60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Visual Novel.
Awakened from years of slumber, the witch Ann returns to her old cabin, where visitors arrive seeking love, truth, or glimpses of fate. Through crystal-ball readings, you interpret their stories and guide their paths—every choice reshaping their destinies and the secrets that await within.
The Red Pearls Of Borneo
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
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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?
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 6.3%
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: Detective 22.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Puzzle 5.6%
Enter a magical world filled with legendary Fairy Tale characters. Become the greatest wizard. Help a young witch break an evil curse and save the Fairy Tale kingdoms!
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Magic 14.9%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.1%
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Casual 8.9%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 13.1%, Magic 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Magic 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
It's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and there's been a MAGICAL CRIME! Investigate the crime scene, question suspects, and defend the accused through unique cross-examination puzzles in this "Phoenix Wright" inspired mystery comedy.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Text-Based 11.1%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 8%
Turtle Soup World – lateral-thinking mystery game. Each chapter: one strange case. Explore, inspect, question NPCs, ask the host Yes/No/Both questions to find the truth. Works with local LLM or API.
Why similar: Detective 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Puzzle 11%, Story Rich 7.1%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Puzzle 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: Detective 27.3%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 10%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Detective 19.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Hand-drawn 9%, Casual 8.1%
Wake up to attach themselves to love beans, it is said that our group to collapse the house? Return to the night, but the sound source was stolen by hackers; Female group members black material scandal is constantly exposed; A thrilling bureau in the bureau, launched at this point......
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Puzzle 10.5%, Psychological 9.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 18.7%, Detective 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Visual Novel 7.6%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%
The story takes place in the summer of 2006. Mountain City Magazine received a mysterious photo, which led to a case of a missing actress.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Puzzle 9.6%
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Story Rich 7.3%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Puzzle 8.7%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
A narrative-driven game where Deduction meets the Dark Arts. Invest crime scenes for evidence and navigate the razor's edge between "Rationality" and "Inspiration." Unlock branching paths through your choices, forge fragile alliances, and decide who survives the encroaching shadows.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Detective 23.8%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Story Rich 7.4%
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Detective 25.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, RPG 10.6%, Puzzle 7%
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Detective 25.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, RPG 10.4%, Mystery 6.1%
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story. The killer "Rooster" who killed six innocent girls has committed a new crime.Fortunately, at the scene of the seventh homicide, the police found important clues pointing to the murderer...
Why similar: Detective 35.2%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Text-Based 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Puzzle 7.7%
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Detective 27.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Puzzle 8.3%, RPG 7.5%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Detective 27.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Puzzle 10.5%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
Tired of the daily grind? Become the puppet master in this office survival sim! Guide your employee in the art of slacking off, avoid the boss's watchful eye, and test the limits under their nose. Can you help them 'survive' without getting fired?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Text-Based 13%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Magic 10.9%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 15%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%
After being cursed to never leave, Ember must eat all of the food she can in order to find the one that will break the curse!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Detective 14.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
A Visual Novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. This is a continuation of Chapter 3. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to choose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Magic 16.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
A story-driven deduction game set in Okayama, Japan, where everyone has an answer—but you need evidence. Examine evidence and records, cross-reference witness accounts, reconstruct timelines, and separate plausible theories from provable facts across six murder investigations.
Why similar: Detective 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Puzzle 10.2%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Detective 15.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Psychological 9%
《迷渡桥》是一款水墨风格的国风悬疑推理游戏，你将扮演牵涉谋逆的罪臣后人宁不移，背负着家族十年的冤屈，在弥留之际踏上迷渡桥，换一个查明真相的机会。调查一桩桩离奇命案，窥见朝堂内的暗流涌动。当迷雾散尽，揭开深埋于王朝的骇人秘密......
Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Mystery 5.5%
A narrative AVG focused on everyday mysteries from the lives of elementary school students. The two protagonists encounter ordinary yet unusual incidents at school, and through investigation and deduction, players uncover the truth together with them.
Why similar: Detective 32.7%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.1%
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 33.8%, Text-Based 18.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Story Rich 9.4%
A fantasy mystery otome RPG with time loop mechanics. Explore a cursed castle, collect clues, solve puzzles, make critical choices, and experience branching storylines, emotional bonds, and life-or-death survival in an inescapable cycle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Detective 20.3%, RPG 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Puzzle 9.7%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Detective 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
"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 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, Story Rich 6.8%
刚入学的大一新生伊琳，却在一个风雨交加的夜晚，听到了来自杂物间内部的来电铃声……这通神秘电话究竟来自何人？杂物间为何会成为禁忌？伊琳手臂上的无限印记又意味着什么？文字冒险推理游戏《莫比乌斯的电波》，就此展开！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Detective 18.8%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, RPG 12%, Casual 10.2%
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Puzzle 8%
This is a visual novel set against the backdrop of a high school student band. It is a fierce collision between gender identity, the concept of freedom, and traditional views. You will play as the band's bassist, choose your answers to these issues, and experience the story of this special band.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, RPG 12.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Casual 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Detective 16.3%, Magic 15.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Puzzle 9.8%
A horror-meets-cute puzzle game with a twist-filled Yuri romance story.
Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Female Protagonist 14%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Puzzle 9.8%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.8%, Detective 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological 9.9%
Detective novelist MEL Gideon, whose career is facing difficulties, receives a strange letter claiming someone is in trouble and needs her help. Intrigued, she decides to investigate. As she digs deeper, she starts to realize that her past is far more complicated than she ever imagined...
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Mystery 6%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Psychological 10.9%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Puzzle 10.5%
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 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Story Rich 7.6%
Yuntai is a story-driven horror game, where Veris travels to Yuntai City for the Qiqiao Festival after a friend's invitation, but ends up uncover a sinister cult and a series of eerie supernatural events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Detective 20%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Puzzle 12.2%
一个普通的早晨，五个大学生踏入同一间教室，却在陌生的空间醒来。纸条上写着： “在七天内找到真相，否则这里就会崩塌。”——你将如何度过这七天？
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 14%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Psychological 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 6.9%
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Detective 24%, Text-Based 19%, Puzzle 11.3%, Psychological 7.7%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 19.2%, Magic 12%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, RPG 8.4%, Puzzle 7.3%
