- #1 Detective Turtletop: Who Killed Harambe?
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Turtletop Software
Windows
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Detective 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%
- #2 时忆 Memory of Time
96% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: SPARROW STUDIO
Windows
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
Why similar: Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Drama 13.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #3 The Island: Into The Mist
96% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Detective 13.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #4 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.7%
- #5 Coalescence
94% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #6 Lacuna: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive91% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13.3%
- #7 FORTUNE the FATED
92% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #8 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #9 You're a dad
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Conversation 13.9% ★, Multiple Endings 9%
- #10 JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JD Detective Thrillers Studio
Windows
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Detective 14.6%, Mystery 7.6%
- #11 Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel
89% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Tortita Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive Thomas’s memories in this mystery-filled visual novel. What really happened to Emily? Make choices, explore different versions of events, and uncover two complementary endings that reveal the full truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Drama 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Conversation 10.7% ★
- #12 All (Too) Good Things
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21%, Multiple Endings 13%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #13 Sunset High
87% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Turnip Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Detective 12.4%
- #14 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Noir 16.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #15 Across Kiloparsecs
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dragon Dropper
Windows · Linux
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Science 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #16 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Noir 19.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #17 Pasajeros
84% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Text-Based 10%
- #18 ナカノ人格移植研究所
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Detective 13.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #19 Tron: Identity
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
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: Noir 21.3%, Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 10.3%
- #20 Five Biggest Accomplishments
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Noir 26.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #21 NOAH: 2050
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team NOAH
Windows
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 20.5%, Conversation 17.5% ★, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #22 Biocybernetic Trap
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 12.5%
- #23 201 - The Bad Number
81% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #24 PIGBLUE
80% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Noir 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Drama 11.3%
- #25 Robot's Fate: Alice
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Science 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #26 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
79% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Noir 22.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #27 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
76% matchVery Positive88% of 224 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Detective 20.1%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #28 Veils of the Past
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TangoScarMike Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Detective 12.6%
- #29 PataNoir
79% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
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: Noir 24.6%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #30 Misadventures of Laura Silver
78% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Noir 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 12.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #31 小学生はませている。
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: NOLAS project
Windows
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Detective 14.2%, Drama 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #32 雪凤山 Secret Opera
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 169 reviews2024
Dev: GOCORE
Windows
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Drama 14.8%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #33 Message in a Melody
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Text-Based 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #34 No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
73% matchVery Positive82% of 874 reviews2025
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
Why similar: Noir 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Detective 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #35 You Weren't Invited
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CJ
Windows · Mac · Linux
Investigate a murder. Romance five woman. But trust carefully: one of them is the killer.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #36 Murder at the Cat Show
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AppleHead Games
Windows · Mac
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #37 Alice49 EP.0『ダイヤモンドとシュークリーム』
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Include0
Windows
Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Text-Based 23.8%, Mystery 18.5%, Detective 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #38 Defragmenting
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Conversation 13.9% ★, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #39 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
72% matchVery Positive95% of 720 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Multiple Endings 12%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #40 To Be Altered: ACT 1
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: SKELLYBED Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Noir 18.6%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #41 Silent Earth
73% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%
- #42 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
70% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Conversation 14.3% ★, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
- #43 The Trials of Ozymandias
72% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Drama 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #44 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
70% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Text-Based 27.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 2.6%
- #45 Wizard Confidential
68% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Noir 14.2%, Detective 12.4%
- #46 Death off the Cuff
71% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
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: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 8%
- #47 Clean Slate
71% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mariano JarPub: Time Ajar
Windows · Linux
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: Noir 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Detective 16.6%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #48 AmaTisMo
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VegetinES
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about depression and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Conversation 16.1% ★, Drama 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #49 Gomorrah
70% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: SandboxPub: 34BigThings
Windows
A dark and suspenseful narrative RPG about an Italian mafia family, where morality is tested with every branching decision.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 13.9%, Detective 12.2%
- #50 Vanakan
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 25%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 2.3%
- #51 Arderico's Journey
68% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Drama 11.8%
- #52 The Girl Who Wasn't There
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1564 Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Detective 18.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Visual Novel 10%
- #53 A Study in Blue
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
- #54 Vida
67% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 24.1%, Conversation 18% ★, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #55 The Trials - Chapter Two
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, Noir 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #56 Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: coly Inc.
Windows · Mac
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: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Mystery 12.7%
- #57 Elevenses
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDRAYPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
일레븐지스는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 악마 '메피'는 화자인 '이지원'을 위해 여러 가지 시련을 준비했습니다. 악마를 이기기 위해선 잔머리가 아닌 굳센 의지와 날카로운 직감이 필요합니다. 위대한 대적자, '메피'와 그녀가 준비한 장기말들을 직접 목도하세요.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Conversation 18% ★, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%