60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Adventure, Story Rich, Visual Novel.
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
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"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!
江华号
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Word Game 17.6%, Historical 17.1%, Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 9.9%
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
Why similar: Word Game 22.4%, Historical 16.7%, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Word Game 24%, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 16.5%, Mystery 9.4%, Text-Based 7.8%
《迷渡桥》是一款水墨风格的国风悬疑推理游戏，你将扮演牵涉谋逆的罪臣后人宁不移，背负着家族十年的冤屈，在弥留之际踏上迷渡桥，换一个查明真相的机会。调查一桩桩离奇命案，窥见朝堂内的暗流涌动。当迷雾散尽，揭开深埋于王朝的骇人秘密......
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Historical 20.1%, Mystery 11.7%, Investigation 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%
《推理小说的关键一定会出现两次》是一部以日常推理为核心的视觉小说。日常混沌纷乱，而“侦探”独具慧眼。带上你的好奇心吧，去和推理协会一同调查、思考，最终解开一个个轻松却不失有趣的日常之谜。
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Word Game 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Investigation 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.5%
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Word Game 19.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Investigation 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
《定风波·宁州》是一款奇幻架空背景下的热血恋爱AVG游戏，游戏内包含多种结局和多个可攻略角色，玩家将扮演男主角周知，从一个寂寂无名的矿奴逐渐成长为一个英雄，和多个充满魅力的角色一起创造特别的回忆，改变宁州将面临的可怕命运
Why similar: Word Game 28.5%, Historical 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, RPG 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%
《谍：玫瑰》是一款聚焦于1938年武汉的谍战文字冒险游戏。你将潜入情报漩涡中心的「玫瑰饭店」，在五位身份各异的嫌疑人中，揪出代号「尘土」的致命叛徒。通过搜证与周旋，在谎言与忠诚之间做出抉择。夜幕下的武汉暗流涌动，你能否揪出内奸，重建地下情报网，点燃象征黎明的星星火焰？
Why similar: Historical 28.2%, Detective 27.2%, Mystery 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, RPG 7.7%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Historical 15.2%, Investigation 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Mystery 10.3%
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 33.7%, Detective 22.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, RPG 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.1%
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. ※English localization is currently in progress.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Historical 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
"Shenjing" is a side-scrolling mystery game set in the Ming Dynasty. Players begin with an amnesiac identity and must investigate evidence, witness testimonies, and meticulously piece together clues to uncover the truth behind each case and determine whether the characters were involved.
Why similar: Historical 25.5%, Word Game 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Detective 8.1%
《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.
Why similar: Word Game 25.9%, Detective 19.3%, Mystery 10.8%, Investigation 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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: Detective 20.7%, Historical 20%, Word Game 13.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
In 1421, the seemingly peaceful Ming Empire is actually rife with undercurrents. As the capital relocation project progresses, numerous forces across the realm are beginning to stir. A massive conspiracy is quietly brewing, and the facade of peace and tranquility is about to be torn apart.
Why similar: Historical 20.9%, Detective 15.4%, Word Game 13.4%, Investigation 12.6%, Mystery 9.3%
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 28.1%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 12.5%, Word Game 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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: Detective 22.1%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Mystery 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
In this surreal afterlife deduction game by CnD Games, play as Zhuge Liang—the East's legendary mastermind. Face off against Sherlock Holmes in the Underworld Olympics and unravel a deadly closed-circle mystery trapped within a snowed-in mountain lodge!
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Historical 18.8%, Investigation 10.9%, Visual Novel 9%, RPG 7.3%
欢迎来到温泉岛，我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗？那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落，那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说，那里是另一个世界，由贪婪，欲念构成的炼狱……最后，请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 28.4%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Investigation 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Word Game 23.3%, Detective 21.7%, Investigation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 12.3%
A detective visual novel set in Victorian London. Play as a veteran detective and his young daughter, investigate scenes through point-and-click gameplay, question suspects, and make tough choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Historical 27.4%, Detective 24.1%, Word Game 15%, Mystery 11.8%, Investigation 8.8%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 7.7%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Historical 22.7%, Investigation 16%, Detective 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 32.4%, Historical 16.8%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 10.7%, Logic 4.6%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Historical 17.3%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Word Game 20.9%, Investigation 16%, Mystery 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
古风悬疑探案文字冒险游戏——北宋天圣年间，科举省试方毕，汴京国子监突发连环命案，遇害者死状惊悚离奇，如遭阎罗审判。玩家将化身为被卷入权斗暗流的新科进士文彦博，通过勘验尸体、搜寻线索、推演谜局，找出案件背后的骇人真相……
Why similar: Historical 32.9%, Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Mystery 14.9%, RPG 5.3%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Text-Based 8.3%
唐天宝十一载的上元夜，浮浪子弟韩承业在盛世长安城邂逅一位神秘的贵族少女。三年后，安史之乱爆发。本不可能走到一起的两个人，会被命运的漩涡抛向何处？玩家将经历多个主角生命中一系列的变故，以及，投入到那场中国古代史上最为惨烈的守城战中。是死守，是挽救，还是逃亡？做出你的抉择。
Why similar: Word Game 27.5%, Historical 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, RPG 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%
The adventure begins when Ada, a young explorer, receives a mysterious selfie from her sister, who in fact disappeared months ago. ...... The background of the selfie is a mysterious island with blood-red sea water. Ada decides to go out on the sea to look for her sister……
Why similar: Word Game 21.8%, Detective 18.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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: Word Game 27.9%, Investigation 13.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
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: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
A novel, a game, a judgment document, a self-confession letter. On an ordinary summer morning, the arrival of an unexpected visitor awakened the dormant memories of a small island. You will play the role of Lynn Chan, and face your "Invisible Sin" by searching for a "Non-existent friend".
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Word Game 23.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, RPG 8.7%
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to Hongcha Valley after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Explore scenes, question witnesses, and connect clues to separate truth from lies. Uncover a family secret buried for over twenty years.
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 14%, RPG 13.3%, Detective 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Mystery 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Word Game 29.7%, Detective 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 9.4%
本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Word Game 21.3%, Mystery 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
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: Detective 19.4%, Word Game 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, RPG 12.6%, Mystery 12.2%
Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.
Why similar: Word Game 24.7%, Detective 17.9%, Investigation 13.9%, Text-Based 9.8%, Mystery 9.2%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Historical 19.6%, Detective 19%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Historical 21%, Detective 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%
This game is a multi perspective immersive text interactive visual novel game based on the real historical event of the Qing Dynasty in the Qingshui River Basin of Guizhou Province, known as the "Battle for the River Case".
Why similar: Word Game 29.3%, Historical 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, RPG 11.8%
三国x克苏鲁文字冒险游戏。189年，东汉王朝的垂暮之年，各种灾异让洛阳弥漫着一股末日氛围，玩家将扮演曹操和“李飞”，调查神秘组织长生道和他们的神明“黄天”背后的真相。游戏采用双线叙事，两个主角将各自调查真相、做出抉择……
Why similar: Historical 24.5%, Word Game 24.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
The historical records tell her ending—pearls sunk, jade shattered. You are a wisp of consciousness, waking up in her mind, and if you don’t speak, you’ll vanish. Before anything is written down, what do you want to say? What would you change?
Why similar: Historical 26.1%, Word Game 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Mystery 12.2%
你在一栋被完全封锁的公寓里觉醒，但是除了自己的化名以外对自己的过去一无所知。神秘的幕后黑手逼迫这所公寓里所有人自相残杀，而你以及这所公寓乃至整个世界真正的真相是什么？
Why similar: Word Game 33.7%, Detective 32%, Investigation 20.3%, Text-Based 10.7%, Indie 2.3%
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Historical 17.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.7%
A short, choice-based narrative game about solving mysteries through time loops. Death is not the end, but another beginning. This time, can I survive?
Why similar: Word Game 31.1%, Detective 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 5.5%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Historical 15.8%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Investigation 18.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 9.6%
The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here! A dentist dead in a double-locked room seems like a suicide, but unexplained contradictions connect different truths. Each investigation and puzzles are up to you. But wait, what's wrong with this suspicious "assistant" following?!
Why similar: Word Game 23.7%, Detective 20.7%, Investigation 10.1%, Mystery 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
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: Word Game 21.8%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%
This Lovecraftian psychological horror text game puts you as an Observer spared by the Round Table. You randomly possess one of ten unknown mortals per round. Deduce your host and three Old Ones' emissaries via dialogue, clues and table talks.
Why similar: Word Game 33.6%, Detective 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Mystery 8%
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: Detective 25.1%, Word Game 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Mystery 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
