60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Investigation, Adventure.
In this stop-motion inspired adventure, play as detective Ambroise Niflette in the thrilling investigation of the search for the stolen bell in a mysterious village.
Felon-E
Felon-E is an investigation game where players must infiltrate a secret robot sect, interact vocally with NPCs to collect clues, and gain the trust of the robotic priest Colbert Metalcreux to solve the mystery.
Animal Mystery Crew
Live your Capybara Detective dream in Animal Mystery Crew! Crack every quirky case through peculiar problems and absurdist intrigue. Use evidence and interrogation to solve the different mysteries in the park!
Felon-E is an investigation game where players must infiltrate a secret robot sect, interact vocally with NPCs to collect clues, and gain the trust of the robotic priest Colbert Metalcreux to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Investigation 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Mystery 7.9%
Live your Capybara Detective dream in Animal Mystery Crew! Crack every quirky case through peculiar problems and absurdist intrigue. Use evidence and interrogation to solve the different mysteries in the park!
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 8.8%, Comedy 8.4%, Funny 8.4%
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 21.3%, Investigation 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Mystery 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 16.9%, Comedy 12.1%, Mystery 12%, Funny 10%
A private eye mystery game where you decide how to solve the case. Use your detective skills to solve the case or rely on the abilities of your little dragon partner to see things from a new angle.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Investigation 15.9%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Cinematic 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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 18.3%, Investigation 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 13.5%, Mystery 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 10.6%, Comedy 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
A luxury cruise takes an unexpected turn when a passenger is gruesomely turned into fillet - and it's up to Detective Bass to deliver some justice in this short narrative-driven detective game!
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Comedy 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Mystery 10.9%
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 15.6%, Comedy 11%, Mystery 10.3%, Funny 9.1%
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Mystery 11.7%
Welcome to our wild neon flashing graphic adventure! Play as Tofu 🐹 a little hamster with a big attitude and experience his misadventures through a frantic college night in a city brimming with parties and mystery. Packed with humor, terrible jokes and tons of dru— I mean, SUGAR!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.2%, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Comedy 7.7%, Cute 6.6%
A Little Time is a first-person interactive story. You play as a young but determined detective investigating a man's disappearance. You will travel to a variety of locations and pick up clues while experiencing the story, dialogue, and atmospheric visuals.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Investigation 19.4%, Cinematic 14.6%, Mystery 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Discover a world where magic and science, chaos and order, are two sides of the same coin.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17%, Detective 16.2%, Cinematic 13.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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: Investigation 23%, Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Cinematic 14.9%, Exploration 8.6%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Hidden Object 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
A corpse has been found on the beach! Explore a summery island to gather clues and uncover the truth in this mystery game, Detective Fantasia DX!
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Investigation 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 25.4%, Investigation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Mystery 12.6%
A monster has been spotted at Flavoria lake ! Hoax or truth ? Start your detective career with panache by solving this mystery... not so complicated... but hey ! First time for everything, right ?
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Comedy 10.6%, Mystery 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 21.4%, Dialogue Heavy 19%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A 7-year-old boy has vanished inside his own home. Find him and uncover what happened beneath its walls, while evading the Yōkai that have claimed this place as their own.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Investigation 14%, Cinematic 13.6%, Hidden Object 13.5%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 17.8%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Detective 11.3%
Join the Spooky Crew and uncover the secret of the Mask of the Mysterium in this point and click adventure game. An encounter with a masked figure leads the crew to investigate the secrets of a local museum.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Mystery 9.1%
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Cinematic 10.8%
A single-player narrative game where you play as a quirky wannabe cowboy exploring the dystopian futuristic world for his own revenge.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Investigation 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Comedy 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Investigation 19.6%, Detective 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Mystery 9.3%
A mystery adventure game about an aspiring actor turned detective. Dotson comes across a case where each clue unravels new details about his father’s sudden passing. Engage in a riveting story, explore vibrant modern India, and use your wits to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 14.5%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Mystery 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 7%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 20.5%, Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 9.4%
You are Max Boston, tasked with solving a murder-suicide crisis in this third person psychological thriller. Use futuristic forensic tools, gather evidence, interrogate suspects, and solve challenging puzzles as you explore the city. Fair warning, Max has to face a few demons of his own, as well...
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Hidden Object 10.7%
Arthur and Susan, two inseparable friends solving mysteries together. Fun and cozy indie point&click. Don't miss it!
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 20.4%, Comedy 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Cute 7.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Mystery 11.8%
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover dark secrets beneath her peaceful urban life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 16.6%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Cinematic 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
After a terrible accident, you wake to find yourself in another realm! A dangerous entity threatens to destroy the constructs of time itself, taking humanity into darkness along with it! Do you have what it takes to save the world before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Cinematic 18.2%, Investigation 16.2%, Hidden Object 15.7%, Mystery 8.6%
Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the FBI… but add dentures). Investigate your neighbors, figure out their names and professions, and uncover all their secrets in this no-murder detective game full of white hair and mugs of tea.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Hidden Object 9.7%, Cute 6.5%
A point-and-click deduction game where you unravel complex events. Explore frozen moments in time, analyze the scene, and fill in the blanks. Piece together the who, how, and why behind each curious scenario.
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Investigation 30%, Mystery 20.1%, Cinematic 13.1%, Adventure 4.5%
Solve its secrets or become one in this third-person cozy-horror puzzle adventure about home and belonging. Explore quirky rooms, test unspoken rules, and use magic to solve playful puzzles as strange secrets unfold within a mysterious manor. Refuge is only the beginning.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.6%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 8.5%, Funny 7.9%
Heya! Long time no see. I just have a small -tiny- little favor to ask of you, could you buy me some soup? ...How? Well, that's for you to find out!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 19.5%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Mystery 9.8%
Go undercover as a ballroom dance teacher on a cruise ship full of wacky murder suspects. Create dance routines to uncover their dark secrets, follow the leads, and combine clues to find who killed the head scientist of the Bolero Chocolate Company.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Investigation 22.8%, Mystery 13.8%, Funny 9.7%, Comedy 8.6%
EXCALIMURDER is a nonlinear murder mystery game inspired by the sword in the stone legend. Explore an orphanage, meet weird people and solve logic puzzles, all in a colorful pixel art world. Bonus: Excalibur is the murder weapon.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Mystery 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.9%
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 27.2%, Investigation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mystery 9%
『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 27.8%, Detective 18.4%, Mystery 16.7%, Investigation 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%
Mysterious Mystery is a fully voiced mystery visual novel centered around the detective duo, Justin and Dakota. Solve multiple cases using Dakota's evidence gathering abilities and Justin's expert interrogation. Discover outlandish cases, meet unique characters, and become world class detectives.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Mystery 10.3%
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 27.8%, Investigation 21.7%, Mystery 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
A complete time-loop detective story set in the 1940s — solve a case before it even happens in a single, self-contained sitting.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Investigation 18.9%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Mystery 10.6%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Mystery 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Investigation 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Mystery 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
You are a real estate agent whose job is to determine which elderly woman is an ordinary seller and which one is a scammer granny.
Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Investigation 22%, Hidden Object 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Comedy 8.1%
Become a trickster detective embarking on an Eastern European adventure full of spatial puzzles. Observe your relatives’ loops, sabotage them, and piece the story together at a grandiose feast. Solve a mystery while pranking your family!
Why similar: Investigation 24.4%, Detective 18.9%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Comedy 7%
After crash-landing on a mysterious planet, novice engineer Nova Collins must unravel the secrets of a town's messy past to escape it. Talk your way through this enigmatic place, but beware: ideas manifest as things that can be traded and lost, so don't lose yourself along the way...
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Investigation 19.3%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Mystery 11.4%
Detective Penguin is the first and only physics-and-penguin-based detective game on the market. Solve cases in your own way. Interrogate suspects, find clues, or use your flippers to punch your way to the answers.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Investigation 16%, Cinematic 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Investigation 23.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?
Why similar: Investigation 23.1%, Detective 19.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Exploration 6.9%
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 19.3%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Investigation 16.9%, Mystery 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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 27.6%, Investigation 24.6%, Mystery 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Hidden Object 9.2%
In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.9%, Detective 23.1%, Investigation 18.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
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: Detective 21.8%, Investigation 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
