60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Visual Novel, Mystery, Singleplayer.
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
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!
Murder at the Cat Show
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?
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 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Mystery 15%, Noir 14.2%
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 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 12%, Detective 11.5%
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 13.5%, Detective 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%
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%, Detective 13.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Mystery 10%
'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 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
《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%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Mystery 14%, Detective 12.5%, Adventure 8.2%
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 27.3%, Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Mystery 15.2%, Text-Based 11.3%
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 0.6%
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 20%, Adventure 6.9%, Anime 4.8%
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 17.1%, Detective 16.5%, Mystery 15.2%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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 33.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Detective 16%, Mystery 14.8%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Text-Based 9.7%, Detective 9.7%
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 33.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
“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 32.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Detective 17.1%, Mystery 15.3%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 15%, Mystery 13.5%, Text-Based 10%
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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 14.1%, Mystery 10.8%, Detective 9.3%
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 33.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Detective 13.3%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
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 15.6%, Detective 14.4%, Mystery 6.2%
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%, Detective 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
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 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%
"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%
"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 30.8%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
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%, Mystery 12.8%
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 17.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Adventure 8%
A dark noir detective story starring a not-so-bright pug. Combine clues, build chains of deductions, and solve a murder — even if your reasoning isn’t always… impressive.
Why similar: Noir 28.2%, Detective 24.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Adventure 7.2%
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 32.3%, Detective 20.5%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Adventure 8.7%
An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.
Why similar: Noir 40.5%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Adventure 5.8%
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
Why similar: Noir 28%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Detective 10.1%, Mystery 9.7%
Honked! is a short narrative-adventure game about a mysterious world of Clowns where not all is as it seems.
Why similar: Noir 34%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Mystery 16.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Visual Novel 5.8%
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 8.5%
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 14.4%, Detective 11.7%, Mystery 11.3%
Play as a noir detective in a dark, seductive world — investigate the Blood Moon case while making choices, uncovering secrets, and indulging in explicit encounters.
Why similar: Noir 21.5%, Detective 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Noir 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 10.3%, Detective 8.5%
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%, Detective 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 12.4%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Text-Based 17.9%, Mystery 14.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Detective 11.8%
「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 16%, Detective 13.7%, Mystery 12.4%, Text-Based 10.3%
50+ endings! A purely fictional fantasy world! Comedy script, dark plot — and the endings? Pitch-black. Swept into a storm, you need a boss. The revolutionary, the merchant, or the cult leader? Your pick unlocks different paths. You're a cheater with buffs — you'll survive. Go!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Text-Based 9%, Adventure 7%
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 24.2%, Mystery 17.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 5.2%
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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Mystery 20.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Adventure 6.5%
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 31.3%, Noir 28.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Detective 12.8%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
Why similar: Noir 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Detective 11.6%
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 23.7%, Text-Based 22.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Adventure 4.2%
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 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 14.5%, Text-Based 11.1%
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 30.2%, Sandbox 22.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Mystery 7.8%
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 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Mystery 9.9%
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 13.3%, Detective 13%
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 35.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
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 16.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Anime 6.1%
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 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 16.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Body found. Two missing. Detective Malinowski hears what others miss. Noir adventure where sound reveals clues and sketches tell the story. A short case you can finish tonight. Start now.
Why similar: Noir 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Detective 14.7%, Mystery 9.8%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Text-Based 17.9%, Mystery 11.7%, Story Rich 5.6%
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 18.2%, Detective 16.9%, Mystery 16.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
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 13.3%, Detective 12.6%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Mystery 14.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Detective 11.1%
Every Legend is a text-based AI RPG where each adventure is generated around your choices. Create your hero, type your actions, explore branching stories, meet unique characters, and shape a new legend every playthrough.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Sandbox 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Detective 11.1%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Noir 20.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 16.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Mystery 8.1%
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 16%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 10.2%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Detective 16.7%, Text-Based 12%, Multiple Endings 8%
