6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Beat Cop. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Beat Cop.
Release Date: 01/05/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Change: A Homeless Survival Experience is an adventure narrative game where you play a homeless person trying to make it against the odds. It's intentionally hard to do well as you explore an endless city that's different every time you play.
Release Date: 05/10/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Headliner: NoviNews is a narrative-driven simulation game where you play as the person in charge of the headlines and stories that are released to the public. Each article you approve from your office has a direct impact on the world outside. Which news...
Release Date: 01/02/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rainswept is an adventure game where you investigate a murder with the themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma.
Release Date: 17/08/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Not Tonight is a tongue-in-cheek role-play adventure where you challenge the political establishment in alternative versions of Post-Brexit Britain (in the first game) or capitalism-run-rampant America (in the sequel). You take on a time pressured...
Release Date: 25/05/2018
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Detroit: Become Human is a branching narrative game from Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. This is the third game in the series and offers a more refined version of the filmic branching experience.
Release Date: 14/11/2014, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
This War Of Mine is a narrative strategy game inspired by the 1992–96 Siege of Sarajevo, this is a war game where you play the civilian trying to survive during the fighting. You face tough decisions on how to spend time and resources each day to...
18 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Beat Cop. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Beat Cop.
Release Date: 19/06/2010, updated in 2023
Out Now: DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to...
Release Date: 23/10/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Do Not Feed the Monkeys is an adventure game where you sit at a computer and spy on live video feeds of various events and characters. Your job is to gather information about "the monkeys" while also looking after your character's health and apartment...
Release Date: 27/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a narrative game where you play fictional research using a surveillance program called Orwell. Through a series of episodes, you are tasked with using Orwell to help solve mysteries like the bombing of a public plaza. To...
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Out Now: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Jailbreak is a popular Roblox game about escaping prison and getting away with various crimes. Based on the popular Prison Life and Madcity Roblox games, but adds a large open world in which you could drive vehicles, earn weapons and rob various...
Release Date: 08/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Papers, Please is a narrative puzzle game where you play the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian Eastern Bloc-like country of Arstotzka. You review each immigrant’s and returning citizen’s passports and paperwork...
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Out Now: Android and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Flashback is a running and jumping game with a strong narrative. Made in the 90s it's similar to Another World and Prince of Persia.
Release Date: 29/08/2002, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Mafia Definitive Edition is a series of action/adventure games about being in the Mafia. You play Tommy Angelo, a poor hard-working cab driver who gets caught up in a fight between two crime families. You explore a large open city taking on criminal...
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Neo Cab is a narrative adventure from behind the wheel of a cab. You play as Lina, the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, your only leads are the...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters. You investigate old photos for memories that advance the story and solve simple puzzles that reflect their lives. It stands...
Release Date: 09/11/2016, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...
Release Date: 30/01/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine...
Release Date: 10/07/2020
Out Now: PC and Web
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Six Cats Under is a cute point-and-click puzzle where you are a deceased cat-lady trying to rescue your herd of cats by directing them with your poltergeist powers. The challenge is that you can only move very small things, so have to get the cats...
Release Date: 01/12/2019
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Bad News is a role-play game about building a news media organisation. It's designed to highlight bias in the news by putting you in charge of a series of decisions to build a profitable company. All you do is answer questions, but as you do the...
Release Date: 12/05/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Invisible Inc is a tactical adventure where you direct espionage agents in covert missions to acquire resources and support to relocate your agency's computer system to a safe haven within a limited amount of time.
Release Date: 24/04/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective. As a detective, you search for clues and evidence, talk to witnesses, and choose which leads to follow.
Release Date: 22/05/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Little Police Station is a light role-play game where you play a cop in the day-to-day life at a police department. You explore the different rooms and tap around to discover hidden objects that you need to stay on top of crime.
Release Date: 14/08/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Henchman Story is a narrative adventure about being a supervillain's henchman. It features a cast of animated and fully voiced characters who carry the story, including your villainous employer, the blundering Lord Bedlam. It's like an interactive...
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