60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Noir, Detective, Interactive Fiction.
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 13.9%, Crime 11.8%, Detective 11.6%, 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 12.2%, Crime 10.9%, Cyberpunk 10.4%, Detective 10.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Noir 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Detective 10.5%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Noir 15.7%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Crime 9.8%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Crime 13.2%, Detective 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Noir 12.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Investigation 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
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 14.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Detective 11%, Crime 9.7%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Crime 16.6%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Thriller 11.3%, Noir 9.9%
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 11.6%, Futuristic 11.2%, 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 14.6%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 11.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Investigation 10.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Noir 14.7%, Investigation 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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 19.2%, Crime 17.4%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Noir 9.5%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Noir 15%, Detective 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Crime 10%
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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15.1%, Crime 14.9%, Detective 14.4%
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 16.8%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 12%, Noir 11.7%
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 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
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: Noir 16.7%, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Crime 10%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.6%, Noir 16.6%, Detective 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
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%, Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Investigation 8.8%
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 19.8%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11.3%, Crime 10.2%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Noir 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 13.7%, Crime 11.8%, 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%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Cyberpunk 12.9%, Investigation 12%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 15%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Crime 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
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 15.4%, Crime 13.5%, Detective 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Nonlinear 10.4%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Crime 14.2%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%
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 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Crime 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Noir 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A murder investigation. Teenagers vanishing for years. On Enoch Space Station, detectives, suspects, and killers each follow their own path, only to uncover a conspiracy that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. A sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 15.6%, Noir 15.5%, Detective 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Nonlinear 10.6%
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 13.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, 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 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Cyberpunk 13%, Detective 11.4%, 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 18%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 9%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Crime 14.7%, Noir 12.8%, Investigation 11.7%, Thriller 10.3%
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: Crime 14.2%, Noir 13.7%, Detective 12.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Investigation 9.3%
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 14.2%, Noir 14%, Crime 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Investigation 10.5%
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 17.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Crime 13.4%, 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 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
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 14.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Detective 11.8%, Investigation 10.5%, 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 16.1%, 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 14.6%, 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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Noir 12.9%, Investigation 12.6%, Text-Based 12.4%
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 18.4%, Cyberpunk 16.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Detective 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 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Crime 13.4%, Noir 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Detective 18.5%, Crime 18.3%, Investigation 13.7%, 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 16.9%, Detective 14.4%, Crime 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Investigation 10.8%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Noir 14.9%, Investigation 11%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Futuristic 13%, Sci-fi 9.6%
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 17.4%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Detective 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
You make every interaction with her feel like coincidence. You know her far more than she could ever imagine. But you don't seem to realize, a butterfliy don't usually fly into the net on their own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Crime 14.2%, Thriller 13.9%, Detective 11.7%, Text-Based 11.1%
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: Cyberpunk 17.3%, Experimental 12.8%, Investigation 12.7%, Detective 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 12.6%
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 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.4%
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 15.4%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Thriller 12%
