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Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.

Why similar: Conversation 18.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Narration 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Point & Click 12%

1799. Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre in this historical murder mystery based on the novel by Catherine Lheureux. Rediscover the charm of early 2000s Point & Click games in this adventure featuring an all-star French voice cast (Martial Le Minoux, Patrick Borg…) with english subtitles.

Why similar: Narration 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 14.8%, Detective 12.5%, Conversation 10.6% ★

A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.

Why similar: Conversation 19.7% ★, Narration 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%

Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.

Why similar: Conversation 28.2% ★, Detective 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Point & Click 12.6%

1년 전, 여중생 한 명이 흔적도 없이 사라진다. 그녀의 흔적을 찾기 위해 사건의 담당 형사는 여중생의 동급생이었던 6명의 학생을 심문하게 되는데...

Why similar: Conversation 22.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Point & Click 15.5%, Detective 13.9%, Puzzle 8.4%

An immersive thriller about a man escaping from a mysterious kidnapper. Find your way out, and uncover the truth. Maybe escape isn't the only thing you want...

Why similar: Point & Click 19.7%, Narration 16.5%, Conversation 15.1% ★, Horror 9.9%, Puzzle 9.3%

Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Point & Click 19.4%, Detective 18.3%, Narration 17%, Horror 7.8%

After yet another night of brooding over his wife's murder, Detective Edgar receives a mysterious letter. A music star asks to investigate her own murder. Interrogate the suspects, search for clues and find out what happened. Will you be able to unravel the truth from the lies?

Why similar: Conversation 28.6% ★, Narration 24.5%, Detective 17%, Thriller 11.1%, Puzzle 6.1%

A gripping point-and-click adventure – inspired by the real treasure hunt on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Unravel a web of murder, myth, and forgotten history. Some secrets are better left buried.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Detective 15.8%, Narration 12.5%, Mystery 10.5%

You are sent to investigate a disappearance, but in Hillside Ridge, something doesn’t add up. Calígine is a point-and-click mystery adventure where you will investigate an apparently routine case in an isolated mountain village marked by a past that no one wants to remember.

Why similar: Conversation 26.7% ★, Narration 21.2%, Point & Click 15%, Thriller 11.4%, Drama 9.7%

A Tale of Terror isn’t just one horror game, it’s a chilling anthology. Each game delivers a unique and terrifying story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Conversation 19.3% ★, Narration 15.5%, Detective 15%, Thriller 10.1%

All hands on deck! A strange, oily fog has enveloped the waterfront of the port town of Quietcape, where local fishermen go, never to return again... Can you solve this mystery?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Narration 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 15.3%, Drama 9.2%

Travel back to the 90s in this campy point-and-click horror adventure inspired by classic YA horror books like Fear Street and Point Horror.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Detective 11.9%, Thriller 8.7%

Seoyeon Yu, a former police officer, works as a private investigator for a rich family. However, during her investigation, she discovers evidence linking them to her husband's death. Using her ability to see people's guilt, she begins an investigation to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Conversation 14% ★, Point & Click 12.5%, Mystery 8.9%

A neo-noir point&click thriller about a delivery service for illegal goods. Play as a Courier who—after hours—has to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance. Visit various locations, collect clues, navigate branching dialogue options, and hurry as time is not on your side.

Why similar: Conversation 20.4% ★, Detective 15.2%, Point & Click 11%, Thriller 10.3%, Drama 9.5%

Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.

Why similar: Narration 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Thriller 14.7%, Drama 13.5%, Detective 13.1%

Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.

Why similar: Narration 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Detective 10.5%

Solve a murder mystery set in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in this stand-alone detective game. Can you find Lord Russell Gallant’s treasure before it’s too late? The 6th game in the Murder Is Game Over franchise, Murder Is Game Over games can be played in any order.

Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Narration 16%, Point & Click 15.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Puzzle 8.7%

A short pixel-art mystery where you play as Nathan, a private investigator drawn into a curious case. Interrogate suspects, examine clues, and uncover hidden details

Why similar: Detective 22%, Point & Click 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

La Dimensione Interna (The Dimension Within) is a third person 3D narrative adventure game in which you'll play as Giorgio, a journalist living in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, during his worst moment in life.

Why similar: Conversation 23.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Detective 16.1%, Point & Click 15.4%, Drama 11.5%

- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Point & Click 18.5%, Drama 9.4%, Horror 7.9%

Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.

Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Point & Click 17.7%, Narration 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%

Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

Why similar: Detective 23%, Point & Click 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Puzzle 12.2%, Mystery 9.5%

A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.

Why similar: Detective 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Story Rich 10.4%

AIDA is an interactive movie/game with unique mechanics. Help Aida escape the ghetto and reach the mythical E continent.

Why similar: Conversation 21.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Narration 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Drama 13%

Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Detective 16.1%, Horror 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Point & Click 11.5%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 14.7%, Horror 8.8%

The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Conversation 19.9% ★, Point & Click 16.6%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Narration 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Puzzle 7.9%

In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Point & Click 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Thriller 8.9%, Conspiracy 8.2% ★

What happened on the night of July 20, 1824? The Beresford family was sleeping unaware that an ancient evil was about to resurface. An ancient evil that brought upon them a curse whose echoes resonate to this day.

Why similar: Conversation 19% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Narration 12.5%, Detective 12.1%

Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.

Why similar: Point & Click 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Horror 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 12.5%

Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 13.3%, Thriller 12%, Drama 9.7%

Mind Scraper is a story-driven graphic adventure. Play as Robert and dive into dying minds—built from unresolved regrets—to explore memories and learn why those choices were made.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Narration 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Conversation 11.8% ★, Detective 10.4%

This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Narration 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Mystery 5.8%, 2D 5.1%

The legendary Okhotsk Disappearance... is coming back.

Why similar: Conversation 20.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Drama 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite our story and destiny, and explore different life and destination!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 16.7%, Conversation 14.4% ★, Drama 10.9%, Story Rich 9.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Thriller 10.5%, Point & Click 9.1%

Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Detective 20.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Mystery 8.7%

Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.

Why similar: Conversation 26.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Horror 9.9%, Drama 9.5%

Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.

Why similar: Conversation 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Thriller 10%, Drama 9.5%, Puzzle 8.4%

You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Point & Click 21.5%, Puzzle 10.3%, Narration 8.8%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Point & Click 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Thriller 9.7%, Mystery 6.3%

Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, explore a mysterious 3D theater in this immersive, fully voiced adventure. Follow Romeo and the Narrator on a quest to save Juliet—but beware of the lights…

Why similar: Narration 34.7%, Drama 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Puzzle 13.8%, Third Person 9.4%

What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Point & Click 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Detective 12.7%, Thriller 11.3%

Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Point & Click 21.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Mystery 5.9%

Have you ever wanted to make choices that matter and you like cyberpunk? Delete the memories of humans in "Nice to NO you" - a dystopian dialogue game where you decide the fate of individuals and the world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Conversation 26% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Narration 18%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Point & Click 18.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Story Rich 4.8%

In Amanda the Adventurer 2, the story continues as Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. Travel to the Kensdale Public Library and dig deeper into the mystery of Amanda the Adventurer.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Point & Click 20.3%, Horror 11.3%, Puzzle 10.1%

A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Narration 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Drama 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

In the thrilling conclusion of the Amanda the Adventurer trilogy, follow Riley as they uncover the ultimate secrets behind Amanda, Hameln, and mysteries that have plagued Kensdale for decades.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Thriller 12.2%, Puzzle 11.7%, Horror 11.4%

A point and click puzzle adventure game set across multiple time periods. Discover and enjoy this strange and surreal story about a mysterious letter, a missing professor and a confusing mansion. With more than a hundred items, locations and objects to investigate, can you solve the mystery?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Detective 17.7%, Point & Click 17.2%, Puzzle 8.6%

After a difficult journey, Ada officially became a detective. This disappearance commission seemed extraordinary. During the exploration of the ancient castle, it seemed that a series of strange events also surfaced...

Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Detective 18.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%

"Strange Rites" is a Chinese horror interactive puzzle game. As a reporter with the ability to see the unseen, you investigate monster rumors in the chaotic Republic of China era, navigating a 3D+2D world, finding clues, and sealing evil spirits. Uncover forgotten folk horrors.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 10.9%, Horror 9.8%, Thriller 9.2%

Wish Us Luck is a multi-plot interactive fiction fueled by your hard decisions. Play three strangers whose fates are intertwined by the cogs of chance on an eventful day. But remember: favoring one character means jeopardizing the others. Good Luck.

Why similar: Conversation 25.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Drama 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10%

Frank and Drake is a modern gothic tale that puts players at the heart of a supernatural mystery through its non-linear branching paths, mini-games and puzzles, and unique rotoscoped art. Take your time, explore, and soak up every word.

Why similar: Narration 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Point & Click 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Mystery 10.4%

This interactive first-person VR experience is set in the Vajont valley, some hours before the disaster. A wife and her husband are talking about their future: the woman senses the danger and wants to leave; her husband dismisses the idea of danger. The player will determine the end of their story.

Why similar: Conversation 29.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Narration 14.3%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Point & Click 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Detective 16.9%, Horror 8.9%

Love has conquered evil: the reign of King Illeon is over, yet danger lurks in the shadows. Will you shape the destiny of the kingdom, or let chaos reign?

Why similar: Narration 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Point & Click 17.6%, Detective 17.5%, Puzzle 9.2%