60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Investigation.
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Welcome to Victorville
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
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Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Conspiracy 12.3% ★, Investigation 12.1%, Detective 11.2%, Medieval 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 11%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Investigation 16.4%, Point & Click 11%, Mystery 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Point & Click 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Mystery 9.8%
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk? The story for those who are brave enough to dive in a dark story and are able to think reasonably.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.4% ★, Detective 15.7%, Medieval 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Mystery 10.4%
A detective RPG with no combat in it. Question a river town that would rather you left, gather what people let slip, and name the guilty party yourself — the game never tells you the answer. 28 cases, and every one can be solved from what you were actually shown.
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Investigation 12.3%, RPG 12%, Medieval 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Point & Click 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Conspiracy 22.1% ★, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Mystery 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Examine clues and solve puzzles to uncover a story full of twists and turns.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25% ★, Detective 19.9%, Investigation 16.1%, Point & Click 11.1%, Mystery 10.9%
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.2% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Investigation 8.9%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 12.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11%, Point & Click 11%
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: Detective 21.3%, Point & Click 13.8%, Mystery 13.5%, Investigation 11.8%, Text-Based 11.7%
Your friend is missing in the Australian outback and you must find her. Search the Internet for clues, solve mysterious puzzles and uncover the conspiracy of the vanishing hikers of Golden Valley.
Why similar: Conspiracy 18.5% ★, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 11.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Point & Click 8.6%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Medieval 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.5% ★, Detective 15%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
A deductive investigation game with a faded pixel art aesthetic. Set in a dreamlike, mysterious environment, the player becomes a conductor, (re)organizing and (re)positioning objects, characters, and puzzles while recovering lost fragments of their memory.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.1% ★, Detective 16.3%, Investigation 13.5%, Point & Click 11.3%, Mystery 9.6%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Romance 10%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 19.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Modern-day Muscovite Anna awakens in the body of Countess Elizaveta Orlova. Explore the Northern Crown Academy, uncover the secrets of its mirrors, choose your allies, and decide Anna's fate in a visual novel about magic, trust, and two worlds.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Romance 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Investigation 8.7%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Investigation 12.5%, Mystery 12.1%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
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: Detective 16.3%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Investigation 10.1%, Text-Based 9.8%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 14.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Point & Click 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Point & Click 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A college radio DJ has vanished, but the school says she withdrew. Search forum posts and confidential records to uncover the people behind anonymous handles. Piece together what happened to Starlingdive in a deduction mystery spanning three connected cases, from college radio to the music industry.
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Conspiracy 17.5% ★, Investigation 14.9%, Point & Click 14.3%, Mystery 11.4%
A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Story Rich 10.9%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Investigation 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Point & Click 9.7%, Romance 9.3%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Detective 15%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 15.1%, Investigation 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.8% ★, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 16.3%, Mystery 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.5%, Detective 16.4%, Conspiracy 12.5% ★, Choices Matter 11.5%, Mystery 11.1%
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.6% ★, Detective 17.4%, Investigation 14.5%, Point & Click 10.8%, Mystery 10.2%
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: Detective 15.7%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Text-Based 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 15%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Point & Click 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.6%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Investigation 12%
Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Romance 9.4%, Text-Based 9%
A Frankenstein-inspired Gothic RPG. You’re an eccentric physician’s apprentice whose unique skills (and shortcomings) shape every conversation. Explore the city, follow leads, and find your missing mentor and the man you helped raise from the dead. Save them, condemn them, or alter death itself.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Point & Click 9.8%, Lore-Rich 8.8%, Investigation 8.4%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 12.4%, Point & Click 11.8%, Romance 9.9%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 15.9%, Mystery 11.3%, Point & Click 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Follow detective Carol Reed in this colorful mystery, made with real-life photographs. The game features a classic adventure game interface, plenty of puzzles, and a series of minigames as an integrated part of the story.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Point & Click 19.6%, Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 12.4%, Adventure 8.5%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A dark fairytale point-and-click adventure game that follows 13-year-old Willow as she tries to escape a living hospital made of memories while searching for her lost brother.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: Detective 14.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Point & Click 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Romance 9.8%
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.7% ★, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 15.3%, Point & Click 14.7%, Text-Based 9.8%, Mystery 9.2%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.2% ★, Detective 15.4%, Point & Click 11.9%, Investigation 10.4%, Text-Based 10%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Mystery 10.9%
Dive into a decade of secrets, mysterious characters and their inexplicable deaths - in the shadow of the darkest time in human history. Investigate crimes, decode documents, collect clues and solve riddles - one word at a time. The deeper you read, the less any of it seems to be an accident.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Conspiracy 19.6% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Point & Click 15%, Mystery 8.5%
'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: Detective 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Point & Click 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
A retro office mystery about tech support, deadlines, and a floor that doesn't exist. It's 2001, and you're the L1 helpdesk tech at a corporation running on an OS from another era. Close tickets against the clock. Mind your tone. Don't ask about Floor 7.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.8%, Detective 15%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Mystery 11.7%, Point & Click 9.8%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Welcome to the Kabaret - where monsters from Southeast Asian myths and folklores dwell. Perform tea ceremonies, play traditional games, and question your humanity.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.5%, Investigation 14.8%, Point & Click 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%
See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Romance 11.5%
1993, just after Czechoslovakia split in two. Play as reporter Marek and investigate the death of a company director in name only. In Prague, journalist Eva pursues a case of her own. Explore locations, read documents, and uncover where their cases meet in a classic 2D point-and-click mystery.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Conspiracy 17.4% ★, Investigation 15.4%, Point & Click 15.1%, Mystery 9.9%
A noir detective game played at your desk. Read evidence photos, CCTV footage and records, compare fingerprints and voices, and fill in the suspect matrix yourself before you accuse anyone. Juggle action points, fees and deadlines across eight cases as a criminal organization closes in.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 17.1%, Conspiracy 13.7% ★, Point & Click 12.5%, Mystery 10.7%
