60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Mystery, Singleplayer.
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Mothmen 1966
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Thriller 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Thriller 15.7%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 8.2%
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: Detective 17.1%, Narrative 16.7% ★, Thriller 14.2%, Investigation 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Detective 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 9%
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Thriller 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Thriller 17.3%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Investigation 9.3%
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: Narrative 19.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Investigation 12.2%
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 20.7%, Detective 17%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Why similar: Narrative 21.6% ★, Thriller 14.9%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, 1980s 10.1%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Detective 27.6%, Investigation 17.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Supernatural 7.3%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Detective 33.7%, Visual Novel 26%, Story Rich 15.6%, Mystery 10.8%, 2D 4.9%
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 21.5%, Thriller 20.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Investigation 10.8%
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Narrative 22.3% ★, Detective 19.2%, Thriller 17%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Thriller 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Detective 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
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 22.4%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Investigation 15.2%, Choices Matter 11%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Detective 23.8%, Investigation 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Why similar: Investigation 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Mystery 16.3%, Story Rich 15.7%, Retro 8.1%
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: Choices Matter 16.8%, Thriller 14.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Mystery 12.5%, Story Rich 12.5%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Narrative 16.3% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 12.7%
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: Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Mystery 8.6%
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Thriller 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Investigation 10.4%, Mystery 9.2%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Mystery 6.4%
Step into the role of a shadowed undercover police officer in Dark Eyes, brave an area dominated by vice and crime, where allies and enemies blur. Every smirk, tear, and lie tightens the web of deceit—will you destroy the empire or lose yourself in its shadows?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 11.1%
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Investigation 14.5%
Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, 1980s 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Investigation 16.1%, Story Rich 9.2%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Thriller 20.7%, Detective 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Thriller 17.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Mystery 11.3%
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: Detective 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Narrative 17.2% ★, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives. Intercepted letters, coded messages, wiretap recordings. Somewhere in that paper trail is a network of names. Cross-reference. Decipher. Identify. Then decide what to do with what you know.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Mystery 11.3%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%
A neo-noir point&click thriller about a delivery service for illegal goods. Play as a Courier who—after hours—has to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance. Visit various locations, collect clues, navigate branching dialogue options, and hurry as time is not on your side.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Thriller 22.2%, Investigation 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Mystery 8.3%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Investigation 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 9.1%
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Why similar: Narrative 22.9% ★, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Thriller 9.7%
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Why similar: Detective 33.1%, Visual Novel 19%, Mystery 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%, Story Rich 12.1%
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 25.8%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Story Rich 10.3%
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Visual Novel 11%
Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths
Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Story Rich 16.6%, 2D 7.4%
Cult Vacui is a horror point-and-click adventure with survival and time management elements where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Thriller 25.6%, Investigation 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Detective 30.3%, Dialogue Heavy 25.1%, Choices Matter 14%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Narrative 17.5% ★, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.3%
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Why similar: Detective 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 10.2%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 10.8%
Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring a cast from GoT, The Witcher, and more. Every decision counts as you gather clues and question guests. Can you unearth the ominous secrets at The Isle Tide Hotel before it's too late to save your missing daughter?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Detective 15.4%, Thriller 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Why similar: Detective 33.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, Mystery 8.5%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Detective 31.5%, Investigation 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Thriller 14%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Thriller 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Mystery 10.5%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Investigation 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Thriller 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Story Rich 7.1%
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Investigation 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Story Rich 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.8%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Detective 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Story Rich 7.4%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Story Rich 10.6%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Thriller 17.4%, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Mystery of Silence is a point-and-click adventure where William, a young writer in search of inspiration, enters an abbey shrouded in silence. What William finds within those walls is not just a story to tell, but a secret that should never be discovered.
Why similar: Investigation 23%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Story Rich 8.7%
