60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Mystery.
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.
Accident Investigator Simulator: Black Box
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
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 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 10%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Investigation 14.9%, Noir 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
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%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 18.5%, Investigation 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 9.6%, 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 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Detective 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 17.1%, Noir 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Investigation 14.4%, Noir 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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 19.4%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Investigation 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 22.2%, Detective 21%, Noir 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%
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 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Visual Novel 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 16.2%, Noir 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 30.8%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Noir 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 17.2%, Noir 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, 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 16.7%, Noir 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Investigation 15%, Noir 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, 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 20.3%, Investigation 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband
Why similar: Investigation 17.2%, Noir 16.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Snowbound for decades, a Trans-Siberian train holds its passengers exactly as they died. Talk to the frozen dead. Uncover the identity of a legendary thief. Decide how far you're willing to go for the truth.
Why similar: Detective 15.2%, Investigation 13.9%, Noir 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Noir 6.8%
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 18.7%, Investigation 16.4%, Noir 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
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%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 13%
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 21.6%, Investigation 18.8%, Noir 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Logic 7.6%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 21.2%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Noir 21.7%, Investigation 19.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
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 17.4%, Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Investigation 19%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Noir 13.7%, Sci-fi 9.6%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Noir 17.4%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Noir 21.4%, Investigation 19.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 17.9%, Hand-drawn 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 25.8%, Detective 20.1%, Multiple Endings 11%, Puzzle 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 15.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 8.7%
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 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
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 24%, Detective 21.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Investigation 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.9%
Seoul, 2035. A first-person noir text adventure. Step into the shoes of Park Eunkyul, an investigator who verifies what no one else wants verified. Read the scene, question the witness, follow erased traces — and watch every certainty you started with quietly fall apart.
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Noir 15.4%, Sci-fi 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
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 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Investigation 10.5%
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 21%, Investigation 15.8%, Noir 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%
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 15.8%, Noir 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
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 14.7%, Detective 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Noir 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 11.3%, Visual Novel 11%
A noir detective game played at your desk. Read evidence photos, CCTV footage and records, compare fingerprints and voices, and fill in the suspect matrix yourself before you accuse anyone. Juggle action points, fees and deadlines across eight cases as a criminal organization closes in.
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Investigation 20.9%, Noir 16%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, 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 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Papers, Please in the afterlife. Question the dead, uncover their sins with strange instruments, and decide: Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory. Even Johny Goldstein has a story that makes him innocent. Check it before you reach for the stamp.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Investigation 17.4%, Noir 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 14.5%, Investigation 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
London, 1889. Step into the shoes of a young detective in this hand-drawn, point-and-click mystery. Explore the dark halls of Seraphim House, illuminate the shadows, and interrogate suspects to solve a complex locked-room murder. Will you accuse the right person?
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Noir 19.6%, Detective 15.8%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 25.9%, Investigation 21.8%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 17.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 9%
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 24.7%, Investigation 20.1%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 12%
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 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Investigation 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Investigation 18.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9%
