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In Batman™: Arkham VR you: solve cases

Only one thing to go on, so this list is rough.

277 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

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4 hidden: Batman™: Arkham Knight, Batman™: Arkham Origins and 2 more

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Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: click to explore, a big story

    Why you’d like it: Batman again takes on a mystery, this time with the Riddler’s puzzles and a choice of whom to trust.

    See on Steam: Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series (opens in a new tab)

  2. Batman - The Telltale Series

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: press buttons on cue, choices that matter

    Why you’d like it: Another Batman story where you work through a case, but here your choices shape what happens to Bruce Wayne.

    See on Steam: Batman - The Telltale Series (opens in a new tab)

  3. Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: investigate, comedy

    Why you’d like it: Frog Detective also has you solve a case by finding clues and questioning suspects, but on a comic haunted island.

    See on Steam: Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: investigate, comedy

    See on Steam: Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (opens in a new tab)

  2. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: investigate, a cute look

    See on Steam: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (opens in a new tab)

  3. Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: investigate, a cute look

    See on Steam: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (opens in a new tab)

  4. Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: investigate, comedy

    See on Steam: Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (opens in a new tab)

  5. Murdered: Soul Suspect

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: solve puzzles, a mystery

    See on Steam: Murdered: Soul Suspect (opens in a new tab)

  6. The Invisible Hours

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: a mystery, a big story

    See on Steam: The Invisible Hours (opens in a new tab)

  7. Supernatural

    • Horror
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: solve cases

    New here: solve puzzles, psychological horror

    See on Steam: Supernatural (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale SeriesBatman - The Telltale SeriesFrog Detective 1: The Haunted IslandFrog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible WizardDuck Detective: The Secret SalamiDuck Detective: The Ghost of GlampingFrog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy CountyMurdered: Soul SuspectThe Invisible HoursSupernatural

AI wrote the “Why you’d like it” lines, and a second AI pass checked them against each game’s store page. They can be wrong, so check the store page before you buy.

How this list was made

277 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

What gets in

A game is what you do in it, so a pick has to share what players say you do most. If fewer than ten games earn a place, the list stays short.

Games from the same series start hidden, and the next best fits take their places. Choose Yes to show them in their places on the list.

Lists use the tags Steam players vote on, plus each game’s Steam store page.

Less played means far fewer Steam reviews than the game you finished. Mixed reviews means 60 to 69% of its Steam reviews are positive.

What only changes the order

A shared setting, look or popularity can move a game up or down, but it can’t put a game on the list by itself. Being set in space, for example, isn’t enough: a pick has to keep something you do.

What isn’t known

No players have tested this. Newer and smaller games have less data.

Privacy

To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.

What’s recorded

Searches

The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.

Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.

The random ID

Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.

The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.

From your connection

The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.

Who else sees a visit

Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.

Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.

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AI-written lines

The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.

How long it’s kept

Up to 13 months.

Turn counting off

Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.

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