60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Adventure, Noir.
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Lacuna: Prologue
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
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.
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 13.8%, Crime 11.9%, Detective 11.5%, Cyberpunk 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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: Noir 12.1%, Crime 11%, Cyberpunk 10.4%, Detective 10.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 14.2%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Detective 11%, Crime 9.8%
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: Noir 14.8%, Cyberpunk 11.7%, Futuristic 11.1%, Detective 10.3%, Thriller 9.4%
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: Noir 16.4%, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Detective 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Detective 13.6%, Thriller 12.2%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Investigation 10.4%
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15.1%, Crime 15%, Detective 14.3%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Crime 17.6%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Noir 9.5%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Investigation 8.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Noir 11.7%
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
Why similar: Noir 15%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Detective 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
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: Noir 16.7%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Crime 10.1%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Noir 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Detective 16.3%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Investigation 8.9%
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Crime 10.3%
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Detective 13.6%, Crime 12%, Thriller 11%
Murdered sisters, mind altering drugs and flying cities, to a case that goes way further than the banks of this one detective's little neighbourhood in this Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure set in a post-post-apocalyptical future.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Crime 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Cyberpunk 12.9%, Investigation 12%
Porcelain Dolls is a visual novel aimed at a mature audience, set in the detective genre. As players progress through the game, they will develop relationships with other characters and unravel the secrets of the criminal underworld.
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Crime 13.6%, Detective 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Nonlinear 10.4%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Crime 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Crime 13.5%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Investigation 10.6%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Cyberpunk 13%, Detective 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 9%
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Crime 13.5%, Detective 9.8%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Cyberpunk 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Experimental 14.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Detective 11.8%, Investigation 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Detective 17.1%, Crime 16.2%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Investigation 9.4%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Crime 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Noir 11.4%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Detective 8.9%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Crime 18.5%, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Detective 14.3%, Crime 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Investigation 10.9%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Noir 14.9%, Investigation 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 12.5%
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: Noir 14.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Crime 11%, Investigation 10.1%, Detective 10%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 18.4%, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.3%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Futuristic 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Noir 16.9%, Crime 15.6%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Thriller 12%
После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой. Раскройте тайны этого потустороннего мира и найдите ответы, которые изменят всё.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Investigation 13.2%, Thriller 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: Noir 15.2%, Detective 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, Investigation 11.8%, Cyberpunk 10.5%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Crime 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Thriller 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Crime 14.6%, Noir 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Investigation 9.6%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Noir 15.1%, Thriller 13.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Investigation 12%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Nonlinear 9.4%, Thriller 8.9%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Noir 16.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Nonlinear 11%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.7%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 8.1%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Noir 16.7%, Crime 15.5%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Investigation 10.9%
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Detective 16.9%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Crime 11%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Thriller 13.7%, Investigation 11.5%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%
An interrogation adventure where you play as the lead detective. Exploit suspects’ weaknesses, shake their resolve, and force the truth out of them. Use the weaknesses of a cast of unique suspects to uncover the truth behind the case.
Why similar: Crime 19.7%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Thriller 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
