60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Mystery, Investigation, 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 play as 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 19%, Philosophical 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Mystery 9.9%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 22.5% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, 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 16.4%, 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 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Mystery 9.6%, 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 10.8%, Mystery 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
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 20.9%, Mystery 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 30.8% ★, Investigation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Mystery 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Philosophical 8.8%
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 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Mystery 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, 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 17.8%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
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 13.4%, Dark 10.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
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%, Mystery 9.1%, Hand-drawn 9%
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: Investigation 20.8%, Philosophical 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
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 11.2%, Mystery 10.6%, Investigation 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 20.8% ★, Investigation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
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 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 9.5%
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 before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 23.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
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 27.5% ★, Philosophical 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Hand-drawn 11%, Mystery 6.8%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Investigation 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Mystery 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Detective 6.3%
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 16%, Philosophical 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Mystery 9.7%
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 18.2%, Investigation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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 29.3% ★, 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 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
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 13.6%, Mystery 13%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, 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 14.3%, Point & Click 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
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 31.2% ★, Mystery 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Point & Click 8.8%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
An Aisling is an adventure game focused on exploration, story and character. Make friends or enemies as you try to uncover why kids are dissappearing on the island of Rashinmore.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Mystery 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Female Protagonist 11%
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 24.5% ★, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
After her beloved dog Beans vanishes and 13-year-old Diya finds herself trapped in a nightmarish time loop, each day reveals darker secrets in the sleepy town of Lakeview. Nothing, and no one, is what it seems. Groundhog Day meets Stranger Things in this supernatural thriller set in 80s New Zealand.
Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Mystery 14.5%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Point & Click 8.2%
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 19.7%, Mystery 12.7%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Point & Click 7.7%
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 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Point & Click 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Story Rich 7.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 37.7% ★, Mystery 17.1%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Point & Click 11.6%, Dark 9%
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 14.5%, Investigation 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Point & Click 10.1%
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 26.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Point & Click 8.1%
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
Why similar: Gothic 30.3% ★, Philosophical 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Mystery 10.1%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Mystery 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
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 7.9%, Point & Click 7.1%
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%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 11.4%, Dark 10.1%
Frank and Drake is a modern gothic tale that puts players at the heart of a supernatural mystery through its non-linear branching paths, mini-games and puzzles, and unique rotoscoped art. Take your time, explore, and soak up every word.
Why similar: Mystery 17.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Gothic 13.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog, your crew has been decimated, you're cut off from the outside world, and oxygen is running out. Use limited bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, conduct esoteric research that could change the world, and interpret strange signals from the deep.
Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Mystery 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Philosophical 16.8%, Mystery 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Female Protagonist 7.1%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Mystery 15.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Point & Click 7.3%
Join the Spooky Crew and uncover the secret of the Mask of the Mysterium in this point and click adventure game. An encounter with a masked figure leads the crew to investigate the secrets of a local museum.
Why similar: Investigation 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Mystery 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Point & Click 8.3%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Mystery 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 27.7%, Mystery 20.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 7.1%, Exploration 7.1%
An adventure visual novel following an unlucky trio who find themselves hunting monsters for the powerful being known as Kurokami-sama.
Why similar: Investigation 21.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Investigation 23%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Castle Dornstein is a Gothic mystery adventure. Travel to Bohemia with Hemlock, a young scholar hired to translate a mysterious medieval text, The Devil’s Diary. When the book goes missing, everyone becomes a suspect and you must explore a castle where a dark history lurks in the shadows.
Why similar: Gothic 29.4% ★, Mystery 16.9%, Investigation 15.6%, Point & Click 12.1%, Dark 8.6%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Investigation 14.7%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Mystery 9.4%
Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Mystery 11.7%
DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Mystery 10.5%
