60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Text-Based, RPG, Interactive Fiction.
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。
DEAR SUSPECT
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Investigation 7.7%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Word Game 16.6%, Investigation 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Noir 10.8%
Many people dream of visiting London, but few ever stop to think about what would happen if they lost all their money in a foreign country. Unfortunately, Max's friend not only finds himself without any cash, but also discovers that it has been replaced with counterfeit banknotes.
Why similar: CRPG 25.4%, Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Investigation 11.3%
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 26.5%, Detective 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 10%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 23.1%, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Text-Based 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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 24.9%, CRPG 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Detective 8%
elf girls marry into a mysterious castle and reveal the horrific truth.
Why similar: Word Game 14.5%, Detective 13.9%, CRPG 13.7%, Dungeon Crawler 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
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 24.1%, Word Game 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 13%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 22.7%, Noir 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Text-Based 8.7%
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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 18.7%, CRPG 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Stylized 9%
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 20.7%, Word Game 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Investigation 10.2%
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 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Text-Based 8.9%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: CRPG 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 15%, Noir 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Noir 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Investigation 13.2%, Noir 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Text-Based 8.6%
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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Detective 9.6%, RPG 6.7%
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 24.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%
《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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Detective 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
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: Noir 16.2%, Word Game 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Detective 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%
"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 31.9%, Detective 21.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, RPG 6.6%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Noir 13.6%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Word Game 22.9%, Detective 21.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.2%
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 18.3%, Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 9.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Noir 15.4%, Detective 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 22.6%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.1%, Noir 11.3%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Noir 16.4%, Detective 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Investigation 11%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Noir 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 9.5%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%
You are a monster under someone's house.
Why similar: CRPG 21.8%, Word Game 19.4%, Noir 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Detective 10.8%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Noir 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Investigation 8.3%
The Last Question is an AI-powered detective mystery game where every question matters. Interrogate suspects freely, uncover contradictions, collect clues, and solve complex cases through your own reasoning.
Why similar: CRPG 24.4%, Word Game 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Detective 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
In 1630, Ming Dynasty collapses—famine, war, and rebellion plague the land. When a tyrant is murdered in "utopian" Baichu County, detectives Yue Wuxi and Feng Shengjue investigate, unwittingly uncovering a conspiracy that will shake both court and martial world...
Why similar: Word Game 22.9%, Detective 16.2%, Noir 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%
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 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, CRPG 19.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, RPG 8.1%
ESCAPE SITE 13 is a side-scrolling adventure set in the SCP universe, continuing the narrative of SCP-1730. As Investigator Liu Zhiming, explore Site 13, solve puzzles, and confront deadly anomalies. Uncover dark secrets in this chilling tale where reality warps and the past refuses to stay buried.
Why similar: CRPG 23.4%, Word Game 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 10.8%, Text-Based 10%
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Word Game 21.2%, Detective 18.4%, CRPG 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 9.7%
A short interactive novel. There is no "truth" in this game. This is not an armchair detective story—it is simply about a girl in a stall. You will advise the protagonist, determine how she perceives everything around her, and witness her ending.
Why similar: Word Game 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 8.6%
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 27.1%, CRPG 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, RPG 6.2%
夏日重奏 is a visual novel RPG in which you play as a seemingly ordinary high school student. In order to reclaim a once-lost dream of music, you will strive to improve yourself, search for teammates, spark new chemistry with your companions, and ultimately decide both your own future and theirs.
Why similar: Word Game 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 9.2%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Noir 9%, Visual Novel 8.4%
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: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 14.2%, Noir 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
'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: Detective 17.9%, Noir 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 8.7%
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 19%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 13.6%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Noir 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 11.7%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 16.5%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 10.7%
An otome RPG where you determine your own destiny! Travel through an Unnamed city, uncover its secrets and find true love.
Why similar: CRPG 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Detective 13.2%, Text-Based 9.5%, RPG 9.2%
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 28.7%, CRPG 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, RPG 10.5%
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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Noir 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Detective 10.8%
森林深处有着一间咨询室，在那里有一个机器人，她的任务是透过语言为迷途之人指引前行的道路，单纯且复杂。
Why similar: Word Game 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Investigation 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 10.6%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Noir 12.8%, Detective 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%
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 31.4%, Detective 17.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Investigation 8.8%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
