60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Mystery, Choices Matter.
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Give up the Ghost
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
RUNT
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
Why similar: Investigation 18.9%, Philosophical 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Mystery 9.9%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 22.4% ★, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Gothic 23.5% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Mystery 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Choices Matter 6.6%
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Why similar: Gothic 27.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Mystery 9.5%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Mystery 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Mystery 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Investigation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Mystery 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.
Why similar: Gothic 30.7% ★, Investigation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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: Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Mystery 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Philosophical 8.9%
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Mystery 8.4%
A tale of two siblings struggling to survive their present and heal from their past. Just how long can they ignore that which haunts them? "Willows: A Dream of Shadows" is a psychological gothic horror visual novel puzzle game, featuring hand drawn assets, and a episodic branching story-line.
Why similar: Gothic 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Hand-drawn 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
A gripping point-and-click adventure – inspired by the real treasure hunt on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Unravel a web of murder, myth, and forgotten history. Some secrets are better left buried.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Mystery 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Point & Click 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Mystery 10.5%, Point & Click 8.8%
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Investigation 17.7%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Investigation 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Mystery 9.1%
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 41.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Dark 10.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Investigation 20.5%, Mystery 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Point & Click 8.5%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Investigation 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
SKINSCRIBING is a 2D hand-drawn and dual-handed cosmic folk horror game wherein you explore environments, grief, and bodies alike to interpret and tattoo the history of a dying world as the foundation for the Era to come.
Why similar: Gothic 20.7% ★, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Philosophical 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Mystery 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
The Mona Lisa is missing! Sleuth through a sprawling space museum, read the past through psychic abilities and unravel an interstellar art caper in this cosy, gas‑lamp mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Philosophical 12.3%, Investigation 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...
Why similar: Gothic 29.6% ★, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 10.6%, Point & Click 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A psychological horror romance mystery inspired by Lovecraftian, Black Butler, and Danganronpa
Why similar: Gothic 25.9% ★, Investigation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Investigation 15.9%, Philosophical 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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: Investigation 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Mystery 12.6%, Hand-drawn 10%, Choices Matter 8.9%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Gothic 27.5% ★, Philosophical 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Mystery 10.5%, Hand-drawn 10%
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Gothic 27.4% ★, Philosophical 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Hand-drawn 11%, Mystery 6.8%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Investigation 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 11%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Interrogate villagers, uncover their secrets, and decide who will burn before sunset.
Why similar: Investigation 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Mystery 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 7.3%, Story Rich 5.5%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Mystery 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Detective 6.3%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona till college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade with friends, date an enigmatic new girl, and stop a demonic plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 23.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Investigation 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Mystery 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
She died, but no one ever asked her what really happened. Now she speaks—and you're the only one listening. What you say will decide whether she finally moves on… or disappears forever.
Why similar: Gothic 22.4% ★, Choices Matter 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Why similar: Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Mystery 13%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Classic first-person point-and-click adventure game set in contemporary Prague. As a programmer and treasure hunter, you embark on a long journey to uncover the secrets of the infamous Executioner. Your task will be complicated by a sect of fanatic cultists and your own unexplained heritage.
Why similar: Mystery 15.9%, Investigation 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Point & Click 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Gothic 17.3% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Mystery 9.3%
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 31.1% ★, Mystery 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Point & Click 8.8%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Gothic 29% ★, Philosophical 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
An Aisling is an adventure game focused on exploration, story and character. Make friends or enemies as you try to uncover why kids are disappearing on the island of Rashinmore.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12%, Point & Click 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A murder mystery puzzle game with visual novel elements in a Gothic, Lovecraftian world. Collect clues, solve puzzles, interrogate suspects, and uncover the mystery surrounding the death of Mini’s husband.
Why similar: Gothic 26.4% ★, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 12.6%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, Point & Click 7.7%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Investigation 17.7%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Story Rich 7.8%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Mystery 14.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12%, Point & Click 10.2%
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: Gothic 37.5% ★, Mystery 17.1%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Point & Click 11.7%, Dark 9%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 29.5%, Mystery 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Story Rich 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Investigation 26.7%, Mystery 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Point & Click 8.1%
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: Investigation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Mystery 10.1%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Investigation 22.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Mystery 11.5%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Mystery 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Investigation 22%, Mystery 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.8%, Point & Click 7.3%
A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.
Why similar: Gothic 28.3% ★, Investigation 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
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: Investigation 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Mystery 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
A psychological horror game, where you answer a survey for a chance to win a cash prize
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Mystery 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Dark 10.1%
