60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Visual Novel, Detective.
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.
Tron: Identity
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.
Murder in Crayontopia
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
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 17.5%, Noir 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Investigation 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Investigation 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Investigation 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Logic 7.8%
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 16.2%, Investigation 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 17.1%, Noir 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Investigation 14.7%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%
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 25.1%, Investigation 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%
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 22.2%, Investigation 17.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Noir 12.6%, Visual Novel 9%
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%
I Am The Prosecutor is a non-linear Visual Novel about defending a cute Tomboy named Sophie where you're given just 30 seconds to make the right choice each time. Help make Sophie's case against her abusive mother and give her much needed closure.
Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Logic 7.5%
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 19.9%, Investigation 16.8%, Noir 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Noir 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 15.1%, Noir 14.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Noir 6.7%
Welcome to VIOLA_. In this cybernoir visual novel, you are ELO, a robot tasked with helping the city's police. Investigate unusual crimes, court a colorful cast of teammates, and uncover the secrets of the world of Juniba, the people around you, and your own creation.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Investigation 16.5%, Noir 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Visual Novel 13%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Noir 21.7%, Investigation 19.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
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 24.5%, Investigation 19.5%, Noir 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Puzzle 8.5%
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 17.5%, Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
You play as pharaoh Horem during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. You have to balance your work and home life as the living embodiment of a god, how hard could it be? What is right and wrong? Can there be an allowance for a lapse in judgment? Can you forge a path to getting to sleep peacefully each night?
Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Multiple Endings 18%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Detective 20%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Puzzle 10.5%
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: Detective 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Investigation 14.2%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Detective 21.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Investigation 14.5%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
In the depths of the forest, you find yourself at the footsteps of the abandoned village. Step inside to go through a horror puzzle game inspired by and set in Ukrainian folklore. Find the way out, solve the mysteries of the past, and survive the night that seems to never end.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Investigation 10.6%
A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 15.9%, Noir 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 9%
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 14.8%, Detective 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Noir 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Noir 14.8%, Investigation 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.5%
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: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Noir 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Investigation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Investigation 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Investigation 21.9%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Investigation 20.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Noir 17.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choices Matter 12.8%
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: Detective 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Investigation 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Noir 21.2%, Investigation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Detective 18%, Noir 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
The "Chip" was humanity’s evolution; Now, it’s a silent weapon. Navigate a web of conspiracy in Vesper City as Detective Richard Apocryphal, alongside your Android partner E.M.R.S, as your investigation outcomes ripple through a fractured society. Can you solve the case before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 24%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Investigation 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Detective 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Noir 17.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Emotional 7.3%
Search Detective Patetaro is a free mystery adventure set in a shopping street in 2050. Trace patents, designs, and trademarks with young detective Patetaro, compare testimony and clues, and eliminate impossible answers one by one. All 5 episodes free. Your search query becomes your deduction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 13%, Puzzle 10.6%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Dust, blood, and lies. Salvation’s Edge, 1899 — a dying town where you’re a killer, a thief, and a fraud — handed a dead man’s badge and told to solve a murder. Do they deserve redemption? Do you? Or will everyone forever be MARKED?
Why similar: Noir 20.3%, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 20%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Hand-drawn 12.3%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Noir 18.3%, Investigation 16.2%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.8%
A first-person mystery solving game, where you try to find out what happened at Syn Archives.
Why similar: Detective 31.8%, Investigation 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Sci-fi 6.5%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Embark on a mystical quest that blends Slavic folklore with arcane witchcraft, uncover hidden secrets, and rescue a village lost to the shadows in this magical detective visual novel. Oh, and never forget your cat - he might save you!
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Investigation 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 19.5%, Detective 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Nothing brings people together as well as a common grief or crime! Can you bravely confront a criminal puppeteer with no legal defense?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Noir 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
