60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Detective, Interactive Fiction, Investigation.
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.
吾光笔记
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？
Cthulhu Round Table 克苏鲁圆桌
This Lovecraftian psychological horror text game puts you as an Observer spared by the Round Table. You randomly possess one of ten unknown mortals per round. Deduce your host and three Old Ones' emissaries via dialogue, clues and table talks.
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 30.3%, Detective 29.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Puzzle 10.2%
This Lovecraftian psychological horror text game puts you as an Observer spared by the Round Table. You randomly possess one of ten unknown mortals per round. Deduce your host and three Old Ones' emissaries via dialogue, clues and table talks.
Why similar: Word Game 30.1%, Detective 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Puzzle 7.7%
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 17.3% ★, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Time Travel 13.3% ★, Text-Based 13.2%
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 24.5% ★, Time Manipulation 22.9% ★, Detective 19.5%, Investigation 10.8%, Word Game 10%
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 26.9% ★, Time Travel 25% ★, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Why similar: Word Game 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 19.9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 19.2% ★, Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Investigation 9.9%
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 27.4%, Detective 22.6%, Investigation 15%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
Abyss Archives is a detective mystery game with elements of horror. You play as an investigator sent to a construction site shut down after a supernatural incident. Using old photographs, you trace the memories of the dead and piece together the truth hidden beneath the abyss.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.9% ★, Detective 28.4%, Investigation 13.5%, Puzzle 7.8%, Story Rich 7.5%
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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Time Manipulation 14.6% ★, Investigation 12.4%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 21.5%, Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Investigation 10.2%
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 25.1% ★, Time Travel 21.7% ★, Investigation 13.6%, Detective 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
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 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Investigation 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 26%, Detective 21.7%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Puzzle 6.4%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Word Game 18.1%, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, RPG 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 8.3%, Text-Based 8.3%
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 39.4%, Detective 23.7%, Text-Based 21.7%, Puzzle 9.5%, Minimalist 5.7%
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 25.3% ★, Word Game 22.8%, Detective 19%, Investigation 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
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 19.1%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Detective 14.2%, Investigation 7.8%
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 23.5%, Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Text-Based 13%
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 30%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 18.7%, Detective 12.9%, RPG 6%
"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 38.1%, Detective 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, RPG 7.7%
Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the FBI… but add dentures). Investigate your neighbors, figure out their names and professions, and uncover all their secrets in this no-murder detective game full of white hair and mugs of tea.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.3% ★, Detective 22.4%, Word Game 21.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 20.3%, Text-Based 14.6%, Detective 14.1%, Idler 12.5%
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Detective 22.2%, Text-Based 21%, Puzzle 10.2%, Minimalist 10%
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Time Manipulation 21.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 11.5%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 17.3%, Idler 14.6%, Time Travel 14.1% ★, Text-Based 12.2%
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 22.3%, Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Puzzle 9%
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.2% ★, Time Travel 26.2% ★, Detective 22.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Story Rich 5.4%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 24.1% ★, Word Game 22.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Investigation 11.5%
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Word Game 26.2%, Detective 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Investigation 16%, Puzzle 7.5%
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.1% ★, Time Travel 25% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%
A word game, does not support the handle, the operation is the mouse and keyboard space. It can be said that it is very simple. The theme of obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis is a large text dialogue, which is more depressing. Please be careful if you don't like it.
Why similar: Word Game 27.9%, Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Detective 14.9%, Story Rich 6.6%
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 36.8% ★, Detective 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Story Rich 8.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
Navigate complex relationships and unexpected revelations as a transfer student with amnesia in this visual novel adventure. Uncover the truth behind a mysterious dream and the wishes of the campus crush.
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 12.6%, Detective 10.7%, RPG 8%
Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.
Why similar: Word Game 26.7%, Detective 19.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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 27.2%, Word Game 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Investigation 10.6%, Story Rich 7.4%
The story takes place in South East Asia. Start from a drug case, follow private detective Sui Feng to discover a mysterious complexion full of conspiracy, overcome his intermittent amnesia, and avenge for his love…Can you find out the real culprit through fragments of memories?
Why similar: Word Game 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Detective 15.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, RPG 5.7%
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 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 11.7%, RPG 11.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
一个欢乐气氛的悬疑文字冒险类游戏。你将不断在十位不同身份的角色间切换视点来推进故事的发展并达成各种各样的结局。这是由一个个平凡而又独特的个人故事所拼出的新的物语，或许里面也有着你的故事……？
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.7%, Investigation 11.7%, Detective 10.1%
Mindjack is a plot-progression Visual novels and investigation game about social violence. Hijack instructors' vision terminals, eavesdrop on conspiracies, and capture violent acts. You must uncover dark secrets, and decide whether to save your friends trapped within the time limit.
Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Time Manipulation 17.9% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Word Game 26%, Detective 22.9%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Detective 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Word Game 21.4%, RPG 8.2%, Story Rich 7.4%
This is a simulated divination game. Use "Qimen Dunjia" to help customers divine, learn its contents, experience the fun of divination, and understand the charm of traditional Chinese culture~
Why similar: Word Game 32.1%, Detective 29.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Casual 5.4%, Idler 5.4%
"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 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Time Manipulation 18.8% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Lore-Rich 6.7%
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 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, RPG 8.4%
A text novel game based on the historical facts of the 19th century Just click the mouse Rich story and extended collection system
Why similar: Word Game 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, RPG 14.1%, Casual 6.8%
森林深处有着一间咨询室，在那里有一个机器人，她的任务是透过语言为迷途之人指引前行的道路，单纯且复杂。
Why similar: Word Game 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Investigation 12.9%, RPG 12.5%, Text-Based 11.2%
她的微笑，曾经让赤瞳的女子以为，自己不再是带来灾厄的乌鸦。直到四年前，神秘的团体将她的学生绑走，挖去双眼。[晦气][乌鸦][凶手]，再次成了她的代表词。【有罪之人的 复仇 惩罚 即将来临 】被命运和性格束缚，这一次能否改变？你会改变什么？战斗，悬疑，治愈，推理，剧情持续反转，诡异的仪式，疯狂的连环杀人与肢解，新的死亡祭品，再次来临的威胁与复仇背后，真相到底是……
Why similar: Word Game 26.1%, Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15.9%, Puzzle 6.7%
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Travel 46.5% ★, Time Manipulation 44.4% ★, Puzzle 9.1%
各懷目的的少年少女們，聚在一起挑戰神奇的「X遊戲」，沒有甚麼神奇的奇幻的魔法，更沒有外星人或鬼怪等事件，僅僅只是一個普通的狼人殺遊戲而已......嗎？找出真正的兇手，並且在那之前避免被票死，活到最後，擄獲美人心吧！
Why similar: Word Game 37.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Detective 23.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Casual 2.2%
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 26.4%, Detective 20.1%, Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
You are an investigator granted access to the "Paranormal Event Archive Management System." Browse century-old case files. Search for clues. But be careful—the archives are watching you now. >_ Files that watch back. Disappearances unexplained. Messages never sent.
Why similar: Word Game 38.4%, Detective 21.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Puzzle 9.6%, Investigation 8.8%
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，否则这里就会崩塌。”——你将如何度过这七天？
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Word Game 22.1%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Puzzle 8%
