60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Story Rich, Visual Novel, Adventure.
BABELOMANIA is a technogothic horror adventure, with a visual novel style narrative, point&click puzzles and light survival elements. Arm yourself with your wits, determination, and an open mind... Or lose your humanity, before you lose your life.
Reaplaced
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Little Locked Rooms
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Modern 12.7%, Horror 10.6%, Anime 9.7%, Dark 9.6%
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Investigation 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Anime 12.3%, Text-Based 11.8%
Revelation(레벨레이션)은 텍스트 기반의 1인칭 2D 어드벤처 게임입니다. 여러분은 탐정이라는 직업이 없는 세상인 '알바트로스'에서 탐정을 꿈꾸는 주인공 류드가 되어 다양한 사건을 수사합니다. 이젠 어른이 된 류드의 다섯 친구들과 함께, 강력 범죄를 수사하며 거대한 진실에 도달하는 여정을 떠나보세요.
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Modern 14.3%, Text-Based 10.9%, Point & Click 10.4%, Anime 7.6%
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Investigation 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Point & Click 9.3%
In this classic Investigative Mystery game, you are hired to find the truth behind Mr. Grady's untimely death. Explore 40+ areas, compile a multitude of evidence, and interview over 30 unique characters to assist you in your search for answers. Do YOU have what it takes to crack the case?
Why similar: Alternate History 15.7%, Detective 14.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Point & Click 10.9%
Set in Ueno, Tokyo, where the wounds of the Pacific War have not yet healed, detective Takashiro Shugo becomes involved in a series of gruesome murders. A visual novel of love and hatred leading to obsession and madness…
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Anime 11.3%, Gore 10.6%, Investigation 9.5%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Investigation 12.3%, Text-Based 10.2%, Anime 10%
Solve your own murder in this thrilling true crime adventure game. You've come face-to-face with your fate and someone close to you is going to kill you...unless you find out who it is before the time runs out!
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Point & Click 14.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Investigation 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Anime 12.3%, Text-Based 10.9%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Investigation 15.4%, Anime 11.1%, Text-Based 10.2%
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Point & Click 15%, Anime 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Horror 12.1%
Within a cyberpunk world in the year 2070, become Detective B to investigate crime scenes, discover hidden truths, and dismantle the perpetrators' lies. There's only one problem: you have to do all that "without" stepping foot outside your house.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Futuristic 16.3%, Anime 15.8%, Mystery 9.7%, Point & Click 9.3%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Point & Click 10.9%, Horror 10.3%
Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Detective 17.3%, Investigation 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 9.9%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Text-Based 17.1%, Point & Click 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Investigation 12.2%
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Point & Click 14.8%, Anime 11%, Horror 9.6%
"Styxton" is a nonlinear horror visual novel. Sometimes, salvation is the worst curse. You are alive. Now find out who needed it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Horror 16.6%, Detective 15.1%, Dark 12.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Modern 19.3%, Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Investigation 8.7%
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Investigation 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Point & Click 11%, Logic 8.3%
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Investigation 11.1%, Text-Based 11.1%
A murder at Camp Lonesome: Peggy was killed one night. Investigate the area, interview the campers, connect the clues, and catch the culprit before everyone gets sent home for good.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Point & Click 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 11.9%, Investigation 11.7%
A storm-lashed island, a nursery rhyme that foretells death, seven prodigies, serial murders, modern locked-room mysteries, classic locked-room mysteries, astrology, a jigsaw of flesh and blood, a survivor—and one lie told only so you would see this story.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Anime 9.8%, Mystery 9.7%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Detective 13.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Horror 9%
A sci-fi visual novel reimagining The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Follow Vornovians Sherr-Lok & Watt-Sun as they try to uncover the truth of the "curse"
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Futuristic 17.2%, Alternate History 16.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Mystery 9.7%
A mystery adventure game featuring a camera-headed detective and a superpowered girl teaming up to solve crimes. Play as the detective to gather and combine clues, reveal the hidden truth, and tear down fabricated lies.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 20.2%, Point & Click 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 10.4%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 16.2%, Detective 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 14.8%, Text-Based 11.5%
This is a test about sin. An audio-driven horror mystery where you reconstruct the hidden timeline inside a painting through sound and expose the sin concealed within.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Point & Click 13.5%, Horror 11.4%, Investigation 10.9%, Gore 8.6%
Sci-fi horror anime point and click adventure game. Guide a young woman through a nightmarish space station as she tries to uncover why she's there and how she can escape.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Anime 18.9%, Horror 17.1%, Gore 16.4%, Adventure 12.5%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 15%, Detective 13.9%, Horror 9.9%, Mystery 9.7%
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Horror 14%, Detective 13.8%, Mystery 12.3%, Anime 11%
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Why similar: Detective 15.1%, Investigation 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Anime 8.7%
瓔珞事件簿系列遊戲是一系列以私人偵探拍擋瓔．珞為主角的推理解謎遊戲 你將會與兩位充滿火花的偵探, 一同破解一個又一個離奇案件!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Detective 17.2%, Modern 15.6%, Anime 13.1%, Adventure 10%
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: Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Investigation 13.4%, Anime 13%, Point & Click 12.1%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 16.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Anime 11.4%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 18.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 9.2%
Can you defeat the world's oldest mastermind in their own game? Stretch your wits and deduction skills to the maximum as you battle in Paris' craziest court. Here, only those who sacrifice everything reach the truth. What are you willing to betray to make it out alive?
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Anime 12.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Logic 10.7%
Find the answer in the incident involving the Professor and unravel the secret of the Awakened.
Why similar: Alternate History 22.9%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Detective 14.7%, Anime 11%, Investigation 10.9%
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story. The killer "Rooster" who killed six innocent girls has committed a new crime.Fortunately, at the scene of the seventh homicide, the police found important clues pointing to the murderer...
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Horror 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 11.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Investigation 16.1%, Mystery 10.9%, Anime 8.8%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Anime 16.7%, Horror 15.5%, Gore 14%, Mystery 10.8%
Rauniot is an isometric post-apocalyptic point and click adventure game which takes place to Northern Finland.
Why similar: Alternate History 20.4%, Gore 15%, Investigation 13.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Logic 7.8%
High school students return well after hours, each with their own agenda and an ominous feeling. Come midnight...The fears deep inside become reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Point & Click 24.7%, Horror 18.3%, Anime 17.1%, Gore 7.8%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Anime 15.1%, Gore 11.7%, Mystery 10.7%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Investigation 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Anime 10.6%, Point & Click 10.3%
Endless world. Endless sky. Endless light. Will the shadows be cast upon all Children dwelling on the Treetops? Regardless, I spread my prosthetic wings, taking a leap of faith.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, Anime 12.9%, Point & Click 11.4%, Gore 11.1%, Dark 11.1%
Find evidence, interrogate suspects, and shoot down contradictions in this magical girl detective game! Your magic turns each interrogation into a bullet hell logic battle - use it to prove your skills and uncover the truth of each magical mystery! Will you live up to the ideals of a true detective?
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Investigation 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Anime 11.4%, Logic 9.9%
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: Detective 21.6%, Investigation 17.3%, Logic 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 9.6%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Mystery 10.1%
Uncover the truth behind an idol's disappearance, weeks before her debut. Whispers of the Luminaries is a narrative-driven game that blends a classic detective story with the dark side of the idol entertainment industry.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Investigation 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Anime 9.1%
Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Investigation 13.1%, Dark 10.9%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Mystery 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Logic 10.9%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Text-Based 15%, Investigation 14%, Robots 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Investigation 17.6%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Logic 8.1%
"Scorpion's Tail" is a AVG set in an alternate historical timeline. In the war-born nation of SouthXi, a conspiracy involving girls begins to surface.Investigator Zhang Cheng meets a mysterious girl. After accepting request, he is drawn into a web of secrets.
Why similar: Alternate History 29.8%, Detective 24.1%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Mystery 10.6%, Adventure 6.1%
Two thousand years ago, the Pestis Disaster swept through the land, corrupting all living things and making it to difficult to live on the land. Having touched the darkest darkness the world has seen, one must now face the dazzling light. Thus I pose this question. Whose wings did I see that day?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Anime 16.2%, Horror 14.9%, Gore 14.2%, Text-Based 12.6%
You have lost your memory and wake up in an unpopular Japanese house. Strange phenomena occur. Eerie singing voices coming from inside the house. Uncover the mystery of the cursed house with your partner.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.1%, Modern 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 11.6%, Investigation 11.6%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Horror 16.2%, Anime 16.1%, Gore 13.1%, Mystery 11.1%
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: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 18.9%, Point & Click 13.3%, Mystery 10%, Logic 7.7%
True Virus is a point-and-click adventure game that takes players to an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Set in a world ravaged by an enigmatic and dangerous pandemic.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.6%, Detective 14.4%, Point & Click 14.4%, Gore 14.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Anime 10.9%, Logic 9.5%
