The best adventure games like Detroit Become Human are Heavy Rain, Until Dawn and The Quarry. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.
Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.
What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.
What made Detroit Become Human worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.
The same studio's earlier thriller, and the same shape.
Everyone can die, and the branching is genuinely tense.
By the Until Dawn team, and the best-looking of these.
Branching drama across decades, built entirely on decisions.
Choice-driven story with a much lighter touch.
The other pillar of the choice-driven adventure.
The one between Heavy Rain and this, if you want more.
For the android-consciousness theme, done far more strangely.
A tight thriller where every decision is the mechanic.
Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.
The full list is on games like Detroit Become Human — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Heavy Rain. The same studio's earlier thriller, and the same shape.
No. Detroit Become Human released on the PlayStation 4, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.
They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Detroit Become Human list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.