60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Story Rich, Detective.
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.
BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
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!
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Noir 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Detective 10%, Mystery 7.4%
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 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Mystery 14.9%, 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 21.6%, Noir 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 11.9%, 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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Detective 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%
A kidnapped woman. A dying phone. One detective. Investigate clues, track her location and find her before the battery reaches zero.
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Detective 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, 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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 12.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Visual Novel 11%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Noir 23.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Detective 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.
Why similar: Noir 41.5%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Adventure 5.6%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Detective 14.5%, Mystery 11.3%
《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 30.8%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 13.9%, Detective 12.5%, Adventure 8.5%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 8.5%, Text-Based 6.8%
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 27.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Detective 15.5%, Mystery 15.1%, Text-Based 11.1%
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Adventure 7%, Anime 4.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Detective 14.4%, Noir 12.6%, Mystery 10%
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 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Detective 16.5%, Mystery 15.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Noir 19.1%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 13%
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 33.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 15.1%, Mystery 13.4%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 33.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 14.6%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
Become Nick Night, detective for hire, as he embarks on his toughest case yet in this noir, open world RPG.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Detective 11.5%
“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 32.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Detective 17.1%, Mystery 15.2%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
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 13.9%, 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 33.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Mystery 13.6%, Detective 13.3%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Mystery 14.5%, Detective 9.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
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: Noir 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Detective 14.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Mystery 11.8%
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 28.9%, Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Mystery 15.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
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 28.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Detective 14.4%, Mystery 6.1%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 32.2%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
"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 30.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Noir 17.1%, Detective 16.2%, Mystery 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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 15.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
"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 30.8%, Detective 18%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Mystery 13.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
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 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Noir 24.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Noir 16.9%, Detective 16.8%, Mystery 13.4%, Text-Based 12%
Spend a week on the microplanet of Archalh, cut off from the wider universe until the next macrocosmic pulse. Through the eyes of the planet's inhabitants and visitors, each with conflicting agendas; unearth what’s emerging within its confines before the next pulse frees it to spread beyond.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 16.7%, Detective 7.2%
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 24.5%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Mystery 12.8%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Noir 25.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 11.5%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
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 28.1%, Detective 24.9%, Mystery 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Adventure 7.4%
A quiet piano guides players through a Japanese-style mystery adventure centered on memories and the lingering regrets of Oda Nobunaga. Players explore a mysterious world, uncover hidden truths, and piece together a forgotten trust.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Detective 17.9%, Mystery 16.6%, Adventure 9.3%
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 30.5%, Noir 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Adventure 8.3%
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 32.1%, Detective 20.5%, Mystery 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Adventure 9%
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 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 10.1%, Mystery 9.6%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Noir 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Detective 20.5%, Mystery 14.6%, Text-Based 12%
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 24.5%, Mystery 16.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Visual Novel 5.8%
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 16.4%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
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 28.1%, Noir 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 9.9%, Detective 8.7%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Detective 17.8%, Mystery 16.1%, Noir 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 22.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Detective 14.9%, Mystery 12.3%
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 22.3%, Noir 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Detective 11.7%, Mystery 11.3%
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 31.2%, Noir 28.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Detective 12.8%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 11.7%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
Why similar: Noir 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Detective 15%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Mystery 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Detective 11.8%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Detective 13.7%, Mystery 12.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Mystery 20%, Multiple Endings 11%, Adventure 6.7%
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 35.3%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Text-Based 8.9%, Adventure 7.2%
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 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 11.8%, Detective 11.6%
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 27.8%, Detective 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Mystery 9.9%
In 1630, Ming Dynasty collapses—famine, war, and rebellion plague the land. When a tyrant is murdered in "utopian" Baichu County, detectives Yue Wuxi and Feng Shengjue investigate, unwittingly uncovering a conspiracy that will shake both court and martial world...
Why similar: Noir 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Detective 13.3%, Mystery 7.1%
