60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Investigation, Mystery, Puzzle.
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
REWIND
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 25.4%, Investigation 19.8%, Text-Based 11.1%, Logic 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 20.5%, Incremental 14.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Puzzle 9.9%
An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac protagonist, stepping into this enigmatic town known as the "Singularity" , partner with the protagonist to solve murder cases and expose the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Detective 11.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 20.7%, Logic 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 6.6%
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 18.4%, Detective 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 23.5%, Detective 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
FILENDS is a dark multiplayer riddle-solving game for 2-7 players. Work together to solve levels filled with murder mysteries and tragic tales. Use environmental clues and real-time chat to uncover the truth. Will you solve the riddles or become a part of them?
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 18.9%, Logic 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Puzzle 9.8%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Logic 8.9%
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 25.1%, Detective 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%
You were just the owner of an office, but something piqued your curiosity. Understand what happened to Andy by browsing through his most personal archives and memories. OS: Memories is a short and engaging storyline about the everyday life of a game developer.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Emotional 8.6%, Puzzle 8.1%
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: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 17.8%, Logic 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Happy Nuclear is an evidence-based investigation game where players act as detectives to prevent a disaster. They analyze interconnected case information on an investigation board, primarily using old CCTV and access logs. Cases link together at the end, and each replay introduces changes.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Investigation 21.7%, Incremental 18.9%, Logic 10.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
A point-and-click adventure with innovative detective mechanics. Help Ollie, a fledgling reporter on his first day at the Signal & Echo newspaper, to solve the mystery behind a schoolgirl's disappearance. Developed by an ex-journalist.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 23.6%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Logic 8.6%, Text-Based 7.4%
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Logic 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Puzzle 8.3%
In the period of 180 seconds you will analyze every object in your house... when the ambulance passes, the thunder, and the ringing of the phone. You live during the time of a pandemic and your mission is to use your real-world knowledge that you have learned about viruses. Would you be infected?
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Incremental 20.6%, Investigation 20%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 7.2%
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
Why similar: Detective 29.9%, Investigation 23%, Logic 18.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Text-Based 10.3%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 33.8%, Investigation 20.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Logic 10.7%, Mystery 8.6%
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 22.9%, Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Logic 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
Death by Deduction is a unique blend of logic puzzle and classic murder mystery set in an old English manor during the 1970s. Explore the manor, examine evidence, and question suspects to deduce who the murderer is in "Death by Deduction".
Why similar: Logic 24.5%, Detective 23.7%, Investigation 19.7%, Puzzle 11.5%, Stylized 8.9%
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: Detective 34.5%, Investigation 27.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 8.4%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Investigation 22.1%, Logic 13.7%, Text-Based 10.1%, Mystery 9.7%
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: Detective 21%, Investigation 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Puzzle 7.4%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Psychological 8.9%
9 kids who wake up in a mysterious shelter with lost memory. Investigate the signs of intruders and murders and discuss them with your colleagues to move towards the truth! Listen to everyone's statements and use your counter-arguments to uncover the truth behind someone's lies!
Why similar: Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Logic 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Logic Grid Puzzle is a multilingual story-driven logical deduction game in which you have to discover the whole story by using partially given facts.A pleasant yet challenging recreation for lovers of logical games and mystery-solving games.Are you ready for the challenge?
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Investigation 21.6%, Logic 17.9%, Text-Based 13%, Puzzle 8.6%
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: Detective 20.1%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Seven murders in motion by a killer calling himself the Messiah. Interrogate witnesses, spot contradictions in their testimonies, and build a criminal profile piece by piece in this detective thriller where every word is evidence.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Logic 10.7%, Investigation 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
A procedural mystery game where you play as a detective racing against time to solve a murder case. As toxic gas slowly shrinks the map, find hidden clues and freely interrogate suspects with open-ended questioning. Manage your investigation under increasing pressure in a challenge against time.
Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Logic 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Detective 27.5%, Investigation 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 9.3%, Mystery 8.4%
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 26.4%, Investigation 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%
An arcane detective game set in an ill-fated magical academy. Find traces of magic and deduce the meaning of incantations. Examine scenes for clues to help you piece together the story, and determine the identity and fate of each former resident.
Why similar: Detective 32.4%, Investigation 27.4%, Logic 16.1%, Mystery 8%, Puzzle 7.9%
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Anomaly Hour: Forest Cabin is a tense observation horror game where you monitor rooms through security cameras to spot strange and shifting anomalies. Each replay reveals new, unpredictable events as you uncover the haunting mystery behind the Kinley family’s forest cabin.
Why similar: Incremental 22.2%, Detective 21.2%, Investigation 16.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 11%
You discover a phone lost in the wilderness. Will you be able to solve all the riddles it holds to uncover the story behind it?
Why similar: Investigation 27.7%, Logic 16.5%, Detective 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 12%, Investigation 11%, Simulation 11%
Investigate mysteries, craft medicine, and uncover the truth in this brand-new story from The Apothecary Diaries. Explore the rear palace and capital to gather evidence and question witnesses, then assemble what you've learned into theories and deductions to solve thrilling mysteries in this sprawling adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 32.1%, Investigation 26.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, Logic 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Tale'Switch is a narrative mystery puzzle game about changing events recorded in a book. Replace the people, objects, and places in its sentences, witness the consequences, trace the choices behind recurring tragedies, and carry clues between stories to unlock the next character's record.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 12.2%, Detective 11%
A mystery detective game where you investigate a disappearance, search for clues, solve puzzles, question suspects, and uncover the truth before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 34.1%, Investigation 28.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Mystery 8%
A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone. Point, click and chat as you investigate on your new computer in this puzzle mystery.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Logic 10.1%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Investigation 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
Dive into a decade of secrets, mysterious characters and their inexplicable deaths - in the shadow of the darkest time in human history. Investigate crimes, decode documents, collect clues and solve riddles - one word at a time. The deeper you read, the less any of it seems to be an accident.
Why similar: Detective 29.1%, Investigation 22.6%, Logic 11.4%, Puzzle 8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
Sinheritance is a terrifying and mind-bending puzzle game. Explore every corner in an intensely oppressive atmosphere to piece together a chilling story. Every step must be taken with caution, for the deepest fears often stem from your own choices and your gradually crumbling sanity.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 22%, Logic 15.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Puzzle 8.1%
I Need To Leave is a point-and-click escape game. The door is never locked, yet you keep returning to where you started. Search for clues and find the right way to leave this shared apartment of anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Incremental 15.2%, Linear 7.8%, Psychological 7.8%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 19.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Puzzle 8.1%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Guilty or Not is a single-player detective simulator where you are the judge, the jury, and the law. Investigate cases, gather evidence, and interrogate suspects and witnesses to uncover the truth. Justice is in your hands, even if it ends in death... What will your final verdict be?
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Investigation 17%, Logic 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Fatal Logic is a deductive logic puzzle game where you investigate crime scenes, cross-reference clues, and use the process of elimination to identify the killer across hours of challenging mysteries and community-created workshop levels.
Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Investigation 24.1%, Logic 22.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, Mystery 6.1%
Gather information on social media in-game to take down every last boss in this deduction-based puzzle adventure game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn. It's release day for the latest entry in a legendary action game series, and you need to beat it. Fun is secondary, victory is all.
Why similar: Detective 32.8%, Investigation 23.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Puzzle 9.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 26.1%, Detective 20.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Mystery 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
《春泥》是一款刑侦题材的悬疑解谜推理游戏。2018年中秋前夕，刑警程佑接到报案，动身前往泥塑匠林家处理一起家庭伤人案。随着调查深入，案件的疑点层层浮现，将她引向一连串尘封已久的谜团。往事的土壤正在松动，深埋的真相即将揭开......
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Investigation 17.5%, Incremental 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Logic 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Puzzle 9.7%
On a remote village shrouded in bloody tradition, a centuries-old ritual endures. You are a detective with unique skills, yet branded as a traitor. Will you surrender your limbs to ascend like an immortal? Or risk everything at the edge of science and plunge into the abyss of truth?
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Incremental 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
You agreed to deliver one package because it might save your child. Instead, you wake before the gates of the afterlife and are put to work in the Department of Final Judgment. Examine the lives of the dead and decide who deserves Heaven and who will be sent to Hell.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Investigation 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, Psychological 8.1%
Switch between multiple protagonists in this suspense visual novel and follow the event of the three days leading up to Halloween. Piece together clues from each perspective to uncover the truth, as your choices reshape the fates of the others.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Mystery 7.9%
