60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Interactive Fiction, Investigation, Adventure.
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.
No Stone Unturned
Why did the chicken cross the road? Only one squirrel can solve a murder most... fowl. Join Detective Cox as he encounters quirky characters, challenging puzzles, countless mini-games, and a town in disrepair where choices matter but morals don't. Will you be leaving... No Stone Unturned?
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 13.9%, Detective 13.2%, Narration 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Why did the chicken cross the road? Only one squirrel can solve a murder most... fowl. Join Detective Cox as he encounters quirky characters, challenging puzzles, countless mini-games, and a town in disrepair where choices matter but morals don't. Will you be leaving... No Stone Unturned?
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Noir 19%, Investigation 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
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: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
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 15.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
One tragic night, the power dome of Damipolis died during dinner under strange circumstances... What were they doing there? What really happened that night? And... who is the culprit? Solve the mystery in this first-person 3D graphic adventure, inspired by classic film noir.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Detective 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Narration 11.9%, Mystery 9.4%
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%, Dystopian 17.1%, Detective 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Mystery 9.7%
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 17.8%, Noir 17.7%, Narration 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 22.3%, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 23.2%, Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mystery 10.4%
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 15.9%, Noir 14.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Investigation 14.8%, Dystopian 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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 19.7%, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Noir 11.2%, Mystery 9.1%
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 24.1%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Point & Click 9.8%
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: Detective 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Narration 12.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Point & Click 9.6%
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 22.6%, Investigation 16.4%, Narration 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Mystery 8.6%
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 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Mystery 9.5%
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 20.2%, Noir 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Dystopian 9.1%
Investigate the world's first cult in a cryptic mystery adventure that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. We've been keeping an eye on you. Follow us further down the rabbit hole...
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Noir 13.9%, Investigation 12.5%, Narration 11.8%, Dystopian 11.4%
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 24.4%, Noir 19.5%, Investigation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Mystery 8.8%
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 17.1%, Noir 15.6%, Investigation 13.4%, Dystopian 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes, interrogate suspects, and survive in this point-and-click remake, rebuilt from the ground up. Solve the mystery before your demons consume you. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Detective 17%, Noir 16.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Investigation 13%, Multiple Endings 12%
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 22.9%, Noir 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 10.1%
'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 17.5%, Noir 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
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: Detective 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, 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 20.8%, Investigation 14.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 14.7%, Noir 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 25.3%, Investigation 20%, Mystery 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 17.5%, Mystery 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%, 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 20.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13%
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 18.6%, Detective 16.3%, Dystopian 11%, Investigation 10.6%, Point & Click 9.6%
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: Detective 15.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Narration 10.3%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Investigation 15.4%, Narration 14%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
"Who is Yoko?" Unlock the mystery as you control Locke, Jeanne and Primus to discover the secrets of their existence in this point and click, cyberpunk noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 17.6%, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Narration 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Noir 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Investigation 11.1%, Mystery 8.9%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Noir 21.8%, Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Investigation 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 14.3%, Noir 14%, Dystopian 12.3%, Narration 10.4%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Narration 8.9%, Point & Click 8.5%
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: Noir 20.5%, Detective 19.5%, Investigation 15%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Mystery 8.5%
A Week in Paradise is an interactive narrative mystery. Discover the unusual circumstances of your arrival to a bar called Paradise, and drink through the night with the bar's charismatic regular. Each night, unravel the threads holding back memories in your dreams.
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Investigation 10.5%, Mystery 10.3%
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 25.5%, Noir 21.7%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 11.5%, Exploration 6.1%
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 18.2%, Narration 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Investigation 11.7%
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 20.8%, Investigation 16.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Mystery 9.6%
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 20.7%, Noir 16.7%, Investigation 13.7%, Mystery 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Liz's library is threatened by the unknown. She must go investigate. She's the librarian, after all.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Dystopian 12.3%, Investigation 11.6%, Point & Click 9.4%, Exploration 8.5%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.1%, Detective 16%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Narration 13%, Investigation 10%
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%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Noir 20.8%, Investigation 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Narration 9.6%
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 28.1%, Investigation 18.7%, Noir 18.1%, Mystery 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 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 16.4%, Detective 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Investigation 13.8%, Narration 13.6%, Detective 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 14%, Narration 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Join Burst as he sorts out the chaos in Sorrentine. With your hips to the beat of jazz and a whole lot of bad luck, you'll have to dive into this fun pixel art world with RPG elements, to solve your adventures in the purest style of the best detectives who are now legends.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 12.1%, Exploration 6.1%
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 19.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Noir 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
"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 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
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 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
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 15.9%, Detective 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Narration 9.6%
Lost & Found is an adventure-mystery game where you return townsfolk’s lost belongings & uncover personal stories behind each item. It features a hybrid animation style that blends 2D, 3D, pixel art, & more. Gather clues, investigate locals, & ensure every lost belonging ends up in the right hands.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Investigation 14.9%, Mystery 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
