60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Horror, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction.
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?
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Kindred [High Tide]
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Abscission
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Horror 13.2%, Investigation 13.1%, Choices Matter 11%
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Horror 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Point & Click 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Horror 11.3%
A psychological horror game, where you answer a survey for a chance to win a cash prize
Why similar: Horror 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Investigation 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Horror 14.2%, Detective 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Investigation 10.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Horror 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- 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: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Horror 12.3%, Point & Click 10.3%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Horror 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Detective 15.5%, Horror 13.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Point & Click 10.6%
Pilot a biomechanical android through a derelict spacecraft consumed by alien corruption. Every scene, narrative, and horror is procedurally generated by AI. No two explorations are the same. Uncover what happened to the crew in this 16-bit sci-fi horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Dark 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Silent Harbor is a first-person horror adventure game that will immerse you in a creepy story.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Horror 14.9%, Investigation 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10%
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 26.7%, Detective 19.9%, Horror 13.5%, Point & Click 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Horror 16.3%, Investigation 11.7%, Dark 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Investigation 11.7%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Horror 14.2%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
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: Detective 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Detective 12%, Investigation 11.5%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Horror 9.4%
Vampires infiltrate the nightclub queue. You are the bouncer. Check documents, observe suspicious behavior, and use tools to decide who gets in and who stays outside, but the final decision is always yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Detective 15.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Horror 10.5%, Point & Click 10.5%
Forces beyond human comprehension draw a macabre veil over the icy NY of 1927. A child has disappeared and you, a reporter with an unhappy past as an artist, become entangled in the drama. In this story, inspired by true events, you will investigate between reality, dreams and Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 13.8%, Investigation 13.3%, Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 11%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Horror 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Sybil has a very scrambled mind. Some days she just needs you to push her along. Help Sybil navigate the horrors of her bedroom and see what adventures await. Find every ending to see what lays in her future. HYIPHYOP
Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Casual 6%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Investigation 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.1%, Horror 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Horror 17.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Detective 14.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Investigation 9.3%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Investigation 19%, Detective 18.9%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
Racing against time, a guy wanders around a graveyard on the middle of nowhere, searching for something that may break a deadly curse. Among murders and secrets, only darkness is certain.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Horror 22.9%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Investigation 8%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Horror 13.3%, Story Rich 10.7%
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Horror 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Detective 15.5%, Horror 15.1%, Investigation 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Multiple Endings 14%, Story Rich 10.8%, Detective 9.6%
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Detective 20.5%, Horror 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Dark 10.4%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Detective 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Investigation 13%, Multiple Endings 12%
Remedy for Personality is a visual novel that blends genres: a comedy horror with elements of detective. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of mysticism, mystery, and hidden threats, spiced up with a generous dose of witty humor.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Horror 15.5%, Detective 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Investigation 10.7%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Horror 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Dark 9.6%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Dark 11.7%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Horror 15.6%, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Story Rich 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog, your crew has been decimated, you're cut off from the outside world, and oxygen is running out. Use limited bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, conduct esoteric research that could change the world, and interpret strange signals from the deep.
Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Detective 17.2%, Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Point & Click 10.2%
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Horror 12.8%, Detective 12.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 9.7%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 10.9%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Detective 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Horror 10.4%
"I drink Sorrel Coffee to reboot reality, but I'm being hunted by Monster Girls and armed agents" is a branching visual novel where your choices truly matter...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Detective 20.8%, Horror 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Detective 15.8%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Investigation 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Horror 15.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
"Styxton" is a nonlinear horror visual novel. Sometimes, salvation is the worst curse. You are alive. Now find out who needed it.
Why similar: Horror 24.4%, Detective 17.3%, Dark 15.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Investigation 15.6%, Detective 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 8.8%
