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Mother Gaia Studio · 2026 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 93 % positive of 575 reviews, as of Oct 28

A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.

24 games that play like The Posthumous Investigation and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Case of the Golden Idol, Mindcop and Detective Grimoire.

Player tags

  • Time Manipulation
  • Detective
  • Choices Matter
  • Adventure
  • Story Rich
  • Multiple Endings
  • Noir
  • Atmospheric
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  1. REWIND90 % positive of 454Shared: Detective · Mystery · Visual Novel
  2. Post Mortem56 % positive of 364Shared: Detective · Choices Matter · Noir
  3. Blacksad: Under the Skin83 % positive of 5,395Shared: Detective · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  4. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles93 % positive of 5,147Shared: Detective · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  5. Demons' Timeline96 % positive of 1,362Shared: Detective · Story Rich · Mystery
  6. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective96 % positive of 6,552Shared: Detective · Story Rich · Mystery
  7. Night Call75 % positive of 407Shared: Detective · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  8. Paper Perjury88 % positive of 226Shared: Detective · Story Rich · Mystery
  9. AI: The Somnium Files90 % positive of 8,931Shared: Detective · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  10. Nobody Wants to Die82 % positive of 5,982Shared: Time Manipulation · Detective · Choices Matter
  11. Yet Another Killing Game96 % positive of 250Shared: Story Rich · Multiple Endings · Mystery
  12. Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure92 % positive of 4,139Shared: Detective · Story Rich · Multiple Endings

By look

Looks like The Posthumous Investigation

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More matches

  1. What Remains of Edith Finch95 % positive of 47,566
  2. Bear With Me - Episode One87 % positive of 1,010
  3. Mindlock - The Apartment94 % positive of 638
  4. PRIM93 % positive of 432
  5. Grim Fandango Remastered89 % positive of 7,206
  6. Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!80 % positive of 385
  7. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged92 % positive of 970
  8. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes92 % positive of 3,179
  9. Mycopsychosys: Remastered97 % positive of 247
  10. Tick Tock: A Tale for Two84 % positive of 10,250
  11. My Friend is a Raven90 % positive of 1,332
  12. Bear With Me - Collector's Edition92 % positive of 79

At a glance

What games like The Posthumous Investigation have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Posthumous Investigation: Detective (21 of 24), Story Rich (20) and Choices Matter (11).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2026, none of them after The Posthumous Investigation (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Case of the Golden Idol (96 % positive of 9,923).

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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