60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Detective, Atmospheric, Noir.
A noir pixel-art adventure where you explore the city, engage in dialogues with choices and skill checks, face tough moral decisions, and shape the story’s outcome.
Lamplight City
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
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You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Gothic 26.8% ★, Alternate History 20.9%, Detective 16.2%, Noir 11.5%, Dark 7.1%
You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
Why similar: Alternate History 20.7%, Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Noir 16.5%, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A Game Noir espionage thriller set in an alternative 1872, presented as an interactive story game with role-playing elements. Make skill-based decisions in locally branching dialogue. Not a novel to read. A chamber piece to play.
Why similar: Alternate History 32%, Conspiracy 30.6% ★, RPG 9.3%, Noir 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
Participate in a mysterious show, taking place far from civilization. The visual novel Roll of Fate gives you the opportunity to make decisions that affect the lives of the other show participants. Don’t try to save everyone – there’s no guarantee you can even save yourself.
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.6% ★, Detective 21.5%, CRPG 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Visual Novel 9%
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.7% ★, Detective 19.6%, Noir 18%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Thriller 8.8%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.3% ★, Detective 23%, Noir 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Thriller 8%
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
Why similar: Gothic 30.2% ★, Alternate History 23%, CRPG 16.4%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 6.6%
"Scorpion's Tail" is a AVG set in an alternate historical timeline. In the war-born nation of SouthXi, a conspiracy involving girls begins to surface.Investigator Zhang Cheng meets a mysterious girl. After accepting request, he is drawn into a web of secrets.
Why similar: Alternate History 36.8%, Detective 30.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Atmospheric 7%, Adventure 4.2%
Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Noir 19.3%, Thriller 13.3%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Dark 9.7%
A kingdom enslaved by dark magic. Green altars control the people. Escape captivity, break the curse, and defeat the traitor who seized the throne in this retro-styled dark fantasy adventure.
Why similar: Gothic 38.5% ★, Conspiracy 27.1% ★, CRPG 14.4%, RPG 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Druhyus' favorite celebrity playboy, Walker Kahmenos. Join investigative journalist Verity Lux, in this interactive fiction title and follow leads, conduct interviews, and submit your findings as you seek out the truth - before it's too late.
Why similar: Conspiracy 20.8% ★, Alternate History 20.6%, Noir 16.7%, Detective 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Truth Beneath the Shadows – A detective game where players unravel hidden mysteries by connecting clues to expose a secret organization. Every piece of evidence brings you closer to the dark truth lurking in the shadows.
Why similar: Conspiracy 29.8% ★, Noir 22.1%, Detective 19.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
After receiving a letter from a wealthy and powerful benefactor, you journey into the depths of an abandoned mansion to recover a mysterious artifact. But soon you will learn the reason this place has been abandoned.
Why similar: Gothic 34.8% ★, Alternate History 22.9%, Conspiracy 22.3% ★, Dark 6.6%, Atmospheric 5.4%
A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.
Why similar: Detective 32.3%, Conspiracy 26.1% ★, Noir 17%, Dark 6.5%, Atmospheric 5.8%
M. Webb, the I.S.C. requests your immediate presence. Our previous keeper has vanished without explanation. A replacement is needed at once for the offshore lighthouse under our care. Report to the local office of the company as soon as possible. Do not be late.
Why similar: Noir 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Demons 8.3%
一款在架空世界中进行逻辑推理的游戏，玩家只需要使用鼠标进行点击，即可完成所有操作。 游戏采用二次元动漫风格，玩法和逆转系列相似。
Why similar: Alternate History 24.7%, Detective 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, CRPG 13.8%, Conspiracy 12.2% ★
Shore of Jord is a story-driven cRPG set in an alternate world of Europa, where you take on the role of a retired military officer trying to resolve mysterious events from your past and survive the longest winter in history: strengthen or break friendships, find your love, and discover who you are.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.3%, Noir 19.5%, Detective 19.4%, CRPG 17.1%, Visual Novel 7.6%
Cosmic horror meets dark comedy in this pixel art nightmare where you'll investigate techno-religious zealots and chat with a god of rot who chose to be a raccoon. Turn-based combat. Existential dread. Questionable life choices.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.9% ★, Gothic 25.1% ★, Detective 16.9%, Demons 8.9%, Atmospheric 6.2%
Play as Lloyd Arch, the young private detective known for being total dick, and unravel the mystery of the Black Scar Serial Killer in this visual novel adventure, but remember that the truth tends to hurt the most.
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.6% ★, Detective 21.5%, Noir 17.2%, Dark 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Victoria Kopernik, an occult influencer, uncovers the dark history of a haunted mansion in a short horror point-and-click adventure video game.
Why similar: Gothic 29.5% ★, Detective 17.8%, Noir 11.7%, Minimalist 11.3%, Dark 8.6%
Elara is a dark, narrative-driven visual novel where players investigate a corporate death, navigate manipulation and power dynamics, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.3% ★, Noir 17.6%, Detective 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.5% ★, Detective 19.1%, Noir 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Dark 8.5%
A first-person Gothic fiction set in interwar Cornwall, where players rewrite the story as they go. The patriarch of a once-respected house is dead, survived only by his late sister's children. Left to them are his worldly and unworldly belongings, and the fate of their family.
Why similar: Gothic 52.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Dark 14.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Exploration 7%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.8% ★, Noir 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Thriller 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%
Are the murders of three different people connected? Or are we dealing with three different incidents? Cunning and logic are your best weapons in solving this case!
Why similar: Gothic 32.2% ★, Noir 21.5%, Detective 20.1%, Thriller 11.5%, Dark 6.8%
A psychological horror romance mystery inspired by Lovecraftian, Black Butler, and Danganronpa
Why similar: Gothic 31.9% ★, Conspiracy 20.5% ★, Detective 19.6%, Thriller 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
Why similar: Gothic 33.4% ★, Detective 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark 9.4%, Thriller 8.7%
Noir visual novel set in 1950s New York. Infiltrate a prison, build a smuggling network, and shape fates through tough choices across branching paths.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.3% ★, Noir 24.8%, Detective 19.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Atmospheric 6%
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 32.3% ★, Detective 23.5%, Thriller 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.2%
An indie horror game from a first-person perspective where the player explores a mansion through the use of puzzle-solving, finding specific items and trying to avoid unknown dangers. The particular focus of the game is atmosphere, mystery and scares as well as continual story development.
Why similar: Gothic 38.1% ★, Detective 19.6%, Demons 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Dark 8.1%
The Soul is a story about a hunter of monsters that hide among humans. This project confidently erases the line between the player and the protagonist.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.2% ★, Alternate History 22.5%, Detective 16.3%, Thriller 13.4%, Demons 10.9%
Curvid Nurntine and the Black Vaccine is a gritty cyber-noir point and click adventure. A degenerate private investigator, a missing girl and a suspiciously mandatory vaccine all coalesce in this unfathomably horrific conspiracy.
Why similar: Conspiracy 35% ★, Noir 21.8%, Detective 18.4%, Thriller 7.4%, Adventure 5.9%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Conspiracy 35.4% ★, Detective 28.2%, Thriller 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dark 4.6%
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Why similar: Gothic 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Noir 13.8%, Demons 11.5%, RPG 9.5%
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
Why similar: Gothic 33.9% ★, Noir 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Minimalist 9.5%, Dark 9%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.7% ★, Noir 21%, Detective 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.9%
Unravel 50 codes, unlock the Cryptex, and escape the room!
Why similar: Gothic 27.6% ★, Alternate History 23%, Noir 17.4%, Detective 15.7%, Dark 7.3%
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 29.5% ★, Detective 24.4%, Thriller 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Dark 7.9%
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Why similar: Gothic 31.4% ★, Conspiracy 23.4% ★, Noir 20.6%, Dark 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.5%
A story-driven mystery visual novel about chasing the past of a phantom thief. As you investigate the old cases of a Phantom Thief - Raven, new murder incidents unfold one after another. With every case solved, the hidden truth behind the past slowly comes to light.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Alternate History 25%, Detective 21.7%, Visual Novel 10%, Cute 5.4%
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: Alternate History 27.8%, Conspiracy 25.5% ★, Noir 14%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Thriller 7.4%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 64.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, RPG 10.4%, Adventure 6%, Atmospheric 4.8%
You play Conrad - executioner, outcast, and the last man anyone would trust to solve a murder. A handcrafted adventure steeped in Renaissance atmosphere, occult shadows and moral ambiguity. A point & click mystery in a city where truth is buried, power decides guilt, and someone is always watching.
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.7% ★, Detective 25.8%, Gothic 23.7% ★, Dark 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
A group of young people decides to find out why they are seeing mysterious symbols. As they unravel the mystery, they travel through other worlds that are indistinguishable from those seen in dreams. One can only hope that this will not turn into a nightmare for them...
Why similar: CRPG 21%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dark 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
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 37.4% ★, Detective 22.4%, Noir 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Adventure 3.9%
Father Giovanni, a devout priest, becomes entangled in mysteries and secrets while overseeing his local church. Explore the dark truths and menacing events behind the serene facade of the parish in the first episode of CURSED ENIGMA: Priest and Prayers
Why similar: Gothic 29.2% ★, Detective 23.1%, Noir 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A rose love game with a thriller and suspense theme. You sensed that your adoptive father was elegant yet strangely sinister. Later, you are invited to Stellan Manor, where you meet various guests with murderous intentions... They all seem to know you.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Alternate History 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Thriller 11%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Bind spirits. Weigh their pain. Each client arrives by appointment haunted, broken, or dangerous. In this gothic occult visual novel, you use protective accessories, read signs, and choose bindings that alter fate. Some seek redemption. Others hide darker truths. Your rituals may awaken the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 34.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Thriller 10%, Dark 9.5%
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.8% ★, Noir 19.8%, Detective 19.1%, Thriller 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Take on the role of a private detective who, intercepted by a MOSSAD spy on the city of Buenos Aires in 1952, is drawn into a dangerous odyssey against exiles from the Third Reich and the inminent threat of a new and unprecedented weapon of mass destruction.
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Noir 24.4%, Alternate History 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
Into the Harmony is a psychological quest set in a post-apocalyptic world after an AI uprising. Awakening with amnesia, Sophia must piece together her forgotten past to uncover a secret that ties her own fate to the destiny of humanity.
Why similar: Alternate History 26%, Detective 18.2%, Side Scroller 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Thriller 10.2%
GOLOD is an atmospheric visual novel about survival in the pixel-art style, where you will have to fight not only with a lack of food, but also with panic, suffocating idleness, secrets of the past, betrayal and difficult moral choices in a confined space.
Why similar: Alternate History 25.5%, Thriller 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Dark 9.3%, Side Scroller 9%
Push the limits of what’s possible with physics in Physics World: Evolution!
Why similar: Alternate History 28.2%, Conspiracy 28% ★, Demons 12.3%, Minimalist 8.8%, Dark 8.7%
The Wickie is a first-person thriller set in the 1930s Outer Hebrides. Explore handcrafted islands, uncover cosmic horrors, and survive deadly dangers. With no weapons or maps, rely on wit and courage to solve mysteries. Rich in story,art, and Lovecraftian dread, Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Alternate History 28.7%, Detective 20.7%, Noir 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 8%
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: Conspiracy 25.5% ★, Detective 20.8%, Noir 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dark 7.2%
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Detective 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Minimalist 12.4%, Thriller 6.7%
One of Arima Lodge's bellhops rides the elevator for his usual shift, but, after a man rushes into the elevator and compels him to get to the rooftop instead, he starts to realize something very serious is amiss.
Why similar: Alternate History 25.7%, Conspiracy 24.5% ★, Noir 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 51.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.7%, Dark 12.4%, Thriller 9.3%, Atmospheric 5.7%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 34.4%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Noir 13.1%, RPG 11.2%
In a reality stuck in a technologically unadvanced society stricken with the negative impacts of a worldwide climate disaster, you are a uniquely powered private investigator tasked with uncovering advanced technology from another reality with the potential to save your whole world.
Why similar: Noir 25.6%, Detective 25.1%, Alternate History 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, RPG 5.7%
