60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Singleplayer, Choose Your Own Adventure, Detective.
Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko and her assistant tackle 23 cases in this comedy detective ADV. Find clues, shout "The culprit is YOU!" — and get it wrong. Every. Single. Time. The world's worst detective begins her investigation. Skill issue? No. It's a feature.
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In this visual novel, Maggie Crane and 15 others are invited to partake in the Isolated Society Study, where they must forge a peaceful society while attempting to outsmart each other in complex challenges. Just as the study is about to conclude, the Golding Foundation introduces a sinister twist.
ミステリーアドベンチャー 犯人はメイド
The culprit is—the maid. And the protagonist. your mission is to strike down six unsuspecting guests, one by one. But beware—you must never be suspected before your plan is complete. To escape suspicion, engage in heated debates and refute your opponents. Hide your true identity at all costs.
In this visual novel, Maggie Crane and 15 others are invited to partake in the Isolated Society Study, where they must forge a peaceful society while attempting to outsmart each other in complex challenges. Just as the study is about to conclude, the Golding Foundation introduces a sinister twist.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
The culprit is—the maid. And the protagonist. your mission is to strike down six unsuspecting guests, one by one. But beware—you must never be suspected before your plan is complete. To escape suspicion, engage in heated debates and refute your opponents. Hide your true identity at all costs.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Mystery 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Detective 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Point & Click 14.1%, Mystery 12.6%
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Point & Click 17.2%, Mystery 11.9%, Text-Based 9.4%
You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?
Why similar: Parody 22.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Comedy 12.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
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: Detective 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Point & Click 11.8%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
In this short comedy visual novel, you're an unpopular transfer student who begins a new life at a Japanese high school. You quickly get drafted into the school's most secret after-school club... but could it be that the seemingly innocent members of the Murder Club are hiding a dark secret?!
Why similar: Parody 16.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Character Customization 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Dark Humor 11.1%
ミステリー×ラヴコメ！プレイヤーは、シュークリームマンとなって、カヌレ探偵の助手的存在として、事件解決のサポートを行います。シリアスな展開もありますが、日常はコメディータッチで描かれています。時より挿入される選択肢を選ぶことで、周回プレイを楽しむことができます。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Detective 11.2%, Text-Based 9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Detective 14.3%, Point & Click 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dark Humor 11.6%
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Point & Click 15.6%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark Humor 11.2%
A comedy-mystery visual novel about Captain Fox, Detective Raccoon and the danger of pineapple pizza.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Point & Click 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Comedy 10.6%, Mystery 8.7%
'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: Detective 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Mystery 8.8%
Take the role of 4 different main characters, facing the hard trials to be a Daring Detective in NYC! A choice based visual novel where you'll develop characters' profiles (Investigation/Love/Action/Lust) solving quests, punishing crimes and facing daily loving/sexual life! 16 different endings.!
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Character Customization 10.5%
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 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 11.4%, Dark Humor 9.5%
Cute visual novel murder mystery game
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Point & Click 20.6%, Detective 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 6.8%
殺された花嫁が神の力によって生き返り、自分を殺した犯人を探す和風伝奇ミステリーADV。事件は幾度となく起こり、花嫁は幾度もの死を迎えながら、事件の真相に迫っていく――
Why similar: Detective 29.7%, Mystery 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Female Protagonist 15.2%
A battle royale themed romance parody game! Select your avatar, player voice, gamertag, and possible duo partner, as you venture into an expansive virtual world alongside a colorful cast of characters.
Why similar: Parody 29.4% ★, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Character Customization 9.7%, Text-Based 7.6%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Detective 18.3%, Point & Click 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11.3%
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber agency, doing their best to uncover the identity of both the killer and VTuber's real face.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Point & Click 10.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Comedy 9.6%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Mystery 12.6%, Text-Based 8.5%
The famous detective Sarako Imai (Sherlock-chan) takes on a difficult case! Sherlock-chan and Watson-kun are on a comfort trip. Can they solve a murder case at a winter spa resort? A murder mystery with a challenge to the player.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 12.6%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 28.6%, Mystery 18.3%, Detective 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 14.3%
Within a cyberpunk world in the year 2070, become Detective B to investigate crime scenes, discover hidden truths, and dismantle the perpetrators' lies. There's only one problem: you have to do all that "without" stepping foot outside your house.
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Mystery 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Point & Click 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%
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 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Mystery 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Mirage Noir is a detective romance visual novel where every lead could bring you closer to love—or straight into a killer’s hands.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Point & Click 12.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Comedy 9.4%, Anime 6.1%
A tsundere, a yandere, and… a desk? Tough choices lay ahead on this protagonist’s route to romance in this Meta Meet Cute story!
Why similar: Parody 26.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Cute 5.9%, Comedy 5.5%
Experience a world filled with awful people - and you're one of them! You embark on a journey to get your awful catgirl girlfriend some illicit materials, intense and prolonged misery immediately ensues.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Visual Novel 21%, Comedy 13.2%, Text-Based 9.6%, Cute 7.5%
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.2%
Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Point & Click 18.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 11%, Multiple Endings 6%
A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Character Customization 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 16.5%, Text-Based 12.3%
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Point & Click 15.2%, Dark Humor 11.3%, Comedy 10.3%, Text-Based 10%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 13.8%, Parody 13.7% ★, Dark Humor 12.6%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Character Customization 11.1%, Mystery 10.3%
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Point & Click 10.7%, Mystery 10.7%
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Why similar: Detective 25.4%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Mystery 9.8%
A spin-off minigame collection of "Needy Streamer Overload". Meet your internet angel in this retro-style game world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Point & Click 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Text-Based 8.8%
A new battle begins for Junnosuke—backed by the FS Big Three! “This is what it truly means for the minority to get vengeance.”
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Dark Humor 19.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Comedy 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Detective 19.1%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Why similar: Parody 17.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Character Customization 12.3%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Parody 24.2% ★, Detective 21.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dark Humor 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
The Pirate Princess must infiltrate a memorial to steal an orb with the power to control nature: Ecosphere. Will you manage to steal the precious loot?
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Point & Click 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場！
Why similar: Point & Click 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 11.1%, Mystery 8.4%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Detective 17%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 10%
A visual novel featuring VTuber "Amau Syrup" as the lead actress! A heart-racing youthful love comedy adventure where ‘Dreams’ and ‘Reality’ intertwine!
Why similar: Parody 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Comedy 11%, Text-Based 9.2%
You’re a snarky sentient tentacle in a chaotic hospital. Possess humans and creatures, befriend the right weirdos, and decide humanity’s fate in this dark humor visual novel where every character is a potential pawn… or pal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Dark Humor 19.3%, Point & Click 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mystery 10.4%
Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Point & Click 15.2%, Detective 14.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Parody 11.7% ★
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: Detective 26.9%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Mystery 10.6%, Text-Based 8.2%
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 11%
A clickable adventure game reminiscent of detective adventure games of the '80s and '90s. The story follows the main character, a young detective, as he meets a series of unique characters and works to solve a case.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 16%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Mystery 10.7%
Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 14.4%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 10.9%
One war. Two sides of a military conflict. Which side will you choose if you take a look at the world from both sides of the conflict? Whom will you support and whom will you destroy if some are fighting for an uncertain future, while others are for a peaceful present?
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Point & Click 18.4%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 9%
Management and life-simulation Game with elaborate Relationships, where players manage their character’s actions and activities as they explore topics about self-discovery, parent-children relationships, friendships, and growing up as a College Student.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Character Customization 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Comedy 9%
It's sometimes a visual novel and point-and-click adventure about nothing, it's sometimes chaos, someone said that the ending was like jazz... if you can defeat the trashbags you're good to go...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 14.9%, Parody 14.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dark Humor 13%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Point & Click 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
New free novel game "Will you become a vtuber too?" One day, you came to the virtual world Return to the real world? Or... would you make another choice? ―――A story that changes depending on your choices
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Dark Humor 21.2%, Text-Based 12.8%, Cute 7.6%
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Comedy 12%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Detective 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Point & Click 12.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
