- #1 The Dark Side of the Moon: An Interactive FMV Thriller
97% matchMixed67% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Tayanna Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
When his 2 young children vanish mysteriously throughout the night, it's up to single-dad Dean Hamilton to do what any good dad would do: Go to the end of the universe and bring them back home in this thrilling FMV/Interactive Movie.
Why similar: Cinematic 14%, Point & Click 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Conspiracy 13.2% ★, Aliens 11.5%
- #2 Shoot First Ask Questions Later
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Molotov KittensPub: Worst Event
Windows
Listen Carefully! We dont't have much time. Shoot First, Ask Questions Later! Is that clear?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Point & Click 16.6%, Conspiracy 16.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Cinematic 11.6%
- #3 I Am a Dorm Resident (but Cat)
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Project Bon
Windows · Mac
You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Alternate History 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Adventure 12.3%, Detective 9.3%
- #4 Victoria: La Primera
95% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Tannhauser Estudio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the world of the nao Victoria, a ship with its own spirit and personality that historically sailed around the world for the first time. Explore mysterious places by point-and-click and face challenges that will test your wits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Point & Click 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Adventure 14.6%, Exploration 7.7%
- #5 The Princess and the Porcupine
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Small is Beautiful Studio inc.
Windows
First the King’s sheeps then the King himself! Everyone seems to be mysteriously disappearing lately. As the King’s intrepid daughter, and with the help of a strange talking porcupine, travel through the kingdom and interrogate your subjects to solve the mysterious disappearances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Point & Click 19.3%, Adventure 12.9%, Detective 8.7%
- #6 Major's Heart
94% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Dormouse
Windows
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Point & Click 20.9%, Adventure 15.3%, Detective 11.8%, Investigation 8.5%
- #7 Pentiment
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,423 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Conspiracy 12.1% ★, Historical 11.1%, Point & Click 10%
- #8 Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 681 reviews2026
Dev: BRANEPub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Conspiracy 20.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Detective 11%
- #9 Mystery Of Camp Enigma
92% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: M9 Games
Windows
Explore areas, collect hidden objects and take in your surroundings. You will need all of your puzzle solving skills to put together a plan to make your way through the island of Camp Enigma, solving riddles and down the many paths of mystery.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Conspiracy 13.4% ★, Cinematic 11.9%, Detective 11.6%
- #10 Pixel Detective: Curse of the Paintings
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NorthLightPixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Point & Click 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Detective 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Investigation 10.7%
- #11 Mystery of Camp Enigma 2: Point & Click Puzzle Adventure
91% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: M9 Games
Windows
A thrilling puzzle adventure, inspired by hidden object escape room games. Picking up from the radio tower. You discover a remote signal being transmitted from somewhere on the island. Your objective to investigate, along with your continuing mission to discover the missing army personnel.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Conspiracy 13.3% ★, Cinematic 13%, Detective 8%
- #12 Welcome to Victorville
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio 7e
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Detective 13.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Conspiracy 7% ★
- #13 Chronique des Silencieux
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Feuille StudioPub: Zugalu Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Conspiracy 14.4% ★, Point & Click 13.4%, Cinematic 10.8%, Detective 10.7%
- #14 Goetia 2
88% matchMixed55% of 33 reviews2022
Dev: MoeityPub: Forever Entertainment
Windows
Explore a dark & unknown Venice in this point-and-click adventure. Your goal? Find a way to reunite your soul & body. Gather information & solve puzzles in your spectral form to make your way into this world despite the shenanigans of a troublesome demon!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Point & Click 18.2%, Adventure 8.8%, Realistic 8.7%
- #15 Aliya's Ascent
87% matchMixed46% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Strategies
Windows · Mac · Linux
Aliya’s Ascent is a story about a girl who mysteriously found herself in the middle of a boat towards an unknown land. Embark on a journey in the world of the first Legions and meet familiar faces as you unravel the tales that made the fabric of Bridgeworld. Every choice you make matters!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Cinematic 20.5%, Adventure 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%
- #16 False Testimony
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bizi Games
Windows
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Point & Click 23.3%, Detective 14%, Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 9.1%
- #17 Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening (Enhanced Edition)
86% matchVery Positive86% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Old World Studios™
Windows · Mac
Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening is an epic Egyptian adventure into the Giza Sphinx & Great Pyramid—the last of the seven ancient wonders. Explore secret chambers, discover hidden tombs, unearth sacred relics, & unravel an ancient Riddle, entombed for centuries by the ancient Egyptians!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Point & Click 17.7%, Conspiracy 14.2% ★, Investigation 9.7%, Adventure 8.9%
- #18 Death Trick: Double Blind
84% matchVery Positive87% of 278 reviews2024
Dev: Citreat StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Point & Click 14.4%, Detective 10.8%, Historical 9.2%
- #19 What happened to Kate
85% match5 user reviews50% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Makeen Technology
Windows
"What happened to Kate" is a gripping puzzle adventure set in a mysteriously silent home. Unravel your coworker's disappearance through challenging puzzles. Delve into the depths of mystery and discover what lies within the quiet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Point & Click 20.3%, Cinematic 15.2%, Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 8.1%
- #20 MysteryOS
84% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Clermont Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Point & Click 18.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 7.2%
- #21 Just A Memory!
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cryptmatics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Just a Memory is a story based choice and consequence game featuring Aaron Page, a 19 year-old college student investigating the murder of his best friend while confronting his demons.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Point & Click 17.4%, Cinematic 14.2%, Detective 9.1%
- #22 Rich & Youn
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: tremmiGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Rich and Youn" is a classic visual novel with a few choices. The game combines a visual novel with an adult series. The game is filled with humor and cynical jokes. If you are an impressionable nature or may get offended by reading some jokes, this game is not for you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Point & Click 20%, Cinematic 17.2%, Adventure 9.4%
- #23 Blackhall
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: André ÅkessonPub: Anton Segovia Lundh
Windows
Blackhall takes place in the 1970s and lets you explore a remote underground shelter that became home to an isolated community. The facility, long abandoned and left to deteriorate, still shows traces of the people who lived there and the society they built.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Conspiracy 17.2% ★, Adventure 15.7%, Detective 11.2%, Exploration 9.3%
- #24 It Could Happen to You
81% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Pixel Noire GamesPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Your peaceful holiday is interrupted when the small village you’re visiting in becomes terrorized by strange lights on the sky and enigmatic men in black. Some villagers have gone missing, everyone is afraid. Dive into a thrilling adventure with branching narrative and a unique visual style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Point & Click 20.2%, Conspiracy 18.9% ★, Aliens 16.1%, Adventure 10.1%
- #25 The Mystery of Blackthorn Castle 2
81% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Syntaxity
Windows
Travel back in time to Blackthorn Castle in this much larger game sequel. Break the dark wizard's spells and make deals with a bridge troll!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Point & Click 21.2%, Cinematic 17.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 8.5%
- #26 Private Psychic
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pazazz!
Windows
Private Psychic is a narrative investigation game about weird ghosts and the fear of the future.Play as Maple, a Psychic launching her own paranormal detective agency, but who is so afraid of the future that she can't predict it anymore (which is a real problem for a psychic...).
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Point & Click 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Detective 7.1%
- #27 From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DigiTales Interactive
Windows
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 28.5%, Point & Click 21.4%, Adventure 15%, Detective 10.5%, Exploration 8.4%
- #28 City of Voices
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kini Games
Windows
A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Examine clues and solve puzzles to uncover a story full of twists and turns.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.3% ★, Detective 15.9%, Point & Click 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Investigation 11.7%
- #29 James Peris 2: La fuente de la eterna embriaguez Uncut and Uncensored
78% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Pavo EntertainmentPub: Erbe Software
Windows
The long awaited new adventure by James Peris, after No License, No Control, Much more of everything! A point-and-click adventure with adult humor and a touch of hooliganism. Totally open gameplay and non-linear puzzles.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Point & Click 21.4%, Cinematic 16.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 8.6%
- #30 Among Us Story: On Guard
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Innersloth
Windows · Mac
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Point & Click 17.7%, Investigation 10.2%, Adventure 9.8%
- #31 Hollow Bequest
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ANIQ
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a legendary detective, the disappearance of a former mentor provokes a return to your humble beginnings. Every clue reveals the dark secrets that haunt the town. What should have been a quick investigation gradually became a struggle for your life and freedom. Who or what is responsible?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Point & Click 18%, Conspiracy 15.7% ★, Alternate History 15.4%, Adventure 8.4%
- #32 Old Skies
75% matchVery Positive93% of 998 reviews2025
Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Point & Click 20%, Cinematic 16.7%, Adventure 9%, Investigation 8.2%
- #33 ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead
78% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: ROUGH KUTS
Windows
Interactive Film: THE THIRSTY DEAD
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Point & Click 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Cinematic 15.8%, Adventure 10.5%
- #34 Awkward Night
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Igor Komarov
Windows · Mac
A cyberpunk noir point-and-click. One bar, one bad night, one drink that proves something. Mix the impossible cocktail. Trade favours. Step out into the rain and meet the stranger waiting under the COCKTAILS sign. Episode 1 of an ongoing indie narrative experiment.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Point & Click 24.3%, Cinematic 16.9%, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 9.6%
- #35 The Gate
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Adventure 21.5%, 2D 5.7%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #36 Chimeras: Blinding Love
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Elephant ArPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Something dangerous prowls the streets... Can you find out what's targeting young men in Paris?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Point & Click 22.6%, Adventure 18.1%, Detective 10.3%, Exploration 7.8%
- #37 Midnight Saturn
72% matchPositive94% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: Cosmic Void
Windows · Mac · Linux
A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Detective 15.9%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 8.5%
- #38 DELETE AFTER READING
74% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
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: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 15.6%, Conspiracy 15% ★, Detective 11.7%
- #39 Survivor Story: The Apocalypse
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Victorian Studio
Windows
Your goal in this text-based choice game is to help the protagonist survive until he uncovers the mysteries surrounding the city in order to reunite with his daughter, Susan.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Conspiracy 17.7% ★, Point & Click 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Adventure 8.1%
- #40 Bigfoot Quest
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Syntaxity
Windows
Embark on an adventure of a lifetime and explore the forests of the Pacific Northwest in search of the famously elusive Bigfoot.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Point & Click 21.8%, Adventure 11.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Realistic 8.3%
- #41 Mystery Case Files: Incident at Pendle Tower
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Grandma StudiosPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Pendle Tower was once a lavish high-rise hotel, but a new renovation has awakened a long-dormant secret within its foreboding halls.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Point & Click 22.6%, Adventure 17.8%, Detective 10.5%, Exploration 7.9%
- #42 Grim Tales: The Time Traveler
72% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Elephant ARPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows · Mac
A time-traveling killer is taking out the Gray family, one by one.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Point & Click 24.8%, Adventure 17.4%, Detective 10%, Investigation 7.7%
- #43 Night Errand
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Lantern Studio
Windows
Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Detective 14.3%, Point & Click 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Cinematic 10.1%
- #44 Retention
74% matchMostly Negative35% of 708 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Point & Click 17.8%, Cinematic 15%, Realistic 8.2%
- #45 Relics of Wayne: Greymoor
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackroot GamesPub: TinyHat Studios
Windows · Mac
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Cinematic 14.7%, Point & Click 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Detective 10.9%
- #46 Camille and Laura
69% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: BonjourBorzoi
Windows
Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Point & Click 23.9%, Adventure 16.5%, 2D 4.8%
- #47 ABOVE
68% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: EDGEPub: BECOOL
Windows
A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Cinematic 15.8%, Aliens 14.3%, Adventure 10.9%
- #48 Awakewood
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Point & Click 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 15.6%, Mystery 4.3%
- #49 The Incident Room
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ludotronics
Windows
A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Cinematic 15.6%, Detective 10.6%, Realistic 8.5%
- #50 POUMOSA
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Henders Software
Windows
POUMOSA is an indie Point And Click adventure game. Discover the people of an unknown island. Study their language, their history, their culture or make your trip profitable... It's up to you!
Why similar: Point & Click 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Adventure 19%, Exploration 10.5%, Historical 9.5%
- #51 Beach Cafe II: The Escape Room
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Killbug StudioPub: Cooking and Publishing
Windows
Grandpa is still missing. It's time to find out what's hidden in this beach cafe. Continue the adventure of puzzles and mystery with Cafe Beach II: The Escape Room! Explore, discover all the clues and interpret them correctly to advance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Point & Click 25.1%, Adventure 19%, Exploration 9.3%, Investigation 9%
- #52 Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,266 reviews2024
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.5% ★, Point & Click 15.4%, Cinematic 13.3%, Detective 11.6%, Historical 9%
- #53 The Island of Crossed Destinies
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper Tigers
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Historical 12.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Detective 9.5%
- #54 GILLES
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Infiniti Sound Imagery StudiosPub: Gilles Villeneuve Pictures
Windows
GILLES shows the Journey of a Theater Director's 10 years exile to create his Great Work, his Theater Play named The Klown. On this first episode, join him and SamPath on their Journey to show the Great Premiere. GILLES is a story exploration game from Infiniti Studio.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Conspiracy 16.4% ★, Cinematic 14.9%
- #55 The Case of the Golden Idol
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,533 reviews2022
Dev: Color Gray GamesPub: Playstack
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 14.8%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 10.4%
- #56 Open Roads
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 343 reviews2024
Dev: Open Roads TeamPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Cinematic 18%, Investigation 13.1%, Detective 11.4%, Adventure 11.3%
- #57 Ice River
66% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: 漂流獭工作室
Windows
Ice River is a point-and-click story-driven adventure game set in late 1990s in northeastern China. Players will immerge into Jiangping, which inspired by Shenyang and Changchun, gradually uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Dun’s mother.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Point & Click 24.6%, Adventure 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Historical 7.4%
- #58 Jackie Hart: Headhunter
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Hazy
Windows · Mac · Linux
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Point & Click 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Detective 12.4%, Adventure 6.6%
- #59 Hotel Hermes
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adjective Noun Studios
Windows · Linux
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Point & Click 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 17.2%, Mystery 4.1%
- #60 The Honeypot Murders
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Supernormal Games
Windows
Arthur thinks he’s a smart guy. He isn’t. Help him solve puzzles, investigate the town, and uncover the mystery of his friends disappearance in this quirky adventure game inspired by classic cartoons.
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 13.6%, Point & Click 13.5%, Investigation 10.2%