60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Visual Novel, Detective, Story Rich.
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Accident Investigator Simulator: Black Box
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.
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Kindred [High Tide]
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
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: Dynamic Narration 15% ★, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Investigation 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Mystery 9%
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: Dynamic Narration 16.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Detective 9.6%, Investigation 9.2%, Crime 8.5%
Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about leading a team of adventurers up a deadly mountain, where every decision has lasting consequences. Manage oxygen, food, and team morale while facing moral dilemmas, random events, and an unforgiving environment. Reach the summit — or fail trying.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Psychological 10%, Choices Matter 8.7%
"I Want to Be a Werewolf" is a text-based adventure where you can enjoy the detective elements of the Werewolf game and the stories of the characters.A strange room when you wake up. "werewolf game" that starts without knowing the purpose. Mystery & suspense that sees through deception.
Why similar: Psychological 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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: Dynamic Narration 21.3% ★, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Investigation 9.7%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Investigation 16%, Psychological 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dynamic Narration 12.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
“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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Investigation 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Detective 12.1%, Mystery 11%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 13.4%, Investigation 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
A thriller and mystery visual novel about broken trust and the search for truth, when a high-school student is accused of his parents’ brutal murder. Every choice might bring you closer to the truth... or end in tragedy.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological 11.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Investigation 12.8%, Detective 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Crime 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Detective 15%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Investigation 7.5%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Five strangers wake up in a dark room in an abandoned building with no idea who put them there and why. They now need to work together in order to figure out what connects them and how to get out of this place. A short psychological thriller visual novel with choices.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.2% ★, Psychological 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 12.2%, Investigation 12.1%, Detective 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological 10.2%
DynastyDetective is a visual Novel-style mystery story game set in the fictional Joseon Dynasty where monsters appear.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.7% ★, Conspiracy 13.5% ★, Detective 13.1%, Investigation 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Investigation 8.4%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 11.4%, Psychological 11.2%, Investigation 9.3%
Zlot rodzinny to dla Miłosza Dajskiego okazja, aby spotkać się z dawno niewidzianymi członkami rodziny. Przechadzając się po pałacu, w którym nie było go od lat napotyka człowieka, który zdaje się twierdzić, że jest jego kuzynem, ten jednak za nic nie potrafi go sobie przypomnieć.
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Lore-Rich 14%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Conspiracy 9% ★
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Detective 13%, Psychological 12.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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: Detective 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Crime 12.5%, Psychological 12%, Visual Novel 10.9%
「現実と区別のつかない幻覚を見せる能力」を手に入れた高校生・拓海。復讐のために使い始めた力は、やがて彼自身の運命を大きく変えていく。選択によって結末が変化する心理サスペンスビジュアルノベル。
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Mystery 11.1%, Investigation 11%
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 18.7%, Detective 15.6%, Crime 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.8%
Survive the Midnight Man in this horror comedy visual novel.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Investigation 14.4%, Detective 13.5%, Crime 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Lore-Rich 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.6%
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: Detective 15.5%, Investigation 14.2%, Text-Based 13%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Detective 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
How far would you go to undo death? Marked Souls is a psychological horror visual novel about five orphans trapped in an isolated manor. Uncover the shelter's dark history, perform a forbidden ritual, and try to survive the consequences.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Psychological 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Mystery 11.1%
Hey, someone's at the door! There's a new neighbor in town! Live a week in Havenbrook as Tom, surrounded by mysteries, meaningful choices, and multiple endings. Forge your own path and shape your story with no predefined quests. Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 35.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Conspiracy 11.2% ★, Story Rich 7.9%
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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 10.5%
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 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Investigation 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Crime 10.5%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Psychological 14.6%, Story Rich 9.6%, Text-Based 9.3%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Investigation 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%
The Apple Tree is an interactive story in the genre of a visual novel. Investigate a series of murders together with police Captain Christian Tyler and try not to fall into the trap of criminals!
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Psychological 15.6%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Detective 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Text-Based 8.8%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.7% ★, Conspiracy 12.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Psychological 11.3%, Investigation 11%
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.7% ★, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 14.9%, Conspiracy 10.4% ★, Mystery 10.4%
A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological 12.5%, Crime 11.5%, Mystery 11.1%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
It's time to make your choice! A whole series of crimes happens right before your eyes: a murder in an alley, your boss getting shot, abductions in broad daylight, and so on… Can you deal with it all?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, Investigation 12.1%, Detective 11.9%, Crime 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Investigation 14.4%, Detective 13.2%, Crime 10.3%, Mystery 9.1%, Psychological 8.9%
Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 29.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Detective 15.4%, Psychological 12.2%, Investigation 12.1%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Mystery 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%
Investigate the murder of Evie Roots. Save the town from disaster. Learn the history of the Great Houses. Immerse yourself in the centuries-old history of Pineford.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.5%, Detective 14%, Investigation 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Psychological 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Investigation 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
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: Dynamic Narration 25.3% ★, Detective 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Investigation 11.9%, Mystery 10.8%
Seventy-eight years after the Great Collapse, the city of Belmarc stands as a beacon of civilization amid the ruins. A city where magic and technology intertwine, where humans and machines coexist. And in its depths, one Courier begins to chase the forgotten sins of the past.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.1%, Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Investigation 13.4%, Story Rich 8.5%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Psychological 13.3%, Dynamic Narration 13.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 9.4%
This is a story about self-discovery, wrapped in the guise of family. You step into the shoes of Gu Huixing. Watching my life unfold as an outsider, re-examining trivial days from an omniscient perspective — what will I become? Life is never a dead end. It is always a choice.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Detective 11.2%, Psychological 11.2%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 14%, Detective 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Investigation 11.4%
The Lawyer - Episode 1: The White Bag is the first part of an episodic adventure game which combines gripping crime story with classic courtroom drama. Immerse yourself into a world set in early 90’s in which you gather (or fabricate!) evidence, deduct and run fierce courtroom battles.
Why similar: Conspiracy 14.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Detective 12.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Crime 10.2%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Crime 12.5%, Detective 12.2%, Investigation 10%
A 2.5D game immersing you in the atmosphere of Soviet perestroika. A grim mystery awaits in the city of M, where a terrifying incident has occurred. You’ll explore locations, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets hidden in the shadows of events that shook this world.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.8% ★, Detective 13%, Investigation 12.9%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Detective 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.3%
Dead Internet Theory is an interactive visual novel with social media elements. Join the Celebration of Humanity, the ultimate legally sanctioned killing game. Eighteen digital superstars. One Holy Grail. One unlimited wish. Survive the murder mystery court drama of the century!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.5% ★, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Mystery 9.8%
A horror and exploration adventure that tells the story of Blanche, who was found alone in the gardens of Launderley, in front of a pile of twenty-nine corpses.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.4%, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 15.3%, Hand-drawn 12%, Horror 8.8%
