Games like Pineford: Part I
Games like Pineford: Part I include No Case Should Remain Unsolved, Murders on the Yangtze River, Sanfu, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, and Demons' Timeline. We matched them by the tags players give Pineford: Part I on Steam (Visual Novel, 2D, Lore-Rich, Story Rich, and Detective): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Investigation

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

Sanfu
Shared: 2D · Visual Novel · Adventure

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

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

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

Raging Loop
Shared: Visual Novel · Adventure · Story Rich

Threefold Recital
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Lore-Rich

Until Then
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · 2D

The Wolf Among Us
Shared: Story Rich · Adventure · Detective

The Mermaid Mask
Shared: Detective · Visual Novel · Adventure

Tails Noir
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

Tangle Tower
Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Story Rich

Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Shared: Visual Novel · Adventure · Story Rich

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · 2D

Tiny Bunny
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · 2D

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

Limbus Company
Shared: Lore-Rich · Story Rich · Visual Novel

Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Detective

The Incident at Galley House
Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Detective

Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Shared: Visual Novel · 2D · Adventure

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

The Death Game Report
Shared: Story Rich · Adventure · 2D

Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest
Shared: Visual Novel · 2D · Detective