60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Singleplayer, Story Rich.
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.
妖睨之境The Sight of Darkness
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Cannibal Court
Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Drama 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Point & Click 10.7%, Mystery 10.5%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Point & Click 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Detective novelist MEL Gideon, whose career is facing difficulties, receives a strange letter claiming someone is in trouble and needs her help. Intrigued, she decides to investigate. As she digs deeper, she starts to realize that her past is far more complicated than she ever imagined...
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Point & Click 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Mystery 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
This is a murder mystery visual novel where you take the role of the detective. Search for clues, make discoveries, and talk to other characters to find out what is truly going on on the Murder Express.
Why similar: Detective 33.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 13%, Point & Click 9.3%, Drama 7.3%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Point & Click 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Drama 11%, Visual Novel 10.8%
1990s: Windswept mining town Linshan, dependent on fading coal mines, worshipped a mountain god’s stele. After it cracked and oozed brown liquid, a strange illness spread. Lin Tianqing returned for his sick father, uneasy as the eerie town neared, having overheard whispers.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Drama 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Mystery 10%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Seoyeon Yu, a former police officer, works as a private investigator for a rich family. However, during her investigation, she discovers evidence linking them to her husband's death. Using her ability to see people's guilt, she begins an investigation to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Mystery 12.6%, Point & Click 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%
《栖云异梦》是一款由叙事驱动的指向点击冒险解谜游戏。在一次午后，主角方哲收到了一个包裹，其中的线索竟指向失踪多年的母亲。循环的梦魇、惊悚的哨音、多年前的来信...方哲为了解开真相踏上了一段奇异的冒险。剧场中的魅影、不为人知的密室、诡异的古村，梦境与现实交错，指引他步步逼近真相......
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Drama 16.5%, Point & Click 15.6%, Mystery 10.8%, Visual Novel 9%
A sculptor is confined in a monastery asylum.
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Point & Click 13.8%, Drama 13.3%, Mystery 9.7%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
"Internship Detective" is a text adventure game of detective story from the perspective of double female masters. The two heroines Doudou (Intership detective) and Bobo (“big” detective) .
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Drama 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Point & Click 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Drama 12.2%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Drama 11.8%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Drama 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Point & Click 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9%, Visual Novel 8.6%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Point & Click 10.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Point & Click 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Drama 12.2%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Detective 9.5%
In the game, the little girl has the strangest day of her life. It starts in a quite peaceful morning and ends up in a really weird night. Her mom is missing, and her dad is acting crazy... What happens this day seems all mixed up and strange, but it's actually meant to be.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.5%, Detective 16.4%, Drama 12.7%, Mystery 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11%
One war. Two sides of a military conflict. Which side will you choose if you take a look at the world from both sides of the conflict? Whom will you support and whom will you destroy if some are fighting for an uncertain future, while others are for a peaceful present?
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 17%, Mystery 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Mystery 12.9%, Drama 11%
Astrid wakes up in Purgatory and has to make peace with her death. Only problem is... she doesn't remember anything! Point and click your way through adventure-based gameplay mixed with visual novel storytelling, and solve the mystery of our heroine's untimely demise.
Why similar: Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Drama 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
'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 18.6%, Point & Click 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Mystery 10%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Point & Click 12.6%, Mystery 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
《頭七》（头七怪谈）是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员，你需要根据主编的要求，整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联，并在必要时与同伴实地探索，以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Detective 15%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Point & Click 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Drama 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Point & Click 16.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
After dying, poisoned for unknown reasons, Isobel finds herself in the afterlife... and on a dangerous mission. Experience a truly unique visual novel full of character, mystery and heart as you point and click your way to unveiling the strange world of Purgatory's many secrets.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Drama 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
《迷渡桥》是一款水墨风格的国风悬疑推理游戏，你将扮演牵涉谋逆的罪臣后人宁不移，背负着家族十年的冤屈，在弥留之际踏上迷渡桥，换一个查明真相的机会。调查一桩桩离奇命案，窥见朝堂内的暗流涌动。当迷雾散尽，揭开深埋于王朝的骇人秘密......
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Drama 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Point & Click 10.6%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Drama 14%, Mystery 10.4%, Point & Click 9.8%
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Drama 11.4%
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Mystery 15.7%, Detective 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%
It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...
Why similar: Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Drama 13%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Agent Allison received an unexpected dinner invitation from the head of the Johnson dynasty, controllers of a sprawling business empire. What required her presence? The story's curtain began lifting...
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Point & Click 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 12.4%
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Mystery 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Point & Click 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Mystery 13%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 11.5%, Point & Click 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Drama 9%
Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Point & Click 19.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Exploration 9.7%
Discover the mysterious city of Upper Morkezela, where gods go to die. As an apprentice to the priest of the fungal cult, your task will be to discover what lies behind the mysterious distress signal sent from the city.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Point & Click 15%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Point & Click 16%, Mystery 13%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
1988年，日本泡沫经济破灭前夕，化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警，侦查青梅奇怪自杀案，牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密，穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头，在人心与生死的抉择中，搜查蛛丝马迹，找出血案真相。
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Drama 11.7%, Mystery 9.8%
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Drama 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Mystery 11.7%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Drama 10%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Drama 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Mystery 12.1%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Point & Click 15.8%, Drama 13.5%
A gripping visual novel set in modern-day Japan, featuring cute anime-style heroines and branching storylines that lead to multiple endings. Every choice you make shapes the story—and determines Arisa's fate.
Why similar: Drama 17.8%, Detective 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Mystery 12.5%
In the nightmare, you keep cycling through In the nightmare, you keep cycling through loops, each one marking a new beginning. Every character has their own purpose, and your choices will affect their outcomes. Can you uncover the truth of the story and dig up the buried mysteries?
Why similar: Detective 22%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Mystery 13.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Drama 10.8%
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story. The killer "Rooster" who killed six innocent girls has committed a new crime.Fortunately, at the scene of the seventh homicide, the police found important clues pointing to the murderer...
Why similar: Detective 30%, Drama 15.9%, Mystery 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Story Rich 6.4%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Detective 14.3%, Mystery 11.4%, Drama 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
The Puppet's Casket is a 2D puzzle adventure set in a mysterious Victorian manor. Navigate among eerie marionettes, solve intricate puzzles, and gather clues to seize the artificial eye and uncover the truth behind the Thorn family's tragic downfall.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Point & Click 19.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Drama 10.3%, Detective 10.1%
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Mystery 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
In the romantic visual novel Arts & Hearts Academy, immerse yourself in a world of mysteries, art scandals, and love! A student girl dreams of winning a prestigious architecture competition and finding love. Little does she know, a cunning criminal has already set their traps.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Drama 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 13%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Drama 12.3%
