
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Mystery, Story Rich, Singleplayer.

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.

The Murder Hotel
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

Blackout Hospital
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Mystery 20.8%, Adventure 7.9%
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Cartoony 36.6%, Colorful 19.1%, Adventure 17.1%, Mystery 14.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.9%, 3D 11.5%, Mystery 10.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.6%, Multiple Endings 24.9%, Adventure 17.9%, 3D 12.3%, Mystery 11.1%
A small, lonely boy on a hopeful quest navigates through a dark and dreary motel. Dive into its mysterious, eerie atmosphere and find your way through the motel's strange puzzles, as it becomes increasingly clear that reality is not as it seems.
Why similar: Noir 47.3%, Cartoony 22.1%, Third Person 14%, Casual 10.4%, Mystery 6.2%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Mystery 48.7%, Adventure 28.6%, Choices Matter 22.7%
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
Why similar: Visual Novel 67.2%, Casual 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Mystery 9.8%, Adventure 5.5%, Colorful 5.1%
Join KK and his gang of supernatural detectives as they investigate a strange disappearance, only to stumble upon something more sinister. Build relationships with your team and piece together their stories.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.6%, Mystery 18.5%, Casual 10.9%, Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Avian Enigma is a sci-fi visual novel game featuring in a world where birds have become extinct. The story begins with a young man working in a factory accidentally saves a bird. Soon, a girl who has a mysterious relationship with birds appears in front of him. A romance with a tiny twist begins.
Why similar: Incremental 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 20%, Cartoony 14.3%, Colorful 7.4%
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 43.5%, Visual Novel 33.6%, Casual 11.7%, Adventure 11.3%
Step into the 1950s with My Hotel. As the new owner of a mysterious hotel, revive its glory through stylish renovations, solve hidden secrets, and master faction intrigues. A captivating blend of history and adventure awaits.
Why similar: Noir 50.8%, Mystery 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%, 3D 9.1%, Adventure 8.8%
A who̴͊leso̶̬̙̍me real-time adventure with a dark secret. At your relaxing new job managing resources and collecting crystals, everything you do seems to take ... much, MUCH longer than it should. In retro 3D cutscenes, uncover a company's conspiracy--and sneak around at work to steal back your time.
Why similar: Time Management 47.1%, Mystery 14.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Adventure 13.1%, Casual 11.1%
Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.
Why similar: Choices Matter 54.7%, Multiple Endings 45.3%
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
Why similar: Adventure 100%
It was only after I and my buddies escaped from the terrifying laboratory that I realized that there might be a bigger conspiracy behind it. The adventure is far from over, But don't forget, what's happening here is just the beginning.
Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Casual 40.8%, Multiple Endings 15%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Adventure 17.1%, 3D 15.8%, Multiple Endings 15.7%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Mystery 11.6%, Colorful 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.5%, Conspiracy 34.1% ★, Mystery 17.8%, Casual 4.3%, Choices Matter 4.3%
In Elevator Zero, a first-person exploration and puzzle game, you find yourself trapped in an otherworldly dimension. Escape is possible only through the elevator.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Casual 26.9%, 3D 18.7%, Mystery 17.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.
Why similar: Incremental 47.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Casual 11.4%, Cartoony 11.3%, Adventure 10.9%
"Crisis: The Third Way" is a fantastic visual novel set in a world struggling to recover from a devastating financial crisis that led to World War III.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Alternate History 14.8%, Incremental 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dystopian 12.1%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, Cartoony 27.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Mystery 11.6%
An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Visual Novel 31.8%, Mystery 16.7%, Adventure 8.3%, Casual 7.8%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Alternate History 26%, Dystopian 21.2%, Time Management 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Colorful 5.5%
You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you discover the truth?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Conspiracy 26.9% ★, Mystery 15.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Casual 8.8%
A short, interactive visual novel about waking up in a strange room with a mysterious man. But why are you here? Let Him be your Guide to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Lore-Rich 20.5%, Mystery 12%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Why similar: Noir 52.8%, Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Adventure 7.2%, Casual 3.3%
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.9%, Visual Novel 35.8%, Mystery 18.8%, Adventure 4.5%
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.9% ★, Time Management 22.2%, Dystopian 16%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Mystery 9.5%
You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Lore-Rich 23.8%, Mystery 13.5%, Colorful 11.8%, Adventure 8.5%
This is a Lovecraftian-inspired tale of a man writing the horrors of the one night he visited his great uncle's mansion to remember what actually happened at 3 am during the visit.
Why similar: Time Management 65.7%, Mystery 14.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Adventure 5.2%, Casual 4%
It is a strange high-rise elevator. The objects that appear and the people you board are all strange. Depending on your actions, you will face a variety of consequences.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 40.5%, Adventure 31.8%, Casual 27.8%
ALLBLACK Phase 1 is a visual novel adapted from light novel with the same title. Follow the journey of the amnesiac and seemingly abnormal "Theodore Quentin" as he uncovers his identity while escaping from the people who wants him at all cost...
Why similar: Noir 54.7%, Visual Novel 30.5%, Casual 8%, Adventure 6.8%
After quitting the job, you were casually browsing a video site when you saw a strange video with a blank thumbnail. "Can you hear me? Can you see me...?" The next day, you receive a message requesting you to be the manager of the mysterious VTuber "Owarino Rinne". The endless journey begins.
Why similar: Visual Novel 60.4%, Adventure 20.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Stuck on the Queen’s royal aircraft, you have been trapped in a mystical loop fueled by dark magic. Armed with nothing but your wits, keep an eye out for anomalies, and you might just find an escape.
Why similar: Alternate History 64.2%, 3D 16.3%, Casual 10.2%, Mystery 9.3%
You've received a strange letter, and inside, a chilling black and white photograph – the people in the picture are eerily faceless! A powerful intuition compels you to journey to the location in the photo: Greenwater Town...
Why similar: Noir 54.7%, Incremental 31.2%, Adventure 12.5%, Casual 1.5%
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
一个再平常不过的早晨,阿伟在幻境中接到莫名其妙的任务。利用奇怪的手电和钥匙,深入内部,发现隐藏在筒楼中的黑暗,找回自己失去的一切。
Why similar: Incremental 31.6%, Mystery 28.8%, Adventure 14.2%, Casual 12.8%, Colorful 12.6%
Jerma985 is late for his stream, again, and it's up to you to help him get ready!
Why similar: Mystery 28.2%, Choices Matter 22.4%, Casual 17.5%, Quick-Time Events 17.2% ★, Adventure 14.7%
In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.5%, Visual Novel 26.3%, Alternate History 25.7%, Casual 10.4%
It seems that there can be no more boring profession in the world than a pawnshop appraiser. But a meeting with a mysterious but pretty stranger changes Dan's idea of his job.
Why similar: Noir 27%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Cartoony 12.2%, Casual 7%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.6%, Visual Novel 34.5%, Mystery 15%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, 3D 5.3%
It's the year 2xxx. The inexperienced Toru Sumiki lands a job managing Hookah Haze, a new hookah lounge on the outskirts of Akihabara, where they meet three eccentric girls. The story unfolds as the girls gradually open up to them, connecting through their fondness for hookah...
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.5%, Colorful 22.1%, Adventure 19.4%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Noir 33%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Mystery 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Adventure 8%
Horror game series about the investigation of missing hikers in the U.S. National Parks. Follow the story of a wannabe reporter who got a job as a ranger to investigate the disappearances - several episodes that tell one story! Based on true events.
Why similar: Conspiracy 45.1% ★, Mystery 16.2%, Casual 15.1%, Adventure 13.9%, 3D 9.7%
After waking up in the manor’s basement, you discover that you’ve aged at an abnormal rate. As you fight to survive, clues and records from different eras gradually bring the mystery into focus. When you become young again, you will inherit the true “legacy”.
Why similar: Incremental 40.4%, Mystery 20.1%, 3D 14.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Casual 12.1%
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
Why similar: Conspiracy 32.4% ★, Casual 20%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, 3D 18.7%, Adventure 9.6%
Something is going on in the elevator of your new home.
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Time Management 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Incremental 7.9%, Adventure 6.2%
When the protagonist wakes up, he finds himself on a luxury cruise ship. The game revolves around the story of his attempts to escape from the sinking ship and a group of passengers he feels nostalgic about.
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, 3D 29.5%, Multiple Endings 28.7%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Dystopian 21%, Casual 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Adventure 14.8%
You are a tired office worker who has been working overtime until late at night due to a heavy workload and is trapped in a strange office building. You have to get to the first floor quickly and go home to rest, because you have to go to work tomorrow morning!
Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?
Why similar: Visual Novel 59.7%, Choices Matter 40.3%
Tyler is a high schooler on a mission. He's going to use every minute of summer vacation to go on as many GPS-assisted scavenger hunts as possible. After running into some old friends during one of these hunts, strange things start happening: The day resets and today plays out exactly like yesterday
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.8%, Adventure 23.7%, Casual 22.5%
A narrative delivery simulator following the Postman, a Postal Worker new to a small fishing village off the coast of a volcano. They begin to experience space-warping aberrations as the village withers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 60.5%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Cartoony 36.8%, Adventure 25.2%, 3D 21.2%, Mystery 16.8%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Visual Novel 34.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Adventure 7.2%
Following a sudden explosion at the Stonehenge Museum fundraiser, you find yourself trapped in a hidden underground complex. Your only means of escape is by sending photographs of your surroundings to another survivor confined elsewhere. But before long, a disturbing truth begins to dawn…
All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.5%, Mystery 22%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.3%