Games Like Keyword: A Spider's Thread

Keyword: A Spider's Thread

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.

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Cyber Manhunt

92% 👍 OF 15K
About This Game

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

In this game, you can…

  • …pose as someone else in chats, earn a target's trust, then use it to extract private info or device access.
  • …assemble personal details from records and security questions to crack passwords and break into phones or mailboxes.
  • …take every clue you found and label who's killer, witness, hacker, or accomplice to make the final accusation stick.
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Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator

93% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.

In this game, you can…

  • …watch your real desktop appear, then see the game create an actual file on it during a fourth-wall break.
  • …compare the same wiki page on two different computers and find it's not the same page anymore.
  • …hit a late-game escalation where someone turns into a cat and you fight AdminX in a shooter minigame.
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The Operator

92% 👍 OF 8.8K
About This Game

Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.

In this game, you can…

  • …walk someone through bomb disposal in real time while a countdown keeps you making calls under pressure
  • …sit at an agency console and use real tools to link evidence, scan chemicals, search databases, and build a case from metadata
  • …trigger a twist where your identity and memories may have been altered, and earlier medical tests suddenly make sense
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Scene Investigators

75% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

A hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the “true crime” genre. Only by unraveling the logic and grasping at the motivations behind each case can the crimes be completely solved. Perfect as a social-style mystery fiction.

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CaseCracker2

91% 👍 OF 813
About This Game

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?

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Forensics: Crime Scene Detective

63% 👍 OF 304
About This Game

Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Pathologic 3: Quarantine

89% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.

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Game Of Fate 3:Clash Of Crowns

85% 👍 OF 870
About This Game

An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case. Confused and disoriented, you discover that the victim is your own descendant. Gunfire erupts, chaos escalates, and schemes unfold within schemes... Don’t want to be a pawn? How to become the player?