60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Mystery, Adventure, Interactive Fiction.
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.
The Case of the Golden Idol
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.
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 13.2%, Thriller 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Conversation 10.9%, America 9.2% ★
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: Narrative 16.9% ★, Detective 16.7%, Thriller 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Investigation 11.2%
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: Narrative 19.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 12.6%
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 21%, Detective 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%
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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Thriller 15.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Mystery 8.2%
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%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 14.9%, Thriller 13.8%, Conversation 12.3%
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 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Mystery 16.3%, Story Rich 15.6%, Retro 8%
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 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Detective 10.8%, Conversation 9.6%
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 17.4%, Thriller 17.1%, Conversation 11.8%, Investigation 11.3%, America 11.2% ★
Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.
Why similar: Conversation 23.6%, America 20.8% ★, Choices Matter 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Story Rich 10%
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 25.7%, Story Rich 15.6%, Mystery 10.9%, 2D 5%
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 22.8% ★, Detective 18.8%, Thriller 17.3%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 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 17.7%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Conversation 14.4%, Investigation 9.5%
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 24.2%, Detective 23.7%, Investigation 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
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 22.5% ★, Thriller 15.1%, Detective 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, 1980s 10.1%
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Thriller 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 23.1%, Thriller 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Investigation 10.5%, Mystery 9.1%
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 23% ★, Detective 13.7%, Conversation 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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 14.6%, Conversation 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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 24.6%, Thriller 17.8%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Mystery 11.3%
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 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Mystery 8.7%
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: Conversation 17.3%, Narrative 16.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 12.6%
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 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 10.3%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Thriller 20.9%, Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
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 30.2%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Story Rich 12.9%, Mystery 12.1%
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Story Rich 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Supernatural 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%
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 32.8%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Investigation 12.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Story Rich 12.2%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Story Rich 10.2%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Investigation 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
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 17.7%, Detective 15.3%, Thriller 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 17.6% ★, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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 22.2%, Conversation 16.4%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Conversation 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Investigation 14.7%
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: Conversation 22.6%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Visual Novel 11%
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: Detective 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 7.8%
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%, Conversation 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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%, Conversation 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Story Rich 8.6%, Mystery 8.6%
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 33%, Pixel Graphics 23%, Story Rich 20.2%, 2D 9.2%, Dark 8.6%
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Narrative 20.8% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
The Church in the Darkness is an action/stealth game where you infiltrate a religious cult and the story changes every time you play. It's 1977 and your nephew has moved deep into the South American jungle. Sneak into his commune, find out what's going on, and try to get the best ending you can.
Why similar: Choices Matter 33%, Story Rich 20%, Mystery 19.6%, Adventure 12.9%, Dark 10.7%
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 27.1%, Investigation 17.2%, Conversation 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%
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 22.7%, 1980s 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Investigation 16.4%, Story Rich 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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Investigation 12%
Do what it takes to make your fledgling security agency thrive in this 80s noir crime bustin', dirty crossing, vengeance-seeking board game inspired strategy game with dice and cards.
Why similar: 1980s 21.4%, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 15%, America 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%
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 25.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Thriller 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Mystery 10.5%
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 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Investigation 20%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 11%, Supernatural 9.9%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Narrative 37.7% ★, Detective 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Mystery 7.5%, Story Rich 7.4%
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Why similar: Thriller 29.7%, Investigation 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%
Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?
Why similar: Thriller 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Mystery 7.4%, Choices Matter 7.3%
Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Detective 24.6%, Story Rich 14.6%, Mystery 13.5%, 2D 7.4%
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 30.8%, Detective 30.3%, Conversation 24.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Recall: Empty Wishes is a psychological thriller set in Taiwan during the 2010s. Follow Yonny, a sister determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Tommy. As she delves deeper, she confronts unsettling secrets, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Story Rich 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%
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 23.5% ★, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Conversation 11.9%, Thriller 9.9%
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%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Conversation 17.5%, Investigation 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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 17.5%, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Detective 27.4%, Investigation 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Mystery 10.2%, America 7.2% ★
