60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Mystery, Choose Your Own Adventure, Detective.
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.
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
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.
summer story
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
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: Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Crime 12.5%, Detective 10%, Mystery 9%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Investigation 9.3%, Text-Based 9.1%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Crime 13.5%, Investigation 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
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 15.4%, Detective 13.6%, Mystery 12.3%, 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%, Detective 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Crime 10.9%, Text-Based 10%
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 17.5%, Investigation 14.3%, 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 15.7%, Investigation 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Detective 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 14.6%, Detective 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Investigation 10.7%, Text-Based 10.7%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Crime 12%, Investigation 8.9%
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 12.8%, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 12.5%, Detective 10.5%
Nanma: A Tecelã das Sombras is a Brazilian dark high-fantasy visual novel where the loom of fate is in your hands. Take on the role of Nanma and discover whether your powers are a gift or a curse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Text-Based 9.6%, Magic 9.6%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Investigation 15.1%, Detective 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Mystery 10.8%, Investigation 10.5%
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 10.1%
NINA AQUILA is back for her brightest, boldest, most magical adventure yet!
Why similar: Crime 16%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 19.8%, Crime 17.5%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 11.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Investigation 11.3%, Detective 10.6%
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 13.2%, Detective 10.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Investigation 10.8%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Investigation 15.7%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, 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 8.3%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Investigation 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, 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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Investigation 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Mystery 9.7%
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 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Investigation 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12%, Crime 10.9%, Text-Based 10.9%
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 12.6%, Investigation 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Detective 9.8%
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: Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Detective 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Mystery 10.9%
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 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 15.5%, Crime 14.3%, Mystery 11%
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%, 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 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Crime 10.3%, Visual Novel 8.9%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Text-Based 8.7%
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: Mystery 13%, Investigation 13%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Detective 11%
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 15.5%, Investigation 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
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 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
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 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Investigation 18.9%, Crime 18%, Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Mystery 11.7%
You make every interaction with her feel like coincidence. You know her far more than she could ever imagine. But you don't seem to realize, a butterfliy don't usually fly into the net on their own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Crime 13.4%, Investigation 12.5%, Mystery 12.2%
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 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
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 16.2%, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Mystery 15.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Investigation 13.2%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Crime 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 13.4%, Investigation 11.7%, Mystery 8.7%
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 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Crime 11.8%
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 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 15.2%, Investigation 14.6%, Mystery 11.1%
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Investigation 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%
"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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Detective 12.7%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
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 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Detective 9%
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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Magic 8.2%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Detective 10.1%
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 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Detective 9.5%, Mystery 9.2%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
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 15.2%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Detective 10.6%
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 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Crime 13.8%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Detective 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
