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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 What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software?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: 1990's 18.6%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 13.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Point & Click 9.5%

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 27.8%, Mystery 20.1%, 1990's 15.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Point & Click 9.8%

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 28.2%, Mystery 17.1%, Puzzle 15.6%, Text-Based 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

"What's the Password?" is a minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords. Featuring over 100 puzzles!

Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Puzzle 25.8%, Mystery 21.2%, Stylized 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

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 30.2%, Mystery 26.1%, 1990's 15%, Puzzle 11.2%, Text-Based 7.9%

you have an update for your operating system...

Why similar: Puzzle 23.2%, Mystery 20.1%, 1990's 19.7%, Retro 16%, Indie 8.7%

Delve into a gripping world of puzzles, true ciphers on an old PalmPilot system. Will you uncover the Crypt Killer’s confession and bring him to justice, or will he escape the law?

Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Point & Click 17.1%, Puzzle 16.1%, Retro 12.7%, Mystery 11.9%

Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?

Why similar: 1990's 26.2%, Puzzle 18%, Detective 17.2%, Point & Click 15.3%, Retro 14%

Connected Clue is a quarter-view detective adventure game inspired by the atmosphere of 19th-century mystery novels. Gather clues, see through lies, and uncover the identity of the culprit shrouded in secrecy!

Why similar: Detective 21.4%, 1990's 20.7%, Mystery 14%, Puzzle 10.8%, Point & Click 10%

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Why similar: Detective 32.7%, Mystery 16.4%, Point & Click 15%, Puzzle 13.2%, Exploration 8.4%

《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 32.6%, Mystery 26.1%, Puzzle 20.3%, Text-Based 10.9%, Hand-drawn 3.8%

A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.

Why similar: Detective 19.6%, 1990's 15.8%, Point & Click 11.1%, Puzzle 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%

Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.

Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Puzzle 19.6%, Text-Based 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Point & Click 13.3%

Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!

Why similar: Detective 31.9%, 1990's 22.8%, Mystery 18.7%, Puzzle 17.8%, 2D 6.5%

Okay, Pedro is AWOL, and you have to get this LAN Party set up at the Game Store for the session later. Connect cables, install software, and solve puzzles all while you and the gang uncover the mystery of your missing friend.

Why similar: 1990's 29%, Detective 22.3%, Mystery 20.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Point & Click 8.7%

Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.

Why similar: Mystery 37.7%, Puzzle 22.9%, Retro 10.4%, Text-Based 6.8%, Hand-drawn 6.1%

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

Why similar: Mystery 28.5%, Detective 24.7%, Puzzle 14%, Text-Based 12.7%, Point & Click 12.1%

A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.

Why similar: Detective 23.4%, 1990's 19.2%, Mystery 18.9%, Puzzle 11.9%, Point & Click 11.7%

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: Detective 28.5%, Mystery 23.1%, Puzzle 13%, Point & Click 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.

Why similar: Mystery 22.8%, Retro 22.2%, Puzzle 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Exploration 11.1%

Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.

Why similar: Retro 18.2%, Detective 17.6%, Point & Click 16.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Text-Based 11%

Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.

Why similar: Puzzle 19.4%, Point & Click 18.5%, Mystery 17.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.9%

Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.

Why similar: Mystery 26.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Point & Click 12.6%, Stylized 10.8%

Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.

Why similar: Mystery 42.8%, Puzzle 27.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Adventure 4.2%

A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!

Why similar: Puzzle 32.2%, Retro 28.4%, Pixel Graphics 22.1%, 2D 11.5%, Indie 3.9%

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: Detective 33.2%, Mystery 25.1%, Puzzle 17.3%, Point & Click 16.2%, Atmospheric 4.2%

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.2%, Retro 32.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Indie 3.3%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Mystery 33.3%, Puzzle 21.2%, Retro 15.3%, Exploration 11.7%, Detective 7.4%

Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Mystery 21.3%, Puzzle 16.5%, Point & Click 14.5%, Exploration 8.2%

Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.

Why similar: Detective 31.7%, Mystery 23%, Puzzle 11.8%, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 9.4%

Every corner of this manor holds secrets. You inherit not just the estate, but scattered letters and an intricately designed puzzle. Eyepieces transcending spacetime plunge you into others' memories. Traverse 16 themed chambers, unravel nested mechanisms, until you unveil the buried past...

Why similar: Mystery 32.8%, Puzzle 25.9%, Point & Click 19.9%, Exploration 5.6%, Atmospheric 5%

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.

Why similar: Detective 37.2%, 1990's 21.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Retro 9.7%

Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.

Why similar: Detective 31.4%, Point & Click 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, 1990's 10.5%, 2D 7.1%

As a private detective, you’ll crack word clues left by a mysterious informant, gather evidence, and uncover the truth hidden in the shadows.

Why similar: Detective 48.2%, Puzzle 45.7%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Trapped on a space station with the Keychain Killer you must unravel this mystery, or it will be your last. Collect evidence, interrogate suspects and solve puzzles to stand a chance.

Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Mystery 16.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, Point & Click 11.8%, Exploration 8.6%

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?

Why similar: Mystery 19.3%, Retro 18.4%, Puzzle 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Exploration 11.1%

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 34.7%, Mystery 25.2%, Puzzle 16.5%, Hand-drawn 6.5%, Stylized 6.4%

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Why similar: Mystery 30.1%, Puzzle 22.3%, Point & Click 19.3%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Exploration 7.5%

Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Mystery 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Exploration 13.3%, Stylized 10.3%

"Illusion Box" is the first virtual reality entertainment project of the 21st century. However, malicious rumors and computer virus infections forced the company to shut down the project. Now, the long-abandoned "Illusion Box" devices are being reactivated...

Why similar: 1990's 20%, Retro 16.3%, Mystery 15.4%, Puzzle 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Groundbreaking research is encrypted on a computer from the 80's. Look through the computer and search the internet to crack the encryption in this augmented reality puzzle game.

Why similar: Retro 42.4%, Indie 30.6%, Adventure 22.5%, Singleplayer 4.4%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, Stylized 14.9%, 2D 12.6%, Indie 7.7%

Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Mystery 19.7%, Puzzle 17.5%, Point & Click 16.1%, Hand-drawn 8%

Intruder In Antiquonia is a narrative mystery adventure that will immerse you in the Internet-hostile town of Antiquonia. Sarah does not remember who she is and how she got there. Help her solve the mysteries of her past while exploring beautiful hand-drawn environments.

Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Mystery 17.5%, Puzzle 12%, Point & Click 11.8%, Retro 11.1%

An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.

Why similar: Mystery 29.5%, Puzzle 20.3%, Point & Click 17.7%, Exploration 13.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%

Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.

Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Point & Click 18.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Text-Based 13%, Stylized 10.1%

An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.

Why similar: Detective 38.1%, Mystery 32.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Sci-fi 7.4%, 2D 4%

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: Detective 21.9%, Mystery 20%, Retro 14.9%, Point & Click 12.7%, Puzzle 11.4%

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.5%, Mystery 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Exploration 14.6%, Retro 12.8%

A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling characters, and slowly uncover a dark, ancient secret.

Why similar: 1990's 20.4%, Retro 15.6%, Mystery 13.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Puzzle 12.5%

Step into a realm of mystery and magic with Escape the Dark Tower, a captivating escape room adventure in charming pixel art.

Why similar: 1990's 27.6%, Retro 16.9%, Point & Click 13.8%, Mystery 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%

Stellar Mess is a 2D point&click adventure game, set somewhere in Argentinean Patagonia. The game is inspired by early classic EGA games of the genre.

Why similar: 1990's 22%, Retro 17.8%, Point & Click 16%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Mystery 6.4%

A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.

Why similar: Detective 50.1%, Puzzle 24.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%

A deduction puzzle game set in the last hour of a lost 90s JRPG complete with original manual, director's commentary, and clips of an unreleased amateur documentary, all used to uncover the secret at the heart of it all: "What is the Greatest RPG of All Time?"

Why similar: 1990's 38%, Retro 24.2%, Puzzle 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Atmospheric 3.4%

Clock in at TEREBRO INC. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the company's legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era-specific technology, navigate through obscured narratives to shape the company's future.

Why similar: Mystery 30%, Retro 23.7%, Puzzle 18.6%, Text-Based 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

Why similar: Mystery 24.2%, Retro 20.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Text-Based 11.1%

This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.6%, 1990's 19.4%, Point & Click 16.3%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Exploration 9.8%

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Why similar: 1990's 25.1%, Retro 13.7%, Point & Click 13.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Mystery 29.8%, Puzzle 26.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Stylized 11.4%, Sci-fi 6%

Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.

Why similar: Puzzle 87.5%, Indie 12.5%