60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Mystery.
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.
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Dystopian 7.6%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Investigation 13.8%, Noir 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Investigation 14%, Noir 13.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
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: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
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 23.1%, Investigation 17%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Mystery 10.3%
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 22.5%, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 24.2%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Point & Click 9.8%
A charming Australian point & click detective mystery about a struggling artist investigating the mysterious death of his childhood best friend. Explore the small town of Bridgegully, interrogate quirky locals, & sketch clues to expose the truth. Are you ready to solve a crime years in the making?
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Noir 16.3%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 19.8%, Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Noir 11.2%, Mystery 9.1%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Investigation 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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 31%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Story Rich 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Mystery 9.5%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Noir 16.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 8%
Play as a memorialist and investigate a dystopian city in this 3D adventure game. Collect memories, unlock visions, hack encrypted data, and expose the truth in the face of a regime that manipulates memory.
Why similar: Investigation 19.7%, Dystopian 17.7%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Mystery 10.1%
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Noir 19.3%, Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Mystery 8.7%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Noir 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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: Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Investigation 13%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Noir 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Mystery 10.1%
A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Point & Click 9.6%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Noir 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Become private detective Dennis Monroe, a relentless investigator driven to catch the infamous "Epiphany Killer," a shadowy figure who has haunted the city for over twenty years. Every clue draws you closer to the truth, but danger lurks behind every revelation.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Noir 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Investigation 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%
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 20.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Investigation 9.9%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 14.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 25.4%, Investigation 19.9%, Mystery 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Noir 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 20.3%, Detective 17.6%, Mystery 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Exploration 7.8%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Investigation 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Mystery 9.6%
A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Detective 16.4%, Dystopian 11%, Investigation 10.6%, Point & Click 9.6%
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Prove that you are a smart detective. Determine the course of the story with interactive dialogues. Bring together the pieces of the case with a detective board based on multiple choices and decision-making. Solve the mystery behind the evidence you find. Interrogate people. Close the case.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Noir 16.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, 1990's 8.4%
EXCALIMURDER is a nonlinear murder mystery game inspired by the sword in the stone legend. Explore an orphanage, meet weird people and solve logic puzzles, all in a colorful pixel art world. Bonus: Excalibur is the murder weapon.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Investigation 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Noir 21.8%, Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Mystery 9.9%
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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dystopian 9.6%
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Noir 15.7%, Investigation 13.5%, Dystopian 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
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 26.7%, Investigation 19.2%, Noir 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.5%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Noir 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Dystopian 9.8%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
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 31%, Investigation 17.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Point & Click 8.1%, 1990's 7.6%
You are a detective on a rogue manhunt through the beautiful country of Italy. Gather clues, interview witnesses and uncover dark secrets to solve the case. Follow your own path to the solution in this 1970's noir crime road-trip.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Noir 21.7%, Investigation 18.4%, Mystery 11.5%, Exploration 6.1%
Your mother disappeared 15 years ago, a mystery surrounds a hospital, and you live in seclusion in the apartment directly across the street. Use your computer to retrace the last clues left by your mother and try to solve this mystery.
Why similar: Detective 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, 1990's 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Noir 16.7%, Investigation 13.6%, Mystery 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Investigation 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Mystery 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Liz's library is threatened by the unknown. She must go investigate. She's the librarian, after all.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Dystopian 12.3%, Investigation 11.5%, Point & Click 9.4%, Exploration 8.5%
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Investigation 18.6%, Noir 18%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Mystery 8.3%
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 24.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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 18.9%, Noir 16.6%, Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Mystery 9.2%
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 31.1%, Investigation 23.1%, Noir 15.9%, Mystery 12.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
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: Investigation 16.1%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 10%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Noir 15.8%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Noir 15.8%, Investigation 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
Searchbar Detective is a 2D Mystery Game set in a virtual world in which you use your searchbar to solve crimes and uncover conspiracies.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Noir 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Detective 32.3%, Mystery 12.6%, Noir 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Investigation 10.3%
In Neo Naarm in the 22nd century, augmentation technology has run amok. Combining deduction, visual novel and point and click gameplay, play as Grant Grover, private detective, one of the only remaining citizens without augmentations, as he solves crimes across the city.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Detective 18.8%, Dystopian 12.5%, Investigation 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 16.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Why similar: Noir 16.1%, Detective 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dystopian 9%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Noir 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
