
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, Adventure, Choose Your Own 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 24.6% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Supernatural 13.5%, Text-Based 10.2%, 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 21.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, 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 24.7%, Investigation 21.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Visual Novel 10%, 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 29.5% ★, Investigation 17.1%, Text-Based 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
A 20 minute story about a mysterious ghost and an even more mysterious journalist.
Why similar: Investigation 27.1%, Supernatural 25.3%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
Killed by the villain Frogman, you awaken to the same morning. A mysterious drink, "Soma," grants power to those with strong desires, plunging the city into chaos. Fight the emerging villains, solve the case, and uncover the truth. A multi-ending, battle-packed, looping supernatural suspense ADV.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.6% ★, Supernatural 19.6%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 24.7%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 54.3% ★, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Adventure 3.5%
Four deaths, four eras, one anomaly. Observe fragmented memories from every angle, piece together the timeline, and uncover what is wrong in this time puzzle.
Why similar: Time Travel 36.8% ★, Investigation 28.1%, Supernatural 15.4%, Mystery 13.7%, Story Rich 3.1%
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 25.9%, Supernatural 20.9%, Mystery 15%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
The story of a young graduate witnessing the twilight of his world.
Why similar: Supernatural 34.3%, Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 17%, Anime 6.2%
An occult suspense girl-meets-girl story in which a rumor-loving girl 'interviews' a serial killer.
Why similar: Supernatural 35%, Mystery 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Anime 12.7%, Story Rich 6.7%
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 27.1% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 12.5%, 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 32.8%, Investigation 26.5%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
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 45.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Anime 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 24.8% ★, Supernatural 18.9%, Mystery 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 8.4%
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 21.5%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 12.8%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Text-Based 7.2%
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 30.6% ★, Investigation 15.2%, Mystery 11.4%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Mystery 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
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 22.5%, Investigation 21.1%, Mystery 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
This story is of God and us and our grand revenge against Lucifer.
Why similar: Time Travel 36.3% ★, Text-Based 15.5%, Supernatural 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Mystery 7.9%
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 32.8% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 22.7%, Investigation 20.5%, Mystery 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 48.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 5%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Supernatural 22.7%, Investigation 18.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Synthetic Dreams: Falling is a science-fiction visual novel about human feelings, friendship, love and memories.
Why similar: Investigation 22.8%, Supernatural 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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 31.1% ★, Supernatural 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 9.8%
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 37.5% ★, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 9.9%, Anime 9.3%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.6%
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 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Anime 6.8%
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 32.3% ★, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 9.4%
“记忆是人与人的连接。” ——《荷莱》是一部多结局校园青春悬疑ADV,讲述回溯、记录与爱的故事。 依露琳与好友湘涵在班主任的威逼下“主动”报名参加艺术节活动。 两人最终决定拍一部短片,讲述一个对花朵过度关爱的园丁。 然而,她们花费心血完成的内容却被学校死板的规定打回。 为了不让短片无人问津,两人在艺术节当天进行了游击演出。 演出本身很顺利,依露琳却不慎被学生会长梵逸抓了现行。 为了保护自己与湘涵共同创作的痕迹,她慌不择路落入河中,于弥留之际回溯了时间。 而她随身携带的DV机中,竟出现了没见过的影像……
Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Investigation 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Supernatural 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 26.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 12.6%
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%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 13.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 34.5% ★, Investigation 24.3%, Mystery 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Visual Novel 8.5%
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 17.7%, Mystery 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Boy meets girl against a backdrop of magical battles in a dramatic visual novel!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Anime 13.2%, Supernatural 8%
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 22.8%, Supernatural 19.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
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 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
"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: Time Travel 28.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 7.1%
“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 27.7%, Mystery 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 12%
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%, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Supernatural 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%
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 50.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Anime 10.9%, Adventure 10.5%, Story Rich 7.1%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 12.1%
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 23.1%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 12.2%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 26.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Adventure 8.4%
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: Investigation 21.5%, Mystery 20%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
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 33.8%, Mystery 15.7%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.
Why similar: Supernatural 21.9%, Investigation 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 26.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Mystery 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Investigation 31%, Visual Novel 14%, Anime 12.2%, Text-Based 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.8% ★, Investigation 18.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Mystery 10%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%
Interrogate villagers, uncover their secrets, and decide who will burn before sunset.
Why similar: Investigation 36.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Mystery 20.8%, Text-Based 5.9%, Adventure 5.4%
As Lia, follow the gripping final investigation of your reporter stepdad to uncover buried secrets in this supernatural mystery where every choice can not only change the world, but also the powers within you.
Why similar: Supernatural 30%, Investigation 24.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Adventure 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Every answer lies in a timeline that no longer exists. 『The VII Enigma』 is an intricate time-travel mystery visual novel for players drawn to stories that test the mind, stir the heart, and reward careful attention. Unravel a conspiracy written across time in search of a future beyond their control.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.8% ★, Mystery 14%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 8.8%, Anime 7.3%
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Why similar: Time Travel 43.9% ★, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%, Story Rich 7%, Anime 6.7%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 27.8%, Mystery 16.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%