60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, 2D, Mystery, Adventure.
A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.
Feed the Reactor
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Terraformental
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.
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Idler 38.6%, Management 24.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Mystery 7.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Exploration 11.8%, Sci-fi 11%, Story Rich 10.7%, Mystery 9.4%
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Why similar: Mystery 26.3%, Dark 22.2%, Story Rich 14.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Exploration 13.4%
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.
Why similar: Mystery 36.2%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Puzzle 17.2%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 5.7%
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Why similar: Mystery 25.5%, Dark 22.1%, Story Rich 14.6%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 13.7%
A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.
Why similar: Idler 60.7%, Exploration 18.9%, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 8.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Exploration 12.3%
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: Thriller 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Mystery 13%, Casual 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.7%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Idler 26.1%, Resource Management 18.6%, Management 14.2%, Casual 4.9%
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Idler 33.7%, Resource Management 28.5%, Management 16.3%, Exploration 8.6%, Strategy 8.3%
"Tavern in the Woods" is a first person, single-player interactive fiction story that blends mystery, storytelling, and supernatural horror. Players explore and investigate an isolated environment as the narrative slowly unfolds, gradually uncovering the truth behind the eerie emptiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Immersive Sim 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Nature 12.1%, Dark 10.4%
"Scottside" is a non-linear visual novel in the thriller genre. A small provincial town may seem quite dull. However, everything changes when you find a strange object in the forest.
Why similar: Thriller 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Mystery 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dark 13.2%
Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface! Year after year, strange happenings plague our tiny colony, darkness devours Mars. Your job as an Electrician? Bring light where darkness reigns!
Why similar: Resource Management 33.1%, Management 30.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Casual 7.2%
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations. You're a scientist who runs life simulations in order to gain points to spend in a big skill tree.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Idler 23.5%, Management 16.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 6.9%
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: Idler 27.7%, Management 15.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Puzzle 10%, Story Rich 9.7%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Mystery 37.5%, Puzzle 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Story Rich 14.2%, Adventure 4.5%
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
Why similar: Idler 71.3%, Resource Management 21.7%, Casual 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Management 20.3%, Mystery 12.6%, Exploration 11%, Strategy 7.2%
A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Why similar: Dark 30.5%, Nature 29.6%, Resource Management 28.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 25.9%, Mystery 20.1%, Thriller 14.2%, Dark 13.6%, Story Rich 12.6%
An experimental narrative-focused walking-simulator experience that explores dark settings and stories through multiple perspectives.
Why similar: Thriller 29.5%, Mystery 17.8%, Dark 16.9%, Sci-fi 15%, Story Rich 9.6%
When a murdered family is discovered in 17th Century Salem, at the height of a witch hysteria, people start to suspect something supernatural to blame. An atmospheric murder mystery. Connect the evidence and see if you can deduce the secrets behind the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Mystery 24.7%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 12.4%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Idler 22.7%, Management 14%, Nature 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Why similar: Mystery 30.2%, Thriller 19.2%, Exploration 15%, Story Rich 14.8%, Puzzle 13.5%
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Why similar: Idler 37.9%, Management 19.8%, Immersive Sim 17.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Strategy 9.1%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Idler 28.2%, Resource Management 25.5%, Management 22.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.
Why similar: Management 15.9%, Nature 14.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Story Rich 11.8%
More than ghost hunting—this is about uncovering the truth, deep within the estate. Study the past, gather evidence, and reveal the stories that linger between life and death. A unique investigation every time ensures deep replayability.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 27.1%, Mystery 18.8%, Thriller 17.5%, Dark 16.1%, Exploration 13.1%
A cosmic horror idle game where you build the Yellow King’s cult, spread his living mold, and click yourself hollow. Memory by memory. Scream by silent scream, as the sky blooms with eyes watching your beautiful undoing.
Why similar: Idler 42.3%, Resource Management 23.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 10.5%, Casual 8.3%
After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Why similar: Idler 57.8%, Management 24.3%, Casual 12.2%, Resource Management 5.7%
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: Puzzle 33.3%, Exploration 30.7%, Adventure 18.7%, Story Rich 13.3%, Casual 2.4%
Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Nature 18%, Exploration 14.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Adventure 11.5%
Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Why similar: Colony Sim 62.3%, Management 26.9%, Story Rich 10.8%
A hidden object mystery set in a haunting post-apocalyptic town. Search detailed scenes, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind a journalist’s disappearance. Every shadow hides a clue.
Why similar: Mystery 24.7%, Sci-fi 21.9%, Casual 18.8%, Puzzle 15.6%, Adventure 15.1%
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: Thriller 22.9%, Mystery 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Dark 11.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Mystery 31.1%, Dark 23.9%, Puzzle 19.1%, Adventure 9.9%, Exploration 7.6%
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Mystery 22.5%, Resource Management 19.9%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Story Rich 13.4%, Exploration 10.9%
Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.
Why similar: Nature 33.6%, Mystery 17.7%, Dark 16.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Story Rich 10.1%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Resource Management 28.8%, Management 24.8%, Exploration 14.9%, Story Rich 12%, Strategy 11%
Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.
Why similar: Management 31.3%, Mystery 21.2%, Resource Management 20.4%, Immersive Sim 17.9%, Adventure 6.4%
Uncover high drama in this whodunnit set in a small-town community theater. Gather clues by investigating the sets, casts and backstage crews of 10 theatrical productions, and piece together the story of each deadly crime.
Why similar: Mystery 28.1%, Exploration 18.6%, Puzzle 17.3%, Dark 15.9%, Story Rich 15%
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Management 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%
Grow magical crops—and your own workforce. Run an alchemy shop in a city trapped in a time loop, forge bonds with humans and non-humans, and shape its fate. A dark fantasy management sim with branching stories and multiple endings.
Why similar: Resource Management 38.8%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Story Rich 20.1%, Strategy 13%, Singleplayer 3.7%
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Mystery 31.2%, Story Rich 26.6%, Adventure 19.7%, Exploration 17.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Immersive Sim 20.1%, Management 10%, Exploration 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%
An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac protagonist, stepping into this enigmatic town known as the "Singularity" , partner with the protagonist to solve murder cases and expose the killer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Immersive Sim 21.7%, Puzzle 14.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Story Rich 7.1%
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, Management 18.6%, Exploration 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%
A short active incremental game. Send skeleton villagers with sacrificial offerings to a growing space rift. Feed the rift in exchange for essence, unlock different offerings and their upgrades - all for the sake of more essence.
Why similar: Idler 42.4%, Dark 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Mystery 15.5%, Casual 8.1%
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 24.2%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Mystery 18.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Exploration 11.4%
Welcome to Elderfield, a cozy horror RPG with hand-drawn art and dark lofi music. Manage your farm, befriend or romance the locals, investigate mysteries, decorate your home, fight terrifying creatures, fish, cook, seek the Old Gods, die in your sleep, and more... There's lots to do in Elderfield!
Why similar: Mystery 54.7%, Exploration 27.9%, Adventure 17.3%
Clock in at TEREBRO INC. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the company's legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era-specific technology, navigate through obscured narratives to shape the company's future.
Why similar: Thriller 20.4%, Mystery 19.4%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Story Rich 11.6%
A dark-fantasy incremental game about confronting a rising cult. Seek out worshipers who turned to darker gods and smite them back to the light. Harness their devotion to grow stronger and purge the land of evil - one click at a time.
Why similar: Idler 46.3%, Resource Management 34.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Mystery 29.9%, Immersive Sim 24.3%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Story Rich 9.8%, Adventure 7.6%
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Mystery 19.8%, Dark 14.5%, Story Rich 14.1%
Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.
Why similar: Adventure 22.9%, Mystery 18%, Thriller 14.6%, Story Rich 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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: Thriller 23.6%, Mystery 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Story Rich 9%
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: Management 22.2%, Immersive Sim 20.9%, Mystery 18.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Story Rich 10.8%
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Why similar: Mystery 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Exploration 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Story Rich 11.9%
Xenosensory is a short incremental game with horror themes. Use your cursor to bust Xenos and save convicts then spend your research points on skill tree upgrades, actions, gadgets, and uncover the true horrifying nature of this space station nightmare.
Why similar: Idler 46.1%, Management 28.2%, Strategy 14%, Casual 10%, Singleplayer 1.7%
