60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Investigation, Story Rich.
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Judge SIM
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.
Judge SIM 2 Precedent
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.
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 17.9%, Investigation 14.1%, Dynamic Narration 10.6% ★, Noir 9.9%, Mystery 8.9%
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: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 19.6%, Mystery 11%, Noir 7.8%, Visual Novel 7%
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 20.7%, Noir 13%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 16.2%, Noir 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Mystery 8.3%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 18.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 9.8%, Crime 8.4%
A noir detective game played at your desk. Read evidence photos, CCTV footage and records, compare fingerprints and voices, and fill in the suspect matrix yourself before you accuse anyone. Juggle action points, fees and deadlines across eight cases as a criminal organization closes in.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Investigation 18.2%, Noir 13%, Mystery 10.5%, Crime 8.4%
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 18.1%, Investigation 14.9%, Noir 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Investigation 11.8%, Crime 8.8%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 15.1%, Noir 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Crime 8.5%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Investigation 21.2%, Detective 20.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Crime 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Noir 18.5%, Investigation 17.5%, Crime 10.4%, Mystery 10.1%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Crime 8.5%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Noir 18.3%, Investigation 18%, Mystery 11.8%, Crime 8.3%
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 13.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Text-Based 8.5%
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 25.4%, Investigation 18.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Mystery 7.3%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Investigation 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Crime 8.3%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 17.7%, Mystery 11.6%, Crime 11%, Noir 9.2%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Noir 12.5%, Investigation 12.3%, Dynamic Narration 9.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Noir 17%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Text-Based 10.6%
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 25.2%, Mystery 14.9%, Investigation 14%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Investigation 14.4%, Noir 13.4%, Crime 8.6%, Mystery 8.5%
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 29.2%, Investigation 23%, Noir 13.7%, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 6.7%
A monster-themed deduction game focused on solving brutal murders. Investigate crime scenes by uncovering hidden evidence, analyzing fingerprints, and testing blood samples. Identify the killer, determine the creature responsible, and solve seven thrilling cases
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Noir 20%, Investigation 19.2%, Mystery 12.9%, Crime 10%
[DEMO available now!] Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried?As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past.
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Investigation 21%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Crime 10.6%
Seoul, 2035. A first-person noir text adventure. Step into the shoes of Park Eunkyul, an investigator who verifies what no one else wants verified. Read the scene, question the witness, follow erased traces — and watch every certainty you started with quietly fall apart.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Noir 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Noir 12.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Investigation 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.1% ★, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Investigation 18.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Mystery 14%, Noir 12.4%
“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: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 17.9%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
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 21.6%, Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A seemingly routine case takes detective Redbreast to a secluded village, where she investigates a sudden death while facing her own inner darkness. Uncover hidden details with an old instant camera, question the villagers, and shape the story with your choices!
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Noir 15.3%, Dynamic Narration 11.9% ★, Text-Based 10.6%, Investigation 9.9%
Nothing brings people together as well as a common grief or crime! Can you bravely confront a criminal puppeteer with no legal defense?
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Dynamic Narration 14.5% ★, Noir 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Investigation 8.5%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 11.4%
A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 15%, Noir 12.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Visual Novel 10%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Crime 11.6%, Noir 10.6%, Mystery 8.6%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Noir 18.7%, Investigation 13.1%, Crime 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
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 20.5%, Noir 15.1%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Crime 9%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 10.9%, Noir 10.5%, Text-Based 10.5%
A dark noir detective story starring a not-so-bright pug. Combine clues, build chains of deductions, and solve a murder — even if your reasoning isn’t always… impressive.
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Noir 17.3%, Mystery 14%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 21.1%, Investigation 17%, Noir 11%, Mystery 10.8%, Crime 9.2%
Can you defeat the world's oldest mastermind in their own game? Stretch your wits and deduction skills to the maximum as you battle in Paris' craziest court. Here, only those who sacrifice everything reach the truth. What are you willing to betray to make it out alive?
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 14.2%, Dynamic Narration 13.6% ★, Visual Novel 12%, Mystery 11.7%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Investigation 21%, Mystery 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 9.8%
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Crime 13%, Mystery 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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 19.6%, Investigation 16.1%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10%
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Investigation 19.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 12.6%, Crime 11.3%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Noir 16.5%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Text-Based 8.4%
Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Investigation 17.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 18.4%, Investigation 17.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Text-Based 10.1%, Crime 9.2%
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 20.9%, Noir 19%, Investigation 11%, Crime 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%
Investigate a series of murders at an abandoned school, examine evidence, connect clues, and reconstruct each crime. In this 2D psychological mystery adventure, every answer points to the dating sim heroine you trusted most—but is she truly the killer?
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 21.2%, Mystery 15.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Crime 7.3%
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.1%, Crime 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Mystery 10.5%
Mohism: Battle of Words is a detective game set in the world of wuxia. The game follows Zhang Xiaochen, investigates unsolved cases and comes into his own as a hero. He must rely on his wits and razor-sharp tongue to best his opponents, find the culprit and ensure justice prevails!
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Investigation 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 12%, Crime 10%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Investigation 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Crime 9%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Investigation 16.1%, Noir 14.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Visual Novel 7.7%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 21.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Crime 11.9%, Mystery 11.8%
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Detective 20.7%, Investigation 9.4%, Puzzle 8.2%, Crime 6.6%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Investigation 14.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Crime 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
A 3D psychological detective thriller in a radical film noir style. Explore immersive environments, examine clues from every angle, and connect your evidence on a deduction board to solve a dark conspiracy. Use your pure logic to untangle the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Noir 17.6%, Investigation 17.1%, Mystery 10.3%, Crime 9.1%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 17.2%, Noir 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Mystery 10.9%
