60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Investigation, Story Rich, Adventure.
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Homicide Desk
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Legion Was Here
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Espionage 30.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Detective 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.6%
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 28.8% ★, Detective 14.2%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Espionage 26.5% ★, Detective 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Investigation 13.6%
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: Detective 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Cyberpunk 11.7%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Investigation 14%, Point & Click 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Mystery 9.2%
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Why similar: Espionage 26% ★, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 15.3%, Point & Click 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Investigation 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Reopen your late father's phone repair shop to survive. But every device holds someone's secrets — and the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the sister who vanished. Repair. Extract. Investigate. The truth has a price, and so does staying clean.
Why similar: Espionage 42.8% ★, Detective 14%, Point & Click 9.6%, Investigation 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Espionage 30.3% ★, Detective 14.1%, Cyberpunk 13.3%, Investigation 9.9%, Isometric 9.7%
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: Detective 23.7%, Investigation 19.2%, Point & Click 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
A model denied four thousand people this morning. The law says a human has to explain why. Read the file, work out what the machine saw, write the reason, and decide whether to sign your name to it. Sixty cases before the deadline.
Why similar: Espionage 38.3% ★, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Point & Click 7.5%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 17.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Detective 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Mystery 7.7%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Espionage 39.5% ★, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Investigation 7.3%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Point & Click 11%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Detective 17.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Immersive Sim 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 15%, Point & Click 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Espionage 55.3% ★, Investigation 22.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Simulation 4.7%, Detective 2.1%
Conduct a high-stakes espionage operation at the height of the Cold War. Intercept and decipher classified intelligence to uncover a hidden threat. Break codes, cover your tracks, and escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Espionage 36.2% ★, Detective 18%, Investigation 16.8%, Point & Click 9.7%, Mystery 7%
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Choices Matter 7.1%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Detective 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Immersive Sim 13.7%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 10.6%
An immersive, randomly-generated murder mystery. A dystopian Cyberpunk world. A Megabuilding full of lies and deceit. Question witnesses, collect clues & evidence, identify the true culprit and unmask the truth!
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Investigation 20.7%, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Point & Click 11.6%
A 2.5D surveillance sim in a private museum. Work the night shift: listen at doors, observe the people around you, take on their jobs, and decide moment to moment who to trust and who to expose. Your employer tells you what to ignore. Something is being moved that was never meant to be seen.
Why similar: Espionage 33.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Point & Click 10.5%, Isometric 8.7%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 7.9%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Investigation 11.6%, Point & Click 10.8%
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: Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Investigation 12.4%, Point & Click 11.1%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Point & Click 11.5%, Mystery 8.2%
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
Why similar: Alternate History 17%, Detective 14.5%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
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: Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Investigation 11%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Point & Click 9.6%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Investigation 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Point & Click 10.3%, Funny 8%
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Alternate History 22.3%, Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Why similar: Alternate History 15.1%, Detective 12.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Isometric 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
A point and click puzzle adventure game set across multiple time periods. Discover and enjoy this strange and surreal story about a mysterious letter, a missing professor and a confusing mansion. With more than a hundred items, locations and objects to investigate, can you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Espionage 11.7% ★
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Investigation 20.1%, Point & Click 12.1%, Isometric 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Isometric 11%, Puzzle 7.6%
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Story Rich 9.5%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Detective 17.7%, Point & Click 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Funny 7.4%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Point & Click 10.9%
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 18.2%, Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Point & Click 9.2%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 18.8%, Point & Click 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Investigation 23%, Espionage 22.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Mystery 10%
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 23.8%, Investigation 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Point & Click 13%, Mystery 9.5%
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 22.1%, Detective 20%, Point & Click 17%, Investigation 16.8%, Puzzle 8.8%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Investigation 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 8%
An HD-remaster of a comedy-horror visual novel from 2009, mixing classical Russian literature with anime, zombies and glam rock.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Alternate History 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Detective 17.1%, Choices Matter 6.3%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Point & Click 14.4%, Cyberpunk 12.3%
A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.
Why similar: Espionage 33.5% ★, Investigation 21.7%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Point & Click 6.7%
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: Alternate History 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Detective 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Investigation 13.6%
Aliens are infiltrating Earth disguised as humans! It's your job to expose these imposters. Can you tell who is human and who is not? Choose your own path while you keep the Earth safe.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Investigation 16.7%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 18.4%, Puzzle 9.8%, Investigation 8.5%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Investigation 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 9.5%, Mystery 8.2%
