60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Visual Novel, Mystery, Story Rich.
"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game. Enter the remote and sparsely populated island of Shikinejima and attempt to solve the strangely recurring mystery found there.
Return to Shironagasu Island
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
Will you survive the curse together this summer? A new supernatural mystery adventure begins, telling a bittersweet story of the passions of youth featuring new locations, new legends and a new cast of characters.
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.9%, Mystery 21.7%, Horror 15.2%, Anime 14.8%, Adventure 14.3%
Will you survive the curse together this summer? A new supernatural mystery adventure begins, telling a bittersweet story of the passions of youth featuring new locations, new legends and a new cast of characters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Mystery 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Horror 12.5%, Text-Based 12.2%
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Romance 12.8%, Anime 12%, Mystery 11%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Anime 14.7%, Mystery 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Romance 17.4%, Mystery 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.9%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Anime 7.8%
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: Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 20.3%, Mystery 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Horror 9.5%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.4%, Mystery 19.3%, Psychological 15.6%, Time Travel 8.5% ★, Adventure 8.2%
Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Visual Novel 23%, Mystery 18.5%, Anime 17.9%, Adventure 6.3%
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Text-Based 26%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Adventure 12.7%, Mystery 10.1%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 30.7% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Anime 11.4%, Romance 11%
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Emotional 10.5%, Anime 9.7%
"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: Mystery 35.5%, Text-Based 26%, Adventure 21.1%, Colorful 6.4%, Visual Novel 6.1%
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Anime 29.6%, Mystery 22.7%, Horror 7.1%, Adventure 4.3%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Mystery 18.7%, Text-Based 18%, Anime 17.4%, Romance 10.7%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.6% ★, Visual Novel 14.7%, Romance 12.4%, Anime 9.8%, Mystery 8.8%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Anime 18.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Emotional 11.2%
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.5%, Alternate History 18.1%, Emotional 15.5%, Mystery 15.3%, Adventure 10.1%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Time Travel 29.7% ★, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Anime 11.5%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Mystery 8.2%
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Anime 13.9%, Emotional 13.3%, Mystery 12.4%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Psychological 18.6%, Mystery 17.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Anime 15.3%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.1%, Mystery 21.4%, Time Travel 17.4% ★, Anime 14.8%, Horror 6.1%
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: Text-Based 30.2%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Mystery 18.6%, Anime 16%, Adventure 6.1%
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Psychological 21.3%, Mystery 16.2%, Romance 15.3%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Horror 15.9%, Adventure 5.4%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Anime 26.3%, Mystery 24.3%, Adventure 7.9%, Horror 4.3%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Text-Based 20.6%, Anime 16.7%, Mystery 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Text-Based 17.7%, Anime 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Mystery 13.5%
A gruesome murder interrupts an evening party at a secluded mansion and you are the prime suspect! Explore the mansion, search for clues, and interrogate the other guests as you strive to unmask the killer in this open-ended mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.8%, Mystery 28%, Adventure 26.1%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Psychological 21.1%, Anime 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, 2D 4.4%
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Romance 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Anime 12.2%, Mystery 11.8%
Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 57%, Mystery 30.6%, Adventure 12.4%
A mystery visual novel taking place aboard the underwater train Marine Express. Follow student Ranko Togawa on her quest to find the culprit on the murder of an accompanying teacher... with lots of surprises along the way!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Text-Based 25.3%, Mystery 19.4%, Anime 17.7%, Adventure 4.7%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Time Travel 30% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Mystery 13.3%, Anime 6.9%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 52.8% ★, Anime 22%, Mystery 14.1%, 2D 11.1%
Adventure Game Traveling around Iceland
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Anime 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Emotional 7.5%
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Adventure 12.2%, Mystery 11.8%, Text-Based 11.2%
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.2%, Mystery 17.4%, Emotional 16%, Anime 13.5%, Adventure 8%
Answer the summons to the parallel world of "Kamitsubaki City" and meet a cast of colorful characters as you set out on a quest to save this city from the brink of destruction in this dark-fantasy sci-fi visual novel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.7%, Visual Novel 30.3%, Anime 11.9%, Adventure 10.6%, 2D 6.5%
A murder-mystery visual novel following 12 strangers with mysterious pasts. Make arguments and identify the murderer, but don't lose sight of the ultimate goal of eliminating the Game Master.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Anime 26.8%, Psychological 25.9%, Text-Based 9.1%, Adventure 1.6%
Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.
Why similar: Adventure 20%, Mystery 17.6%, Romance 17.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, 2D 11.2%
A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet... What if all of them are connected and surround me like a circle? What should I do?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Romance 17.3%, Anime 11%, Emotional 9.1%
Seiran Island. Even here in paradise, there are those who work in the shadows to bring it down... Confront the tyranny of a twisted system in this long-awaited visual novel adventure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Romance 21.3%, Anime 18.9%, Emotional 17.4%, Mystery 12.8%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場！
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Emotional 12.3%, Mystery 11.9%
Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Anime 12%, Romance 10.7%, Mystery 9.6%
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: Text-Based 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Anime 13.2%, Mystery 12.6%
Enjoy the murder by the word.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Psychological 18.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Anime 14.3%, Emotional 9.6%
Tyler is a high schooler on a mission. He's going to use every minute of summer vacation to go on as many GPS-assisted scavenger hunts as possible. After running into some old friends during one of these hunts, strange things start happening: The day resets and today plays out exactly like yesterday
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Anime 15.1%, Adventure 11.6%, Romance 10.3%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Adventure 19%, Mystery 16.8%, 2D 6.5%
"My mother, my daughter, and me—three sixteen-year-olds on an extraordinary adventure."After traveling through time to meet their sixteen-year-old counterparts, three generations of women set off on an adventure through the Land of the Gods. What could await them at the end of their journey?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Anime 13.4%, Emotional 9.7%
古风悬疑推理AVG《再见断刀》——在与世隔绝的山庄之中，接二连三地发生了骇人命案。只有通过细致入微的调查，抽丝剥茧的推理，才能定一个是非清白，还一个天理公道。 然而，在逐渐浮出水面的真相之下，似乎还有暗流涌动……
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Anime 18.7%, Romance 17.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Emotional 15%
This is a suspense reasoning interactive work with real people. You will play the protagonist "Qi Yi", find evidence in a series of murders, piece together the truth, and find the ultimate murderer, all of which will lead you to an unpredictable future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 51.5%, Mystery 38.7%, Adventure 9.8%
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Anime 27.2%, Mystery 23.5%, Horror 8.3%, Adventure 4%
Hack Into God
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.1%, Anime 31.7%, Adventure 21.2%
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: Visual Novel 24.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Anime 17.5%, Mystery 17.5%, Funny 8.7%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: Time Travel 38.4% ★, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological 14.7%, Anime 13%, Mystery 11.5%
“Person of Serendipity… please help us——” A text-based adventure puzzle game set in ancient villages, where shrine maidens and the Kami guide you to forge unbreakable bonds. Every choice reshapes destiny—you will lead them, but to where?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 17.2%, Anime 16.4%, Mystery 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
Why similar: Time Travel 22.7% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Romance 13.5%, Anime 11.6%, Mystery 11.3%
