60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Word Game, Interactive Fiction, Puzzle.
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
At His Grave
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
对我好点！异世界HelloNewWorld
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 23.6% ★, Time Travel 21.9% ★, Detective 13.5%, Drama 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Why similar: Word Game 30.3%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Story Rich 6.6%, Puzzle 6.1%
你在一栋被完全封锁的公寓里觉醒，但是除了自己的化名以外对自己的过去一无所知。神秘的幕后黑手逼迫这所公寓里所有人自相残杀，而你以及这所公寓乃至整个世界真正的真相是什么？
Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Detective 29.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Investigation 14.6%, Puzzle 10%
NodeGame，原版游戏名为：脱出ゲーム | Nodes，由岩崎、はとむね开发，并在日本举办的GAMEJAM上首次亮相。 诡雅异俗，出自。原意为：与雅正相悖与长俗相违，也指异端邪说。 之所以选定这个名字，是因为我感觉他更有神秘感，也代表了很强的创作能力！！
Why similar: Word Game 23%, Detective 18.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Drama 12%
欢迎来到温泉岛，我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗？那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落，那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说，那里是另一个世界，由贪婪，欲念构成的炼狱……最后，请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Detective 14.4%, Drama 14%, Investigation 7.2%
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
Why similar: Word Game 19.1%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Drama 11.7%, Text-Based 10.4%
一个普通的早晨，五个大学生踏入同一间教室，却在陌生的空间醒来。纸条上写着： “在七天内找到真相，否则这里就会毁灭。”你将如何度过这七天？
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Word Game 18.9%, Drama 14.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 26.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Drama 12.9%, Detective 11.1%
A slow-burn investigative experience focused on reading, deduction, and uncovering connections between cases. Settle in for quiet night shifts, piece together hidden truths, and uncover the stories buried within The Archive.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 17.2% ★, Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Time Travel 13.1% ★
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Why similar: Time Travel 24.2% ★, Time Manipulation 22.8% ★, Detective 19.5%, Investigation 10.9%, Word Game 10.2%
1988年，日本泡沫经济破灭前夕，化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警，侦查青梅奇怪自杀案，牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密，穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头，在人心与生死的抉择中，搜查蛛丝马迹，找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 20.1%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Drama 10.1%
In a dark world where reality blends with illusion, you strive to uncover the mystery of your sister's death. Explore locations, interact with characters, and gather clues. Gradually, your mind begins to betray you, and each step could lead either to the truth or to madness.
Why similar: Word Game 21.1%, Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Text-Based 11.7%
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 35.4%, Detective 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Drama 7.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
《流言侦探》是一款诡异，烧脑，悬疑推理剧情游戏，在游戏的体验中，玩家自主找出线索，并利用线索，和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法，玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者，玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相，找出隐藏的凶手。
Why similar: Word Game 36%, Detective 21%, Drama 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Puzzle 8.1%
Play as Wan, owner of a small midnight noodle bar. Every night, tired souls stop by after long days. Serve warm noodles, listen to their stories, and offer gentle encouragement. No battles, no pressure—just quiet comfort and the power to help others face tomorrow with confidence.
Why similar: Word Game 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Detective 16.3%, Drama 12.9%, Psychological 7.8%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 26%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Drama 10.2%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Word Game 27.5%, Detective 22.5%, Investigation 15.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.6%
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Word Game 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Drama 14%, Investigation 9.2%
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.
Why similar: Word Game 33%, Detective 16.8%, Drama 12.1%, RPG 10.4%, Text-Based 10.4%
"Who do you want to save? Or rather... who are you prepared to abandon?" A midnight "Unsend" trapped them in a rift in time, and awakened the dead "You." Become a "Ghost" inhabiting screens and surveillance feeds. Pry into perfect disguises and rotting hearts.
Why similar: Word Game 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Time Manipulation 14.1% ★, Drama 9.9%, Puzzle 7.3%
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to Hongcha Valley after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Explore scenes, question witnesses, and connect clues to separate truth from lies. Uncover a family secret buried for over twenty years.
Why similar: Word Game 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Detective 10.6%, RPG 10.4%, Drama 8.6%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 24.4% ★, Time Travel 19.1% ★, Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Investigation 10%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Time Manipulation 14.4% ★, Investigation 12.5%, Text-Based 9.9%
《浮生箓》是一款剧情重开模拟游戏，互动式轻量小说游戏。支持创意工坊自由编辑与上传自己的剧本，融合如修仙、武侠、玄幻等小说题材的背景，可自由选择出生的剧本，体验千变万化的人生，从出生开始让你体验到丰富多变的剧情，多种多样的选择，不同选择带来不同的变化，各种有趣的梗。来吧，开始你的浮生之旅，随着进程生成自己的浮生箓！
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Drama 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
A narrative-driven puzzle game about souls and forgetting. On the brink of reincarnation, she loses all her memories, and her soul is scattered. The memories of lingering spirits on the bridge seem to be connected to her story...
Why similar: Detective 29%, Word Game 14.6%, Drama 12.4%, Investigation 10.5%, Text-Based 10.3%
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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, Investigation 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
The Truth behind the town's Resurgence of serial Murders--?
Why similar: Word Game 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Detective 13.5%, RPG 11%, Drama 10.9%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25% ★, Time Travel 21.6% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Detective 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.3% ★, Word Game 22.3%, Detective 18.4%, Drama 11.7%, Investigation 10.1%
Find notes and clues that will lead to memories. Change the present by manipulating your past. You must save your childhood friend in order to escape the mansion of memories.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.5% ★, Detective 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Story Rich 8.3%, Puzzle 6.1%
All Whispering Tome is a reading adventure game about exploring stories. The hidden stories in the game are unfold while you read multiple seamingly unrelated stories. May you discover what the All Whispering Tome, whispers to you.
Why similar: Word Game 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Drama 8.1%, Story Rich 7.1%
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.
Why similar: Time Travel 20.1% ★, Detective 18.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Drama 12%, Interactive Fiction 12%
The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.
Why similar: Word Game 39.5%, Detective 23.6%, Text-Based 21.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Minimalist 5.6%
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Word Game 17.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
When the war between the Enhanced and ordinary humans shatters the future, turning back time becomes humanity's final gamble. As a life scientist navigating two timelines, you must decide: force genetic equality or embrace natural selection? No matter your choice, someone will pay the price.
Why similar: Word Game 23.5%, Time Travel 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Detective 13.1%, Drama 8.6%
This game is a cat personification reasoning game. Players will play as "Detective Cat" talking with cats to obtain evidence, unlock new locations and obtain clues and testimonies to solve various mysteries. Including three cases: , , and .
Why similar: Word Game 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Drama 11.4%, Detective 10%, RPG 7.6%
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Word Game 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Detective 16.6%, Drama 13.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
"Shenjing" is a side-scrolling mystery game set in the Ming Dynasty. Players begin with an amnesiac identity and must investigate evidence, witness testimonies, and meticulously piece together clues to uncover the truth behind each case and determine whether the characters were involved.
Why similar: Word Game 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Detective 12.5%, RPG 10.9%, Drama 10.2%
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: Word Game 19.2%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 7.8%
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Detective 22.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, Puzzle 10%, Minimalist 10%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 22.6% ★, Word Game 21.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Investigation 11%
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Word Game 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, RPG 7.8%
Speak of My Sin is a word reasoning game - players are supposed to find the truth of the cases, restore the story in a number of interrelated cases and finally detect the identification of “me”, speaking out “my” sin.
Why similar: Word Game 23.1%, Detective 22%, Text-Based 19.4%, Drama 14.3%, Investigation 7.2%
Huoqi Xuezhong Temple is a 3D suspense exploration game. The ancient temple covered in heavy snow suddenly caught fire. A mysterious shadow transported you back three hours before the fire started. Faced with six people gathered at this temple with different purposes.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.6% ★, Detective 24.2%, Drama 11.5%, Investigation 9.9%, Puzzle 7.5%
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
Why similar: Word Game 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Idler 13%, Drama 10.5%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Word Game 23.9%, Detective 18%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Drama 9.7%
Step into the thrilling world of "A Million Murder Mysteries," where every second counts and every word holds the key to solving a gripping case. This intense text-based detective game challenges your analytical skills and deductive reasoning as you race against time to unravel a million mysteries.
Why similar: Word Game 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Detective 13.9%, Idler 12.9%
"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Word Game 23.1%, Drama 13.8%, Investigation 13.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
A cozy investigation game where you observe a street, pin down its residents’ secrets, and solve mysteries. Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures), investigating a neighborhood that hides its secrets well.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.1% ★, Detective 22.3%, Word Game 22.2%, Investigation 13.3%, Puzzle 6.4%
《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.
Why similar: Word Game 29.2%, Detective 22.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Investigation 8.5%, Drama 7.2%
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Word Game 26.1%, Detective 19.5%, Drama 17.2%, Text-Based 10.7%, Puzzle 8.8%
An infinite text adventure powered by an AI Game Master. Experience never-repeating generated stories and TRPG-style dice rolls, facing the surprises and challenges from a GM that can be generous or harsh in your "Starship Journey".
Why similar: Word Game 36.1%, Drama 17%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
A visual novel adaptation of Atsushi Nakajima’s The Moon Over the Mountain, retelling the tragic story of Li Zheng, a Tang dynasty scholar who turns into a tiger. This edition features a new Chinese translation, minimalist art and music, and a single narrative path of about 15 minutes.
Why similar: Word Game 38.5%, Text-Based 30.2%, Drama 18%, RPG 8.8%, Casual 4.5%
Travels to a different world, chooses to join different forces, made your character strong, defeat all enemies who stand against you
Why similar: Word Game 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Idler 15.2%, Time Travel 13.8% ★, Text-Based 12.3%
"Fish Tank" is a school-themed visual novel game that explores the inner world of teenagers and supernatural powers. Players will make choices in the game to reach different endings for the protagonist Xie Lihe.Use your imagination wisely and remember to manage your oxygen.
Why similar: Word Game 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 21.9%, Drama 12.7%, RPG 4.3%
A girl learned of the death of her father accidently, and as a result, she access to “FT”, the virtual reality project developed by her father. Half-brother, ambitious lawyer, hunting killers and mystery hackers..... Will she go back to the reality world safely?
Why similar: Word Game 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Drama 11%, Casual 6.5%
