into Lovecraftian madness. Investigation, dialogue skills and your fraying sanity shape how the story ends.

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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments

Choices with consequences

As Sherlock Holmes you work through six varied criminal cases, gathering clues and deducing the truth, then make a moral call on whether to punish or spare the culprit.

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery

Dread and tension

A point-and-click mystery with live-action video in which you alternate between Gabriel and Grace while tracking werewolf murders in Munich. It delivers a moody gothic horror story and classic inventory puzzles.

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Dread and tension

A classic point-and-click adventure in which writer Gabriel Knight investigates voodoo murders in New Orleans and learns he is heir to the Schattenjäger line. Strong writing, a gothic mood and tricky inventory puzzles define it.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Choices with consequences

You play Sherlock Holmes in Victorian London, examining crime scenes, connecting clues and making judgments that shape how cases unfold. The focus is on investigation and puzzles, spiced with short action and chase sequences.

The Last Express

Choices with consequences

A real-time adventure aboard the Orient Express on the eve of World War I: you unravel a murder, eavesdrop on dozens of voiced passengers, and must choose carefully where and when to be. Its Art Nouveau rotoscoped look is unmistakable.

The Forgotten City

Choices with consequences

A time-loop mystery set in a Roman city where any sin kills everyone. You question residents, exploit the repeating day, and unravel the secret through conversation, deduction and moral choices.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Dread and tension

Sherlock Holmes investigates a Lovecraftian nightmare of disappearances, riddles and cosmic dread. An atmospheric detective adventure centered on observing, deducing and solving puzzles.

Detention

Dread and tension

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

This Bed We Made

Choices with consequences

As a 1950s hotel maid you sneak through guests' rooms to piece together dark secrets and a murder. Light stealth, meaningful choices and a rich noir mood drive this narrative-focused detective adventure.

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