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Games like The 39 Steps

The Story Mechanics · 2013 · 75 % positive of 1,591

24 games that play like The 39 Steps and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Indie
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Casual
  • Based On A Novel
  • Point & Click
  • Narration
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like The 39 Steps have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The 39 Steps: Story Rich (17 of 24), Point & Click (13) and Interactive Fiction (7).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, 18 of them after The 39 Steps (2013).
  • Best rated by Steam players: TR-49 (94 % positive of 1,277).

By gameplay

Plays like The 39 Steps

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case58 % positive of 191Shared: Point & Click · Narration · Story Rich
  2. Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders81 % positive of 2,831Shared: Based On A Novel · Point & Click · Story Rich
  3. Crushed In Time90 % positive of 1,387
  4. Late Shift86 % positive of 8,845Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Horror
  5. A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight95 % positive of 176Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Indie
  6. Syberia88 % positive of 6,305Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Adventure
  7. The Occupation60 % positive of 387Shared: Story Rich · Thriller · Adventure
  8. Sorry, James79 % positive of 844Shared: Story Rich · Horror · Thriller
  9. Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles88 % positive of 785Shared: Point & Click · Adventure · Casual
  10. Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring60 % positive of 680Shared: Point & Click · Adventure · Singleplayer
  11. Psych79 % positive of 318Shared: Interactive Fiction · Horror · Thriller
  12. STAY69 % positive of 536Shared: Interactive Fiction · Narration · Story Rich

By look

Looks like The 39 Steps

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. LIBERATED77 % positive of 812
  2. Bohemian Killing63 % positive of 207
  3. Alter Ego70 % positive of 273
  4. Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: Russia58 % positive of 1,166
  5. Coma: Mortuary57 % positive of 1,012
  6. Dracula 4 and 5 - Special Steam Edition60 % positive of 157
  7. Visage85 % positive of 9,821
  8. TAIKU MANSION35 % positive of 410
  9. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes94 % positive of 2,271
  10. Lorelai90 % positive of 1,459
  11. Layers of Fear 2 (2019)71 % positive of 2,325
  12. Attentat 194292 % positive of 451

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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