60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Investigation, Adventure, Detective.
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.
Judge SIM
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.
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?
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: Dynamic Narration 19.4% ★, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Mystery 9%
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 20%, Dynamic Narration 16.4% ★, Investigation 16.2%, Mystery 9.8%, Nonlinear 9%
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 18.1%, Investigation 15.9%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Cinematic 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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: Investigation 22.3%, Detective 21.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Dynamic Narration 8.4% ★
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 23.1% ★, Investigation 13.7%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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% ★, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 15.2%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Investigate a supernatural conspiracy in a 90s town hiding something far worse than secrets. Travel between 1990 and its ruined 1995 future, photograph anomalies, decode entities, and survive a town that doesn't want you here. Think outside the box. Every problem has more than one solution.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.3% ★, Detective 17.8%, 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 26.7% ★, Detective 22.3%, Investigation 19.4%, 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 31.3% ★, Investigation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 12.6%, Mystery 9.3%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 16%, Mystery 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Dialogue Heavy 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 26.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Cinematic 10.6%, Detective 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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 24.6% ★, Detective 15%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 19%, Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Mystery 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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 29.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Investigation 10.6%, Cinematic 10.5%, Mystery 10.3%
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 23.1%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Cinematic 14.3%, Exploration 6.9%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 18%, Dynamic Narration 17.6% ★, Mystery 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
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 17%, Investigation 15.5%, 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 24.8% ★, Detective 16.3%, Investigation 13.9%, 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% ★, Detective 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Investigation 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Investigation 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, 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 20.7%, Cinematic 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 12.3%
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 19.2%, Investigation 16.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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 32.1% ★, Nonlinear 14%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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 27.2%, Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
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 18.9%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Mystery 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
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 27.4%, Investigation 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Mystery 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
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 14.1%, Dynamic Narration 13.4% ★, Mystery 10.5%
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Mystery 12.9%, Nonlinear 10.3%
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 26.3% ★, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Mystery 10.8%
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Investigation 16.7%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Cinematic 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
A point-and-click deduction game where you unravel complex events. Explore frozen moments in time, analyze the scene, and fill in the blanks. Piece together the who, how, and why behind each curious scenario.
Why similar: Detective 31.4%, Investigation 30.4%, Mystery 20.5%, Cinematic 12.7%, Adventure 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 23.8%, Investigation 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Cinematic 13.7%, Nonlinear 8.3%
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 26.6%, Investigation 21.7%, Mystery 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Dual role as detective and fixer, commanding the perfect cover-up from your desk. Intercept calls, stay ahead of the media, gather intel, and decide the fate of everyone involved before the masses catch on. Try again and again to reshape the narrative in this choice-driven mystery. Or you are fired.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.9% ★, Detective 21.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
PSX-style survival horror set in a post-Soviet SCP universe. As a Foundation Agent, investigate rumors of missing people's voices. Evade SCP-939 - a blind predator tracking sound and mimicking human speech. Gather intel to call the MTF, and choose between strict orders and saving locals.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.9% ★, Detective 22.4%, Nonlinear 10.4%, Mystery 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%
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 19.3%, Investigation 16.4%, Cinematic 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
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 23.2% ★, Detective 18.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
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 24.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%
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 23.3% ★, Detective 19%, Investigation 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
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 21.3%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
[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 29.1%, Investigation 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Mystery 9.1%, Adventure 7.4%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Investigation 22%, Mystery 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Nonlinear 7.8%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 17%, Investigation 14%, Mystery 7.5%
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 19.6%, Dynamic Narration 17.6% ★, Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Nonlinear 9.5%
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 29%, Investigation 21.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
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 26.6%, Investigation 21%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
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 21.1%, Detective 21%, Mystery 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.4% ★, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 9.6%
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 22.3% ★, Investigation 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Cinematic 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 18.9%, Dynamic Narration 17.2% ★, Choices Matter 14.8%, Cinematic 14%, Investigation 12.8%
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 26.9% ★, Detective 25.2%, Investigation 21.6%, Mystery 11.8%, Choices Matter 4.5%
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 26.9% ★, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 15.2%, Cinematic 11.6%, Mystery 9%
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 29.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Immersive Sim 6.9%
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 23.2%, Investigation 20.3%, Cinematic 12.8%, 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 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Cinematic 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
