- #1 JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JD Detective Thrillers Studio
Windows
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Crime 13.7%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 11%
- #2 PataNoir
96% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Word Game 12.9%, Crime 12.5%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #3 Tell Me Everything
96% matchMixed61% of 72 reviews2018
Dev: LizardFactory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Word Game 19.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Detective 14.1%, RPG 11.4%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #4 平行线交点杀人事件
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 雨幡洞云工作室
Windows
Do you believe that parallel worlds really exist? An ordinary college student, Chen Chou, wakes up one day to find himself transported aboard a space research vessel. The strangers on the ship all claim to know him. Could it be that he has crossed over into a parallel world...
Why similar: Crime 19.4%, Detective 18.5%, RPG 13.2%, Word Game 12.6%, Mystery 9.1%
- #5 Chrongrid
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chrongrid Studio
Windows
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Artificial Intelligence 11.6%, Word Game 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
- #6 Wizard Confidential
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: RPG 22.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Detective 9.8%
- #7 EDGE CITY
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArianPub: Stellar Game
Windows
A fractured island in the North Atlantic. Six years ago, an invasion war and a gang-led coup destroyed its government, and now the island is carved up by four factions.
Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Word Game 21.5%, Noir 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Adventure 9.4%
- #8 The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Rungen Studio
Windows
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Noir 15.6%, Detective 14%, Word Game 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
- #9 Cursed Castle
90% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: DQgames
Windows
This is a psychological horror game steeped in oppressive atmosphere. Players must control Daniel as he races against time to protect his companions, gather clues and items, while evading Victor's relentless pursuit and the curse of the colossal face-shaped boulder.
Why similar: RPG 29.6%, Noir 18.5%, Psychological 11.5%, Detective 8%, Puzzle 6.7%
- #10 AI公寓:虚拟证言
89% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: IntelliPlay
Windows
《虚拟证言》是一款AI剧本杀游戏。在游戏中,您将扮演一位侦探,前往六号公寓调查一起谋杀案件,案件的嫌疑人是5位AI-NPC。侦探需要搜集房间中的线索,联想案件经过,盘问嫌疑人获取案件的相关信息,复盘出完整的案发过程,找出真凶!
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 16%, Word Game 14.8%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Text-Based 8.1%
- #11 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
88% matchVery Positive89% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
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 17.1%, RPG 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #12 《道格拉斯警督的日记》
89% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 日食网络 solar eclipse studioPub: 日食网络
Windows
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
Why similar: Word Game 15.4%, Detective 12.7%, Noir 12%, Investigation 9.8%, RPG 9.7%
- #13 Dark City Trouble Nights
87% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Grey Hair Studio
Windows
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: RPG 26.6%, Crime 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Detective 11.7%
- #14 Let Bions Be Bygones
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 18.1%, Detective 12.5%, RPG 12.4%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #15 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
85% matchVery Positive89% of 148 reviews2026
Dev: LingVision Games
Windows
1988年,日本泡沫经济破灭前夕,化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警,侦查青梅奇怪自杀案,牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密,穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头,在人心与生死的抉择中,搜查蛛丝马迹,找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 15.5%, Detective 12.3%, RPG 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Lore-Rich 10%
- #16 Lacuna: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive91% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 19.8%, Crime 16.3%, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #17 Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
84% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: AI Media Design
Windows
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: Detective 14.2%, Crime 13.6%, Noir 12.6%, Investigation 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #18 Into Oblivion
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: RPG 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 11.5%, Lore-Rich 11.2%
- #19 Strawberry Test
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vesperay
Windows
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: RPG 20.8%, Artificial Intelligence 20.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #20 Man of Nollyn
82% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Slater Chae
Windows
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Crime 18%, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 8.3%
- #21 Midnight Files: THE NOIR CUT
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Paper Lynx Games
Windows
Truth hides in the details. Investigate crime scenes, photograph evidence, analyze case files, and search the police database. Connect clues on the detective board, return to locations when something does not add up, and identify the culprit in each standalone case.
Why similar: Crime 19%, Noir 16.2%, Detective 15.7%, Investigation 15.4%, Psychological 13.6%
- #22 The Silver Case
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,145 reviews2016
Dev: GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Crime 17.7%, Investigation 13.3%, Detective 12.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #23 灰烬溪AshCreek
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pigeon Studio
Windows
AshCreek is a female-oriented interactive visual novel centered on Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Players take on the role of an outsider who is unwillingly drawn into AshCreek, uncovering the truth behind its anomalies step by step by taking part in stories set across different worlds.
Why similar: Word Game 26.8%, RPG 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Adventure 6.2%
- #24 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
80% match3 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: RPG 30.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
- #25 Kanna Maze
79% matchVery Positive89% of 381 reviews2024
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Word Game 22.4%, RPG 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
- #26 Danse Macabre AI Text RPG
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prima RPG
Windows · Linux
Danse Macabre: A Revolutionary AI-Powered Text RPG - Immerse Yourself in a World of Intrigue, Deceit, and MysteryEmbrace the Future of Gaming with the World's First AI-driven RPG - Available Now for FREE on Early Access!
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Investigation 12.2%, RPG 12%, Crime 11.6%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #27 HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
78% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Touched by GracePub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Noir 14.9%, RPG 11.5%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Psychological 9.8%
- #28 Rubbings
77% matchVery Positive89% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: 午夜说书人
Windows
《诡拓》是一款中式民俗微恐风的悬疑推理游戏。你将扮演一名民俗杂志编辑,根据匿名信件中的拓片线索,深入封闭、神秘的睖睁村,这里多年来流传着失踪旅人和诡异祭祀的传说。通过亲历村志中的诡异故事,并在村庄中展开调查,你将逐步揭开埋藏数十年的真相。
Why similar: Word Game 17.4%, Crime 12.9%, Detective 12%, RPG 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
- #29 大侦探之勃艮第古堡
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 知行合一
Windows
欢迎来到温泉岛,我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗?那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落,那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说,那里是另一个世界,由贪婪,欲念构成的炼狱……最后,请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 22.7%, RPG 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Detective 10.9%, Investigation 8.3%
- #30 夏日的回忆
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Shao Lei
Windows
这是一款传统的AVG的文字游戏!讲述的是……青春……校园……您的选择会影响主人公命运,引领这他走若干不同的结局……没有暴力,也没有色情。这关于……爱……友情……亲情的故事!还有……疑惑……不解……和全体通过后的一丝丝的奇怪的感觉。
Why similar: Noir 18.8%, Word Game 17.8%, RPG 15.3%, Psychological 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
- #31 Not Spooky: But Good Enough For Me
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: K.P. Hallow
Windows
In this first-person horror-lite game, investigate your way through different locales such as the theatre, forests, and urban areas. Solve puzzles and unravel the story behind what happened at the community theatre.
Why similar: RPG 28.9%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Investigation 11.5%
- #32 Tales In Text: Multiplayer Immersive Adventures
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Synthetic Mind Corp.
Windows
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Investigation 8.7%, Detective 8.4%
- #33 Private Eye: The Young Heir
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucky 7 Studios
Windows
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 15.5%, Crime 15%, Investigation 13.6%, Noir 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
- #34 Legends of Murder Collection
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Softdisk PublishingPub: Ziggurat
Windows
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: RPG 14.2%, Crime 12.4%, Detective 12.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Investigation 10.4%
- #35 我的一个多重人格朋友
74% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: 上海久游网络科技有限公司
Windows
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Word Game 17%, Detective 16.8%, RPG 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Investigation 10.1%
- #36 Detective Super Star
74% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Ourhsow Games
Windows
Join the famous Detective Doyle to solve a series of murder cases in this captivating hidden object, adventure game.
Why similar: Crime 19.5%, Word Game 18.2%, Detective 16.1%, RPG 11.5%, Mystery 8.7%
- #37 Arclight of City
73% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Arrebol studio
Windows · Mac
in the future, the crime rate of the city was high. The increase in the rate of crime had brought huge costs to the prison and the discipline system, and a large number of criminals would commit crimes again not long after they were released.Until someone proposed the "prison city"
Why similar: Word Game 18.3%, RPG 14.5%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%
- #38 消失的第四天
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 游戏峰塔
Windows
"The Fourth Day Disappeared" is a pixel art detective game. As an intern detective, you're caught in a serial murder case on a train trip. Investigate, gather evidence, interrogate passengers, and connect clues to find the killer.
Why similar: Crime 20%, RPG 18.1%, Detective 17.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Adventure 10.1%
- #39 AI探案集
71% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Zane Studio
Windows
《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.
Why similar: Word Game 21.7%, Artificial Intelligence 16.1%, Detective 14.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, RPG 10.1%
- #40 The Final Print
70% matchPositive88% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Dummy DetectivesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Crime 17%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Investigation 9.8%
- #41 透明罪 - Blue Tears
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 心林咖啡厅
Windows · Mac
A novel, a game, a judgment document, a self-confession letter. On an ordinary summer morning, the arrival of an unexpected visitor awakened the dormant memories of a small island. You will play the role of Lynn Chan, and face your "Invisible Sin" by searching for a "Non-existent friend".
Why similar: Word Game 18.3%, RPG 18.3%, Detective 16.4%, Mystery 10.2%, Crime 10.1%
- #42 Investigation Stories : windsound
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: 冒险制作组Pub: Adventure Group
Windows
The Truth behind the town's Resurgence of serial Murders--?
Why similar: RPG 28.8%, Word Game 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Detective 9.1%
- #43 File Tricks
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Kid Games
Windows
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 28.9%, RPG 19.5%, Detective 17.4%, Crime 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%
- #44 Causal Effect
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: shrimp & pickaxe studio
Windows
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
Why similar: Word Game 18.2%, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, RPG 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
- #45 AI Schoolgirls Murder Mystery
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
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 17.8%, Detective 14.2%, Crime 12.8%, Investigation 11.9%, Psychological 9%
- #46 EXS3~EthnologySister3:Culture and Personality
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 周农卿
Windows
她的微笑,曾经让赤瞳的女子以为,自己不再是带来灾厄的乌鸦。直到四年前,神秘的团体将她的学生绑走,挖去双眼。[晦气][乌鸦][凶手],再次成了她的代表词。【有罪之人的 复仇 惩罚 即将来临 】被命运和性格束缚,这一次能否改变?你会改变什么?战斗,悬疑,治愈,推理,剧情持续反转,诡异的仪式,疯狂的连环杀人与肢解,新的死亡祭品,再次来临的威胁与复仇背后,真相到底是……
Why similar: Word Game 18.6%, RPG 12.7%, Detective 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
- #47 Welcome to Victorville
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio 7e
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 16.9%, Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Text-Based 9%
- #48 Ashes of Holloway Bay
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Cold Case Inc
Windows
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Crime 19.7%, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Noir 11.2%, Mystery 9.8%
- #49 对我好点!异世界HelloNewWorld
68% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Enchanter
Windows
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Why similar: Word Game 26.5%, RPG 17.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #50 Prelude to Nuss Jump
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: 蔡承龙
Windows
Do you remember the story of the Wise Man from the East? In 2022, at the time of the end of the world, we successfully helped the sage from the East to create the "nuss jump". This is the story of the wise man from the East... This is also the story of all...
Why similar: Word Game 15.8%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, RPG 11.3%, Detective 11%, Crime 10.5%
- #51 Saturnine
67% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 36.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
- #52 Double bisociation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 礼堂王
Windows
Ancient science fiction theme text adventure game - and you will play a scholar who can't get fame because of the abolition of the imperial examination in the world's highest town, and meet two small town scholars who can't get the imperial examination to explore the secrets of the town.
Why similar: RPG 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #53 AI Asylum
67% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: River DynamicsPub: Yahaha Games
Windows
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 20.2%, RPG 16.1%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #54 An Imp and an Impostor
66% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: RPG 33.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Adventure 12.8%
- #55 FORTUNE the FATED
68% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: RPG 27%, Noir 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%