
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Adventure.

Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?

Memory Rewind
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.

Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
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...
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.2% ★, Investigation 15.6%, Supernatural 13.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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 21.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
An adventure visual novel following an unlucky trio who find themselves hunting monsters for the powerful being known as Kurokami-sama.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.9%, Investigation 21.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 29.1% ★, Investigation 17.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Mystery 10%, Visual Novel 8.9%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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 26.1%, Supernatural 21%, Mystery 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 53.7% ★, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Adventure 3.4%
The story of a young graduate witnessing the twilight of his world.
Why similar: Supernatural 34.5%, Text-Based 19.7%, Mystery 17%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Anime 6%
A 20 minute story about a mysterious ghost and an even more mysterious journalist.
Why similar: Investigation 27.3%, Supernatural 25.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
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: Time Travel 26.7% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Raise a new organization from the ashes of the SRT and guide Silver Cross Incorporated to protect the innocent from the darker side of humanity.
Why similar: Supernatural 33%, Investigation 26.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
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: Investigation 21.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Mystery 12.9%
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 45.5% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Anime 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Time Travel 30.1% ★, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 11.5%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Mystery 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Witness the resurrection of the foretold nemesis of the Jurnal Risa family, which was never revealed before. Unveil its dark destiny within this horror-adventure game. This is all about family. Tale of Jurnal Risa, as recounted to me by Risa herself.
Why similar: Supernatural 22.9%, Investigation 20.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Supernatural 22.8%, Investigation 21%, Mystery 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 10.8%
4 years after the events of Angels with Scaly Wings, humans and dragons co-exist in a society built from the remains of a broken world. A new threat looms on the horizon. Re-discover this unique setting and lead an investigation in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with dating sim elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.2% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 42% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 27.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 13.6%, Text-Based 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.
Why similar: Investigation 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Anime 6.7%
Hank Krang, a dirty thief from the near future, recently had a self-aware time machine called the Time Excursion Digital Interface, or TEDI, fall into his lap after a poker game. He has decided to use this technology to go throughout time, stealing priceless artifacts.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Adventure 8%, Indie 5.1%
Project Kuragava is a visual kinetic novel with a thoughtful plot The protagonist Yuki enters Kuragawa Academy, he is the first guy in this academy. Will Yuki be able to change his past and future? Or will he lose this fateful battle?
Why similar: Time Travel 30.7% ★, Supernatural 19%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 9.9%
Synthetic Dreams: Falling is a science-fiction visual novel about human feelings, friendship, love and memories.
Why similar: Investigation 22.9%, Supernatural 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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: Visual Novel 17.5%, Mystery 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Investigation 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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: Time Travel 31.9% ★, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 9.5%
This is a grand tale of revenge - waged by God and Us against Lucifer.
Why similar: Time Travel 36% ★, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Supernatural 8%, Story Rich 6.5%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Supernatural 23%, Investigation 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Boy meets girl against a backdrop of magical battles in a dramatic visual novel!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Anime 13%, Supernatural 8.1%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%
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: Investigation 19.1%, Supernatural 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
Why similar: Time Travel 24.7% ★, Supernatural 19.4%, Mystery 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 8.7%
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 19.9%, Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Supernatural 14.7%, Visual Novel 13%
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.2% ★, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Mystery 10%, Anime 9.2%
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 33.7%, Mystery 15.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 26.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Adventure 8.2%
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: Investigation 23%, Supernatural 19.6%, Mystery 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
"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: Time Travel 28.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 7.2%
Natural - Beyond Nature - is a Mystery, Drama, Supernatural Visual Novel. Follow the story of Olea in a chance encounter with two residents of a quiet island, Flori and Llima. Can Olea save them from their cruel yet inevitable fate?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Supernatural 18.3%, Anime 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Mystery 8.9%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 50.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.2%, Anime 11%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
This gripping paranormal horror adventure revolves around Hermitage, the sinister bookstore that attracts most unusual customers – all of whom seem to be involved in mysterious cases bordering on the paranormal.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Supernatural 22%, Mystery 14.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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: Investigation 23.2%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
A string of murders, cryptic phone calls, the "Black Thorns," and a girl calling herself an "Angel"... Before long, these fragments of mystery coalesce into a massive "anomaly" that threatens to consume the entire town.
Why similar: Supernatural 33.9%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Mystery 14.5%, Anime 12.8%, Adventure 10.9%
Hachi Hachi Mystery is a interactive Visual Novelf taking place at university. It's your first year as a university student and you're going to discover this new life! ...Well, that's how it should have happened.
Why similar: Investigation 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Simulation 11.9%
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Supernatural 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 12.2%
Fate, love, death... Can the enigma be solved? 『The VII Enigma』is a character-driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Set in a shadowy world of dystopian conspiracy, you must defy the fabric of reality, navigating the desperate path to the 'true end' against the tyranny of time itself.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.3% ★, Mystery 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 9%, Anime 7.3%
Time travel to the past as Detective Cobie Cromwell. Find clues and solve puzzles in this story rich, immersive, virtual reality escape room game. Game to be released in successive chapters, with four total planned.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Investigation 21.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Supernatural 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
Journey down the rabbit hole into a Wonderland like you've never seen before~. Embark on a TwIsTeD retelling of the classic fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland".
Why similar: Supernatural 35.4%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Anime 11.1%, Mystery 9.2%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Time Travel 40% ★, Investigation 26.1%, Mystery 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 6.5%
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
Why similar: Investigation 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Mystery 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%
Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.
Why similar: Mystery 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 22.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Adventure 9.1%
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 27.5%, Mystery 15.8%, Supernatural 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Join KK and his gang of supernatural detectives as they investigate a strange disappearance, only to stumble upon something more sinister. Build relationships with your team and piece together their stories.
Why similar: Supernatural 42.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Mystery 20.1%, Story Rich 7.5%, Adventure 5.1%
From SCRAP, the masterminds behind the "Real Escape Game" phenomena with over 10 million attendees, comes a time-loop mystery adventure on Steam!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.2% ★, Mystery 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6%, Adventure 5.9%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 55.3% ★, Visual Novel 20.8%, Anime 13.5%, Story Rich 6.2%, Adventure 3.3%
This is a detective adventure game. About 2 hours to complete. Find the murderer!
Why similar: Investigation 38.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Anime 15%, Mystery 14.7%, Adventure 8.1%
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Text-Based 25.5%, Visual Novel 19%, Mystery 18.2%, Adventure 7.5%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Mystery 17.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Supernatural 12%
Your job: An old mansion, a mysterious letter, a box of old memorabilia. Explore the present and past to uncover the secrets of the extraordinary family that lived here. Remember a time long gone as you set foot in this late 1990s-inspired mystery with intricate puzzles and eccentric characters.
Why similar: Supernatural 26.8%, Investigation 26.7%, Mystery 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 7.6%
一个欢乐气氛的悬疑文字冒险类游戏。你将不断在十位不同身份的角色间切换视点来推进故事的发展并达成各种各样的结局。这是由一个个平凡而又独特的个人故事所拼出的新的物语,或许里面也有着你的故事……?
Why similar: Investigation 20.9%, Mystery 14.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%