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Games Like Echoes of Madness - The Hawthorne Case

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  1. #1 BUGFIXER INO
    97% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: cyberspace8bit
    Windows

    PC-98Like command-select adventure/visual novel Witness bugfixer Ino's quest with realistic FM sound

    Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Detective 12.6%

  2. #2 La Jetée
    96% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: Arthouse indie Games
    Windows

    ‘This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.’ An 30minute black noire game, with an deep story, 30 beautiful images and stunning backroundsound.

    Why similar: Noir 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Adventure 14.4%, Narration 12.8%

  3. #3 The Pigment
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: PlayBook
    Windows

    Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?

    Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Noir 22.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 6.7%

  4. #4 Scream - Steam Edition -
    94% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
    Dev: POISON MOTIONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    Enjoy watching how team members react to the various mishaps that occur during the intensive training camp.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Adventure 22.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%, 2D 7.2%

  5. #5 Days with the Ogre Girl
    94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, 2D 7%

  6. #6 SHINJUKU SOUMEI
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2024
    Dev: G-MODE
    Windows

    Through the eyes of Torao, explore a story that raises profound questions about the value of life. Questions that speak to those living in modern times, those in the city, and for all of us.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Adventure 23.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, 2D 6.5%

  7. #7 Vivere Memento
    92% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A city forgotten by everyone, two women trying to unravel its secrets, and a dismal silence of war. Is it possible to create without the hope of being heard? Is it possible to mourn for someone obliterated in memories? And what horrors are hidden in the shadows of forgotten town?

    Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Lovecraftian 21%, Detective 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 7.9%

  8. #8 BAROQUE SYNDROME
    91% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
    Dev: Sting
    Windows

    This ported edition of Baroque Syndrome presents the visual novel depicting the events before the main Baroque story. Play as Kitsune, owner of the Baroque Shop, and experience a branching narrative shaped by your choices. Fonts, stills, animations, and UI have been remastered for smoother play.

    Why similar: Noir 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Visual Novel 22%, Adventure 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

  9. #9 Five Biggest Accomplishments
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, Noir 29.8%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Text-Based 6.4%

  10. #10 Inexplicable Deaths In Damipolis: Inner Thoughts
    91% match8 user reviews0% of 8 reviews2020
    Dev: TiesoftPub: Badland Publishing
    Windows

    One tragic night, the power dome of Damipolis died during dinner under strange circumstances... What were they doing there? What really happened that night? And... who is the culprit? Solve the mystery in this first-person 3D graphic adventure, inspired by classic film noir.

    Why similar: Noir 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Detective 16.1%, Narration 15.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%

  11. #11 Tron: Identity
    89% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
    Dev: Bithell Games
    Windows · Mac

    Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.

    Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Detective 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Adventure 9%

  12. #12 At the Mount Leng of madness
    89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: 井頭。
    Windows

    Four female college students visit a mountain where spirits live. There had been a number of disappearances there in the past, and it was known as a dangerous place. This work is a visual novel that depicts the secrets of Mount Leng and the adventures of college students.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Lovecraftian 20.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%

  13. #13 Adventure Awaits in The Secret of the Golden Key
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pigeon Post Games
    Windows

    A family friendly adventure visual novel that makes reading fun! Accessibility is top of mind with voice-acted read-along narration with friendly fonts for readers with dyslexia. Experience hand drawn art and make important choices to determine how your story unfolds.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Narration 23.5%, Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 7.1%

  14. #14 Lavender Field
    87% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: KamilaFoxGames
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.

    Why similar: Noir 40.7%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Narration 19.6%, Adventure 10.9%, 2D 6.4%

  15. #15 Yoram - Question Arc
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Team Yoram
    Windows

    A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.

    Why similar: Noir 35.7%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Detective 18.8%, Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 5.2%

  16. #16 Disaster Detective Saiga: An Indescribable Mystery
    86% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
    Dev: 株式会社雄プロダクションPub: D.H Inc.
    Windows

    This is an adventure game with a comical and mysterious story. Become the unluckiest detective in the universe and travel around Town with your buddy, a fortune teller, to solve crimes.

    Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.3%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Adventure 18.3%, 2D 3.9%

  17. #17 The Happy Dismal Town
    84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
    Dev: Strange Box Tales
    Windows

    A funny and dramatic game telling the story of a detective. NOIR themed with a cyberpunk background with elements of Lovecraftian horror story.

    Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Lovecraftian 19.6%, Adventure 9.7%, Detective 6.5%

  18. #18 Out of Frame / ノベルゲームの枠組みを変えるノベルゲーム。
    85% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2020
    Dev: 自転車創業Pub: jitensyasougyou
    Windows

    Change the world by changing its framework. The answer always lies just beyond...

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Adventure 21%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, 2D 7.5%

  19. #19 The Lost & The Found
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ironic Despair
    Windows

    The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.

    Why similar: Noir 31.7%, Lovecraftian 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Adventure 8.3%

  20. #20 Croak and Solve
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BeyondTales Interactive
    Windows

    Join Burst as he tackles the chaos in Sorrentine the best he can. With your haunches swinging to the rhythm of jazz and a heavy dose of bad luck, you’ll dive into this vibrant pixel-art world with RPG elements to solve your adventures in the style of the most legendary detectives.

    Why similar: Noir 36%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 15.1%, Detective 10.3%, Narration 6.6%

  21. #21 空野まなみの事件録 ― 空白のカルテ ―
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rabbitly
    Windows

    Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 14%, 2D 7.2%

  22. #22 フリと忘れじの都 -FRI the Unforgettable City-
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: CICADA STUDIO
    Windows

    An adventure game where your choices change the world. Fri, a girl working at a coffee workshop, lives in a town that feels strangely mysterious. What will she encounter in this town while suffering from amnesia, and how will the world changing?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Adventure 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%

  23. #23 Secret Crush -Unrequited love-
    81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: dramatic create
    Windows

    My second spring in high school. Surrounded by my dreamy upperclassman, that classmate I'm interested in, and my childhood friend who's a year younger than me. She's been in the search for a boyfriend who would look at her, and only her. The protagonist Chika decides to confess her feelings to……

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Visual Novel 27.5%, Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 10.5%, 2D 6.9%

  24. #24 貴方が狼カードデス!
    81% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2023
    Dev: toRipota
    Windows

    Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.8%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.6%

  25. #25 Echoes
    80% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2024
    Dev: Nova-box
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?

    Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Lovecraftian 14.1%, Detective 12.5%

  26. #26 The Yellow Sign
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: WeAreWild
    Windows

    Worlds brought to life by H.P. Lovecraft and R.W. Chambers combined in the form of a pixelart point&click game. As Solomon Hill, investigate the mysterious death of your twin brother and an ancient plot to bring back the lost city of Carcosa and its resident Hastur, known as the King in Yellow.

    Why similar: Noir 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Lovecraftian 15.8%, Detective 14.8%, Supernatural 4.9%

  27. #27 Alice49 EP.0『ダイヤモンドとシュークリーム』
    79% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2024
    Dev: Include0
    Windows

    Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Adventure 17.6%, Detective 15.9%, Text-Based 12.5%

  28. #28 Everyday life with Evil sisters
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    The protagonist secured security of life until his wounds heal. Immediately, he presses his sisters to arrange their living environment by asking them to do so, In addition, let's confront the sisters with various naughty requests under the guise of caring for their wounds.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Visual Novel 28%, Adventure 22.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%, 2D 7.1%

  29. #29 海鳥野ガクの精神鑑定録
    77% matchVery Positive83% of 318 reviews2024
    Dev: いもチャイ屋
    Windows

    「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか?それとも……」 精神科医である道島(主人公)は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…!?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Adventure 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Text-Based 10.3%

  30. #30 Twinkle★Nights
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: シラビノ遊屋Pub: shirabino
    Windows

    夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム!

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Adventure 23.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Singleplayer 1%

  31. #31 Pursuing My Uncle
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 98 reviews2025
    Dev: ふわふわ電子研究所
    Windows · Mac

    Spend a week at your uncle’s house in this short visual novel.From time to time, a special “Pursue” button will appear, guiding the story toward one of two endings.Approx. 30 minutes playtimeTwo possible endingsRated R12[Features]The “Pursue” button cannot be skipped.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Visual Novel 27.8%, Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, 2D 7.2%

  32. #32 Sunset High
    76% 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 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Detective 14.5%, Text-Based 8.8%

  33. #33 The Farm of the Living
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: PlayBook
    Windows

    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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Noir 26.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Text-Based 7.9%

  34. #34 Enjoyable Family Trip
    75% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2026
    Dev: POISON MOTIONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    Enjoy the warm family trip.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, 2D 7%

  35. #35 Death Drive
    73% matchVery Positive97% of 101 reviews2025
    Dev: LunaticMoon
    Windows

    Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.

    Why similar: Noir 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Lovecraftian 10.8%, Choices Matter 6.7%

  36. #36 Sara
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sara Eshard
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    3 days, 3 dreams, and 3 worlds.

    Why similar: Noir 36.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%, 2D 5.6%

  37. #37 星影の館殺人事件
    74% matchVery Positive94% of 80 reviews2024
    Dev: 法螺会
    Windows · Mac

    1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 18%, Detective 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

  38. #38 REPROCESS
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dea Machina
    Windows

    The suspect claims to be human. The system says otherwise. Interrogate suspects, play evidence cards, expose contradictions, apply emotional pressure, use apparatus data, build case maps, adapt your protocol stack, and decide whether the machine uncovered the truth — or produced a false positive.

    Why similar: Detective 21%, Noir 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Adventure 9.6%

  39. #39 Inspector Pug: The Furrious Murder Case
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Wardrobe Entertainment
    Windows

    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 30.1%, Detective 29.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Linear 4.2%

  40. #40 MOOZ
    73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
    Dev: motsuhouse
    Windows

    This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 10.1%, 2D 7.1%

  41. #41 囚人カウンセリング
    72% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: MoshikabaStudio
    Windows

    An interactive prison adventure. You play as a psychiatrist, working one-on-one with inmates who have committed crimes. Use case files to choose appropriate responses and hand out items from the drawer to maintain their trust. Your choices can either open up or close the inmates.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.9%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

  42. #42 Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Play On Words Studios
    Windows

    Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.

    Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 13.1%, Lovecraftian 12.8%

  43. #43 The Shadow
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: PlayBook
    Windows

    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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Noir 27.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Text-Based 8.2%

  44. #44 Doppelgänger
    71% matchPositive100% of 49 reviews2023
    Dev: HOLOSTARS English
    Windows · Mac

    The story is set in an alternate universe where the player is struggling with the memories of what they know to be HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- and the mysterious look-alikes who pull them every which way. Can the player figure out the truth about this twisted world and return to the guild?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.6%, Visual Novel 28.6%, Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, 2D 7.7%

  45. #45 深夜1時の交換手
    70% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2025
    Dev: ツノウサギの家
    Windows

    Have you heard the rumor? If you call a certain number at 1am, you will be connected to a person called the 1am operator. This person is said to be able to connect you to the past.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Visual Novel 30.5%, Adventure 25%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

  46. #46 Tutor X Hypnosis
    70% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
    Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%

  47. #47 The Monster Inside
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 2,090 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 47.5%, Detective 27.2%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

  48. #48 Cuckold my brother's wife
    69% matchNo user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: POISON MOTIONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    Enjoy your new life living with your brother's wife, who suddenly appeared.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, 2D 7%

  49. #49 PIGBLUE
    69% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2023
    Dev: Fatih Mert
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Noir 21.5%, Text-Based 14%, Adventure 8.8%

  50. #50 Funeral of Paradise - BL (Boys Love)
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: nonstopbl
    Windows · Mac

    A dark BL visual novel about love, faith, control, and the cost of choosing yourself. Guide Dojun through a psychological story of obsession, trauma, forbidden romance, and multiple endings shaped by your choices.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Noir 27.4%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 11.3%, Adventure 8.2%

  51. #51 My Cashy Side Job at Lost&Found in the Subway of Million-Person City
    70% matchMostly Positive71% of 49 reviews2021
    Dev: Unusual MeaningPub: IMAKIYA Q0
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Noir adventure for an unlucky subway's lost and found worker!

    Why similar: Noir 39.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Narration 11.3%, 2D 4.8%

  52. #52 Home Teacher Sister's
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: POISON MOTIONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
    Windows

    The protagonist, given the chance to revisit the past. Their goal is to manipulate the sisters who tormented them since childhood at will and settle old scores.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Adventure 22.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%, 2D 7.2%

  53. #53 Womb of Worms
    67% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
    Dev: Isopodomancer
    Windows

    A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.

    Why similar: Detective 30.2%, Noir 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%

  54. #54 Sign White
    67% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
    Dev: Team Marlo
    Windows

    "Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Adventure 23%, Text-Based 15.2%, Singleplayer 1%

  55. #55 未然探偵 The Protea Cases
    68% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
    Dev: orange
    Windows

    予測された未来に挑め―― 探偵見習いである伊月千春は失踪人探しの仕事の最中、犯罪予測AI『プロテア』を偶然、手に入れるが…

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Visual Novel 30.6%, Adventure 25.1%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 1%

  56. #56 Lacuna: Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 172 reviews2021
    Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%

    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 33.4%, Detective 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Adventure 8.1%, Text-Based 8.1%

  57. #57 Omen Exitio: Plague
    68% matchVery Positive85% of 631 reviews2018
    Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

    Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Adventure 8.3%

  58. #58 Blind Dog
    66% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: svyat
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Detective 22%, Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 7.4%

  59. #59 HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
    66% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2025
    Dev: Touched by GracePub: Plug In Digital
    Windows · Mac

    Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.

    Why similar: Noir 24.4%, Lovecraftian 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 8.6%

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