60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Anime, Story Rich, Adventure.
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
Why similar: Detective 36.3%, Visual Novel 26%, Mystery 15.5%, Anime 10.8%, Puzzle 3.7%
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Why similar: Detective 34.6%, Visual Novel 26%, Mystery 17.4%, Anime 12.3%, Puzzle 3.9%
A murder-mystery visual novel following 12 strangers with mysterious pasts. Make arguments and identify the murderer, but don't lose sight of the ultimate goal of eliminating the Game Master.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48%, Puzzle 21.8%, Anime 20.7%, Survival 7.1%, Adventure 1.6%
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 37.2%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Mystery 15.5%, Anime 12.3%, Dark 3.6%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 39.9%, Visual Novel 25%, Mystery 16.9%, Anime 11.9%, Adventure 5%
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Detective 38.6%, Visual Novel 32.1%, Anime 9.6%, Puzzle 9.1%, Stylized 6.6%
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Mystery 19.8%, Narration 15.2%, Emotional 15%, Anime 10.7%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Mystery 24.1%, Anime 16%, Dark 15.4%, Adventure 7.6%
The second entry of the Abime Series. Play as the mastermind in a death game where you must find the traitor while concealing your identity. Six hours, one school, six deaths. Nine participants fight for survival: it's kill or be killed, trust or deceive, escape or die.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Mystery 16%, Dark 9.7%, Puzzle 9.4%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Detective 29%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Anime 10.5%, Emotional 10.4%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Mystery 26.1%, Anime 17.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Colorful 4.7%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Mystery 20.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Detective 11.6%, Anime 8.6%
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Visual Novel 20%, Mystery 15.9%, Dark 13%, Anime 10.5%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Detective 30.8%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Mystery 12.8%, Anime 10.7%, Puzzle 10.6%
Welcome to Elsewhere High, "a school for exceptional children." In this visual novel, players are able to immerse themselves in the world of the outcast. Each student at Elsewhere High has fallen short of expectations at their original high school; they've flunked out, skipped class, wrote threatening notes, or grew to be a...
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.4%, Mystery 25.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Anime 14.8%
In a game show starring only criminals, you must gamble against rival players to prove yourself worthy of being pardoned for your wrong deeds— But is the show really about proving your innocence? Jackpot Crash Course is a death game visual novel about crime, luck and spectacle.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.6%, Mystery 18.2%, Anime 10.8%, Puzzle 8.4%, Adventure 8.4%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Detective 36.1%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Mystery 19.1%, Anime 10.9%, Adventure 4.2%
Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.5%, Mystery 22.7%, Puzzle 17.3%, Anime 10.2%, Adventure 5.7%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 35.1%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Mystery 19%, Adventure 6.8%, Puzzle 6.3%
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
Why similar: Detective 34.6%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Mystery 16.8%, Gore 6.7%, Puzzle 5.4%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Mystery 27.6%, Dark 20.6%, Anime 14.9%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Survival 9%
Kill each other...for science! The class of '89 is trapped in an elite school killing game. Investigate, solve, and expose your classmates in Kumitantei™: Old-School Slaughter, an episodic murder-mystery ADV card-battler inspired by retro anime.
Why similar: Detective 36.7%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Mystery 18.3%, Anime 12.7%, Adventure 5.2%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Mystery 15.8%, Anime 10.5%, Gore 6.4%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.6%, Adventure 16.8%, Mystery 15.2%, Gore 9.6%, Violent 8.1%
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.3%, Mystery 23.5%, Anime 18%, Gore 5.3%, Violent 4.7%
Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Anime 12.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, Dark 10.6%
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one... Make decisions to build your adventure. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Mystery 15.5%, Anime 10.6%, Dark 8.2%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.9%, Detective 20.5%, Mystery 18.9%, Adventure 6.4%, Gore 5.4%
One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac. Who will be the victim and who will be the killer? Be attentive and courageous, and solve the riddles of One Eleven.
Why similar: Detective 47.5%, Visual Novel 36.5%, Gore 11.4%, Adventure 4.7%
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Adventure 12.2%, Anime 11%, Puzzle 10.9%
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Why similar: Detective 36.2%, Visual Novel 33.2%, Mystery 20.5%, Funny 5%, Anime 3.7%
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Anime 11.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Dark 7.5%
Your class goes on a field trip to Durhal Cathedral before things take an unexpected turn. Solve the mystery before you and your friends perish!
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Anime 17.8%, Puzzle 14.7%, Dark 13.9%, Survival Horror 10.1%
Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.1%, Detective 32.3%, Mystery 14.7%, Anime 6.7%, Gore 6%
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 51.7%, Anime 23.4%, Mystery 15.2%, Violent 4.7%, Dark 2.5%
"No men in this house" is a visual novel set in Thailand. This edge-of-your-seat detective story about mysterious deaths on a touristy island will make you suspect everyone, including yourself!
Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Visual Novel 25%, Mystery 17.2%, Narration 9.2%, Dark 7.9%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.9%, Anime 14.1%, Mystery 11.4%, Adventure 11.1%, Dark 6.2%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Anime 23.7%, Gore 17.3%, Dark 9.4%, Adventure 7.6%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Detective 34.4%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Mystery 18.9%, Anime 10%, Dark 5.1%
This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.
Why similar: Detective 35%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Mystery 15.7%, Anime 10.2%, Gore 5.1%
Welcome to the only killer dating show where ending up single means ending up dead! Date or die, it's up to your choices!
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.1%, Emotional 26.7%, Anime 18.9%, 2D 2.9%, Indie 1.4%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Detective 32.5%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Mystery 16.3%, Dark 8.6%, Gore 6.3%
CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.4%, Anime 19.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, Dark 13%, Colorful 4.8%
Set in school life, “Who is the Criminal” is a text-based adventure game featuring comedian and inference elements. With inquiring suspects and debating with “evildoers”, he gathers pieces of puzzles and reveals what truly happens in every incident.
Why similar: Detective 32.7%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Mystery 14.9%, Anime 9.1%, Puzzle 8.4%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.3%, Mystery 22.7%, Anime 14.3%, Gore 6.4%, Adventure 5.3%
Time travel, assassins and one magical gangster rabbit! The demon king threatens your kingdom and it's up to you, the prince, to find a suitable hero to fight it. Not an easy task, as it will require you to shed a lot of blood and maybe even die. But at least you will save everyone... right?
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.4%, Mystery 16.6%, Anime 16.1%, Violent 10.7%, Gore 9.4%
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Mystery 15.7%, Anime 13.2%, Emotional 13.1%, Dark 12.4%
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Why similar: Detective 36.1%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Mystery 17.4%, Anime 9.8%, Puzzle 7%
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Mystery 17%, Dark 14.1%, Anime 12.5%, Violent 10.7%
In this short comedy visual novel, you're an unpopular transfer student who begins a new life at a Japanese high school. You quickly get drafted into the school's most secret after-school club... but could it be that the seemingly innocent members of the Murder Club are hiding a dark secret?!
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.8%, Anime 24.5%, Funny 11.8%, 2D 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 31%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Mystery 18.1%, Puzzle 10%, Anime 7.6%
All of us are not dead. Our school has been infested with zombies, and we are still alive. Every day, our hopes of escaping this school become less and less likely. Follow us as we try to survive and escape our zombie-filled school. A visual novel based on the popular webcomic.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.2%, Gore 13.1%, Violent 11.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Anime 9.2%
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
Why similar: Detective 37%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Mystery 19.1%, Anime 12.9%, Survival 6.3%
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Puzzle 21.4%, Anime 20.6%, Mystery 19.7%, Adventure 13.1%, Stylized 11.5%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.4%, Anime 15.9%, Emotional 15.5%, 2D 7.3%, Adventure 3.6%
A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.1%, Detective 21.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Anime 11.7%, Dark 10.6%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.3%, Anime 23.4%, Mystery 17.9%, Violent 8.2%, Indie 1.7%
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber agency, doing their best to uncover the identity of both the killer and VTuber's real face.
Why similar: Detective 33.1%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Mystery 15.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Anime 7.8%
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Emotional 12.8%, Anime 6.3%
Follow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?
Why similar: Detective 35.7%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Mystery 19.3%, Anime 10.2%, Adventure 5%
