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A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.

Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Detective 25%, Investigation 20.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Puzzle 7%

The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.

Why similar: Word Game 42.4%, Detective 25.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 3.1%

"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!

Why similar: Detective 30.4%, Word Game 26.7%, Investigation 19.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Text-Based 6.7%

"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.

Why similar: Word Game 45.9%, Detective 31.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Investigation 8%, Indie 3.2%

「ギルド探求団へようこそ！」創立から1000日を迎えたギルドの、パーティ情報を復旧させる『推理パズルゲーム』です。過去1000日を振り返りながら、78人の冒険者が、20隊あるパーティのどこに所属していたのかを特定し、どのような結末を迎えたのかを推理で暴きましょう！それでは──良い旅を！

Why similar: Detective 48.4%, Investigation 30.2%, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Something strange happened in the old manor, but the Pond's premier puzzle-solver is here to uncover the truth. In this ribbiting and cozy mystery, explore the grounds, journey into the past, and unearth the secrets buried at Marsh Manor.

Why similar: Detective 44.4%, Investigation 30.7%, Puzzle 17.5%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

《流言侦探》是一款诡异，烧脑，悬疑推理剧情游戏，在游戏的体验中，玩家自主找出线索，并利用线索，和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法，玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者，玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相，找出隐藏的凶手。

Why similar: Word Game 47.6%, Detective 27.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Попробуй себя в роли следователя. Ищи зацепки, расследуй преступления, обращай внимание на мелочи, но помни, ты пришел сюда со своей целью.

Why similar: Detective 50.9%, Indie 30.6%, Puzzle 18.5%

A puzzle game where you are the newest recruit to a government agency dedicated to stopping cyber crimes. You must prove yourself and level up in the system by solving puzzles, at the same time there is a mystery to uncover at the agency. Who can you trust?

Why similar: Detective 35.2%, Investigation 30.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 3.5%

Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.

Why similar: Detective 39.4%, Investigation 25.7%, Puzzle 16.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Indie 4.2%

Guess the random sequence of glyphs with optional hints and alternate symbol sets.

Why similar: Word Game 51.9%, Text-Based 23.4%, Puzzle 18.2%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Wuxia archive: Crisis escape is a text adventure puzzle game. The player will play a knight who is trapped in an unknown dungeon, get clues with other trapped characters, use the props in the scene to solve the puzzle and get out of danger.

Why similar: Word Game 64.4%, Indie 18.9%, Puzzle 16.7%

《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.

Why similar: Word Game 36.5%, Detective 27.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Investigation 13.2%, Puzzle 6.9%

Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.

Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Detective 24.3%, Investigation 18.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, Puzzle 8.4%

A completely open-dialog murder mystery.

Why similar: Word Game 32.5%, Detective 31.1%, Investigation 24.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Indie 1%

A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.

Why similar: Investigation 38.7%, Detective 29.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Indie 9.4%

Phonetic is a casual brain teaser game. A simple game in which the player deciphers the phonetic spelling of various words. Try it out and see what highscore you can set!

Why similar: Word Game 53.9%, Text-Based 21.5%, Puzzle 17.6%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Become a spelling ace or just beat the highest score in this arcade spelling contest. The challenge is ON! 8 letters, up to 100 words and 120 seconds to spell them out. Compete against other players via leaderboards and become real Ace Of Words.

Why similar: Word Game 65.5%, Indie 17.4%, Puzzle 16%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 39.4%, Investigation 26.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 3.9%

Excellent Expectations is a puzzle adventure game , you would use search engines to discover a story from a stranger's phone .

Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Word Game 30.8%, Indie 22.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.

Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Detective 29.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Investigation 14.6%, Puzzle 10%

最烧脑的单人海龟汤！训练有素的超智能主持人支持完全自由提问，每个问题都可能撕开隐藏的真相。层层迷雾与反转步步逼近，让你在推理的每一秒都感受到紧张与压迫。防卡关系统保证游戏顺畅，畅玩不虐心~

Why similar: Word Game 38.4%, Detective 37.5%, Puzzle 12.7%, Text-Based 5.5%, Indie 5.2%

A logic deduction game. Read the room. Deduce, don't guess. Bust the case.

Why similar: Detective 40.6%, Investigation 25.4%, Text-Based 15%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 4.8%

Alphabear is an award-winning, original English word puzzle game by Spry Fox. Spell words, collect bears!

Why similar: Word Game 61.9%, Indie 20.3%, Puzzle 17.8%

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Word Game 39.5%, Puzzle 26.6%, Detective 22.5%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%

GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!

Why similar: Detective 63.2%, Indie 20.4%, Puzzle 14.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Why similar: Detective 66.1%, Puzzle 16.6%, Indie 8.2%, Investigation 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.

Why similar: Word Game 46.4%, Detective 23.7%, Puzzle 13.7%, Text-Based 10.5%, Indie 4.9%

Speak of My Sin is a word reasoning game - players are supposed to find the truth of the cases, restore the story in a number of interrelated cases and finally detect the identification of “me”, speaking out “my” sin.

Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Detective 29.3%, Text-Based 18.5%, Investigation 11.8%, Puzzle 9.8%

This is a simulated divination game. Use "Qimen Dunjia" to help customers divine, learn its contents, experience the fun of divination, and understand the charm of traditional Chinese culture~

Why similar: Word Game 40.4%, Detective 37.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Step into a gripping medieval political thriller where intrigue, betrayal, and power struggles shape your fate. As a ghostly detective, you’ll uncover conspiracies, navigate a web of deception and unravel a larger mystery tied to your own demise

Why similar: Detective 48.2%, Investigation 22.3%, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 12.7%, Singleplayer 1%

Crack the Mystery Together! "Lateral Thinking Together" is a cooperative and competitive online multiplayer game that challenges your knowledge and deductive reasoning to uncover the truth. Solve incomprehensible stories with creative thinking and flashes of insight!

Why similar: Word Game 36.7%, Detective 29.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Puzzle 11.4%, Investigation 8.2%

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Why similar: Detective 48%, Investigation 19.8%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 8.3%, Text-Based 7.2%

Zhang Xiao, a senior high school student, has a strange power called “Master Key”. Since he was young, he can communicate with other “worlds”. One day, Zhang Xiao’s classmate Miao Xueling had an accident.

Why similar: Word Game 53.4%, Investigation 19%, Text-Based 11.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Indie 3.9%

A cozy investigation game where you observe a street, pin down its residents’ secrets, and solve mysteries. Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures), investigating a neighborhood that hides its secrets well.

Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Word Game 30%, Investigation 22.5%, Puzzle 10%, Indie 5.6%

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 48.8%, Investigation 32.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.

Why similar: Detective 38.6%, Investigation 27.2%, Puzzle 15%, Text-Based 14.1%, Indie 4.3%

The unique word puzzle which combines the skill of Sudoku with the knowledge of Scrabble®. Lexica has been featured in a number of UK daily newspapers but is now available for the first time in an interactive form.

Why similar: Word Game 55%, Puzzle 25.4%, Indie 19.6%

Shirabe Hatcho and Ancient Music Score is a puzzle-solving ADV game where you solve the puzzles by ear. Listen to audio, read music, and play an instrument. Use your sense of pitch to solve the mystery and prevent the phantom thief from committing his crimes as a member of the detective agency.

Why similar: Detective 42.4%, Investigation 16.5%, Puzzle 16.5%, Indie 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%

各懷目的的少年少女們，聚在一起挑戰神奇的「X遊戲」，沒有甚麼神奇的奇幻的魔法，更沒有外星人或鬼怪等事件，僅僅只是一個普通的狼人殺遊戲而已......嗎？找出真正的兇手，並且在那之前避免被票死，活到最後，擄獲美人心吧！

Why similar: Word Game 49.9%, Detective 30.3%, Puzzle 18.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 49.6%, Investigation 29.2%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

The duke is dead! Collect clues, solve puzzles, and use deduction to find the killer. Put your detective skills to the test to unravel the trail of crimes and uncover the truth!

Why similar: Detective 51%, Investigation 22.5%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

《明日方舟》同人游戏，以原作角色“老鲤”为主角，在二十年前的龙门，展开一系列解谜探案故事。

Why similar: Word Game 44.9%, Detective 22.1%, Puzzle 16.1%, Text-Based 10.3%, Indie 4.7%

A narrative-driven puzzle game about souls and forgetting. On the brink of reincarnation, she loses all her memories, and her soul is scattered. The memories of lingering spirits on the bridge seem to be connected to her story...

Why similar: Detective 41.9%, Word Game 21%, Investigation 18.9%, Text-Based 10.7%, Puzzle 7.4%

In a dark world where reality blends with illusion, you strive to uncover the mystery of your sister's death. Explore locations, interact with characters, and gather clues. Gradually, your mind begins to betray you, and each step could lead either to the truth or to madness.

Why similar: Word Game 32.8%, Detective 30.5%, Investigation 23.6%, Text-Based 13.1%

Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Scrabble with an RPG? Now you don't have to, because Letter Quest is here! Help Grimm and Rose, a couple of adorable grim reapers, defeat monsters, ghosts, evil bunnies and more using the power of words!

Why similar: Word Game 69.5%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 12.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

It is a single-player 3D scene puzzle type game that interacts with objects in a room from a first-person perspective to find a way to the next room. The game is made up of high-quality models, bright skies and warm sunlight, so find your way to the next room in this cozy room!

Why similar: Detective 46.6%, Investigation 22.7%, Puzzle 22.5%, Indie 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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 45.6%, Investigation 39.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?

Why similar: Word Game 42.1%, Detective 30.7%, Puzzle 14.5%, Text-Based 10.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 42.6%, Investigation 26.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Puzzle 14.5%, Indie 1.8%

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

Why similar: Word Game 27.4%, Detective 20.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Investigation 13.9%, Puzzle 10.7%

欢迎来到温泉岛，我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗？那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落，那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说，那里是另一个世界，由贪婪，欲念构成的炼狱……最后，请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。

Why similar: Word Game 42.2%, Detective 23.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Text-Based 8.3%

Logic Grid Puzzle is a multilingual story-driven logical deduction game in which you have to discover the whole story by using partially given facts.A pleasant yet challenging recreation for lovers of logical games and mystery-solving games.Are you ready for the challenge?

Why similar: Detective 36.5%, Investigation 27%, Text-Based 18.4%, Puzzle 13.6%, Indie 3.4%

This is a guessing number game

Why similar: Word Game 64.8%, Text-Based 26.2%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

FILENDS is a dark multiplayer riddle-solving game for 3-7 players. Work together to solve levels filled with murder mysteries and tragic tales. Use environmental clues and real-time chat to uncover the truth. Will you solve the riddles or become a part of them?

Why similar: Detective 42.6%, Investigation 26.4%, Puzzle 17.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Indie 3.8%

《Gatekeeper of the Yin Dynasty》 is an independent game with a fantasy fairy tale theme, and the core gameplay focuses on "identifying fakes and identifying monsters". Every decision you make is not only about the safety of the people in the city, but also about the profound impact on the entire city

Why similar: Word Game 43.7%, Detective 25.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Investigation 12.7%, Indie 2.9%

This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."

Why similar: Word Game 31.1%, Detective 29.2%, Investigation 18.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Puzzle 9.2%

Suit up as an elite undercover agent in Shadow Protocol, a fast-paced, word-powered spy puzzle built entirely in Python. Crack cryptic clues, complete rapid-fire missions, and outwit a global threat. Now available on Windows.

Why similar: Word Game 66.9%, Puzzle 23.7%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 2.4%