60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, Choices Matter, Simulation.
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a simulation game about processing paperwork in an obsolete office system and digging up what it buried. As a journalist working undercover inside the Bureau, uncover the truth of a disaster twenty years ago. Follow the regulations, or report the truth.
Article 7
Article 7 is a short political thriller where you play as Arvenia’s Minister of Civil Authority during a national crisis. Review documents, weigh conflicting information, speak with members of the press, and decide whether to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor.
MASK IT
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Article 7 is a short political thriller where you play as Arvenia’s Minister of Civil Authority during a national crisis. Review documents, weigh conflicting information, speak with members of the press, and decide whether to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor.
Why similar: Political Sim 41.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 10.4%, Text-Based 10.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Why similar: Political Sim 37.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Point & Click 10%, Text-Based 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.8% ★, Hacking 12.6% ★, Detective 9.4%, Dystopian 8.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.9% ★, Hacking 15.9% ★, Investigation 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Detective 8.8%
You have found the job you were looking for. Your only concern is your quota. or else? Protein was always the problem. The HFU solved it. Keep your head down, Do your job, you are here for a reason. Exitus is a terminal-style decision game. Pull up each case, then decide their fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.5% ★, Investigation 13.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Psychological Horror 7.2%
Mistport sets you as a booth inspector, in a gloomy Victorian city. Inspect documents for ships that pull into the misty harbor, identify suspicious individuals, and uncover mysteries that will shape the city’s fate. Stay loyal to your post or venture into the mists of insanity. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.7% ★, Investigation 12.2%, Detective 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7%
A model denied four thousand people this morning. The law says a human has to explain why. Read the file, work out what the machine saw, write the reason, and decide whether to sign your name to it. Sixty cases before the deadline.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.6% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Detective 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Point & Click 6.9%
A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Examine clues and solve puzzles to uncover a story full of twists and turns.
Why similar: Investigation 20%, Detective 18%, Conspiracy 17% ★, Mystery 12.5%, Point & Click 9.8%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 23.5%, Mystery 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Story Rich 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller. Your laws return through the people who exploit them as thirty connected files decide District 089's fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 33% ★, Investigation 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Point & Click 9.3%, Dystopian 6.5%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Hacking 19% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Detective 15%, Point & Click 10.6%, Mystery 10.4%
You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.2% ★, Investigation 15.8%, Detective 13.6%, Point & Click 10.5%, Mystery 8.9%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 18.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dystopian 12.2%, Text-Based 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
A college radio DJ has vanished, but the school says she withdrew. Search forum posts and confidential records to uncover the people behind anonymous handles. Piece together what happened to Starlingdive in a deduction mystery spanning three connected cases, from college radio to the music industry.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Investigation 18.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Point & Click 12.3%, Conspiracy 11.7% ★
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.3% ★, Dystopian 12.5%, Conspiracy 11.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Mystery 9.1%
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: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 18.3%, Conspiracy 15.4% ★, Mystery 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Welcome to the heart of a 1980s bureaucracy. Review applicant files, cross-check records, and make heavy moral decisions. Amidst strange rumors of an unidentified illness, will you uncover the dark truth or become an accomplice to the system?
Why similar: Political Sim 30.1% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Point & Click 10.7%, Conspiracy 10.1% ★, Text-Based 9.6%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 46.9% ★, Investigation 12.4%, Dystopian 9.8%, Point & Click 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 42% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Point & Click 10.5%, Dystopian 9%, Choices Matter 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: Investigation 14.6%, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Point & Click 8.9%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.1% ★, Investigation 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Text-Based 10.1%, Choices Matter 8%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Mystery 15.9%, Investigation 15%, Point & Click 12.5%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Detective 18.9%, Mystery 12.7%, Political Sim 11.5% ★, Point & Click 9.2%
You're the kingdom's Medium. Summon old cosmic gods, beings that don't lie, but don't speak plainly. Ask. Interpret their visions. Every answer brings you closer to the truth. Every vision drags you one step closer to madness.
Why similar: Investigation 21.6%, Detective 20.8%, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Conspiracy 15% ★, Choices Matter 6.2%
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
Why similar: Hacking 16.9% ★, Point & Click 14.8%, Mystery 14%, Dystopian 11.8%, Text-Based 9.5%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Investigation 18.9%, Detective 18.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Point & Click 12.9%, Mystery 10.5%
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Dystopian 15.7%, Point & Click 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Political Sim 37.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dystopian 12.7%, Point & Click 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Investigation 17.7%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Point & Click 11.5%
Every NPC in this game runs on a local LLM. Ask them anything. The internet is dying. You're a internet moderator. Filter out AI impostors from humanity's last clean network. Use investigation tools to detect deception. Every verdict shapes the internet.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, Hacking 14.4% ★, Text-Based 11.6%, Detective 10.4%, Dystopian 10.4%
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: Investigation 15.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Detective 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Hacking 12.6% ★
A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives. Intercepted letters, coded messages, wiretap recordings. Somewhere in that paper trail is a network of names. Cross-reference. Decipher. Identify. Then decide what to do with what you know.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.1% ★, Investigation 12.4%, Detective 11.2%, Dystopian 10.6%, Point & Click 9.5%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 22.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Mystery 8.9%, Point & Click 8.4%
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Investigation 19.1%, Mystery 14%, Point & Click 12.9%, Text-Based 11.9%
A deductive investigation game with a faded pixel art aesthetic. Set in a dreamlike, mysterious environment, the player becomes a conductor, (re)organizing and (re)positioning objects, characters, and puzzles while recovering lost fragments of their memory.
Why similar: Investigation 17.8%, Detective 15.6%, Conspiracy 13.7% ★, Mystery 11.7%, Point & Click 10.5%
Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!
Why similar: Political Sim 22.5% ★, Hacking 15.5% ★, Conspiracy 11.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
A genealogy deduction game set in Republican-era China. Play as a lawyer, search newspapers, case files, letters, and old photos, and follow clues to identify people and uncover family ties. Reconstruct the Chen family tree and uncover the secrets behind your commission.
Why similar: Investigation 25.1%, Detective 24.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Text-Based 13%, Point & Click 8.9%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Investigation 17%, Point & Click 15.7%, Detective 15.6%, Mystery 9.3%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Detective 19.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Dystopian 14.9%, Investigation 12.9%
Inspect the parents’ medical record and match the newborn who can only be theirs — that is the day’s work in this 1920s dystopian puzzle. A fire burned the birth records, and the Ministry put you in charge of giving the children back. Your choice goes into the report.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Point & Click 13.4%, Investigation 11.6%, Dystopian 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Investigation 16.4%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Point & Click 10.2%
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: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 16.5%, Conspiracy 13.9% ★, Mystery 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Why similar: Investigation 13.7%, Detective 12.8%, Conspiracy 11.7% ★, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 18.9%, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 10.8%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Investigation 13.1%, Conspiracy 11.2% ★
Every report on your desk is intelligence or bait. Four artifacts — agency, timestamp, position, text — and a planted one contradicts itself in exactly one. Call it before the clock does, hold the line as DEFCON drops, and when they breach the building, run the extraction on foot.
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, Text-Based 11.3%, Hacking 10.8% ★, Detective 9.8%, Investigation 8%
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Mystery 13.6%, Investigation 13.5%, Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 13%, Psychological Horror 12.6%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Investigation 22.2%, Detective 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Mystery 12.8%
The Examiner has a number. You are not issued a name. You do not require one. Names are an operational measure applied to units, for the reasons set out above, and staff are not units. You do have a name. You are simply not using it here. Nobody has asked for it in some time.
Why similar: Investigation 20.5%, Detective 18.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Dystopian 10%, Conspiracy 8.8% ★
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Hacking 14.4% ★, Conspiracy 12.6% ★, Text-Based 11.8%, Investigation 11.1%, Detective 10.7%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 25.3%, Detective 18.4%, Mystery 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.1%
Investigate a series of murders at an abandoned school, examine evidence, connect clues, and reconstruct each crime. In this 2D psychological mystery adventure, every answer points to the dating sim heroine you trusted most—but is she truly the killer?
Why similar: Investigation 22.8%, Detective 20.8%, Mystery 16.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Point & Click 8.4%
Step into the desk of a state Propagandist! Design posters, shape public opinion, and censor any media that challenges the state. Enlighten the people, serve your glorious country, and uphold the vision of the Mother. Every poster you create can shift the fate of the nation.
Why similar: Political Sim 55.9% ★, Point & Click 15.3%, Dystopian 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
In the world of City Eye, you’ll become an operator of the Central Monitoring System, who will try to prevent the effects of every single transgression in the game. Use city maps to track dangerous areas and don’t let the suspects run away from the Police.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.7% ★, Hacking 14.3% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Investigation 11.2%, Detective 10.6%
A noir detective game played at your desk. Read evidence photos, CCTV footage and records, compare fingerprints and voices, and fill in the suspect matrix yourself before you accuse anyone. Juggle action points, fees and deadlines across eight cases as a criminal organization closes in.
Why similar: Investigation 22%, Detective 21.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Point & Click 11.4%, Conspiracy 9.6% ★
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Conspiracy 14% ★, Dystopian 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Why similar: Investigation 21.6%, Detective 18%, Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Mystery 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%
Trapped in an underground bunker with your finger on the button, interpret intelligence signals, question unreliable AI advisors, and decide whether to escalate, stand down, or unleash doomsday.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Dystopian 7%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Detective 18.7%, Point & Click 17.7%, Mystery 13%, Investigation 9%
