- #1 Tell Me Everything
96% matchMixed61% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: LizardFactory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Word Game 26.2%, Detective 17%, Investigation 10.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Mystery 9.4%
- #2 谜境·AI剧本杀互动剧场
96% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 灵思AI工作室
Windows
这是一款创新融合人工智能与沉浸式解谜体验的数字化游戏平台,主打“AI NPC驱动交互”的核心玩法。平台集结了解密冒险、沉浸式剧本杀、动态推理剧场等多元内容,玩家可通过与由AI实时演算的智能NPC深度互动推动游戏的开展。 另1:本平台剧本内容均为玩家合作创作,工作室提供AI以及开发技术支持,如有内容问题请轻喷。 另2:有兴趣成为解密、剧本杀、密逃等剧本合作开发者请联系作者,有发行或合作开发意向请联系开发者
Why similar: Word Game 27.1%, Artificial Intelligence 17.8%, Detective 17%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Text-Based 8.7%
- #3 File Tricks
95% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Kid Games
Windows
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 35%, Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Logic 11.3%, RPG 5.3%
- #4 我的一个多重人格朋友
94% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: 上海久游网络科技有限公司
Windows
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Word Game 21.1%, Detective 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 11%, Logic 8.5%
- #5 TellTale - Casino Murder Case
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: NeruyaPub: Team Detective
Windows
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Mystery 16.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Logic 11.3%, Text-Based 10.4%
- #6 時空簡訊
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Quiet Loop Game
Windows
A suspenseful detective puzzle game where players investigate cases woven between dreams and reality. Collect clues, examine evidence, and explore scenes to unravel the truth. Each case is interconnected, suspects are complex, and every deduction may reshape your understanding of the mystery.
Why similar: Word Game 32.8%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Strategy RPG 8.9%, RPG 6.5%
- #7 On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 373 Studio
Windows
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 24.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 13.8%, Investigation 12.3%, Logic 8.6%
- #8 鲤氏奇人异闻录
91% matchVery Positive98% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: 顽童计划
Windows
《明日方舟》同人游戏,以原作角色“老鲤”为主角,在二十年前的龙门,展开一系列解谜探案故事。
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Mystery 15.4%, Detective 12.1%, Text-Based 7.6%
- #9 Inquiry Counsel逆转茶食人
90% matchNo user reviews90% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: ZHENG YUFENG
Windows
"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!
Why similar: Word Game 22.1%, Detective 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Investigation 9.8%
- #10 探岛海龟汤
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 118 reviews2025
Dev: 探岛工作室
Windows · Mac
最烧脑的单人海龟汤!训练有素的超智能主持人支持完全自由提问,每个问题都可能撕开隐藏的真相。层层迷雾与反转步步逼近,让你在推理的每一秒都感受到紧张与压迫。防卡关系统保证游戏顺畅,畅玩不虐心~
Why similar: Word Game 29%, Detective 22.4%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Mystery 12%, Puzzle 4.8%
- #11 谜宇酒吧
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DMW Studio
Windows
《谜宇酒吧》是一款舞台在3072年的太空列车上的悬疑推理游戏。玩家将扮演主人公“梅尔”,一名业余的列车酒保,寻找因一块陨石引起的连环杀人案的真相。
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Word Game 22.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Logic 13.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #12 大侦探之勃艮第古堡
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 知行合一
Windows
欢迎来到温泉岛,我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗?那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落,那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说,那里是另一个世界,由贪婪,欲念构成的炼狱……最后,请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 32%, Detective 14%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 8%, Text-Based 6.7%
- #13 死亡编码-Death Code
88% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Word Game 21%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 13%, RPG 6.1%
- #14 speak of my sin
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sagros
Windows
Speak of My Sin is a word reasoning game - players are supposed to find the truth of the cases, restore the story in a number of interrelated cases and finally detect the identification of “me”, speaking out “my” sin.
Why similar: Word Game 25.2%, Detective 19.1%, Text-Based 16.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Logic 9.5%
- #15 Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
86% matchVery Positive93% of 958 reviews2022
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Word Game 25.5%, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, 2D Platformer 8%
- #16 Little Locked Rooms
84% matchVery Positive89% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: riolucci
Windows · Linux
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Mystery 13.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Investigation 11.6%
- #17 吾光笔记
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2020
Dev: StaticSpring
Windows
你在一栋被完全封锁的公寓里觉醒,但是除了自己的化名以外对自己的过去一无所知。神秘的幕后黑手逼迫这所公寓里所有人自相残杀,而你以及这所公寓乃至整个世界真正的真相是什么?
Why similar: Word Game 36.4%, Detective 27.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Investigation 13.2%, Puzzle 7%
- #18 The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Rungen Studio
Windows
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22.8%, Detective 19.6%, Word Game 16.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #19 图灵证言 Turing Testimony
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Why_Studio
Windows
Turing's Testimony is a deeply AI-integrated romance simulation and mystery deduction game, where character minds and plot progression are entirely driven by AI agents.
Why similar: Word Game 22%, Artificial Intelligence 20.9%, Detective 16.9%, Mystery 8.9%, Text-Based 7.4%
- #20 Demons' Timeline
82% matchVery Positive99% of 221 reviews2026
Dev: DigitalCats
Windows
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 20.5%, Text-Based 17.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Logic 11.3%
- #21 推理小说的关键一定会出现两次
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReDeer
Windows
《推理小说的关键一定会出现两次》是一部以日常推理为核心的视觉小说。日常混沌纷乱,而“侦探”独具慧眼。带上你的好奇心吧,去和推理协会一同调查、思考,最终解开一个个轻松却不失有趣的日常之谜。
Why similar: Word Game 24.4%, Detective 22.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 8.8%, Logic 7.3%
- #22 Paper Bride 7 Lethal Bond
81% matchVery Positive95% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Speak not of love untouched by passion's fire, as it's a torturous journey. If lovers would remain faithful evermore,On Peony Pavilion’s road they’ll meet for three lives more. Paper Bride 7: Lethal Bond is a Chinese horror puzzle game, and the 7th title of the Paper Bride series.
Why similar: Word Game 34.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Detective 10%, 2D Platformer 9%, Mystery 8.3%
- #23 看事
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 勤奋的小德
Windows
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 31.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Detective 10.8%, Mystery 6.8%
- #24 Mystery Island:Missing Amy
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: TAPROMANCE
Windows
The adventure begins when Ada, a young explorer, receives a mysterious selfie from her sister, who in fact disappeared months ago. ...... The background of the selfie is a mysterious island with blood-red sea water. Ada decides to go out on the sea to look for her sister……
Why similar: Word Game 24.8%, Detective 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 11.7%, Investigation 10.5%
- #25 Murders on the Yangtze River
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,567 reviews2024
Dev: OMEGAMES STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Mystery 11.5%, Logic 10.6%, Investigation 9.7%, Puzzle Platformer 7.6%
- #26 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
78% matchVery Positive92% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: LingVision Games
Windows
1988年,日本泡沫经济破灭前夕,化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警,侦查青梅奇怪自杀案,牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密,穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头,在人心与生死的抉择中,搜查蛛丝马迹,找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 23.8%, Detective 17.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12%, Mystery 10.2%
- #27 Dr. What & Detective Son
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: VILQ
Windows · Mac · Linux
Join Dr. What and Detective Son on an exhilarating journey through mind-bending puzzles and perplexing mysteries in this immersive logic game! With multiple levels to conquer, sharpen your deductive skills and unravel intricate cases.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Text-Based 23.3%, Logic 19%, Mystery 10.5%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #28 SYMMETRIC;VISION
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 镜解视界企划组
Windows
由国内科学ADV系列粉丝自制的同人AVG。
Why similar: Word Game 40.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Detective 15.3%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Mystery 9.8%
- #29 REWIND
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Damian_Zhao
Windows
《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 24.5%, Mystery 15.6%, Text-Based 13.8%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 9%
- #30 大胤守门人 Gatekeeper of the Yin Dynasty
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 煌月游戏工作室
Windows
《Gatekeeper of the Yin Dynasty》 is an independent game with a fantasy fairy tale theme, and the core gameplay focuses on "identifying fakes and identifying monsters". Every decision you make is not only about the safety of the people in the city, but also about the profound impact on the entire city
Why similar: Word Game 32%, Strategy RPG 15.7%, Detective 14.9%, Text-Based 11.1%, Logic 7.7%
- #31 The Simen Rumors
74% matchVery Positive82% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: 羊之口
Windows
本游戏以视觉小说的形式,收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角,探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Word Game 24.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 15.4%, Logic 11.7%
- #32 Lateral Thinking Together
75% matchMixed43% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: PushForward
Windows · Mac
Crack the Mystery Together! "Lateral Thinking Together" is a cooperative and competitive online multiplayer game that challenges your knowledge and deductive reasoning to uncover the truth. Solve incomprehensible stories with creative thinking and flashes of insight!
Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Detective 18.9%, Artificial Intelligence 17.8%, Mystery 12.1%, Text-Based 11.6%
- #33 Nodes Escape
76% matchVery Positive85% of 542 reviews2023
Dev: 夜喵
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.
Why similar: Word Game 43.9%, Detective 20.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Mystery 7%, Puzzle 6%
- #34 重叠·前夜谭:猫与少女
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: 顽童计划
Windows
Zhang Xiao, a senior high school student, has a strange power called “Master Key”. Since he was young, he can communicate with other “worlds”. One day, Zhang Xiao’s classmate Miao Xueling had an accident.
Why similar: Word Game 41.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Mystery 12.6%, Text-Based 9.6%, Investigation 9%
- #35 CaseCracker
73% matchVery Positive90% of 3,325 reviews2022
Dev: BlackRobe
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
Why similar: Word Game 26.3%, Detective 19%, Text-Based 15%, Logic 9.9%, Mystery 7.8%
- #36 Hawkshaw Case: Truth & Prevention
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hawkshaw Entertainment
Windows
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 29.9%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Investigation 16%, Logic 12.8%, Mystery 12%
- #37 The Bygone Days of Her and the Flowers
71% matchVery Positive99% of 210 reviews2025
Dev: luern0313
Windows · Mac · Linux
和纳西妲一起,回到「过去」的须弥。真正的花神诞祭、密室中发生的「不可能犯罪」、预示着世界将毁灭的地震……在「神」不在的须弥城,你能否揭开命案的真相,探寻提瓦特世界的终极秘密,然后…与「那个人」再次相见? 和伙伴们一起,去见证《只属于「她与花」的往日》
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Mystery 15.3%, Word Game 12.5%
- #38 My Wet Leto Comic
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Fusen Studio
Windows
一个欢乐气氛的悬疑文字冒险类游戏。你将不断在十位不同身份的角色间切换视点来推进故事的发展并达成各种各样的结局。这是由一个个平凡而又独特的个人故事所拼出的新的物语,或许里面也有着你的故事……?
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 12%, Text-Based 11.1%, Investigation 9.3%
- #39 True Game
74% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows · Mac
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Logic 17%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Mystery 13.1%, Puzzle 5.9%
- #40 童谣无忌
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Youki Fung
Windows
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to Hongcha Valley after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Explore scenes, question witnesses, and connect clues to separate truth from lies. Uncover a family secret buried for over twenty years.
Why similar: Word Game 36.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Detective 9.8%, RPG 9.3%, 2D Platformer 7.9%
- #41 我感染HIV了吗
73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 硬石工作室
Windows
A word game, does not support the handle, the operation is the mouse and keyboard space. It can be said that it is very simple. The theme of obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis is a large text dialogue, which is more depressing. Please be careful if you don't like it.
Why similar: Word Game 30.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Detective 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Logic 10.5%
- #42 AI公寓:虚拟证言
71% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: IntelliPlay
Windows
《虚拟证言》是一款AI剧本杀游戏。在游戏中,您将扮演一位侦探,前往六号公寓调查一起谋杀案件,案件的嫌疑人是5位AI-NPC。侦探需要搜集房间中的线索,联想案件经过,盘问嫌疑人获取案件的相关信息,复盘出完整的案发过程,找出真凶!
Why similar: Word Game 24.1%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Detective 18.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #43 The Fifteenth: A Pluvial Prelude
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 精武馆工作室
Windows
2000年,暴雨封锁的奇瑶坞教堂,是只邀请“有罪之人”的命运舞台。主角冼夏涛为追查弟弟死亡的真相只身入局,却跌入敌对组织编织的罗网。这场以性命为筹码的游戏中,精英人士,帮派组织,边缘人群悉数登场,每个人都背负着不可言说的秘密。你必须在成为下一个受害者前,推演出案件的真相和唯一的生路。
Why similar: Word Game 36.2%, Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Text-Based 5.8%
- #44 Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
68% matchVery Positive93% of 332 reviews2026
Dev: 戏壤游戏(Xirang Games)
Windows
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Word Game 19%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Mystery 12.5%
- #45 The Incident at Galley House
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: William RousPub: Evil Trout Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Mystery 20.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Logic 13.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #46 Tales of the Mirror
72% matchMixed55% of 262 reviews2021
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.
Why similar: Word Game 38.7%, Detective 15.7%, Mystery 9.7%, RPG 9.3%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #47 Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Team Tetrapod
Windows
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 22.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Logic 12.8%, Mystery 12.7%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #48 Silence Archives Terminal
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: R.C. ZhangPub: Protocol 47 Press
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hack into a classified archive of 120 intercepted documents. In this retro terminal investigation, every file you read alters reality — your observations are irreversible, the Federation is watching, and three divergent endings await based on how deep you dare to dig.
Why similar: Word Game 34.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Puzzle Platformer 7.5%
- #49 诡雅异俗
70% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: iGame
Windows
NodeGame,原版游戏名为:脱出ゲーム | Nodes,由岩崎、はとむね开发,并在日本举办的GAMEJAM上首次亮相。 诡雅异俗,出自。原意为:与雅正相悖与长俗相违,也指异端邪说。 之所以选定这个名字,是因为我感觉他更有神秘感,也代表了很强的创作能力!!
Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Detective 19.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, 2D Platformer 7%
- #50 I'm On My Way
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Defios Game Studio
Windows · Mac
On a quiet night, you text your friend Sugimoto: “I’m on my way.” This first-person horror adventure unfolds through smartphone chats. Walk the city at night, face strange encounters, and make choices that lead you to his room. Can you trust the words on your screen?
Why similar: Word Game 35.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 13.4%, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%, Mystery 7.9%
- #51 Lavender Dream
68% match9 user reviews40% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Vorh Games
Windows
A text-based visual game with a non-linear plot where every decision shapes the story. AI-driven characters engage in lifelike dialogues, each with unique motivations and hidden intentions you can uncover. The story’s outcome is in your hands.
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Detective 5.9%
- #52 Glyph Guesser
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Paul SpoonerPub: Tryop
Windows
Guess the random sequence of glyphs with optional hints and alternate symbol sets.
Why similar: Word Game 47.3%, Text-Based 22.6%, Logic 16.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Casual 3.9%
- #53 无尽迷途:轮回之境
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 导弹猫工作室
Windows
Endless Lost: The Realm of Reincarnation "is a suspenseful puzzle game where players will be trapped in the endless cycle of suffering and strive to escape through various clues.
Why similar: Word Game 30.4%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Mystery 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, 2D Platformer 7.5%
- #54 怪谈调查局
67% match1 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: qdplqq19
Windows
"Kaidan Investigation Bureau" is a 2D text-based puzzle game. As a member of the investigation bureau, you conduct an investigation into a hospital where you will encounter various strange events. By solving puzzles, you drive the plot forward and ultimately uncover the truth about the hospital。
Why similar: Word Game 43.6%, Text-Based 19.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Mystery 13.3%, Adventure 4.6%
- #55 Magical Girl Accountant's Revenge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Drilling Wood For Fire
Windows · Mac
A visual novel encompassing financial accounting knowledge and interactive tasks: You will play as Ye Wanqing, a young girl who grows from an entry-level accountant to a CFO, and uncovers the truth behind the illegal occupation of her father's company to seek revenge.
Why similar: Word Game 28.6%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Logic 8.8%, Investigation 7.6%
- #56 不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
69% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Word Game 20.6%, Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 13.2%, RPG 8.9%
- #57 Turlock Holmes
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 937 reviews2024
Dev: Find the Lamp GamesPub: Neverland Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A detective narrative puzzler without pre-set options! Raise your questions at will, and an AI-host will answer only with 'yes' or 'no.' Drive the investigation with your curiosity; the path to solving the mystery lies in questions you ask. Can you dig out the truth through your questions?
Why similar: Word Game 30.6%, Detective 23.9%, Mystery 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #58 Kisen: Seeker of Aenjan City
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 常磐ほそみ / Tokiwa Hosomi
Windows
Tap into the mystery as a stranger in the city — a mild mystery visual novel. Kisen runs a tracing agency in a city far from his home. There, he is asked by a local university student to look for his brother missing from twelve years ago. Investigate what happened back then to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Mystery 18.5%, Text-Based 18.3%, Story Rich 8.3%