60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Text-Based, 2D, Investigation.
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
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Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 15.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Puzzle 7.2%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Detective 17%, Investigation 13%, Text-Based 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Point & Click 8.6%
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Artificial Intelligence 17.4%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 6.4%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 8.7%, Mystery 8.6%
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Investigation 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Point & Click 9.5%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Investigation 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 10.7%
Homicide detective Ralph is distraught when his trusted, reliable partner goes missing around the same time strange killings begin to take place. While solving the case, Ralph is paired up with an impish rookie he can't get along with.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Point & Click 10.2%, Investigation 10.1%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Artificial Intelligence 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 12%, Text-Based 10.7%
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 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 9%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 9.8%
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
Embark on this Point and Click Visual Novel about horse riding in search of unicorns, while taking care of your equine friend.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 14.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Detective 15.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Point & Click 11%
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 24%, Investigation 16%, Text-Based 12.8%, Point & Click 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Artificial Intelligence 8.6%, Point & Click 8.5%
Mindjack is a plot-progression Visual novels and investigation game about social violence. Hijack instructors' vision terminals, eavesdrop on conspiracies, and capture violent acts. You must uncover dark secrets, and decide whether to save your friends trapped within the time limit.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Point & Click 8.2%
Arthur and Susan, two inseparable friends solving mysteries together. Fun and cozy indie point&click. Don't miss it!
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Point & Click 12.1%, Comedy 10.4%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Investigation 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Investigation 10.9%, Point & Click 10.4%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Mystery 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Investigate crime scenes, interrogate witnesses and organize your evidence to catch the culprit. Solve multiple different cases in varying areas and talk to many unique and fun characters. Can you solve it? Come and see.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Investigation 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Mystery 8%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Detective 21%, Investigation 14.6%, Point & Click 13.6%, Puzzle 8.7%
Step into the shoes of Margh, an undead private detective, in this hilarious and bizarre adventure that combines classic point-and-click gameplay with an elaborate “deaduction” system. Use your brain (or what’s left of it) to solve strange and unconventional mysteries in a world ruled by zombies.
Why similar: Detective 29.5%, Investigation 15.2%, Point & Click 13.5%, Comedy 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 10%, Comedy 9.6%, Point & Click 9.2%
A hard sci-fi murder mystery in space. Scour the bowels of the Ark ship for tactile clues, uncover hidden connections, and unlock the secrets of the sleeping passengers.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Investigation 18%, Simulation 13.4%, Mystery 13.2%, Puzzle 9.3%
A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Investigation 12.4%, Point & Click 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 11.3%, Point & Click 9.3%
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Investigation 12.7%, 1980s 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%
A mystery adventure game featuring a camera-headed detective and a superpowered girl teaming up to solve crimes. Play as the detective to gather and combine clues, reveal the hidden truth, and tear down fabricated lies.
Why similar: Detective 32%, Investigation 22.1%, Point & Click 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 10.7%
Heya! Long time no see. I just have a small -tiny- little favor to ask of you, could you buy me some soup? ...How? Well, that's for you to find out!
Why similar: Detective 21%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Investigation 16.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Puzzle 7.9%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Detective 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Point & Click 12.4%, Text-Based 9.8%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 8.2%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Investigation 15.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Point & Click 11.3%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 9.8%
Andrey comes to the city to enroll in college and moves into a communal apartment. Neighbors, alcoholics, cult members, and gangsters test his mettle. Every decision is a choice between morality and survival. A visual novel where one wrong move turns a college applicant into a criminal.
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Investigation 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Mysterious Mystery is a fully voiced mystery visual novel centered around the detective duo, Justin and Dakota. Solve multiple cases using Dakota's evidence gathering abilities and Justin's expert interrogation. Discover outlandish cases, meet unique characters, and become world class detectives.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Comedy 7.9%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Investigation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Point & Click 10.4%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 17.5%, Investigation 16%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 10%
CLICK THE BUTTON. click the button. cLiCk ThE bUtToN. The unofficial sequel, of the unofficial sequel, of click to ten. Explore the intriguing story of how you go from 0 to 1. 1 to 2. 2 to 3. and you know the rest.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Artificial Intelligence 19.4%, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Casual 10.3%
Agent Allison received an unexpected dinner invitation from the head of the Johnson dynasty, controllers of a sprawling business empire. What required her presence? The story's curtain began lifting...
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Investigation 9.6%
This fan game is based on the lore of the character 'Anna Amur Tiger'. In this game you have to deliver a package to Anna! Find out where the tiger is hiding! Deliver the package and don't stop until you succeed. Remember, nothing is what it seems...
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Investigation 14.9%, Point & Click 12.7%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.2%, Investigation 20.1%, Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Puzzle 7.8%
Instead of sunny days, carefree relaxation, and dates, he has a “responsible” task ahead of him — to look after the sinister but seemingly empty mansion of the mysterious, absent owner whom everyone calls Bluebeard. Denis thought it would be easy, watering flowers and bored in silence...
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Point & Click 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Mystery detective with eye-catching pixel art graphics. Gather clues, solve riddles, and collect unexpected and interesting game endings!
Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Detective 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Comedy 11.3%, Mystery 10.1%
A novel-style mystery adventure game. Explore 2D top-down maps! Enjoy easy puzzles and comical text. Become the assistant to the lost detective Chiho-chan and help solve mysteries!
Why similar: Detective 32.5%, Text-Based 21.2%, Investigation 11.6%, Comedy 10.5%, Mystery 6.9%
In this point & click puzzle-adventure novel, Sara has been betrayed by criminals and now must solve numerous puzzles to find her stolen money. Join her on her thrilling journey, help her decipher clues, and face the criminals!
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Investigation 13.5%, Point & Click 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A point-and-click adventure with innovative detective mechanics. Help Ollie, a fledgling reporter on his first day at the Signal & Echo newspaper, to solve the mystery behind a schoolgirl's disappearance. Developed by an ex-journalist.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Investigation 20%, Point & Click 13.5%, Mystery 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 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 28.4%, Investigation 18.9%, Point & Click 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Investigation 16.2%, Point & Click 12%, Puzzle 7.8%
A short visual novel set in Hong Kong where you play as Barbara, a newly minted barrister. This game is quite short, you can probably play through it in about two hours. Features two legal cases, fully voice acted and also has nice music.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Detective 17.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Investigation 11%
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Point & Click 13.8%, Mystery 11.2%
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Why similar: Detective 27.8%, Investigation 19.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Mystery 11.1%, Puzzle 10.8%
A true crime detective game where you map suspects, reconstruct timelines, and use deduction to find the truth everyone missed.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Investigation 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Point & Click 11%, Mystery 10.1%
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 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 14.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Mystery 10.5%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 33.8%, Investigation 19.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Mystery 9.3%, Point & Click 7.1%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Mystery 12.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Puzzle 10.7%
