60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Mystery, Choose Your Own Adventure, 2D.
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.
summer story
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Rumor Reporter
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.
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 9.3%, Text-Based 9.2%
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: Investigation 15.5%, Detective 13.6%, Mystery 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Detective 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Crime 11%, Text-Based 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Investigation 14.4%, Detective 12.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
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 15.9%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Detective 10.8%, Mystery 9.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Investigation 10.8%
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 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Crime 12.1%, Investigation 8.9%
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: Investigation 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Detective 10.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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 19.6%, Crime 17.7%, Detective 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 12%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Mystery 10.8%, Investigation 10.5%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 14.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 12.4%, Detective 10.7%, Visual Novel 10%
NINA AQUILA is back for her brightest, boldest, most magical adventure yet!
Why similar: Crime 16.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Crime 13.4%, Text-Based 11%, Detective 10.9%, Investigation 10.8%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Embark on a mystical quest that blends Slavic folklore with arcane witchcraft, uncover hidden secrets, and rescue a village lost to the shadows in this magical detective visual novel. Oh, and never forget your cat - he might save you!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 13.1%, Investigation 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Investigation 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Detective 11.7%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12%, Investigation 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Mystery 9.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Detective 9.8%
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 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 15.3%, Crime 14.7%, Mystery 10.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Crime 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Detective 10.8%
When a famous Human Rights Lawyer dies under mysterious circumstances in her Sevenoaks mansion, Detective Inspector Rosie Morgan and her team of indefatigable investigators are called on the scene to find out who murdered the barrister and why.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Detective 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Crime 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Investigation 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Investigation 19%, Crime 18.2%, Detective 16.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 11.7%
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: Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Detective 11%
You wake up with no memories inside the House, a place where reality bends... lies linger... and someone watching your every move.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 15.4%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 11.2%
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: Investigation 16.3%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Crime 12%
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 10.2%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Detective 12.7%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Detective 9%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Magic 8.1%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.2%, Detective 9.9%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Detective 10.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Detective 9.5%, Mystery 9.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 8.8%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.5%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
Discover the mysteries of Gensokyo through the lens of Shin, a photographer from the outside world. In this immersive visual novel, join forces with the shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei to unravel the truth behind this incident and stop the enigmatic Kurohana.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Detective 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, LGBTQ+ 8%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Detective 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Detective 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Crime 10.5%
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
A Mesozoic murder mystery, 4 suspects, 1 truth. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you set out to unravel the case with your team. Will you be able to accurately determine who took the victim's life? Or will your deductions lead you to arrest someone for a crime they did not commit...?
Why similar: Crime 18.2%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 12.9%, Text-Based 9.2%
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: Investigation 15.7%, Crime 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13.4%, Mystery 11.2%
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: Crime 14.2%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Investigation 12.1%
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 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Crime 14.6%, Mystery 13.9%
Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Philosophical 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 11.4%, Detective 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
