60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Detective, Mystery.
COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.
Twin Mirror
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Cinematic 12.7%, Crime 12.6%, Detective 11.7%, Choices Matter 11%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Investigation 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Cinematic 13.1%, Detective 10.5%, Crime 9.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Crime 13.8%, Investigation 11.5%, Detective 11.3%, Choices Matter 9%
Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “The Akiba Vanishing”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Cinematic 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Crime 9.8%
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: Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 10.3%
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Cinematic 13.1%, Detective 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 13.8%, Crime 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Build a flawless murder plan, then savor the mistake. Plan every detail. Choose the time, place, method, alibi and frame. But no plan is perfect. Serve your murder with style, then watch a brilliant detective find the one tiny detail you missed. Every murder leaves an aftertaste.
Why similar: Crime 25.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Cinematic 10.8%
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: Crime 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A psychological detective thriller. Everyone has already decided who did it. You don't have to. Investigate a double death, question everyone who loved them, and discover how much you can trust your own mind.
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Crime 14.8%, Investigation 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Cinematic 9.8%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Investigation 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Cinematic 13.2%, Detective 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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: Crime 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 12.2%, Cinematic 12%, Investigation 10.7%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Crime 13.8%, Investigation 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
In our story rich game Gold Of Lotusland you play as Lead Engineer Daniel Quinn as he uncovers the dark truth about the robots he designed as well as the world he lives within. Could the machines be capable of murder? What is Lotusland? You as the player must make the choices to discover the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Crime 14%, Cinematic 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Detective 10.1%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 12.9%, Crime 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Investigation 10.5%
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 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Cinematic 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Investigation 9.7%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Cinematic 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.2%, Cinematic 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
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: Crime 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Investigation 11.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Investigation 11.2%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Crime 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Detective 11.3%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 14%, Crime 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.
Why similar: Cinematic 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Emotional 10.6%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Crime 17.8%, Detective 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Investigation 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: Crime 18.9%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Detective 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
One cold case, four deathbed flashbacks. Every shift in perspective overturns the "truth" you believed. Story-driven, with exploration, deduction, puzzles, and combat. Ready for a mind-bending thrill ride with twists at every turn?
Why similar: Crime 17.3%, Detective 14.6%, Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Cinematic 10.5%
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Crime 14.6%, Detective 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Cinematic 9.5%
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 17.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
Why similar: Crime 15.5%, Cinematic 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Detective 10.9%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Investigation 16.5%, Detective 15.4%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Detective 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Crime 16.3%, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 9.3%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Investigation 10.3%, Cinematic 10.2%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Cinematic 11.4%
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Crime 14.5%, Detective 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Why similar: Crime 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Detective 13.7%, Cinematic 12.7%, Investigation 11.2%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Story Rich 10%
A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Crime 20.6%, Detective 15.5%, Mystery 10.5%, Cinematic 9.5%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Detective 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Crime 22.3%, Detective 17.5%, Investigation 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Mystery 14%
Shadowless is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a creepy house marked by tragedy, where dark entities and the past haunt you. Defenseless, you face a nightmare that consumes you before you can escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Crime 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 10.7%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Crime 16.2%, Cinematic 14.6%, Investigation 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Detective 11%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Cinematic 10.7%
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Why similar: Crime 18.3%, Detective 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Mystery 9.6%
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: Crime 19.3%, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10%
The third and final part of the 'Cold Verdict' trilogy. Claire has spent two years tracking down the elusive masked man who puts people through psychological games. Now she has to get through another of his ordeals if she wants to bring him to justice. Make choices and decide the final outcome!
Why similar: Crime 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Psychological 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Detective 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Just a Memory is a story based choice and consequence game featuring Aaron Page, a 19 year-old college student investigating the murder of his best friend while confronting his demons.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Crime 16.1%, Cinematic 15%, Detective 10.8%
ATMOSPHERIC UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE. You seek revenge against the oligarch who destroyed your family. Is killing ever justified?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Crime 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Story Rich 12%, Adventure 5.1%
The Dawning is a first-person puzzle mystery game. Play as Detective Madison as he searches 7 beautifully crafted areas for clues to catch a killer. Use stealth to sneak past deadly enemies. Solve complex puzzles to access new areas, progress the rich storyline, and obtain key items.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.6%, Crime 18%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 11.7%, Mystery 9.5%
Guilty or Not is a single-player detective simulator where you are the judge, the jury, and the law. Investigate cases, gather evidence, and interrogate suspects and witnesses to uncover the truth. Justice is in your hands, even if it ends in death... What will your final verdict be?
Why similar: Crime 21%, Detective 15.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Investigation 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
