- #1 Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
96% matchVery Positive95% of 385 reviews2025
Dev: Armonica LLC
Windows
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Noir 14.2%
- #2 Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
97% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2020
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 13.6%, Detective 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%
- #3 Murder at the Cat Show
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AppleHead Games
Windows · Mac
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 21.7%, Noir 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 12%, Detective 11.4%
- #4 The Island: Into The Mist
95% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 12.8%, Mystery 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #5 井底-与奇迹邂逅的井底之人
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 井底游戏制作组Pub: 黎羽科技LICOGAME
Windows
《井底》是一款2024年3月立项的文字类galgame,题材是“超能力悬疑推理故事”,画风是日系校园风格的 故事主要讲述了游戏女主王语韴作为一个业余“侦探”,遇到各种疑难问题,并在侦探事务所所长天翔及其妹妹天音的帮助下,解决案件的故事。 游戏主要使用鼠标点击来推进剧情
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Mystery 14%, Detective 12.5%, Adventure 8.2%
- #6 雪凤山 Secret Opera
94% matchVery Positive80% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: GOCORE
Windows
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Detective 9.6%
- #7 Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: coly Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 27.4%, Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 15.2%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #8 The Monster Inside
92% matchVery Positive88% of 2,060 reviews2017
Dev: Random Seed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 10%
A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.
Why similar: Noir 41.2%, Detective 21.4%, Visual Novel 20%, Mystery 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #9 Would you sell your soul
91% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: COMINO Inc.
Windows
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Adventure 6.8%, Anime 4.8%
- #10 JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
91% 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 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Detective 13.3%, Mystery 10%
- #11 你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon
90% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 14.8%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #12 No Recollection
89% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Jake Platt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Detective 16.4%, Mystery 15.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #13 知更鸟-The Robin
89% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Detective 17%, Mystery 15.3%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
- #14 我死后的那些天-After Death
88% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #15 不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
87% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Mystery 13.7%, Detective 13.3%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #16 末日航路-The Termination
86% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #17 Private Dick: Lipstick & Lies
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cisco Donovan
Windows · Linux
An erotic mystery like no other. Step into the gumshoes of private detective Sam Steele in this opulent, hard-boiled visual novel. This ain't a love story.
Why similar: Noir 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Detective 14.4%, Mystery 6.2%
- #18 见习侦探
85% matchMixed61% of 59 reviews2021
Dev: 全能侦探社
Windows
"Internship Detective" is a text adventure game of detective story from the perspective of double female masters. The two heroines Doudou (Intership detective) and Bobo (“big” detective) .
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Detective 18%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Mystery 13.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #19 PataNoir
86% 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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 14.2%, Mystery 10.8%, Detective 9.2%
- #20 The Guilty Hearts
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Singlecore Games
Windows
Seoyeon Yu, a former police officer, works as a private investigator for a rich family. However, during her investigation, she discovers evidence linking them to her husband's death. Using her ability to see people's guilt, she begins an investigation to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Detective 20.5%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Adventure 8.6%
- #21 Lavender Field
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: KamilaFoxGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.
Why similar: Noir 40.5%, Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Adventure 5.7%
- #22 True Game
83% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows · Mac
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #23 Man of Nollyn
81% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Slater Chae
Windows
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 17.3%, Mystery 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #24 Coalescence
82% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 14%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
- #25 One Night: Burlesque
81% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #26 Honked: a clown noir
79% matchPositive98% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Crimp Games
Windows · Mac
Honked! is a short narrative-adventure game about a mysterious world of Clowns where not all is as it seems.
Why similar: Noir 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Mystery 16.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Visual Novel 5.7%
- #27 时忆 Memory of Time
78% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: SPARROW STUDIO
Windows
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Detective 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 14.5%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #28 The Path of Veins
80% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Repairer of Reputations
Windows · Mac
I have seen the face. Amongst the small white bones wrapped in fabric. Beneath the veins leading to the goddess. Within the black blood of the eucharist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Noir 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 11.5%, Adventure 7.9%
- #29 Misadventures of Laura Silver
79% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 22.4%, Noir 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Detective 11.7%, Mystery 11.4%
- #30 Death & Faeology
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mushroomallow
Windows
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Detective 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Mystery 12.4%
- #31 Sarawak
78% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Cowleyfornia StudiosPub: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Text-Based 18.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 11.7%
- #32 Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
77% matchPositive92% of 49 reviews2022
Dev: Nico HPub: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac
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 31.9%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #33 ナカノ人格移植研究所
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 13.7%, Mystery 12.4%, Text-Based 10.4%
- #34 它说山雨欲来
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无敌的呱
Windows · Mac
25+结局!主文游视觉小说+少量解谜+微量2d小游戏! 古风纯架空世界观!主要元素为武侠/权谋/伪克苏鲁——具体哪个元素多看你怎么选择! 剧本欢乐剧情阴间,结局更是阴到没边! 你被卷入一场巨大的阴谋,三大势力向你抛出橄榄枝,是追随疯美的革命者,依附蛊惑人心的神棍,还是效忠唯利是图的富商?你的选择将解锁完全不同的剧情和人物。切记,你看到的未必是真相;小心,别让自己成了棋子。 但相信能“开挂”的你,预知、夺舍、知识碾压都会变成你的武器。你必须用你的方式打破规则,对他们造成降维打击,书写属于你自己的传奇!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Text-Based 9.1%, Adventure 6.9%
- #35 R.I.P. Tour
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Clown
Windows · Linux
A death game visual novel where murder victims are decided by group consensus. Make friends and enemies, solve the mysteries of an abandoned amusement park, and suss out the traitor in your group.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Mystery 20.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Adventure 6.4%
- #36 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Text-Based 22.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Adventure 4.1%
- #37 PRAVDA(concept25)
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floating Stone Studio
Windows
Pravda is a narrative stealth-puzzle about journalism under a totalitarian regime. You play Saga, a state-branded “Liar” working for the Resistance to bring down the Party. Your task is clear: Collect information. Craft the Truth. Change the world. But in Abil-Gudit, every truth has a cost.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Noir 28.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Detective 12.7%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
- #38 Sunset High
73% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Turnip Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Detective 12.9%
- #39 SYNTHASIA
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrozenPepperPub: FrozenPepper SRL
Windows · Mac
The first agentic RPG. An AI Game Master that doesn't just tell your story — it plays it, through real decisions in a living game engine. Any genre, any world, any story. Your adventure, your novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Sandbox 22.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 7.8%
- #40 Pasajeros
74% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #41 Bad Guys Good Boys - BL
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: ChaniMK
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reginald is a ringleader of a criminal organization who'd received a concussion and lost his memories. When he finds out that he has committed crimes in the past, he wants to repent and do good deeds. He wants to convince his henchmen to change with him. Unfortunately, he can't escape his past.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Anime 6.1%
- #42 Billie Beetleneck -A detective tale-
71% match7 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Retroactive Fort
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Mystery 12.9%
- #43 死亡编码-Death Code
73% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 16.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #44 Scarpone Scamps
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pepperjack Productions
Windows
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Detective 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #45 Rose Academy
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KK Studio
Windows · Mac
A detective visual novel inspired by Danganronpa and Everlasting Summer. You play as a young agent sent to an elite girls’ academy to investigate a suspicious death. Interrogate suspects, gather clues, and build romantic relationships — truth or temptation?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Mystery 10.5%
- #46 Sockpuppet Noire
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LizardFactory
Windows
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #47 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
69% matchVery Positive86% of 184 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: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Detective 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Mystery 9.9%
- #48 EXS2~EthnologySister2:Structuralism of kinship system
70% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: 周农卿
Windows
一位总是能露出温柔笑容的金发修女,将众人联系。白发女子总是无言。[想 知 道 你 父 母 的 下 落 吗 ?准 备 好 ]浅冰背后,为何会有寒意深藏?战斗,悬疑,治愈,推理,剧情持续反转,不断的匿名威胁,绑架,真相到底是……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Detective 16.9%, Mystery 16.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #49 Nine in Flight
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shook Loose
Windows
An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Detective 18.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Noir 11.4%
- #50 Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: LorestromePub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
A point and click noir mystery, set in a grim and corrupt Wonderland. Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds is a complete remake of the classic Flash game trilogy, including all new art, added puzzles, expanded lore, and plenty of secrets for old and new fans alike.
Why similar: Noir 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 13.7%, Detective 13.6%
- #51 Reflections in Amber
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frog Croaked Team
Windows · Mac
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.4%, Detective 12.6%
- #52 i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
68% matchVery Positive95% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: Ricardo Cancela
Windows
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Mystery 20.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Adventure 5%
- #53 Clash: Blue Mirage
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Drone Garden Studios
Windows
Save the day with Clash!
Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, Detective 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Mystery 16.9%, Adventure 6.1%
- #54 Обо: Шоу Теней
67% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Julliet Pub: Julliet Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 10.2%
- #55 村庄-The Village
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
After you graduated from college, you were assigned to a small village as a doctor.It looks like an ordinary village, but there are many strange things in it.A man knocking at the door in the middle of the night may not be asking for a doctor.The person you saw may not be alive.Haunted?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Detective 18.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Mystery 15.5%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
- #56 Stillwater
68% matchVery Positive95% of 217 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Clump
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Text-Based 18.3%, Mystery 18%, Noir 12.1%, Detective 8.1%
- #57 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
65% matchVery Positive96% of 112 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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Detective 14.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Mystery 12.6%
- #58 DDD: Demons Double Down
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WirionPub: ST SInovar
Windows · Mac
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Noir 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Story Rich 6.6%, Detective 5.4%
- #59 Is There a Way?
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SS GC Omnipotens
Windows
An original visual novel about the dark secrets of a Soviet asylum, inspired by real events. Here, you do not control the story — you watch as it slowly breaks the main character… and you along with him.
Why similar: Noir 33.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 15.7%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
- #60 The Beresford family
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dreamlight Games Studios SL
Windows
What happened on the night of July 20, 1824? The Beresford family was sleeping unaware that an ancient evil was about to resurface. An ancient evil that brought upon them a curse whose echoes resonate to this day.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Mystery 18.7%, Detective 11.7%, Adventure 8%