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2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable77 % positive7.99 €

You follow a film noir tale in a rotten city, told through a motion comic with a non-linear plot. Fights are resolved with match-3 puzzles, and the twisting story rewards you for paying close attention.

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Dark, serious atmosphere
Distinctive, stylised art style
Strong, story-driven narrative

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The closest matches for Metropolis: Lux Obscura are Unheard, Last Day of June and Blacksad: Under the Skin. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metropolis: Lux Obscura special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Unheard 87% match – Puzzles and brain teasers
Newest alternative: Phoenix Springs 83% match – released 2024

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Unheard

87 %Match

2019PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable95 % positive5.69 €

As a time-traveling detective who can only rely on sound, you eavesdrop on conversations at past crime scenes and piece together the timeline of each case yourself. An unusual, audio-driven mystery with non-linear storytelling.

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Last Day of June

Puzzles and brain teasers

A wordless narrative adventure where you play several villagers in turn, solving light puzzles to alter the events of a tragic day. Its painterly style, music and story of love and loss are very affecting.

Blacksad: Under the Skin

Strong, story-driven narrative

A noir detective adventure starring cat private eye John Blacksad, who is pulled into a murder case around a boxing club. It focuses on investigation, dialogue and choices in a comic-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Puzzles and brain teasers

You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.

Twelve Minutes

Puzzles and brain teasers

A time-loop thriller set in a single cramped apartment, where you relive the same twelve minutes and use what you learn each loop to unravel a dark secret surrounding your wife. A top-down point-and-click mystery with a star-studded voice cast.

Papers, Please

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.

A Case of Distrust

Puzzles and brain teasers

A noir detective adventure set in 1920s San Francisco where you play a private investigator who catches suspects in lies using evidence and statements. Its bold black, white and red art style and themes of prejudice and self-doubt set it apart.

Phoenix Springs

Puzzles and brain teasers

A hand-drawn point-and-click mystery in which you play journalist Iris searching for her brother in a remote desert town. Instead of items you collect names and ideas and combine them to solve puzzles.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Rusty Lake Paradise

Puzzles and brain teasers

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.