60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include RPG, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Visual Novel.
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."
大侦探之勃艮第古堡
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。
蛆虫的幸福：腐甲病
This work is a side-story AVG of Worms' Happiness. You can read the text by clicking the left mouse button, scrolling the mouse wheel, pressing the spacebar, or other such methods. One afternoon, you will start this short half-day story as the head of the volleyball club.
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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Drama 11.3%, Detective 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%
This work is a side-story AVG of Worms' Happiness. You can read the text by clicking the left mouse button, scrolling the mouse wheel, pressing the spacebar, or other such methods. One afternoon, you will start this short half-day story as the head of the volleyball club.
Why similar: Word Game 25.1%, CRPG 15.1%, Drama 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
ALVAR is a ADV visual novel with raising mechanics and multiple endings. In the town of Nedtown, you guide and shape “your child” by choosing a trait to nurture, leading to different outcomes. Things may feel unsettling—but everything is normal. You have to trust it.
Why similar: Word Game 17.4%, CRPG 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Stylized 8.6%
1988年，日本泡沫经济破灭前夕，化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警，侦查青梅奇怪自杀案，牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密，穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头，在人心与生死的抉择中，搜查蛛丝马迹，找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 16.9%, Detective 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Drama 8.8%
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Word Game 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Drama 11.9%, Visual Novel 10%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 9.9%
一则普通的短篇故事。男主角陈越泽是个因为失败而对自己失望的普通公司职员。离开家乡后他毫无热情的在某个公司过着麻木的上班生活。某一天，因为身份证过期上级给他请了小长假。他在烦恼要不要久违的回一趟老家。
Why similar: Word Game 24.6%, CRPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Drama 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
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 20.3%, Detective 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Drama 11%, Text-Based 10.9%
This is a suspenseful puzzle visual novel game. You play as a character who was born in Pine Peak as a child and returns to this long-lost town after many years. You get involved in a series of mysterious disappearances happening in the town and try to explore and solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, CRPG 17.7%, Drama 8.5%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Noir 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Narration 8.3%
一个普通的早晨，五个大学生踏入同一间教室，却在陌生的空间醒来。纸条上写着： “在七天内找到真相，否则这里就会毁灭。”你将如何度过这七天？
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Word Game 16.7%, Drama 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Word Game 18.7%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: CRPG 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
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 23.3%, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 15.7%, Text-Based 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Navigate complex relationships and unexpected revelations as a transfer student with amnesia in this visual novel adventure. Uncover the truth behind a mysterious dream and the wishes of the campus crush.
Why similar: Word Game 25.2%, CRPG 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Detective 8%
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Drama 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 11.2%
Hardcode logical detective game. Only a few clues will help finding murderer. Was it just an accident or a murder? Thief broke in to steal something? Money? Or was it just a broken heart revenge? Well, you`ve got a chance to solve this case...
Why similar: CRPG 22.4%, Noir 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Text-Based 8.9%
The "OneFlesh" is an exploration-driven RPG. Players explore the town to obtain clues, present clues to the people in the town to advance the story, and finally discover the truth behind the events that the male and female protagonists have encountered.
Why similar: CRPG 23.9%, Word Game 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13%, Visual Novel 9.4%
《此间相》是一款有关怪谈、灵异的avg视觉冒险文字游戏。大学生安和同好友叁添因诡异傩面，意外触发诅咒，额角瞳孔”让安和窥见事物真相，但安和面临抉择，在此间之相，安和该何去何从。
Why similar: Word Game 21.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Drama 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
"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 31.3%, Detective 21%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Drama 7.1%
《頭七》（头七怪谈）是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员，你需要根据主编的要求，整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联，并在必要时与同伴实地探索，以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Word Game 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
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 19.1%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Drama 11.7%, Text-Based 10.4%
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Word Game 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 8.8%
In Cursed Realm, you play as an adventurer in search of mystical rune stones to lift a realm's curse. Your main task involves traveling, gathering clues, and winning the trust of NPCs. A journey full of challenges and uncertainties awaits. Are you ready?
Why similar: CRPG 24.6%, Word Game 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Text-Based 8.6%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Investigation 14.2%, Drama 11.7%, Noir 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Word Game 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Drama 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 9.2%
Pixel X Adventure X Romance A horror theme visual game，having 3 romanceable characters and sweet horror pixels！ A young girl wakes up from the whistling body of the sea, and is welcomed into a strange world with the illusion of sluggish falling and suffocation. It's a travel to find her memory.
Why similar: CRPG 25.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Drama 8.4%, Visual Novel 8.2%
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Detective 16.9%, Word Game 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Drama 9.6%
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 16.2%, Noir 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Detective 11.6%
PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.
Why similar: Word Game 24.7%, Drama 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Noir 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Detective 14.8%, Text-Based 12.4%
Speak not of love untouched by passion's fire, as it's a torturous journey. If lovers would remain faithful evermore,On Peony Pavilion’s road they’ll meet for three lives more. Paper Bride 7: Lethal Bond is a Chinese horror puzzle game, and the 7th title of the Paper Bride series.
Why similar: Word Game 27%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Detective 9.7%, Stylized 6.9%
本游戏是一款呈现方式新颖的对话小说类文字游戏，具有百合与微恐怖要素。 游戏将根据你的选择具有不同的走向。 感受贴贴与恐怖交织的美妙体验吧！
Why similar: Word Game 25.1%, CRPG 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Noir 13.4%, Investigation 12.7%, Visual Novel 10%, Drama 9.6%
A word game, does not support the handle, the operation is the mouse and keyboard space. It can be said that it is very simple. The theme of obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis is a large text dialogue, which is more depressing. Please be careful if you don't like it.
Why similar: Word Game 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Noir 11.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Detective 11.5%
《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: CRPG 28.2%, Word Game 25.5%, Detective 14.5%, Text-Based 8.8%, Investigation 7.3%
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 24.8%, Investigation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Investigation 13%, Noir 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Text-Based 8.6%
《BanGDream! It’s MyGo!!!!!》的末世公路AU同人游戏，ansy cp向视觉小说。
Why similar: Word Game 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Drama 11.1%, RPG 10.4%
午夜叩响大门的奇怪玩偶熊，班上突然出现的神秘转校生，随着两位陌生的少女闯入你的世界，你平静的生活有了翻天覆地的变化。但没有任何关于她们记忆的你却发现，你好像对她们总是有莫名的熟悉感。经历这一切的你能否能平衡时间的天平，勘破真相，找到你心中的答案呢?
Why similar: Word Game 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Drama 16.4%, CRPG 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Investigation 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%
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: Word Game 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 13.8%, Drama 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to Hongcha Valley after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Explore scenes, question witnesses, and connect clues to separate truth from lies. Uncover a family secret buried for over twenty years.
Why similar: Word Game 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, RPG 9.5%, Detective 9.3%
Midline ‘85 is an interactive thriller about the tough work of an emergency service operator. Face panic, horror and human cruelty, break rules and observe the consequences. Save Midline — or let the city burn.
Why similar: Word Game 16.3%, Detective 12.4%, Noir 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%
《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 33.2%, Detective 18.9%, Drama 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 33.1%, Drama 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Investigation 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Scary pictures: Yavez - seven deadly sins in the novel-horror genre. The game will plunge you into the atmosphere of the classic and gloomy history of the Soviet times. You have to face many life choices that will have consequences and lead to one of eight endings.
Why similar: Word Game 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 11%, Drama 10%, Visual Novel 10%
《阴阳错》是一款发生在中国本土题材民俗恐怖悬疑解谜游戏。故事发生在香港，一位意外失去生命的民间道士与一位丢失配枪的女刑警成为搭档。破解红磡五人连环杀人案，并找到丢失的配枪和肉身，随着受害者数量增加，调查的深入，案件的真相却变得扑朔迷离……一个丢失配枪的女警、一个意外死亡的半仙，一个嫁为人妻的女子，一场有关成仙的阴谋，正慢慢浮出水面。
Why similar: Word Game 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
You are a monster under someone's house.
Why similar: CRPG 21.7%, Word Game 19.8%, Noir 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.1%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 13.2%
"Fish Tank" is a school-themed visual novel game that explores the inner world of teenagers and supernatural powers. Players will make choices in the game to reach different endings for the protagonist Xie Lihe.Use your imagination wisely and remember to manage your oxygen.
Why similar: Word Game 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Drama 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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: Word Game 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Taniharazo, who lost his memory, wakes up from the forest and goes deep into an isolated school, working with eight girls with different characteristics. The girls are happy together, but as one of them disappears, the serial murders gradually unfold But is the purpose just to find the murderer?
Why similar: Word Game 19.5%, CRPG 17.3%, Detective 17.3%, Drama 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
"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 21.9%, Word Game 19.8%, Investigation 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Drama 12.3%
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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%
