Games like File Tricks
Games like File Tricks include Murders on the Yangtze River, Sanfu, Cyber Manhunt, Unheard - Voices of Crime, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. We matched them by the tags players give File Tricks on Steam (Word Game, RPG, Visual Novel, Detective, and Puzzle): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Murders on the Yangtze River
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Story Rich

Sanfu
Shared: RPG · Puzzle · Visual Novel

Cyber Manhunt
Shared: RPG · Puzzle · Detective

Unheard - Voices of Crime
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · RPG

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL:美好世界
Shared: RPG · Puzzle · Story Rich

Tangle Tower
Shared: Detective · Visual Novel · Puzzle

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Shared: RPG · Detective · Story Rich

Chants of Sennaar
Shared: Puzzle · Word Game · Detective

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

Her Story
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Visual Novel

The Roottrees are Dead
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Story Rich

Trials of Innocence
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

Return of the Obra Dinn
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Story Rich

Aliya: Timelink
Shared: RPG · Word Game · Visual Novel

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Shared: Visual Novel · Puzzle · Interactive Fiction

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Word Game

The Mermaid Mask
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Visual Novel

Far Away
Shared: Visual Novel · Word Game · Story Rich

Demons' Timeline
Shared: Detective · Visual Novel · Story Rich

The Incident at Galley House
Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Visual Novel

Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Shared: Visual Novel · Word Game · Interactive Fiction

Firework
Shared: Puzzle · Visual Novel · Indie