
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
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A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.

Kamilia
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.

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The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
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: Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Investigation 9.1%
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.4% ★, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A fantasy visual novel featuring action, horror, and multiple endings to a tale of suspense, intrigue, desperation, and desire. Part I of The Enonoia Saga.
Why similar: Conspiracy 18.4% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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: Investigation 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 9.8%, Detective 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: Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Investigation 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Text-Based 11.4%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Investigation 9.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Why similar: Science 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Conspiracy 11% ★, Mystery 9.3%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Science 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Mystery 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
The Lawyer - Episode 1: The White Bag is the first part of an episodic adventure game which combines gripping crime story with classic courtroom drama. Immerse yourself into a world set in early 90’s in which you gather (or fabricate!) evidence, deduct and run fierce courtroom battles.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Investigation 10%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 11.8%, Text-Based 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Mystery 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Science 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
Humanity went out to the stars and conquered a decent portion of the known galaxy. While technology advanced society did not necessarily. Greed, the struggle for power and influence is stronger than ever before and while besieged from outside forces there’s no lack of internal strife. -Visual Novel-
Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Conspiracy 11.1% ★
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 10.7%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Detective 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Space 10.8%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%
『D.D.D. ― 災薬対策課 ―』は、2人プレイ専用の推理アドベンチャーゲームです。 ナノロボット医療が発達した近未来を舞台に、プレイヤーは特別組織〈D.D.D.〉に所属する二人の刑事となり、 違法ナノロボット《DisasterDrug》が関わる事件の真相を追います。 互いに異なる情報を持ち寄り、通話で協力しながら、事件の謎を解き明かしましょう。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.5%, Mystery 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Investigation 9.9%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Science 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Investigation 9.5%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
VERUM: a thought-provoking game exploring ethical issues surrounding tech corporations and personal data usage. Embark on a journey through multiple side stories, gain diverse perspectives, and unlock multiple endings to uncover the full story. Simple yet immersive gameplay with captivating graphics
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Text-Based 11%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Investigation 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Investigation 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Detective 9.9%, Investigation 9.8%
Tasked with commanding of one of the most challenging sectors of the galaxy, the future of the Alexandria IV space station depends on your diplomatic and strategic capabilities. How far will you go to prevent a war? A space opera visual novel by J.M. Beraldo.
Why similar: Conspiracy 14.2% ★, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Oddware is a science fiction visual novel about androids in space. You play as an android who meets other androids each with a distinct personalities. Your choices with the other androids will not only shape their personalities, but your own as well. Solve puzzles, mysteries, and your own origins.
Why similar: Science 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主(你)从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆,发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异,恐怖致命的巨型怪物,你们能否成功逃脱?而这超自然的现象,似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Investigation 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Why similar: Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Science 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11.7%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Futuristic 14.1%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Investigation 12.1%, Mystery 10.6%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
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: Investigation 13.6%, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Mystery 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Conspiracy 18.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Investigation 10%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Detective 12.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 10.1%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
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: Visual Novel 14.2%, Investigation 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Mystery 11.9%
宇宙船を舞台にしたSFミステリーゲーム。 とある基地の残骸を回収したことから、有人宇宙船アルタイル号の中で不可解な事件が巻き起こる。 被害を食い止めるべく宇宙船のマスターAIは、壊れかけのアンドロイド・フレムと共に事件の調査に乗り出す――
Why similar: Sci-fi 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Mystery 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Space 12.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Investigation 13.3%, Mystery 13%, Detective 12.5%
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Futuristic 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
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: Multiple Endings 12.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Detective 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%