60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Mystery, Detective, Story Rich.
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
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.
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.
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 13.7%, Investigation 12.7%, Crime 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
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 14.3%, Emotional 11.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Mystery 10%
COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.
Why similar: Detective 12.9%, Crime 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Investigation 10.5%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Mystery 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
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 18.1%, Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Narrative 11.9% ★, Emotional 9.2%
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 21.2%, Crime 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Investigation 11.8%, Mystery 9%
Takumi, a high school student, gains the power to make others experience hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. What begins as a tool for revenge soon changes his fate forever. A psychological suspense visual novel where your choices shape the ending.
Why similar: Psychological 13.8%, Crime 13.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Investigate a replayable Hollywood murder mystery where everyone has something to hide. Question guests, uncover contradictions, and identify the killer before they escape justice.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Crime 15.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
A short interrogation game taking full advantage of ChatGPT! You are tasked with interrogating the suspect [AI] of a murder case as an [excellent police officer]. How you choose to interrogate the suspect is up to you. How the AI reacts is rendered in real-time through ChatGPT.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20.1%, Detective 17.1%, Emotional 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Investigation 9.1%
Uncover the truth behind an idol's disappearance, weeks before her debut. Whispers of the Luminaries is a narrative-driven game that blends a classic detective story with the dark side of the idol entertainment industry.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Crime 13.3%, Narrative 13% ★, Investigation 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%
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 16.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Crime 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
Within a universe dominated by Artificial Intelligences, you step into the shoes of an AI detective to solve the mystery hidden within the Proxy Bar, a jazz club. You can ask the suspects ANYTHING, but will you ask the right questions?
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Artificial Intelligence 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Detective 14.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Psychological 9.6%, Emotional 9%
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 22.6%, Investigation 16.5%, Crime 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Mystery 10.8%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Detective 12.3%, Crime 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Narrative 12.6% ★, Investigation 10.3%, Crime 9.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
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 19.3%, Crime 12.5%, Investigation 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 25.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Crime 16%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 10.9%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Crime 15.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Mystery 9.4%
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 19.1%, Investigation 15%, Crime 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Narrative 9.6% ★
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: Artificial Intelligence 19.2%, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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 23%, Investigation 16.2%, Crime 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 10.4%
Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19%, Detective 17.3%, Investigation 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Crime 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Investigation 11.5%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Detective 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Crime 13.6%, Investigation 11%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Narrative 15% ★, Investigation 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
You make every interaction with her feel like coincidence. You know her far more than she could ever imagine. But you don't seem to realize, a butterfliy don't usually fly into the net on their own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 13.4%, Crime 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
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 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Crime 13.4%, Mystery 9.7%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Crime 13.4%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Detective 13.3%, Psychological 12.8%, Investigation 12.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Investigation 18.8%, Psychological 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.7%, Detective 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological 7.4%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Crime 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Investigation 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie hit comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features! Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Crime 15.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Mystery 9.7%
Can an AI create a video game and star in it at the same time? The Turing Choice is a sci-fi conversational adventure where your choices change everything. Evaluate K.A.I.R.O.S., an AI that claims to be a SASS, and uncover what is really happening, because nothing is what it seems.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Investigation 9.8%
Vaudeville is an experimental whodunit game based on the latest AI technologies to generate dialogues in real time. This tale of murder, suspense and absurdity unfolds as you play, and you are the protagonist.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 15.6%, Detective 14.5%, Crime 11.9%, Narrative 10.6% ★, Investigation 10%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Crime 16%, Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Investigation 19.5%, Psychological 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%, Detective 6.5%
『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 19.4%, Detective 16.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Investigation 12.6%
Scientist Solaris crashes aboard a drifting spaceship while searching for a new home for her dying world. Touch forgotten traces, relive memories across time, and uncover the truth through three intertwined stories in a cinematic text adventure where every choice matters.
Why similar: Narrative 13.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%, Emotional 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 27%, Investigation 18.7%, Crime 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Mystery 9.9%
Detective Trent is a narrative-driven mystery game inspired by Trent’s Last Case. Investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and uncover the truth through evidence and dialogue. Your reasoning shapes the case, leading to multiple outcomes and endings.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Crime 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Narrative 16.9% ★, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Crime 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Investigation 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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 22.6%, Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Psychological 10.7%, Mystery 9.2%
Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Crime 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 16.5% ★, Detective 13.3%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
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 21.6%, Detective 21.1%, Crime 17.9%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Emotional 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological 8.7%
A Japanese mystery adventure where any of the four could be the killer. Holding the dead man's will, you stay in his estate until the seventh-day memorial. Question the household across 13 locations, but you get only ten moves. Motive, opportunity and proof decide what your accusation is worth.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Psychological 8.5%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Mystery 9.7%
Sex. Power. Judgment. Consequences. Investigate brutal murders and outsmart killers as a brilliant ex-conman turned police consultant. Seduce suspects and colleagues, shape your kinky marriage, and decide who pays in this dark adult detective thriller.
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Crime 13.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Narrative 9.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Investigation 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Mystery 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
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: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
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: Detective 15.4%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%, Psychological 9.3%
