60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Investigation, Story Rich.
A private eye mystery game where you decide how to solve the case. Use your detective skills to solve the case or rely on the abilities of your little dragon partner to see things from a new angle.
Almanac: Detective Agency
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Hollow Descent
A narrative-driven RPG where you investigate an anomaly consuming the world. Explore, engage in turn-based combat, and make choices that shape the story, your allies, and the fate of everything.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Dynamic Narration 16.5% ★, Investigation 16.2%, Mystery 9.8%, Nonlinear 9%
A narrative-driven RPG where you investigate an anomaly consuming the world. Explore, engage in turn-based combat, and make choices that shape the story, your allies, and the fate of everything.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.3% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Nonlinear 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
In this stop-motion inspired adventure, play as detective Ambroise Niflette in the thrilling investigation of the search for the stolen bell in a mysterious village.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 17.4%, Nonlinear 13%, Cinematic 10.4%, Mystery 9.4%
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.2% ★, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Mystery 9.3%
Dive into Welcome to Lightford, a captivating mystery detective sim set in 1998. Unravel the town's secrets with unique solutions for each challenge, pushing your wits beyond the ordinary. Can you crack the mysteries and navigate the small town of Lightford?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.4% ★, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
You are a famous detective. Examine the evidence around you, read the notes left for you and listen to audio recordings, follow clues, write down your findings, interrogate suspects. How would you like to be the shining star of the scene?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.9% ★, Detective 22.2%, Investigation 19.5%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Cinematic 5.8%
A bakery falls to arson and a city falls to chaos. With the harmony between human and dragon crumbling, can Rimentus solve the Mystery of Caketropolis before his kind face exile?
Why similar: Dragons 31.1% ★, Investigation 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 12.6%, Mystery 9.4%
Five strangers wake up in a dark room in an abandoned building with no idea who put them there and why. They now need to work together in order to figure out what connects them and how to get out of this place. A short psychological thriller visual novel with choices.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Cinematic 10.5%, Detective 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 16%, Mystery 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, Detective 14.9%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
A former friend needs you to rescue him from an abandoned research station on Mars. Explore the station, engage in interactive dialogues and solve mysteries. What will await you?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 29.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Investigation 10.6%, Cinematic 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 18%, Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Mystery 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Cinematic 14.2%, Exploration 6.9%
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 16.9%, Investigation 15.6%, Cinematic 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Mystery 10.2%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25% ★, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.1% ★, Detective 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Immersive Sim 9.9%
A Little Time is a first-person interactive story. You play as a young but determined detective investigating a man's disappearance. You will travel to a variety of locations and pick up clues while experiencing the story, dialogue, and atmospheric visuals.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 20.8%, Cinematic 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 12.3%
Enter a World of Your Dreams!This immersive first-person action-adventure transforms your dream journal entries into a narrative-rich playground. Create, Explore, and Unravel. Expect the unexpected in this ever-evolving dream world - beware though - you are not alone!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.3% ★, Nonlinear 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
After crash-landing on a mysterious planet, novice engineer Nova Collins must unravel the secrets of a town's messy past to escape it. Talk your way through this enigmatic place, but beware: ideas manifest as things that can be traded and lost, so don't lose yourself along the way...
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 19%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Mystery 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone. Point, click and chat as you investigate on your new computer in this puzzle mystery.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.4% ★, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Mystery 10.7%
Within a universe dominated by Artificial Intelligences, you step into the shoes of an AI detective to solve the mystery hidden within the Proxy Bar, a jazz club. You can ask the suspects ANYTHING, but will you ask the right questions?
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Investigation 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Mystery 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Detective 18%, Nonlinear 14%, Dynamic Narration 13.5% ★, Mystery 10.5%
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Mystery 12.9%, Nonlinear 10.2%
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover dark secrets beneath her peaceful urban life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Cinematic 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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 23.7%, Investigation 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
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 26.5%, Investigation 21.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.3% ★, Detective 18.8%, Investigation 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Cinematic 13.6%, Nonlinear 8.2%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.4% ★, Detective 18.8%, Investigation 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
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 28.4%, Investigation 24.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Detective Trent is a narrative-driven mystery game inspired by Trent’s Last Case. Investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and uncover the truth through evidence and dialogue. Your reasoning shapes the case, leading to multiple outcomes and endings.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Nonlinear 9.4%
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 21.2%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Investigation 16.5%, Cinematic 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Why similar: Investigation 21.2%, Detective 20.9%, Mystery 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
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 26.5%, Investigation 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.6% ★, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 9.6%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Investigation 22%, Mystery 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Nonlinear 10.3%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.5% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Cinematic 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Investigation 19%, First-Person 7.9%, Adventure 7.6%
Investigate a murder inside a building as a detective. Interrogate AI-powered residents, uncover hidden evidence, and analyze clues with your team. Every case is unique, with randomized stories and dynamic suspects. Can you catch the real killer?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.1% ★, Detective 25.1%, Investigation 21.6%, Mystery 11.8%, Choices Matter 4.5%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Dynamic Narration 17.5% ★, Choices Matter 14.9%, Cinematic 14%, Investigation 12.7%
Chronobreak invites you to a clash of forgotten gods and ancient times. As a old detective chasing a time-jumping killer, the consequences of your decisions will determine the case and the fate of those around you.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.1% ★, Detective 18.3%, Investigation 15.2%, Cinematic 11.5%, Mystery 9%
One night, an alarm goes off in the old mansion of one of the richest families in the world. You, an employee of a security agency, go to find out the reason for this, but you quickly realize that everything is not as simple as it seemed at first.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 36.1% ★, Investigation 19%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Mystery 13.1%, Choices Matter 6.2%
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Investigation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Cinematic 11.1%, Mystery 10.8%
Step into the shoes of a detective in the first realistic VR investigation game! Explore 1980s New Orleans and solve a captivating murder mystery. Interrogate suspects, each with their own motives, and use your deduction skills to reconstruct the events and reach a conclusive resolution.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 20.4%, Cinematic 12.7%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.6%
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Cinematic 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 33% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Nonlinear 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 19.6%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Detective 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Follow the story of Blanca Silverurn—a strix entangled in a murder mystery. Explore the Grimstrand campus and learn about its unique magic. Delve into the secrets of students and faculty members. Affect their relationships, including a spicy romance between Blanca and her enigmatic mentor.
Why similar: Investigation 20%, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.8% ★, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 17%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mystery 10.7%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Investigation 21.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
La Dimensione Interna (The Dimension Within) is a third person 3D narrative adventure game in which you'll play as Giorgio, a journalist living in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, during his worst moment in life.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.3% ★, Nonlinear 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Searchbar Detective is a 2D Mystery Game set in a virtual world in which you use your searchbar to solve crimes and uncover conspiracies.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 31.8% ★, Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Mystery 8.2%
Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets. Break them with words or evidence — or realize too late that you were only a pawn in their game. A detective game built around truly lifelike AI NPCs.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Cinematic 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mystery 10.4%
