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2024 PCSteam Deck playable −30 % 12.49 € 8.74 € 6 days left 98 % positive Overwhelmingly positive, 541 reviews on Steam

A text-parser mystery adventure in a late-80s EGA style, inspired by Sierra's The Colonel's Bequest. As amateur geologist Nancy Maple you explore a lodge, eavesdrop on suspects and unravel a mystery around a diamond.

What defines The Crimson Diamond:

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots to discover
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for The Crimson Diamond are Murders on the Yangtze River, Lost Wiki: Kozlovka and Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The First Cases. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Crimson Diamond special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Murders on the Yangtze River

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2024 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable −40 % 14.79 € 8.87 € 8 days left 96 % positive Overwhelmingly positive, 15,969 reviews on Steam

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A Chinese-flavored side-view detective game where you investigate cases, piece together clues and deduce the truth behind a string of puzzling murders.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Distinctive, stylised art style

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.

Kathy Rain

Distinctive, stylised art style

A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.

Circle of Blood

Pure single-player experience

A classic point-and-click adventure (known as Broken Sword) in which American tourist George Stobbart gets caught up in a Paris bombing and uncovers a Knights Templar conspiracy. Clever inventory puzzles, dry humor and a gripping conspiracy plot define the experience.

The Samaritan Paradox

Pure single-player experience

A story-driven point-and-click mystery adventure in which you play Ord Salamon, searching an island for a dead writer's secret final novel while uncovering the truth about his suspicious death.

A Case of Distrust

Distinctive, stylised art style

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.

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