InvestigationDetective
18 games that share both with TR-49
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
TR-49, but your choices matter, and twice the hours
Liked · 89%
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InvestigationInteractive Fiction
3 games that share both with TR-49
And more like TR-49
Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.
Eternal Threads
TR-49, but bending time, and your choices matter
Liked · 86%Investigation · Dynamic Narration
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
TR-49, but a visual novel, and four times the hours
Loved · 98%Detective · Mystery
Before Your Eyes
TR-49, but first-person, and a third of the hours
Loved · 98%Narrative · Interactive Fiction
Observer: System Redux
TR-49, but a psychological horror game, and stealthy
Liked · 85%Investigation · Alternate History
How this list is made
A game is here when it shares the strongest of TR-49's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of TR-49's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. Games that share the same kinds with TR-49 stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.
Under each name, how it differs from TR-49: a kind of game it is that TR-49 is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that TR-49's barely do, how many hours people play it beside TR-49, and how its reviewers feel beside TR-49's.
The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.