Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like L.A. Noire (2026)
Every game below overlaps with L.A. Noire on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Murdered: Soul Suspect, which both open world, psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle.
- L.A. Noire is tagged Detective, Crime, Open World, Noir, Adventure, Story Rich, Mystery, Investigation by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 7 player tags including Detective, Mystery and Crime; released around the same time (2014).
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
Murdered: Soul Suspect at a glance Released 2014 Studio Airtight Games Player sentiment 86% positive of 17,391 Price $19.99 DetectiveMysteryCrimeStory RichThird PersonNoirPuzzle
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 8 player tags including Detective, Mystery and Story Rich.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter at a glance Released 2016 Studio Frogwares Player sentiment 80% positive of 14,479 Price $2.99 DetectiveMysteryStory RichPuzzleCrimeThrillerThird PersonInvestigation
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Heavy Rain
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 8 player tags including Story Rich, Cinematic and Detective; released around the same time (2010).
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Heavy Rain at a glance Released 2010 Studio Quantic Dream Player sentiment 86% positive of 30,991 Price $19.99 Story RichCinematicDetectiveThrillerInvestigationMysteryCrimeNudity
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The Operator
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 7 player tags including Detective, Investigation and Puzzle.
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.
The Operator at a glance Released 2024 Studio Bureau 81 Player sentiment 92% positive of 8,837 Price $13.99 DetectiveInvestigationPuzzleMysteryThrillerCrimeStory Rich
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 8 player tags including Noir, Third-Person Shooter and Story Rich.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne at a glance Released 2003 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 94% positive of 14,615 Price $2.49 NoirThird-Person ShooterStory RichThird PersonCinematicCrimeDetectiveNudity
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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third-Person Shooter, Crime and Third Person; released around the same time (2010).
Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days at a glance Released 2010 Studio IO Interactive Player sentiment 67% positive of 9,765 Price $9.99 Third-Person ShooterCrimeThird PersonMatureNudityStory Rich
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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 6 player tags including Detective, Puzzle and Mystery.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Unheard - Voices of Crime at a glance Released 2019 Studio NEXT Studios Player sentiment 96% positive of 33,900 Price $6.99 DetectivePuzzleMysteryStory RichInvestigationCrime
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Mafia II
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Nudity; released around the same time (2010).
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II at a glance Released 2010 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,540 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichNudityThird PersonThird-Person ShooterNoirMature
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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Crime and Third-Person Shooter; published by the same company; released around the same time (2010).
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City at a glance Released 2010 Studio Rockstar North / Toronto Player sentiment 74% positive of 10,072 Price Not listed Third PersonCrimeThird-Person ShooterMatureNudityStory Rich
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 5 player tags including Third Person, Detective and Story Rich; released around the same time (2009).
Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
Batman: Arkham Asylum at a glance Released 2009 Studio Rocksteady Studios Player sentiment 96% positive of 87,223 Price $19.99 Third PersonDetectiveStory RichPuzzle3D Vision
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 5 player tags including Third Person, Detective and Story Rich; released around the same time (2010).
Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition at a glance Released 2010 Studio Rocksteady Studios Player sentiment 96% positive of 87,230 Price $19.99 Third PersonDetectiveStory RichPuzzle3D Vision
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Lucius
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 5 player tags including Nudity, Puzzle and Third Person; released around the same time (2012).
Equipped with supernatural powers, take control of Lucius as he begins his blood filled tour of horror through his own house.
Lucius at a glance Released 2012 Studio Shiver Games Player sentiment 81% positive of 10,912 Price $1.99 NudityPuzzleThird PersonMatureStory Rich
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Max Payne
Why it matched: both psychological, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Noir, Third-Person Shooter and Story Rich.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Max Payne at a glance Released 2001 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 89% positive of 15,818 Price $3.49 NoirThird-Person ShooterStory RichThird PersonDetectiveCrimeCinematic
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, crime and story-rich; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Third-Person Shooter and Nudity; published by the same company.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2023 Studio Rockstar Games Player sentiment 80% positive of 16,017 Price $59.99 CrimeThird-Person ShooterNudityThird PersonMatureStory Rich
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Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Nudity.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,558 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichNudityThird PersonThird-Person ShooterNoirMature
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Mafia II (Classic)
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person; released around the same time (2011).
Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Mafia II (Classic) at a glance Released 2011 Studio 2K Czech Player sentiment 94% positive of 58,640 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonThird-Person ShooterNudity3D Vision
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Hitman: Absolution
Why it matched: both crime, story-rich, atmospheric and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Third-Person Shooter and Crime; released around the same time (2012).
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Hitman: Absolution at a glance Released 2012 Studio Nixxes Software Player sentiment 93% positive of 63,506 Price $19.99 Third PersonThird-Person ShooterCrimeStory RichCinematicStrategy
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and strategy; shares 4 player tags including Story Rich, Cinematic and Third Person; released around the same time (2015).
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at a glance Released 2015 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 92% positive of 107,873 Price $19.99 Story RichCinematicThird PersonThird-Person Shooter
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Hitman: Contracts
Why it matched: both open world, psychological, crime, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 4 player tags including Third Person, Puzzle and Crime; released around the same time (2014).
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
Hitman: Contracts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Io-Interactive A/S Player sentiment 87% positive of 3,658 Price $8.99 Third PersonPuzzleCrimeThird-Person Shooter
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Kathy Rain
Why it matched: both psychological, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle; shares 6 player tags including Mystery, Detective and Story Rich.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Kathy Rain at a glance Released 2016 Studio Clifftop Games Player sentiment 92% positive of 4,003 Price $9.99 MysteryDetectiveStory RichPuzzleNoirThird Person
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Mafia: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third-Person Shooter.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 87% positive of 110,615 Price $39.99 CrimeStory RichThird-Person ShooterThird PersonMatureNoir
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Why it matched: both psychological, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Third-Person Shooter and Thriller; released around the same time (2012).
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
Alan Wake's American Nightmare at a glance Released 2012 Studio Remedy Entertainment Player sentiment 74% positive of 10,751 Price $0.89 Third PersonThird-Person ShooterThrillerMysteryCinematicDetectiveStory Rich
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Mafia III
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III at a glance Released 2016 Studio Aspyr Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,036 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonThird-Person ShooterNudityMature
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Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,063 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonThird-Person ShooterNudityMature
Common questions
What game is most like L.A. Noire?
Murdered: Soul Suspect, on the evidence we have. It both open world, psychological, crime, story-rich, atmospheric and puzzle. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to L.A. Noire" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with L.A. Noire. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.