Games Like 吾光笔记

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 30.3%, Detective 25.2%, Investigation 20.8%, Text-Based 11.4%, Puzzle 7.2%

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 42.2%, Detective 25.5%, Text-Based 16.8%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 3.1%

You are an investigator granted access to the "Paranormal Event Archive Management System." Browse century-old case files. Search for clues. But be careful—the archives are watching you now. >_ Files that watch back. Disappearances unexplained. Messages never sent.

Why similar: Word Game 38.7%, Detective 21.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Investigation 11%

「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 48.5%, Investigation 30%, Puzzle 16%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

This Lovecraftian psychological horror text game puts you as an Observer spared by the Round Table. You randomly possess one of ten unknown mortals per round. Deduce your host and three Old Ones' emissaries via dialogue, clues and table talks.

Why similar: Word Game 40.1%, Detective 30.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 2.6%

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 30.5%, Puzzle 17.8%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

"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 45.6%, Detective 31.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Investigation 8%, Indie 3.2%

"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 30.6%, Word Game 26.5%, Investigation 19.5%, Puzzle 11.7%, Text-Based 6.6%

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 29.4%, Detective 28.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Puzzle 9.7%

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

Why similar: Detective 51%, Indie 30.3%, Puzzle 18.7%

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

Why similar: Word Game 51.7%, Text-Based 23.2%, Puzzle 18.6%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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

Why similar: Detective 39.6%, Investigation 25.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, Text-Based 13%, Indie 4.2%

《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 47.3%, Detective 28.1%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 11%, Singleplayer 1%

An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.

Why similar: Detective 50%, Investigation 32.1%, Puzzle 12.1%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

《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 36.3%, Detective 28%, Text-Based 14.2%, Investigation 13.2%, Puzzle 7%

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 30.3%, Detective 29.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Puzzle 10.2%

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 32.5%, Detective 24.4%, Investigation 18.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Puzzle 8.6%

A completely open-dialog murder mystery.

Why similar: Word Game 32.3%, Detective 31.2%, Investigation 24.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 1%

一个欢乐气氛的悬疑文字冒险类游戏。你将不断在十位不同身份的角色间切换视点来推进故事的发展并达成各种各样的结局。这是由一个个平凡而又独特的个人故事所拼出的新的物语，或许里面也有着你的故事……？

Why similar: Word Game 37.8%, Investigation 17.8%, Detective 12.3%, Text-Based 12%, Puzzle 12%

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 39.8%, Investigation 26%, Text-Based 16.5%, Puzzle 13.2%, Indie 3.8%

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 35.4%, Investigation 30.3%, Text-Based 19%, Puzzle 11.2%, Indie 3.5%

Tape Detective is a text-based mystery puzzle game. Use cassette tapes to play back fragments of recorded conversations, challenge witness testimonies, uncover the truth behind a mysterious cold case, and bring every suspect to justice.

Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Word Game 26.7%, Investigation 24.9%, Puzzle 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.

Why similar: Detective 37.1%, Investigation 26.1%, Puzzle 16.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Indie 3.6%

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 65.2%, Indie 17.3%, Puzzle 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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

Why similar: Detective 33%, Word Game 30.6%, Indie 22.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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 53.7%, Text-Based 21.3%, Puzzle 18%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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

Why similar: Detective 40.8%, Investigation 25.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Indie 4.8%

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 38.1%, Detective 37.7%, Puzzle 12.9%, Text-Based 5.5%, Indie 5.2%

"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 19.6%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 8.2%, Text-Based 7.2%

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 63.3%, Indie 20.2%, Puzzle 14.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

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 40.3%, Detective 37.6%, Text-Based 17.1%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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

Why similar: Word Game 61.7%, Indie 20.2%, Puzzle 18.1%

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 39.7%, Puzzle 27.6%, Detective 21.6%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Investigate crime scenes, interrogate witnesses and organize your evidence to catch the culprit. Solve multiple different cases in varying areas and talk to many unique and fun characters. Can you solve it? Come and see.

Why similar: Detective 45.8%, Investigation 31.8%, Puzzle 14%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%

This is an original orthodox detective mystery game. The player suddenly takes possession of Roran, who hopes to report to the academy. You must investigate and deduce the truth behind a series of bizarre incidents that obstruct his journey, helping him successfully reach the academy.

Why similar: Detective 43.7%, Investigation 25.5%, Puzzle 14.2%, Text-Based 12.3%, Indie 3.5%

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 46.1%, Detective 23.8%, Puzzle 14%, Text-Based 10.4%, Indie 4.8%

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 41.9%, Detective 23.4%, Investigation 14.4%, Puzzle 12%, Text-Based 8.2%

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 36.5%, Detective 29.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Puzzle 11.6%, Investigation 8.2%

Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the FBI… but add dentures). Investigate your neighbors, figure out their names and professions, and uncover all their secrets in this no-murder detective game full of white hair and mugs of tea.

Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Word Game 29.7%, Investigation 22.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 5.6%

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

Why similar: Investigation 38.6%, Detective 29.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Puzzle 9.9%, Indie 9.3%

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 48.9%, Investigation 32.4%, Puzzle 13.5%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

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 42.1%, Word Game 20.8%, Investigation 18.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Puzzle 7.5%

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 48.3%, Investigation 22.2%, Puzzle 16%, Indie 12.6%, Singleplayer 1%

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 54.6%, Puzzle 25.8%, Indie 19.5%

[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 38.7%, Investigation 27%, Puzzle 15.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Indie 4.3%

A point-and-click deduction game where you unravel complex events. Explore frozen moments in time, analyze the scene, and fill in the blanks. Piece together the who, how, and why behind each curious scenario.

Why similar: Detective 46%, Investigation 37.7%, Puzzle 14%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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 32.7%, Detective 30.7%, Investigation 23.6%, Text-Based 13%

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 30.9%, Detective 29.4%, Investigation 18.3%, Text-Based 12%, Puzzle 9.4%

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 49.7%, Investigation 29%, Puzzle 15.1%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 2%

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 49.5%, Detective 30.4%, Puzzle 18.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 51.1%, Investigation 22.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 12.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

You take part in testing a next-generation experimental android on a restricted floor of a research complex. But soon it becomes clear that the experiment is far more complicated, and you'll have to uncover what’s really happening here.

Why similar: Detective 41.7%, Investigation 34.2%, Puzzle 18%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 1%

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 42.6%, Puzzle 16.7%, Investigation 16.5%, Indie 12%, Text-Based 11.3%

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%, Puzzle 22.8%, Investigation 22.5%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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 42.7%, Investigation 26%, Puzzle 14.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Indie 1.7%

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 36.7%, Investigation 26.9%, Text-Based 18.2%, Puzzle 13.8%, Indie 3.4%

NodeGame，原版游戏名为：脱出ゲーム | Nodes，由岩崎、はとむね开发，并在日本举办的GAMEJAM上首次亮相。 诡雅异俗，出自。原意为：与雅正相悖与长俗相违，也指异端邪说。 之所以选定这个名字，是因为我感觉他更有神秘感，也代表了很强的创作能力！！

Why similar: Word Game 38.2%, Detective 31.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, Puzzle 10.9%

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 69.2%, Puzzle 16.6%, Indie 12.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%