- #1 Hopepunk City
97% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Date Ariane Games
Windows
The Revolution Came and Went, How do you Deal with the Aftermath? This life simulation / romance visual novel is set in a near futuristic city-state constantly threatened by invasion. Can you and your roommates carve a better future?
Why similar: Alternate History 17.4%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Romance 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
- #2 Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play On Words Studios
Windows
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 24.4%, Alternate History 16.1%, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Detective 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #3 Artificial Detective
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VIVIX Inc.
Windows
Artificial Detective is an action-adventure where you step into the shoes of a robodetective in a dystopian city overrun by rogue robots. Lead your underdog team of a military robodog and a human girl as you fight, hack, and outsmart your enemies to uncover why humans are gone.
Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Alternate History 18.9%, Cyberpunk 17.6%, Detective 13.3%, Third Person 6.9%
- #4 2064: Read Only Memories
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Noir 22.1%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, LGBTQ+ 8.6%
- #5 Mask of the Rose
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 401 reviews2023
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Alternate History 17.3%, Romance 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 13.4%
- #6 XANTAF3 Bogotá Cyberpunk
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Investigate impossible mysteries in a Latin American cyberpunk Bogotá. Explore atmospheric locations, talk to characters, collect clues, connect evidence, and formulate hypotheses in a narrative detective adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.2%, Detective 22.2%, Noir 12.5%, Dystopian 10%, Dialogue Heavy 6.7%
- #7 REPROCESS
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dea Machina
Windows
The suspect claims to be human. The system says otherwise. Interrogate suspects, play evidence cards, expose contradictions, apply emotional pressure, use apparatus data, build case maps, adapt your protocol stack, and decide whether the machine uncovered the truth — or produced a false positive.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.1%, Detective 19.5%, Noir 17.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #8 Pasajeros
92% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 31.7%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Romance 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #9 Crosstalk
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Illumina Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Detective 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%, Choices Matter 8%
- #10 THE 13th Digit
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uesho Co., Ltd.
Windows
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Noir 24.4%, Cyberpunk 22.6%, Detective 14%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12%
- #11 The Shadow Over Cyberspace
90% matchVery Positive90% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Fiction Factory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.1%, Cyberpunk 17.7%, Noir 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%
- #12 Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
89% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.9%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #13 The Grant Grover Anthology
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bit Storm Games
Windows
In Neo Naarm in the 22nd century, augmentation technology has run amok. Combining deduction, visual novel and point and click gameplay, play as Grant Grover, private detective, one of the only remaining citizens without augmentations, as he solves crimes across the city.
Why similar: Noir 27.4%, Cyberpunk 23.4%, Detective 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%
- #14 One Night: Burlesque
88% matchPositive85% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 29.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Alternate History 17.3%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #15 Rabies
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ikar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rabies - is an atmospheric visual novel about two young men struggling to survive in a city consumed by fog and an outbreak of a mutated rabies virus. Venture out on dangerous missions, make difficult choices, and try not to lose the person you love.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Romance 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #16 Project: Z3R0 Chapter 1&2
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kitticat Games Ltd
Windows
The "Chip" was humanity’s evolution; Now, it’s a silent weapon. Navigate a web of conspiracy in Vesper City as Detective Richard Apocryphal, alongside your Android partner E.M.R.S, as your investigation outcomes ripple through a fractured society. Can you solve the case before it’s too late?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 33.1%, Detective 21.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #17 Synther
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeofuturismPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Synther is an FPP simulation game with adventure-like, detective elements set in a futuristic, open world. The game is innovative and reminiscent of early 3D games and DOS applications.
Why similar: Noir 36%, Cyberpunk 34%, Detective 22.5%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Action 2.8%
- #18 Vivere Memento
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
Windows · Mac · Linux
A city forgotten by everyone, two women trying to unravel its secrets, and a dismal silence of war. Is it possible to create without the hope of being heard? Is it possible to mourn for someone obliterated in memories? And what horrors are hidden in the shadows of forgotten town?
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Detective 16.5%, Alternate History 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 12.5%
- #19 Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.3%, Noir 24.3%, Cyberpunk 21.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #20 Nobody Wants to Die
83% matchVery Positive83% of 7,373 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Noir 21.8%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Detective 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #21 Synthetic Lover
84% matchVery Positive86% of 106 reviews2022
Dev: HeartCoreDev
Windows
In the future a biot working as a companion and without free will, encounters a device that makes him feel human. Self-discovery, hardships, and romance may follow. A BL/Yaoi visual novel.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Romance 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #22 Angel's Awakening
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 169 reviews2022
Dev: HFTGames
Windows
Angel's Awakening is an Interactive Erotic Story about the amazing SEXUAL AWAKENING of a shy, reserved young librarian in the 1940s. In classic NOIR style, follow Angel's journey as she transforms from a repressed young woman into an uninhibited, lustful goddess with an insatiable appetite for SEX.
Why similar: Noir 25.4%, Detective 14.5%, Romance 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #23 Nexus PI
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Lion Sized Studios
Windows
In a reality stuck in a technologically unadvanced society stricken with the negative impacts of a worldwide climate disaster, you are a uniquely powered private investigator tasked with uncovering advanced technology from another reality with the potential to save your whole world.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Cyberpunk 24.1%, Detective 18.6%, Alternate History 14.3%, First-Person 4.8%
- #24 Night Cascades
81% matchVery Positive92% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The city is on fire, and the Devil is to blame - or is it? Two women must solve an occult-themed mystery set in an alternate 1980s while unraveling the secrets of their past. Hunt for clues and interrogate suspects in this interactive yuri visual novel.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Detective 16%, Romance 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #25 Octopus Goulash
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Alessio Serenellini
Windows
Octopus Goulash is a living cyberpunk open-world RPG. Explore the last city on Earth, where every citizen has a job, personality and memory. Drive flying cars, work, survive, build relationships and follow a mystery buried beneath reality itself.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21%, Noir 20.1%, Alternate History 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #26 of the Devil
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 2,569 reviews2025
Dev: nth Circle Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Cyberpunk 19.9%, Detective 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #27 Subsurface Circular
81% matchVery Positive94% of 1,940 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Detective 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Cyberpunk 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #28 Lewd Mod: Noir
78% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: HH Richards
Windows
This is a game where you work as a spy, looking through sexy surveillance photos to identify Red Hat agents. Get close to your boss, get her to send you lewd selfies, & uncover a sexy spy mystery.
Why similar: Noir 33.8%, Romance 16.7%, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #29 Yoko Redux: Dreams of a Blue Planet
79% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Missing Sentinel SoftwarePub: RedTigerPro
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Who is Yoko?" Unlock the mystery as you control Locke, Jeanne and Primus to discover the secrets of their existence in this point and click, cyberpunk noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 27.1%, Cyberpunk 23.2%, Detective 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #30 Precinct 2099
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThinkingLiteSoft
Windows
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Noir 27.8%, Cyberpunk 26.7%, Detective 19.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 4.7%
- #31 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
78% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Detective 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #32 .curator
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STRTL LIMITED
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a world imagined by acclaimed SF writer Richard K. Morgan, you are The .Curator. Use C.R.I.S.S.I. to glimpse the future — and rewrite it! In this episode-based detective adventure, choose your path, decide who lives or dies, and turn enemies into stepping stones toward saving the world.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Alternate History 17.8%, Detective 13.9%, Romance 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
- #33 Undercover Love - Where Shadows Meet
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MIKATRON-GAMES
Windows
A dark noir visual novel following Alex, a former police officer drawn into the mafia’s world. In a city where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, Alex and a mafia leader with buried secrets are pulled into revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Romance 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%
- #34 Andromeda Six
74% matchVery Positive97% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Wanderlust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.7%, Romance 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Incremental 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #35 Death & Faeology
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mushroomallow
Windows
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Detective 18%, Romance 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%
- #36 Neo Cab
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,886 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.4%, Noir 23.5%, Cyberpunk 20.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #37 Shore of Jord
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TE NET
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shore of Jord is a story-driven cRPG set in an alternate world of Europa, where you take on the role of a retired military officer trying to resolve mysterious events from your past and survive the longest winter in history: strengthen or break friendships, find your love, and discover who you are.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Alternate History 18.8%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Detective 16.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #38 Neon Noir
75% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Borzon Studios
Windows
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Why similar: Noir 31.8%, Cyberpunk 26.1%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dystopian 6.8%
- #39 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,943 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 26.9%, Cyberpunk 20.8%, Detective 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #40 Three Days to Chicago
73% matchPositive100% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Chris SchroyerPub: Austin Ivansmith Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City. It starts in San Francisco, but where this relationship goes is all up to you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Romance 24.8%, Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #41 Arima Lodge
72% matchVery Positive89% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Praenaris
Windows · Linux
One of Arima Lodge's bellhops rides the elevator for his usual shift, but, after a man rushes into the elevator and compels him to get to the rooftop instead, he starts to realize something very serious is amiss.
Why similar: Noir 26.1%, Alternate History 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Incremental 13.1%, Third Person 7.1%
- #42 Alison Fall of the Apple
73% matchMixed68% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: OneManVNPub: OMVN Publishing
Windows · Linux
In Alison Fall of the Apple, you play a highly trained military veteran Michael (default name) who has been working as a cop in NYC.
Why similar: Romance 21.6%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Detective 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #43 The Wickie : Journey of a Lighthouse Keeper
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Crispian RobsonPub: Cheese Tax Productions
Windows
The Wickie is a first-person thriller set in the 1930s Outer Hebrides. Explore handcrafted islands, uncover cosmic horrors, and survive deadly dangers. With no weapons or maps, rely on wit and courage to solve mysteries. Rich in story,art, and Lovecraftian dread, Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Alternate History 21.9%, Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #44 Jester / King
72% matchVery Positive94% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Rolling Crown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You wake up as a jester next to the king's lifeless body. You are trapped in a cursed kingdom with three love interests. Will you seek the truth, help the others, or try to escape?
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Romance 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #45 Daring Academy
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thediamondcrystal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Escape your painful past and start a new life in the futuristic city of Olis with your childhood best friend, Amelia Sweet, and your younger sister, Isabella Lullena. As college life begins, will your lifelong bond with Millie blossom into romance, or remain only friendship in Daring Academy?
Why similar: Romance 27.3%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%
- #46 Slipstream Daydreams
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vile Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Who do you think of when you're about to win it all? Slipstream Daydreams is a y2k inspired retrofuturistic visual novel about antigravity racing and messy queer romance. Play as Orion, cheeky rising star driver, and make split second race choices that affect which of your romances you reminisce on.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.9%, Romance 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #47 BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 29.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Detective 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
- #48 clear cherry ice.
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: blush.exe
Windows
Did I really save this pretty boy ten years ago...? A fresh summer youth BL visual novel about memory, promises, and mutual salvation. [clear cherry ice.] Get closer to Jiwon and Chaehyun, and see whether your bond becomes friendship—or something more.
Why similar: Romance 24.1%, Visual Novel 20%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #49 Mandated Fate
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thibaut BillerotPub: Tetrarchy Studios
Windows
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: Noir 24.6%, Cyberpunk 16.2%, Detective 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #50 Gamophobia
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pencil Cake Games
Windows · Mac
Dating is scary—especially when you’re wooing the physical manifestations of human phobias. Fall in love with a Fear. Try not to flinch.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.1%, Romance 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%
- #51 Last Night Last Call
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Detective 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #52 SOLDA
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullbyte Works
Windows
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Noir 22.2%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #53 Clean Slate
70% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mariano JarPub: Time Ajar
Windows · Linux
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Detective 19.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #54 Hotwife Ashley
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: respirit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter a seductive visual novel where love meets temptation. Explore hotwife, cuckolding, corruption, NTS and optional NTR paths.
Why similar: Romance 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Choices Matter 9%
- #55 Jupiter's Orbit
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Alien Fork
Windows · Mac
A branching narrative, visual novel dating sim where you play asteroid dT. There are 4 loves, astronomical secrets, and multiple endings based on your choices. Eject mass to change your orbit and meet different planets, but lose too much and you risk breaking apart.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Romance 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Incremental 14.1%
- #56 DRAMAtical Murder
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,946 reviews2021
Dev: Nitro+CHiRALPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Aoba's vibrant cyberpunk world is one of contrasts: high-tech virtual reality battles versus street gang turf wars, ultra-exclusive luxury resorts and tiny junk shops. The choices you make will shape the path of Aoba's journey into the dark secrets lurking beneath the glossy sheen of the city.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.5%, Romance 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Cyberpunk 17.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #57 Womb of Worms
66% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Isopodomancer
Windows
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Noir 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #58 The Midnight Crimes
67% matchMixed66% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: DeadlyCrow Games
Windows
Point-&-Click Adventure with Deck-builder Cards Combat, Play as a retired detective investigating a missing child case while facing your past demons. Explore Midnight Cove, Victorian city with semi-open world mechanics and characters relationships. The story is episode-based, chapter by chapter.
Why similar: Noir 29.7%, Alternate History 22.5%, Detective 20.5%, Incremental 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #59 Keyword 2: Nightfall
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: City From Naught Inc.
Windows
Play detective in this heart-gripping cyberpunk adventure where every dark corner of this intricate vertical city is yours to explore. Interrogate witnesses, investigate murders and even enjoy hotpots! Every choice shapes the outcome, leading you closer to the truth, or deeper into the shadows.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Cyberpunk 23.9%, Detective 18.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 6.3%