60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Detective, Mystery, Story Rich.
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
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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.
Peak or Die
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.
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 14.4%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Mystery 9%
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 20.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
"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 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Mystery 10.2%
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 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological 10.7%, Investigation 9.7%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Investigation 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Detective 12.3%, Mystery 11.4%
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 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, 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 18.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological 11.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 18.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Investigation 10.4%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Detective 8.2%
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 12.9%, Detective 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Crime 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 16.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 25.3% ★, Psychological 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 9%
KILLA is a 3D adventure mystery with multiple endings. Valhalla, our protagonist, seeks the killer of her mentor, a mentor she treasures like family, venturing to an unknown island. Discover the culprit on this enigmatic island and embark on a journey of revenge.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 12.3%, Investigation 12.2%, Detective 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, 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 22.8% ★, Conspiracy 13.5% ★, Detective 13%, Investigation 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 14.2%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 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 14.1%, Detective 12.9%, Psychological 12.9%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 18.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 11.3%, Psychological 11.2%, Investigation 9.3%
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 13.1%, Crime 12.7%, Psychological 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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 18.6%, Detective 15.3%, Crime 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 11.1%
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 24.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.6%
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 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Survive the Midnight Man in this horror comedy visual novel.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 15.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Text-Based 13%, Mystery 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 22.1% ★, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Detective 10.7%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 9.7%
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 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Mystery 11.1%
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 20.2% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological 12.5%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
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%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Investigation 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Crime 10.8%
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 22.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 35.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, 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 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Mystery 10.5%
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 13.3%, Investigation 10.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
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 16.7%, Psychological 15.7%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, 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 20.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Detective 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 19.8% ★, Detective 16.7%, Investigation 14.9%, Conspiracy 10.5% ★, Mystery 10.4%
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 24.9% ★, Investigation 12.1%, Detective 11.8%, Crime 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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 20.8% ★, Conspiracy 12.7% ★, Psychological 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Investigation 11%
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 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
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 18.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological 12.6%, Crime 11.6%, Mystery 11.1%
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 29.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Detective 15.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Investigation 12.1%
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 16.7%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
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 19.3%, Detective 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
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 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Mystery 12.6%
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 13.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 9.5%
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 13.9%, Detective 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Investigation 11.5%
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 25.5% ★, Detective 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Mystery 10.8%
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 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Investigation 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
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 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Crime 12.7%, Detective 12.1%, Investigation 10.1%
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 30.9% ★, Detective 12.9%, Investigation 12.9%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Detective 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%
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 18.3%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Detective 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 11.4%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 14%, Investigation 14%, Mystery 10.4%
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 18.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Detective 15.3%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Text-Based 8.8%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
雪山ペンションで起こる殺人事件を阻止するため、 聞き込みとパソコンで情報整理するマルチエンドミステリーADV『夜明けの影法師』！
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Psychological 10%
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk? The story for those who are brave enough to dive in a dark story and are able to think reasonably.
Why similar: Detective 14.9%, Conspiracy 13.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Detective 13.2%, Crime 9.6%, Mystery 9.5%
A branching detective mystery. Evidence never lies. But your interpretation might. Your choices shape the truth— and what you uncover may reflect yourself.
Why similar: Psychological 15.1%, Detective 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 13%, Visual Novel 11.6%
An occult-mystery-adventure game set in Kyoto—detectives investigate to solve bizarre and complex cases. What did Kamotan detectives finally uncover on their way to the truth of these cryptic incidents?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Detective 14.8%, Crime 12.2%, Mystery 12.1%
As a young detective, investigate the disappearance of a little girl and live the memories of those tragic moments in the shoes of the little one.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.9% ★, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Detective 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Crime 9.4%
A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.6% ★, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10.6%
The life of a detective is unpredictable and very dangerous. You never know what awaits you around the next corner and what secrets you need to unravel. But you knew what you were getting into, there's no turning back!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24% ★, Detective 12.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Crime 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
