60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Time Manipulation, Story Rich, Time Travel, Puzzle.
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Clocker
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Causal Effect
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.4% ★, Time Travel 16.1% ★, Emotional 13%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 23.6% ★, Time Travel 21.9% ★, Detective 13.5%, Drama 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%
This is not what you are looking for. Who knows, he remembers.
Why similar: Time Travel 22% ★, Time Manipulation 19.5% ★, Emotional 11.4%, Drama 10.2%, Philosophical 9.8%
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Travel 52.6% ★, Time Manipulation 41.1% ★, Puzzle 6.3%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Time Travel 24.7% ★, Detective 11.6%, Emotional 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
Find notes and clues that will lead to memories. Change the present by manipulating your past. You must save your childhood friend in order to escape the mansion of memories.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.2% ★, Detective 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 8.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Why similar: Time Travel 34.3% ★, Time Manipulation 26.3% ★, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%, Mystery 5.2%
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.4% ★, Time Manipulation 31.4% ★, Drama 11.9%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Multiple Endings 3.8%
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.5% ★, Time Travel 32.6% ★, Detective 14.6%, Mystery 8.6%, Puzzle 7.6%
Murky is a zany narrative adventure where you cast spells, solve microgames, and alter time to create parallel realities and rediscover your past while escaping a world on the brink of destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.2% ★, Time Travel 16.1% ★, Emotional 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Puzzle 6.1%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.8% ★, Time Manipulation 28.1% ★, Detective 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%, Mystery 6.4%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 41% ★, Emotional 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Drama 12.7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
In an alternate post-war divided city, players take on the role of Detective Lucas. Use your eloquence, intelligence, the ability to rewind time (or even violence) to investigate and deduce various bizarre cases, unraveling a shocking secret behind them. Justice or love? The decision is yours.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.6% ★, Detective 14.5%, Drama 13.2%, Emotional 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
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: Time Travel 36.3% ★, Detective 17.2%, Drama 10.6%, Mystery 6.6%, Hand-drawn 6.3%
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.6% ★, Time Manipulation 36% ★, Mystery 7.5%, Exploration 6.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.9% ★, Time Travel 29.7% ★, Detective 14%, Mystery 7.5%, Exploration 6%
Participate in the Death Game "Rising Odds", a psychological horror visual novel, with dark and gore themes. Your choices will decide how this story ends!
Why similar: Time Travel 31.6% ★, Time Manipulation 29.4% ★, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Text-Based 7.7%
Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Travel 44.5% ★, Time Manipulation 36% ★, Multiple Endings 6.1%, Logic 6%, Puzzle 5.5%
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Detective 17.6%, Drama 14.8%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Exploration 6.8%
Solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Brentwood in this mysterious point-and-click adventure. The unique powers you hold will lead to moral choices that directly influence the story, the fate of the town, and which of the multiple endings you unlock. Will you follow destiny or fight against it?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.2% ★, Emotional 17.3%, Time Manipulation 12.6% ★, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Puzzle 5.8%
A puzzle game about destroying your past self.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.5% ★, Time Manipulation 33.1% ★, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Puzzle 6.2%, Logic 5.8%
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Time Manipulation 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10%
A story-rich, dark fantasy, single-player, 2d point and click adventure, where a witch's curse means it's Groundhog Day in a forgotten wonderland. Cast spells, build a flying bathtub, talk to inanimate objects, find missing socks and much more!
Why similar: Time Travel 34.2% ★, Drama 13.4%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Emotional 9.9%
「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: Time Manipulation 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Drama 17.9%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 12.2%, Detective 11.5%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.5% ★, Time Manipulation 32.7% ★, Emotional 11.2%, Mystery 6.1%, Exploration 5.5%
Huoqi Xuezhong Temple is a 3D suspense exploration game. The ancient temple covered in heavy snow suddenly caught fire. A mysterious shadow transported you back three hours before the fire started. Faced with six people gathered at this temple with different purposes.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.6% ★, Detective 18.1%, Drama 12.3%, Mystery 6.9%, Puzzle 6.5%
The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Time Manipulation 29.5% ★, Drama 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Exploration 5.1%
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.9% ★, Time Manipulation 28.6% ★, Drama 11.5%, Mystery 9.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Drama 10.4%
This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use these mechanics, including reality overlap, to checkmate the king in the present or the past!
Why similar: Time Travel 53.8% ★, Time Manipulation 36.1% ★, Puzzle 6.9%, Casual 3.2%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.2% ★, Time Manipulation 13.6% ★, Mystery 8.7%, Detective 8%, Puzzle 6.4%
A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.
Why similar: Time Travel 50.7% ★, Time Manipulation 42% ★, Casual 4.3%, 2D 3%
Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.2% ★, Time Manipulation 24.6% ★, Mystery 8.5%, Exploration 7.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
Surely one change shouldn't change everything, right?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.1% ★, Time Travel 46% ★, Multiple Endings 4.6%, 2D 2.3%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Drama 14%, Emotional 13.3%, Time Travel 10.5% ★
Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.2% ★, Detective 16.5%, Emotional 16.5%, Philosophical 9.6%, Mystery 7.3%
TimeTrain is a simple but mind-bending puzzle game in which you create train routes through time as well as space. Tamper with temporality and cause chaos with causality across 50 brain-boggling puzzles!
Why similar: Time Travel 39.5% ★, Time Manipulation 20% ★, Cartoony 9.3%, Puzzle 9%, Logic 6.9%
You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.
Why similar: Time Travel 49% ★, Drama 15.9%, Mystery 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Puzzle 7.3%
Our protagonists E.B. and Iruka have become the targets of Lucifer. With a terrorist attack being the first, various misfortunes come over them. Fight against the world alongside the angels and protect your loved ones.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.4% ★, Time Manipulation 27% ★, Text-Based 13.2%, Drama 11.5%, Cartoony 4.5%
Someone needs your help, but you don't have enough time to save her. Leap into the past to succeed, but don't trigger a time paradox. Time Riggers is a turn-based time-leap puzzle game that will challenge your spatio-temporal logic and memory.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.4% ★, Time Travel 39.9% ★, Puzzle 6.6%, Logic 6%, Stylized 4.1%
Rock, paper, scissors meet anime turn-based fights and time travel!
Why similar: Time Travel 32.7% ★, Time Manipulation 28.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Emotional 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Drama 22.7%, Emotional 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Exploration 7.6%
《梦蝶》是一款水墨画风，以汉字拆解重组为解谜核心的游戏。辽沐跟随着一只蝴蝶，来到了儿时母亲提起的“隐世”，为了能见到隐世中的仙人完成心愿，开始了一场与”汉字”紧密结合的冒险。通过对“汉字”的理解，重新拆解组合，变化出能破解谜题的“关键字”，重新感悟每个汉字背后所寄宿的故事。
Why similar: Drama 18.9%, Detective 17.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Emotional 8.9%
A game about Three Pigeons in a Trench Coat stuck in a time loop until they save the world. Pretty Simple.
Why similar: Time Travel 43% ★, Time Manipulation 31.3% ★, Detective 15.8%, Exploration 7.3%, Mystery 2.6%
Originally released in 2012, Loving Life is a non-fictional auto-biographical visual novel about Zhenghua Yang (Z) and the near-fatal incident which led to the founding of Serenity Forge. This is where it all began.
Why similar: Emotional 19.6%, Drama 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.5% ★, Emotional 19.2%, Drama 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
Immerse yourself in Paradox: The Breaking of Time, a top-down puzzle game where you play, create, and share challenges with a vibrant community. Solve time-based puzzles using clones to unlock doors, evade traps, and manage Time Shifts. But beware—seeing your clones triggers a Paradox!
Why similar: Time Travel 38.9% ★, Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Emotional 10.3%, Mystery 6.5%, Puzzle 6.4%
Lose yourself in a dreamlike journey through memory, time, and friendship. Step into the story of Arina and Frendt as you guide them across surreal islands built from cherished childhood moments. With time in your hands and wonder at your feet, explore an evocative world reimagined for VR.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.2% ★, Time Travel 19.2% ★, Emotional 15.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Drama 13.2%, Emotional 12.9%, Text-Based 12.7%
"After He Was Gone" is a Tactical RPG. NO level-up system. Character's skills and items will change the battle situation significantly. Collect the treasures and lead therianthropes from getting out from the world of board game. Don’t worry. If YOU don’t lose hope, we can rewind the time any time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.9% ★, Time Travel 26.5% ★, Emotional 17.5%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Psychological 6.6%
Stuck in a time loop, stop the possessed captain's plans in this cooperate-with-yourself puzzle game. Record each pirate’s actions to solve puzzles, interact with adorable animal companions and get to know the brave pirate crew and the bond they share with each other!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48% ★, Time Travel 37.1% ★, Puzzle 5.6%, Stylized 3.4%, Interactive Fiction 3.1%
一位总是能露出温柔笑容的金发修女，将众人联系。白发女子总是无言。［想 知 道 你 父 母 的 下 落 吗 ？准 备 好 ］浅冰背后，为何会有寒意深藏？战斗，悬疑，治愈，推理，剧情持续反转，不断的匿名威胁，绑架，真相到底是……
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Philosophical 15.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 9.8%
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.5% ★, Time Travel 27.1% ★, Drama 11.7%, Emotional 11.6%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
You are a child in the machine.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.1% ★, Time Travel 28.9% ★, Exploration 7.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Cartoony 7.5%
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.1% ★, Detective 15.3%, Drama 14%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
SU is a 2.5D deduction puzzle game. The submarine Nautilus suffers a mechanical failure during its voyage. Dr. Pierre investigates and finds anomalies in every area. Explore the deep blue depths, follow Dr. Pierre as he unravels the secrets of the Nautilus.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.7% ★, Detective 22.8%, Drama 12.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Mystery 9.8%
This is an AVG narrative puzzle game, the story background is set in the late 19th century Europe, players will experience it as the protagonist . The game is divided into three main lines and one hidden line.
Why similar: Emotional 22.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Detective 13.7%, Drama 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.3% ★, Time Manipulation 30.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Mystery 7.5%
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Drama 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Time Manipulation 12.1% ★, Text-Based 11.6%
