Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game(2018)
Games like Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Looking for games like Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game? It puts everyone on the same side, sweating one shared problem that fights back — built on asymmetric powers that make your side play unlike any other and pulling together against a game that fights back. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases(1981)
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LA-1(2025)
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Vienna Connection(2021)
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Vantage(2025)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Winnie the Pooh: Serious Detective(2025)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown(2024)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Gumshoe(1985)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
T.I.M.E Stories(2015)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Suspects: Adele and Neville, Investigative Reporters(2023)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars(2020)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Trudvang Legends(2022)
Shares Cooperative Game + 4 more
Chronicles of Crime(2018)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases
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Winnie the Pooh: Serious Detective
Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown
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T.I.M.E Stories
Suspects: Adele and Neville, Investigative Reporters
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars
Trudvang Legends
Chronicles of Crime
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