60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Atmospheric, Mystery.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Nobody Wants to Die
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.8% ★, Investigation 16.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 24% ★, Detective 15.7%, Investigation 12%, Thriller 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.1% ★, Mystery 15.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 8.6%
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.8% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 11%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Time Travel 17.4% ★, Detective 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Investigation 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.5% ★, Time Manipulation 21.4% ★, Narrative 11.8% ★, Mystery 10.2%, Thriller 8.9%
Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.2% ★, Detective 18.2%, Narrative 11.2% ★, Thriller 10.5%, Investigation 10.2%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Time Travel 21.3% ★, Narrative 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Emotional 9.2%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.6% ★, Detective 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Time Travel 23.8% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Emotional 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Mystery 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, First-Person 10.9%
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.5% ★, Time Travel 21.5% ★, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 8.6%
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 23.7% ★, Time Travel 16.3% ★, Detective 13.2%, Investigation 10.2%, Choices Matter 7%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Thriller 22.4%, Mystery 17.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Adventure 12.5%
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Why similar: Mystery 18.7%, Investigation 17.2%, Puzzle 14.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, First-Person 11%
You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?
Why similar: Time Travel 31.8% ★, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Puzzle 8.1%
A first-person, narrative-driven game featuring The Developer, who questions, taunts, and tests you at every turn. You shouldn’t press the button, but you’ll want to. You will have control, and you will have none. Power is in your hands... or is it? Inspired by classic narrative driven games.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 36% ★, Choices Matter 12.1%, Emotional 10%, First-Person 7.5%, Mystery 7.5%
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Why similar: Narrative 39.1% ★, Emotional 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, First-Person 5.9%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 21% ★, Detective 19.6%, Investigation 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
Why similar: Investigation 25.2%, Mystery 18.4%, Puzzle 13.4%, Story Rich 10.3%, First-Person 9.2%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 35.8% ★, Time Manipulation 12.2% ★, Mystery 10.9%, Detective 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 15%, Thriller 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Emotional 9.4%
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
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 26.8% ★, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 27% ★, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.
Why similar: Detective 41.1%, Mystery 34.8%, Adventure 24.2%
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Narrative 13.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 12.8%, Mystery 12.4%
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.7% ★, Narrative 17.1% ★, Time Travel 14.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%
13: Origin is a web of clues that you must follow and not miss, as in most room escape/puzzle games. As you untie each knotted loop, you will realize how long and endless the thread you hold on to the end is.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Investigation 18%, Thriller 13.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Mystery 8.7%
Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 9%
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Thriller 13.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Puzzle 9.9%
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
Why similar: Detective 30.9%, Investigation 24.5%, First-Person 11.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Exploration 9.4%
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Time Travel 41.1% ★, Mystery 14.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Exploration 8.4%
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: Time Manipulation 21.4% ★, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Puzzle 12.2%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.7%
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.1%, Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Emotional 12%, Story Rich 10.6%
Inua is a narrative game in which three protagonists have their destinies intertwined decades apart in the same locations in the far north. Explore each era, collect ideas and manipulate their minds to change the course of history.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.4% ★, Dynamic Narration 22.4% ★, Mystery 12.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.1%, Story Rich 23.3%, First-Person 21.1%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Adventure 11.7%
Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.
Why similar: Adventure 26.6%, First-Person 26.2%, Atmospheric 22.8%, Exploration 17.3%, Singleplayer 7.1%
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
Why similar: Mystery 20.5%, Emotional 16.6%, Investigation 16.5%, Puzzle 15.6%, Story Rich 11.5%
A cinematic adventure game with a heavy focus on narrative.
Why similar: Emotional 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Story Rich 16.7%, Adventure 15.3%, Singleplayer 3.7%
it's always monday - is a first person exploration game
Why similar: Adventure 83.7%, Interactive Fiction 3.6%, Emotional 3.2%, Mystery 2.5%, First-Person 1.8%
Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 15.8%, Story Rich 9.9%, First-Person 8.1%
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.5% ★, Detective 18%, Mystery 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!
Why similar: Detective 26%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 17.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Emotional 11%
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Narrative 23.3% ★, Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Mystery 9.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
You are the Ashter – a Slavic fire mage and tracker of mythical beings. Following a legendary creature, you reach a village caught in a time rift. Embark on a magical investigation – travel through time, explore the ancient land, and bond with fire to shape villagers’ fate and uncover the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 13.8%, Narrative 13.3% ★, Thriller 11.1%, Mystery 9.9%
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Why similar: Investigation 26%, Mystery 19.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Story Rich 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?
Why similar: Investigation 26.8%, Mystery 20.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, First-Person 9.8%, Story Rich 8.7%
Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.3%, Mystery 18.9%, Puzzle 16.9%, First-Person 14.4%, Exploration 11.6%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Investigation 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Mystery 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Emotional 14.7%, Story Rich 14.5%, First-Person 11.5%
Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Thriller 24.9%, Emotional 15.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11%
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance. Bend reality to recreate the scenes from his diary and expose long-buried secrets. What if your role in this case went beyond that of a simple investigator?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Mystery 15.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Puzzle 11%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 17.9%, Thriller 15%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
To the promise we once made and the place we must return
Why similar: Time Manipulation 50.2% ★, Choices Matter 22.3%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%
A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.8% ★, Time Manipulation 39.9% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Atmospheric 2.2%
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.9% ★, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%, Puzzle 7.3%
