60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Mystery, Adventure, Story Rich.
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Midnight Road
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Your Future Self
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Mystery 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Mystery 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%
A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.7%, Sci-fi 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Mystery 10.9%, Text-Based 9.3%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Mystery 15%, Text-Based 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Text-Based 8.6%
Experience the story of Glow, a young and naive furry heroine caught between two empires' interplanetary ambitions, forged in tragedy and conspiracy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Mystery 19.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, Adventure 6.6%
Half a year after the events of ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE, Kaito Yashio is introduced to Itaru Hashida through Nae Tennouji. Unsettling incidents start occurring all around them, harbingers of an event that will again plunge the world into chaos.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Mystery 21.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Adventure 7.7%
A sci-fi visual novel reimagining The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Follow Vornovians Sherr-Lok & Watt-Sun as they try to uncover the truth of the "curse"
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Mystery 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Text-Based 9.6%
"Summer Syndrome" is a sci-fi mystery visual novel set in the near future. Eerie plane crashes, shadowy organizations operating in the dark, and the increasingly prevalent "Summer Syndrome"... Players will experience a non-linear narrative through chapter-based choices and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.9%, Sci-fi 26%, Mystery 25.6%, Story Rich 9.5%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Mystery 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
VAGUS is an unconventional visual novel with a light adventure style. Through collecting narrative fragments randomly presented, you piece together the story that is both bizarre and familiar. A 28,000-word novella from the distinct perspectives of three protagonists who pursue and lose their goals.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Sci-fi 22.7%, Nonlinear 22.6%, Adventure 13%, 2D 4.8%
This tale began five years earlier, in the spring of 2231. Mankind has evolved a new kind of communication ability called “telepathy”.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Mystery 15.7%, Casual 12.7%, Indie 6.5%
Play as Doctor Athena, a passionate young woman with mixed alien heritage—and the sole survivor of refugee camp ITOH. Three days remain on the trip 'home'—with only the ship's unsettlingly polite Captain Odysseus and the cryptic alien war criminal Chiron for company. But is everything really as it seems?
Why similar: Visual Novel 40%, Mystery 19.5%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Casual 8.6%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the case of some missing scores just before the big Christmas concert of the academy. Help them question the seven daunting suspects before it's too late!
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Mystery 14.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Mystery 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Text-Based 12.9%, Adventure 9.9%
A sci fi mystery on a ship drifting through space. Solve dialogue puzzles to help the ship's computer AILISH sift through possible timelines to find which one of them can prevent an impending disaster. What disaster? For some reason, AILISH won't actually tell you...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 21%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%
Stories Want to be Told is an adventure game. It is more like an interactive story telling game. This the first episode The Prohecy
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Visual Novel 29.5%, Mystery 13%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Adventure 5%
A squad of magical girls are the Earth's only defense against an alien invasion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Adventure 8.1%, Story Rich 7.9%
Beacon 2010 is a short science fiction visual novel that, with the development of technology, humanity has embarked on an interstellar exploration. The story originates from a super jump project
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.8%, Sci-fi 26.4%, Text-Based 23.5%, Adventure 5.5%, Indie 2.9%
A mystery adventure - uncover the truth behind a series of deaths by collecting clues hidden across internet. news articles, and wikipedias—creating an immersive experience that feels like real. Information is visually organized into a mind map, gradually open as the investigation progresses.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.9%, Mystery 26.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Adventure 13.3%, 2D 5.1%
"retrospect" is a novel game consisting of five chapters. Trace the memories of the ghosts and learn about them. That is the only mourning you can do.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, Text-Based 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Mystery 13.8%, Adventure 11.3%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30%, Mystery 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 8.7%, Story Rich 8.1%
Sequel of Old Watch
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Mystery 17.3%, Text-Based 10.6%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Mystery 7.7%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Mystery 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
Dark Lovers is a short pixel art teenage romantic mistery visual novel game about a highschool prom night in 1979 which contains multiple endings and secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Mystery 9.7%
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.8%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Story Rich 5%, Mystery 2.7%
"Under the Streetlights of the Reiche" is an omnibus-style adventure game. Experience one man's last day in the town. A good man who is well-liked by those around him loses his job and is forced to leave the town he has lived in for a long time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Mystery 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 12.8%
Your team must uncover the secrets of the Terraforming Center on Mars and face an overwhelming battle for the future of the Red Planet. But remember: every choice you make will shape the outcome of this fight.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Text-Based 13.1%, Mystery 12.8%
Inspired by Danganronpa and Ace Attorney series, Final Frame is a murder mystery Visual Novel set in modern Japan.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37%, Adventure 11.8%, Casual 10.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
宇宙船を舞台にしたＳＦミステリーゲーム。 とある基地の残骸を回収したことから、有人宇宙船アルタイル号の中で不可解な事件が巻き起こる。 被害を食い止めるべく宇宙船のマスターAIは、壊れかけのアンドロイド・フレムと共に事件の調査に乗り出す――
Why similar: Sci-fi 27.4%, Mystery 26.7%, Visual Novel 26.7%, Story Rich 8%, Adventure 5.5%
偏远的山村中，正举行着古老的祭祀『仙姑宴』。少女吟诵着，舞动着，一场漫长而恐怖的杀戮剧正在悄然上演……
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.2%, Mystery 26.8%, Story Rich 12.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 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: Visual Novel 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Mystery 21.2%, Text-Based 11%, Story Rich 7.2%
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Mystery 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Adventure 9.7%
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Mystery 13.4%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Adventure 9.1%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Mystery 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Adventure 9.7%
Tomorrow Will Be Dying is an atmospheric, story-driven slice-of-life visual novel with light sim elements about finding yourself through your connections with others.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Casual 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Text-Based 8.1%
A gruesome murder interrupts an evening party at a secluded mansion and you are the prime suspect! Explore the mansion, search for clues, and interrogate the other guests as you strive to unmask the killer in this open-ended mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Mystery 23.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Casual 11.2%, Story Rich 9%
【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.3%, Text-Based 21.5%, Adventure 12.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, 2D 3.4%
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Mystery 17.2%, Story Rich 9.8%, Indie 1.7%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Text-Based 14%, Sci-fi 11%
「We prove our void――」
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.7%, Mystery 24.6%, Text-Based 13.3%, Adventure 9.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
A contemporary juvenile mystery about young boys and girls who grow up confused and troubled, and adults who harbor secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.1%, Mystery 30.6%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 10%, 2D 3.3%
INSPECTION REPORT is a horror / point & click game focused on exploration and dialogue. Fulfill your duties as a building inspector and uncover the secrets of an abandoned property in total dark using only a flashlight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Mystery 12.2%, Retro 10.7%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Nonlinear 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 11.1%, Story Rich 9.3%
A death game visual novel where murder victims are decided by group consensus. Make friends and enemies, solve the mysteries of an abandoned amusement park, and suss out the traitor in your group.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Mystery 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Story Rich 8.7%, Adventure 7.1%
Natural - Beyond Nature - is a Mystery, Drama, Supernatural Visual Novel. Follow the story of Olea in a chance encounter with two residents of a quiet island, Flori and Llima. Can Olea save them from their cruel yet inevitable fate?
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Mystery 10.9%, Adventure 8.9%
In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Mystery 12.8%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Mystery 20%, Text-Based 17.5%, Adventure 4.4%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Mystery 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 9.7%, Adventure 7%
Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Mystery 17.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 8.6%
A Transfer Student from Chang'an is a Chinese-style school-themed visual novel. A student with excellent grades who transferred from a provincial key middle school suddenly becomes your deskmate. What is the reason she always avoids discussing about her transfer reason? Let's go and seek the answer
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Story Rich 8%, Adventure 6.2%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Mystery 20.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Adventure 5%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Mystery 22.9%, Story Rich 8.3%, Text-Based 4.5%
A suspense and sci-fi visual novel with fundamentalist vibes. In a near-future world that may descend at any moment, you will step into the role of an "Ocular" to gradually unravel a series of covert plots and overt schemes interwoven with technological ethics and human nature.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Mystery 20%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Story Rich 9.6%
《井底》是一款2024年3月立项的文字类galgame，题材是“超能力悬疑推理故事”，画风是日系校园风格的 故事主要讲述了游戏女主王语韴作为一个业余“侦探”，遇到各种疑难问题，并在侦探事务所所长天翔及其妹妹天音的帮助下，解决案件的故事。 游戏主要使用鼠标点击来推进剧情
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Mystery 20.1%, Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 7.5%
《禁忌》是一款关于表里世界、梦境与现实的悬疑恐怖剧情游戏。 故事围绕中学生徐灿的视角，讲述春游校车事故之后，徐灿意外觉醒某种诡异的感知能力，与神秘少女岳灵药一起重返废弃矿镇调查真相的同时，逐渐寻回被遗忘的记忆……
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 29%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Adventure 12%, Story Rich 6.8%
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Sci-fi 13%, Text-Based 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Adventure 10.2%
One day, as he is walking through this bustling city of monotony, moving through the crowds of people all dressed exactly the same... Something actually stands out—a girl dressed in a traditional school uniform from ages past…
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.3%, Sci-fi 22.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 2.1%
Save the day with Clash!
Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Mystery 21%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Adventure 6.7%
