60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Detective, Crime, Adventure.
Solve your own murder in this thrilling true crime adventure game. You've come face-to-face with your fate and someone close to you is going to kill you...unless you find out who it is before the time runs out!
Detective Kobayashi - A Visual Novel
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
For Your Tranquility
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
Why similar: Crime 18.4%, Detective 16.6%, Point & Click 10.7%, Mystery 9.2%, Investigation 7.7%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Crime 18.4%, Point & Click 12.6%, Mystery 10.7%, Text-Based 7.2%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Crime 18.3%, Investigation 13.6%, Mystery 10%, Visual Novel 9%
An immersive thriller about a man escaping from a mysterious kidnapper. Find your way out, and uncover the truth. Maybe escape isn't the only thing you want...
Why similar: Crime 17.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Mystery 10.9%, Horror 8.8%, Narration 8.5%
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Point & Click 18.1%, Crime 14.6%, Horror 9.7%, Investigation 8.4%
Mohism: Battle of Words is a detective game set in the world of wuxia. The game follows Zhang Xiaochen, investigates unsolved cases and comes into his own as a hero. He must rely on his wits and razor-sharp tongue to best his opponents, find the culprit and ensure justice prevails!
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Crime 16.3%, Investigation 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 10.8%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Crime 19.8%, Detective 17.2%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Crime 15.9%, Point & Click 10.5%, Investigation 10.1%, Mystery 9.1%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Crime 15.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.1%
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Crime 12.5%, Investigation 12.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Homicide detective Ralph is distraught when his trusted, reliable partner goes missing around the same time strange killings begin to take place. While solving the case, Ralph is paired up with an impish rookie he can't get along with.
Why similar: Crime 17%, Point & Click 14%, Detective 13.7%, Text-Based 10.3%, Investigation 8.7%
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Crime 13%, Point & Click 12.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Crime 15.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Why similar: Detective 32.3%, Crime 18.7%, Mystery 12.2%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 7.3%
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Crime 12.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Investigation 10.4%, Point & Click 9.5%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Point & Click 14.4%, Investigation 13.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Mystery 9.8%
The Wolf is Dead is a murder mystery game. When the Big Bad Wolf is found murdered at a party for his biopic, you're called in. Interrogate suspects, investigate the scene of the crime and use this to travel back in time and reconstruct the events of the evening. Who killed Alexander Wolff?
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Crime 24.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Narration 11.6%, Puzzle 6.7%
Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.
Why similar: Crime 18.6%, Point & Click 15.8%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber agency, doing their best to uncover the identity of both the killer and VTuber's real face.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Crime 17.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Point & Click 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve cases that are too tough for the local police to crack.
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Investigation 17.2%, Point & Click 13.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Crime 11.6%
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Why similar: Crime 19.8%, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 12.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Text-Based 10.2%
Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Crime 21.6%, Mystery 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Investigation 6.5%
A shocking murder has rocked the Ironwood Inn. Play as one of four detectives, each with unique interrogation styles. Search for clues, question suspects, and uncover secrets in this high-stakes mystery. Can you solve the case before time runs out?
Why similar: Crime 27%, Detective 25.2%, Mystery 17%, Puzzle 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.9%
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 14.8%, Point & Click 14.1%, Mystery 12.5%, Investigation 9.2%, Anime 7.8%
5% of murder cases remain unsolved... it's time to open up these cases and confront the supernatural with forensic science! Solve cases by analyzing evidence and consulting with specialists. Enter a world that artfully blends 2D illustration and real-life visuals!
Why similar: Crime 16.3%, Detective 14.7%, Investigation 10.2%, Point & Click 9.8%, Text-Based 9.2%
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 18.1%, Investigation 11.7%, Point & Click 11.5%, Mystery 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Embark on a mysterious ride. Solve puzzles, make choices, and uncover the truth behind a hidden crime in this point & click with the depth of a visual novel, all set in a haunting subway filled with secrets.
Why similar: Crime 20.1%, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Point & Click 11.7%, Text-Based 10.1%
A short non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Crime 19.5%, Investigation 15.9%, Point & Click 13.8%, Mystery 12.4%
[IS THE GIRL IN THE MANOR ALIVE OR DEAD?] Investigate an abandoned manor, gather evidence, and make choices that affect both the past and future in this mystery point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Horror 10.3%, Narration 9.4%
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 19.3%, Crime 16.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Point & Click 9.8%, Mystery 9.7%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 15.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Mystery 7.9%
Still Life 2 also now available!
Why similar: Point & Click 26.8%, Crime 20%, Detective 18.9%, Mystery 13.8%, Adventure 7%
Solve a variety of perplexing cases in the sleuthing shoes of Detective Hindsight - who gets help from Phoebe: a young orphaned girl with dreams of being a storyteller and powers to look into the past. Uncover the truth with her sketches done in crayon. The catch? She can't draw very well.
Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 14.9%, Point & Click 10.5%, Crime 9.9%
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Crime 20.2%, Detective 18.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 9%
'The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief' is a thrilling crime adventure in three chapters from the creators of 'The Book of Unwritten Tales'. Full of twists and turns, it immerses you in both sides of the story, combining thrill-of-the-chase whodunit with the risk and reward of a heist story. Paris, 1960.
Why similar: Point & Click 27%, Detective 23.9%, Crime 19.8%, Mystery 13.8%, Adventure 7.6%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Crime 15.1%, Detective 14.8%, Investigation 13%, Mystery 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Crime 21.5%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 12.7%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Point & Click 14.8%, Crime 13.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Investigation 12.5%
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?
Why similar: Detective 24%, Point & Click 15%, Investigation 13.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Text-Based 9.3%
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Why similar: Crime 18.3%, Detective 17.3%, Investigation 12.9%, Point & Click 11.5%, Mystery 9.5%
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Crime 19.9%, Mystery 15%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 9.5%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Crime 17.1%, Detective 16%, Point & Click 13%, Mystery 10.1%, Text-Based 9.1%
Follow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Crime 17.2%, Investigation 12.4%, Text-Based 12%, Mystery 11.7%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 20.9%, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 11.2%, Visual Novel 9%
Within a cyberpunk world in the year 2070, become Detective B to investigate crime scenes, discover hidden truths, and dismantle the perpetrators' lies. There's only one problem: you have to do all that "without" stepping foot outside your house.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Crime 12.2%, Anime 10.9%, Point & Click 9.8%
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Crime 20.8%, Mystery 11.8%, Investigation 10.5%, Point & Click 10.5%
Set in school life, “Who is the Criminal” is a text-based adventure game featuring comedian and inference elements. With inquiring suspects and debating with “evildoers”, he gathers pieces of puzzles and reveals what truly happens in every incident.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Crime 19.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 7.6%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Crime 20%, Detective 20%, Point & Click 16.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to investigate a series of sabotage incidents on the Louisiana bayou.
Why similar: Crime 20.5%, Detective 17.4%, Point & Click 15.4%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 13.7%
A desktop-detective mystery where you’re tasked with investigating an unsolved murder. Scour case files and use logic and deduction to discover the truth of a thrilling story.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Crime 17.4%, Investigation 16.7%, Point & Click 14.1%, Mystery 12.8%
In this short point 'n' click adventure, you are Star Seeker - a WIZARD solving a WIZARD crime to not get put in WIZARD jail by the WIZ- I mean, PLAIN OLD cops. With a useless detective, countless red herrings, and unique dialogue for every evidence combination... will this case ever be cracked?
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Crime 18.2%, Point & Click 15.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 12.5%
The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie hit comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features! Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Crime 20%, Investigation 11.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Discover an untold crime story from the mysterious youth of the famous detective Hercule Poirot.
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Investigation 14%, Mystery 13.5%, Narration 10.5%, Point & Click 10%
In an investigation where the thieves are not necessarily the ones you think they are, follow the clues, question the suspects, and get to the truth by avoiding false leads. But beware, some people are not ready to give up so easily.
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Investigation 21.5%, Point & Click 17.4%, Text-Based 8.3%, Mystery 6.8%
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.3%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.5%, Mystery 8.7%
Find evidence, interrogate suspects, and shoot down contradictions in this magical girl detective game! Your magic turns each interrogation into a bullet hell logic battle - use it to prove your skills and uncover the truth of each magical mystery! Will you live up to the ideals of a true detective?
Why similar: Crime 20.1%, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 12%, Mystery 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Can you defeat the world's oldest mastermind in their own game? Stretch your wits and deduction skills to the maximum as you battle in Paris' craziest court. Here, only those who sacrifice everything reach the truth. What are you willing to betray to make it out alive?
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Crime 17.2%, Mystery 12.4%, Investigation 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%
Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.3%, Mystery 20.4%, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 11.3%, Adventure 6.4%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Crime 17.5%, Point & Click 11.6%, Investigation 11.3%, Mystery 11%
Explore the small town of ShadeCreek in this Indie point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Crime 20.6%, Point & Click 19.6%, Detective 16.6%, Investigation 11%, Mystery 8.4%
