60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Detective, Investigation, Choose Your Own Adventure.
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The Shell Part III: Paradiso
The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
Why similar: Historical 15.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Conspiracy 13.9% ★, Crime 11.9%, Detective 10.6%
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
Why similar: Investigation 15.9%, Historical 15.5%, Conspiracy 14.4% ★, Detective 11.5%, Crime 11.1%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, RPG 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Historical 18.8%, Investigation 17.5%, Conspiracy 13.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Medieval 10.1%
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Why similar: Conspiracy 22.3% ★, Investigation 20%, Detective 13.9%, Crime 12.9%, Historical 11%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Investigation 24.4%, Crime 18.1%, Detective 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 10.8%
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Crime 12.3%, Detective 11.4%, Investigation 10.5%
Immerse yourself in a realm of madness and bone-chilling terror as you step into our gripping horror adventure, meticulously crafted to send shivers down your spine. Explore a nightmarish world where each step unveils sinister secrets and heart-pounding encounters.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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: Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Crime 17.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Detective 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
A psychological horror narrative game disguised as an AI assistant. Launch what appears to be a helpful terminal, but discover the "intelligence" responding isn't only artificial - something or someone else is tagging along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 7.8%
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: Investigation 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Investigation 21.3%, Detective 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Crime 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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: Artificial Intelligence 19.4%, Investigation 17.1%, Conspiracy 14.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 10.7%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Crime 12.9%, Detective 10.9%
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: Artificial Intelligence 22.1%, Investigation 16.1%, Detective 12.7%, Crime 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Historical 16.4%, Investigation 14.2%, Crime 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Crime 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Investigation 15%, RPG 12.6%
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.7% ★, Investigation 16.6%, Historical 14.7%, Crime 13.7%, Detective 12.1%
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Historical 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 8.2%
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 16%, Investigation 15.6%, Conspiracy 14.8% ★, Detective 12.1%, Crime 10.4%
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: Conspiracy 20.2% ★, Investigation 19.4%, Detective 14%, Historical 13%, Crime 11.5%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 32.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Horror 11.8%
Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.
Why similar: Conspiracy 30.5% ★, Investigation 28.1%, Historical 21.3%, Mystery 7.6%, Detective 7.6%
ONIGASHIMA is a psychological horror visual novel with romantic tragedy, supernatural loop mechanics, and dual-layered narration. Play as a nameable protagonist and uncover the truth behind the Red Moon and the devouring of your villagers.
Why similar: Historical 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Find the Golden Pineapple and the crimes against the Mayans. In Pineapple Legend, solve investigations with amusing and humorous situations. Explore the city of Takitani: investigate, solve puzzles, collect cards, equip accessories, fish, garden, fight in the arena, and increase your affinity!!!
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Crime 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Detective 12.2%
Discover a world where magic and science, chaos and order, are two sides of the same coin.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Crime 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Detective 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried? As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past. Start now.
Why similar: Crime 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Investigation 18.5%, Detective 16.6%, Adventure 8.6%
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: Investigation 20.4%, Crime 18.3%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
The first agentic RPG. An AI Game Master that doesn't just tell your story — it plays it, through real decisions in a living game engine. Any genre, any world, any story. Your adventure, your novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Artificial Intelligence 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.3%, Investigation 12.2%
A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.
Why similar: Gothic 17.7% ★, Historical 13.5%, Investigation 13.3%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
A singleplayer, story game where you can make decisions and read your way through history.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Historical 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, RPG 11%, Conspiracy 10.8% ★
《昭阳传》是一款以玩家扮演昭阳国皇帝，在游戏内与AI角色互动，以此改变对应角色、国家、世界走向的人工智能ADV。
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 16.1%, Historical 11.8%, RPG 9.8%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Gothic 17.6% ★, Detective 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Horror 9.8%
When a murder is committed under mysterious and supernatural circumstances, the Inspector arrives on the scene, ready to interrogate witnesses, decipher riddles, and fend off attackers seeking their next victim. Ready your spyglass and sword as you take on these two murder mystery RPGs.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.3% ★, Investigation 14.8%, Text-Based 14%, Crime 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.
Why similar: Crime 17.5%, Text-Based 17.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Historical 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%
Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Artificial Intelligence 21.1%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
A Geoguessr-inspired detective game set on an alien planet. Pinpoint the exact locations of photos to track down missing archeologist Abigail Lidari. Cross-reference journal entries, decipher cryptic symbols, and uncover the mysteries of an ancient civilization.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23% ★, Investigation 21.7%, Crime 14.5%, Detective 13.9%, Historical 13.3%
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, RPG 9.9%
A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?
Why similar: Investigation 23.5%, Crime 15%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Detective 12.9%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 19.2%, Historical 16%, Crime 14.8%, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Crime 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Investigation 12.5%
The first historical visual novel. 13th century - steppe, steel, and intrigue. Subedei and Jebe lead their armies westward, and it is up to you to decide: will history remain as written in the chronicles, or will you rewrite it anew?
Why similar: Historical 24%, Medieval 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
"I Want to Be a Werewolf" is a text-based adventure where you can enjoy the detective elements of the Werewolf game and the stories of the characters.A strange room when you wake up. "werewolf game" that starts without knowing the purpose. Mystery & suspense that sees through deception.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Conspiracy 14.7% ★, Visual Novel 13.7%, Crime 13.3%, Detective 11.1%
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.8% ★, Investigation 17.7%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Medieval 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%
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: Conspiracy 25.6% ★, Investigation 23%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%
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: Investigation 18.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Detective 13.6%
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: Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Crime 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 11.4%
When a murdered family is discovered in 17th Century Salem, at the height of a witch hysteria, people start to suspect something supernatural to blame. An atmospheric murder mystery. Connect the evidence and see if you can deduce the secrets behind the mystery.
Why similar: Gothic 17.1% ★, Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Conspiracy 18.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.
Why similar: Historical 21.6%, Investigation 17.8%, Detective 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 12.3%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Investigation 25.2%, Crime 20%, Detective 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 11.2%
A portal inspired walking simulator horror game.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.3%, Investigation 15.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Horror 9.8%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Conspiracy 13.6% ★, Visual Novel 10.6%, Detective 10.1%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Crime 19.8%, Investigation 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%
A mystery adventure where a boy travels back to Edo-period Japan and investigates grotesque murders in Yoshiwara's pleasure quarter. Using a time-loop system, players uncover the truth by replaying events and piecing together clues.
Why similar: Historical 21.7%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Crime 12.4%
