- #1 Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
97% matchMixed61% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: ZeitglasPub: Shoreline Games
Windows · Mac
The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Point & Click 14.7%, Noir 14.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #2 THIEF'S SHELTER
96% matchVery Positive95% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Geo GamesPub: Restless Corp.
Windows
THIEF’S SHELTER is a 3D Point and Click Psychological Adventure where the world mirrors a crumbling mind. Nothing stays still, and even your own thoughts can’t be trusted.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Point & Click 17%, Psychological 17%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #3 and yet, we dream
95% matchVery Positive92% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: arda bolat
Windows · Mac · Linux
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Psychological 32.7%, Multiple Endings 26.5%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Story Rich 11.5%, RPG 5.6%
- #4 The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
96% matchVery Positive82% of 620 reviews2017
Dev: D'Avekki Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: Detective 31%, Psychological 19.8%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #5 Betrayal At Club Low
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 587 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.4% ★, Detective 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Point & Click 14.4%, Noir 12.5%
- #6 Minds Beneath Us
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,428 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Psychological 14.2%, Point & Click 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, 2.5D 12.1%
- #7 Interrogation Simulator
94% matchVery Positive95% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Otis MillerPub: Fire Cycle Games
Windows · Linux
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Investigation 22.1%, Point & Click 20.2%, Story Rich 7.9%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #8 Follow the meaning
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,043 reviews2024
Dev: HiKing Mind StudioPub: Second Maze
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Why similar: Detective 22%, Point & Click 21.9%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Investigation 12.5%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #9 Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
92% matchVery Positive82% of 1,066 reviews2021
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Investigation 29.2%, Psychological 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 5.8%
- #10 Burden Street Station
90% matchVery Positive97% of 365 reviews2026
Dev: IODINEPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Why similar: Detective 29.2%, Investigation 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, 2.5D 13.2%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #11 Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town
91% matchVery Positive88% of 582 reviews2020
Dev: imaginarylab
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A letter from 10 years ago, an intricate web of lies to unravel and a mystery to solve. Explore an unconventional town of pirates, dive into the past, collect items and look for clues to help Willy find out what happened to his father...
Why similar: Point & Click 25.7%, Investigation 22.8%, 2.5D 17.1%, Atmospheric 11%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #12 FREERIDE
88% matchVery Positive88% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 33.6%, Story Rich 20.3%, RPG 12.7%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Cute 10.5%
- #13 Save Koch
89% matchMixed63% of 155 reviews2019
Dev: Wooden Monkeys
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.
Why similar: Detective 33.7%, Story Rich 11.1%, Point & Click 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #14 Jung's Labyrinth
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 72 reviews2020
Dev: Jan Jileček
Windows · Mac
Jung's Labyrinth is a psychological exploration game that uses Jungian psychology, mythology, alchemical and dream symbolism in a series of active imaginations to map the process of individuation. Confront your inner archetypes, collect messages that other travelers left behind and reach your Self.
Why similar: Psychological 39.7%, Story Rich 24.8%, Atmospheric 21.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 2.7%
- #15 Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story
87% matchVery Positive89% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Gard Interactive
Windows · Mac
Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Point & Click 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Investigation 11.6%
- #16 Russian Psychiatric Pastoral: Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan Lysenko
Windows
Introductory demonstration version. An interactive movie that combines a psychiatrist simulator, a detective story and unique fight sequences. Take on the role of a psychiatrist, encounter various psychiatric diagnoses, and investigate disappearances of various people.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.4%, Multiple Endings 21%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Adventure 6.9%
- #17 HOMESICKNESS
85% matchVery Positive93% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.1%, Psychological 21.1%, Story Rich 20.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Adventure 3.8%
- #18 Heal Hitler
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 234 reviews2021
Dev: Jon Aegis
Windows
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
Why similar: Detective 48.9%, Psychological 30.4%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 1.3%
- #19 Playing Kafka
84% matchVery Positive95% of 346 reviews2024
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Psychological 21.1%, Story Rich 12.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #20 The Case of the Golden Idol
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,013 reviews2022
Dev: Color Gray GamesPub: Playstack
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Why similar: Detective 31.8%, Investigation 23.1%, Point & Click 18.1%, Story Rich 7.9%, Puzzle 5.9%
- #21 CaseCracker3
82% matchVery Positive86% of 433 reviews2026
Dev: BlackRobe
Windows · Mac
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Detective 38.6%, Point & Click 23.9%, Story Rich 10.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, 2D 6.1%
- #22 God For A Day
84% matchMixed58% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Funky Forest
Windows
In this narrative-based simulation game, you play as the Son of God. Your mission: Decide, bless or condemn city residents. Uncover the person's story through their items and secrets before making decisions. Your choices alter the city's destiny, and impact your revelation on Judgment Day.
Why similar: Point & Click 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Atmospheric 8.2%, 2D 7.8%
- #23 Sinheritance
80% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: STIM GAMES
Windows
Sinheritance is a terrifying and mind-bending puzzle game. Explore every corner in an intensely oppressive atmosphere to piece together a chilling story. Every step must be taken with caution, for the deepest fears often stem from your own choices and your gradually crumbling sanity.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Investigation 17.2%, Point & Click 15%, Noir 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #24 Prescribe and Pray
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Nuclear Rabbits
Windows
Awaken the incompetent doctor within you! Diagnose strange patients, examine their absurd symptoms… and prescribe treatments that could change their lives… or cut them short. Your actions will have consequences.
Why similar: Detective 40.4%, Multiple Endings 22.7%, Point & Click 14.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, 2D 4.1%
- #25 For Your Tranquility
82% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2023
Dev: Gamesung Games
Windows · Mac
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 36.9%, Point & Click 23.9%, Investigation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #26 The Signifier Director's Cut
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 350 reviews2020
Dev: PlaymestudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: Investigation 34%, Multiple Endings 24.4%, Psychological 13.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%
- #27 Ministry of Truth: False Memory
77% matchVery Positive88% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: IKKOSAMAPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Point & Click 16.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #28 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
78% matchVery Positive98% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Investigation 20.4%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #29 DESOLATIUM: Prologue
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: SUPERLUMEN
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Point & Click 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Investigation 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #30 Who's Lila?
77% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Point & Click 20.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #31 SELF
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Psychological 41.3%, Adventure 22.7%, Story Rich 15.3%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Indie 6.6%
- #32 Strange Antiquities
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,572 reviews2025
Dev: Bad VikingPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Investigation 17.7%, Point & Click 16.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #33 Mind Scanners
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,476 reviews2021
Dev: The Outer ZonePub: Brave At Night
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Psychological 20.7%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, RPG 6.1%
- #34 Growing My Grandpa!
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 516 reviews2022
Dev: Yames' Games
Windows
Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.
Why similar: Point & Click 39.3%, Multiple Endings 21%, Story Rich 18.9%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Adventure 7.5%
- #35 Tangle Tower
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,826 reviews2019
Dev: SFB Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Why similar: Detective 33%, Point & Click 20.6%, Noir 13.2%, Investigation 8.9%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #36 Freud Gate
76% matchVery Positive80% of 421 reviews2019
Dev: Sailors Moon StudiosPub: Sailors Moon
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Freud Gate is an interactive story game about the story of dream and redemption. Freud Gate, the "door of heart" in the game. Players will play as a spiritual mentor and help the depressed girl to find a breakthrough. The game is divided into two parts: the real world and the imaginary world.
Why similar: RPG 82.2%, Indie 17.8%
- #37 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
75% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Point & Click 46.2%, Atmospheric 11.9%, RPG 10.5%, 2D 9.5%, Adventure 9%
- #38 Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery
72% matchVery Positive94% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Nobody Crown
Windows
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Why similar: Detective 37.3%, Noir 21.7%, Investigation 13.3%, Story Rich 10.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #39 The Corruption Within
74% matchVery Positive94% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Cosmic Void
Windows
The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.6%, Psychological 20.7%, Investigation 20.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #40 Anxiety Puppy
71% matchVery Positive96% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: 小狗工作室Pub: Erabit
Windows
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Psychological 39.2%, Point & Click 21.4%, Cute 12.6%, Adventure 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #41 STASIS: BONE TOTEM
71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,681 reviews2023
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, Investigation 21.4%, 2.5D 18.4%, Story Rich 11.1%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #42 Through The Fragmentation
73% matchVery Positive97% of 238 reviews2021
Dev: Máté PribelszkyPub: Crow Bar
Windows
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 32.4%, Multiple Endings 27.3%, Atmospheric 18.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 10%
- #43 The Old Flesh of Nuraga
70% matchVery Positive96% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ortica
Windows
Your Grandpa descends into madness in a family cosmic horror. Dig cursed relics, meet eldritch beings, and awaken a forgotten God.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 44.9%, Story Rich 24.2%, Atmospheric 23.1%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1%
- #44 Voodoo Detective
72% matchVery Positive96% of 377 reviews2022
Dev: Short Sleeve Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Point & Click 16.6%, Investigation 15.6%, Noir 15.4%, 2.5D 9.8%
- #45 Desktop Explorer
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,312 reviews2026
Dev: Recurring Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Detective 30.4%, Investigation 23.3%, Point & Click 22.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Atmospheric 6.5%
- #46 Lenin - The Lion
73% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2019
Dev: Lornyon
Windows
Lenin – The Lion is a Puzzle RPG game about overcoming fears. Walk into chaos and find the claws of loneliness or carefully build your path and find the benefits of understanding and acceptance.
Why similar: Psychological 30.9%, Multiple Endings 22.3%, Story Rich 10.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Cute 6.2%
- #47 Homicide Desk
71% matchMixed67% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Shu'la Lab LLC
Windows
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Detective 21.1%, Point & Click 20.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Atmospheric 5.6%
- #48 The Test: Reality Check
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 654 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Multiple Endings 25.4%, Story Rich 11.8%, RPG 9.3%, Cute 7.9%
- #49 Roman Sands RE:Build
68% matchVery Positive91% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
Why similar: Investigation 54.6%, Story Rich 17.6%, Cute 15.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%
- #50 BEAST CRIMES
73% matchMixed62% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: LINK
Windows
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Point & Click 17.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Investigation 9.5%
- #51 The Specter's Desire
70% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Story Rich 7.5%, Investigation 7.2%
- #52 You Can Save Everyone
70% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Caleb Draper
Windows
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: Investigation 28%, Point & Click 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #53 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
67% matchVery Positive88% of 6,362 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 33.6%, Point & Click 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 14.5%, 2D 8.8%
- #54 Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders
68% matchVery Positive85% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Homo Narrans Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Detective 28.9%, Point & Click 23.3%, Investigation 19.9%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #55 Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
66% matchVery Positive95% of 639 reviews2025
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.9%, Psychological 24.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 11%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #56 UNIVERSAL WEIRDNESS
67% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows
A 2D hand-drawn puzzle adventure that spans multiple dimensions and universes. Encounter a diverse cast of characters and unravel mind-bending mysteries as you embark on unique adventures across different worlds.
Why similar: Point & Click 48.3%, Detective 19.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, 2D 7.8%, Adventure 7.1%
- #57 Insight
67% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: GravelRoadPub: PaperPixel Games
Windows
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 49.9%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Story Rich 16.7%, Psychological 13.5%, Adventure 1.3%
- #58 Do No Harm
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 950 reviews2025
Dev: Darts Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?
Why similar: Investigation 29.2%, Point & Click 21.8%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #59 Escape from Mutation Station
66% matchVery Positive97% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Jay Marksman
Windows
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Detective 31.5%, Point & Click 23.1%, Psychological 18.5%, Investigation 9.5%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #60 Depression The Game
69% matchMixed69% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: DeepWorks Studios
Windows
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 35.5% ★, Psychological 26.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 10%