- #1 Night Book
97% matchMixed68% of 592 reviews2021
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Why similar: FMV 31% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Mystery 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Thriller 8.1%
- #2 欢迎来到林葬屋
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
Mourningwood Lodge is a full-motion video (FMV) live-action mystery horror game. As the first installment in the Funeral Houseseries, players will assume different roles across various game modes to participate in a suspenseful horror journey blending conspiracy and fantasy.
Why similar: FMV 35% ★, Mystery 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Horror 8.7%, Thriller 8.1%
- #3 Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
96% matchMixed66% of 1,174 reviews2022
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.
Why similar: FMV 33% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Mystery 8.7%, Conspiracy 8.5% ★, Detective 7%
- #4 encrypted_nightmares
95% matchMixed61% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Artur Latkovsky
Windows
Inspired by found footage films, you control a live-stream broadcast in the dark web. Will you capture the most thrilling moments, or will the horror be too much to handle?
Why similar: FMV 36.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Horror 13.6%, Thriller 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #5 To Tell the Truth
94% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Humanity 1 Studios
Windows · Mac
A mystery detective FMV game
Why similar: FMV 34.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Detective 11.7%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #6 The Isle Tide Hotel
94% matchMixed65% of 262 reviews2023
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring a cast from GoT, The Witcher, and more. Every decision counts as you gather clues and question guests. Can you unearth the ominous secrets at The Isle Tide Hotel before it's too late to save your missing daughter?
Why similar: FMV 28.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Mystery 8.3%, Detective 7.4%
- #7 Wright Brothers' Mysteries
92% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Achor WrightPub: Archor Games
Windows
Wright Brothers' Mysteries - A fun interactive multipath full motion visual novel
Why similar: FMV 39.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Adventure 9.1%
- #8 Death Come True
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 950 reviews2020
Dev: IzanagiGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!
Why similar: FMV 34.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
- #9 代号清风
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 云联智捷
Windows
Code Qingfeng is an interactive cinematic experience featuring multiple heroines, branching storylines, and a range of endings. Every choice you make reshapes the course of fate.
Why similar: FMV 34.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Mystery 7.7%
- #10 17 ways to not die (or not, IDK) - Interactive Movie
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Denis TeT
Windows
17 Ways Not to Die is a movie, first and foremost. A movie in which you can influence what happens on the screen. There are 17 endings, or not endings, or not 17, I don’t know. I don’t care.
Why similar: FMV 32.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Thriller 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Horror 8%
- #11 The Joker's Game
89% matchVery Positive86% of 498 reviews2025
Dev: All In Game Co., Limited
Windows · Mac
"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes. Outwit rivals, uncover truths, or perish? Every move decides survival... or the deadly prize.
Why similar: FMV 30.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Detective 9.1%, Thriller 7.4%
- #12 Late Shift
91% matchVery Positive86% of 9,154 reviews2017
Dev: CtrlMoviePub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.
Why similar: FMV 45.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #13 Shadows of Betrayal
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Thriller 11.2%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #14 AKIBA LOST
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IzanagiGames
Windows
Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “Akiba’s Spirited Away”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?
Why similar: FMV 34% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #15 Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 487 reviews2020
Dev: D'Avekki Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
Why similar: FMV 29.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Detective 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #16 The Unexpected (But Not Entirely Surprising) Demise of Jacques du Schnozzle
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamTripleJumpPub: TripleJump Alumni
Windows
Jacques Du Schnozzle is the worst person in the world. Thankfully though, he’s just been murdered. Do you have what it takes to catch his killer, or will the forces of evil stop you in your tracks?
Why similar: FMV 45.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Horror 5.4%
- #17 Wordless Forest
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dogus Cagrici
Windows
You are alone in the forest. You remember nothing. In this live-action interactive survival thriller, the story is written not by dialogue, but by your choices.
Why similar: FMV 31.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Thriller 9%, Mystery 7.2%
- #18 Erica
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,723 reviews2021
Dev: Flavourworks
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
Why similar: FMV 33.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Thriller 7.5%, Detective 7.4%
- #19 Mycorrhiza
84% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Distorted WanderersPub: Tim Reichert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Mystery 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Horror 11%, Visual Novel 10%
- #20 Miracle Detective
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TAKA's factory
Windows · Mac
A high school detective story where an unlikely duo tackles mysterious incidents on campus. Solve strange cases with logic and courage in this suspenseful visual novel.
Why similar: Mystery 17.4%, Detective 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Thriller 10.4%
- #21 The Parrot That Summons Demons
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CASE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Once the pet of an evil worshiper... Now adopted by an unlucky family! THE PARROT THAT SUMMONS DEMONS is a horror FMV visual novel featuring a dark and unsettling story with several playable characters and numerous endings.
Why similar: FMV 33.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Horror 9.3%
- #22 The Run
81% matchVery Positive90% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: PRM Games
Windows · Mac
An FMV horror-thriller. A famous fitness influencer must fight for survival when she's hunted by killers. Your decisions determine whether she lives or dies.
Why similar: FMV 32.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Thriller 8.5%, Horror 7.6%
- #23 AFAR: An Interactive Horror Film
81% matchPositive87% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Jason Trost
Windows · Mac
A survival horror experience inspired by 90s FMV games and VHS nightmares. Choose your path as a paranormal investigator in a haunting interactive film and uncover the secrets of Barlang Valley. Every choice you make shapes the story—leading to new scenes, multiple endings, and many ways to die.
Why similar: FMV 35.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Detective 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #24 The Spectre Files: Deathstalker
82% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Game RefugePub: Galloping Ghost Productions
Windows
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: FMV 25.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Detective 10%, Horror 9.6%
- #25 Mothmen 1966
80% matchVery Positive91% of 319 reviews2022
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Thriller 9.1%, Supernatural 9.1%, Conspiracy 9% ★
- #26 The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,112 reviews2022
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story
Why similar: FMV 48.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Detective 7.3%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #27 Echoes of Pinebridge
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Koalu Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #28 POPULARITY CONTEST
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ScrythaDev
Windows · Mac
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Thriller 11.6%
- #29 The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
79% matchVery Positive83% of 600 reviews2017
Dev: D'Avekki Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: FMV 34% ★, Detective 10.6%, Mystery 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #30 黑水镇Blackwater Town
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 小黑与鹿鹿
Windows
Ancient Chinese folk horror + zombie interactive visual novel. Your choices shape the fate of Blackwater Town.
Why similar: FMV 32% ★, Thriller 12%, Supernatural 11.3%, Horror 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
- #31 Nowhere to Run
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choosewise
Windows · Mac
Nowhere to Run is an interactive film with over 120 choices and 18 different endings! Embark on a journey with Lucy and help her escape the desert before her abductor finds her. But he's not the only one she needs to worry about...
Why similar: FMV 30.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Nonlinear 8.1%
- #32 You And I
75% matchPositive81% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Juan Ablan
Windows
"You And I” is an interactive film where you guide Mark, lost deep in the woods with his friend, Ace. However the more time the two spend together, the stranger the two become.
Why similar: FMV 42.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 7.7%, Nonlinear 5.3%
- #33 Headspun
78% matchMixed57% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: Superstring
Windows
Headspun is a FMV/Adventure hybrid set in Cortex; the world of Theo Kavinsky's broken brain - a game about recovery, discovery, and the ongoing battle between logic and emotion.
Why similar: FMV 36.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Detective 10.2%, Visual Novel 9%
- #34 规则怪谈:盛崖小区
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: ZHUYUAN Co.,Ltd
Windows
这是一款怪谈类剧情游戏。在宏大的原创世界观下你需要一步步探索盛崖小区的“全貌”,你能做到仅仅是依靠“规则”在这里觅得一线生机。你可以假装无事发生,安然度日;也可以想尽办法,逃出生天;或许你也可以直面它,成为它的一部分……但无论如何,请你记住,保持理智,遵守规则。
Why similar: FMV 29.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Thriller 10.6%, Mystery 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #35 428: Shibuya Scramble
76% matchVery Positive95% of 3,735 reviews2018
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.
Why similar: FMV 39.1% ★, Visual Novel 18.7%, Mystery 17.6%, Story Rich 9.7%, Detective 6.7%
- #36 Russian Psychiatric Pastoral
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivan Lysenko
Windows
An interactive movie that combines a psychiatrist simulator, a detective story and unique fight sequences. Take on the role of a psychiatrist, encounter various psychiatric diagnoses, and investigate disappearances of various people.
Why similar: FMV 34.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Thriller 9.6%, Horror 7%
- #37 The List
74% matchVery Positive80% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Dan Trimble
Windows
A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.
Why similar: FMV 26.2% ★, Mystery 11.8%, Detective 11%, Nonlinear 9%, Interactive Fiction 9%
- #38 I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silhouette Games
Windows
I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Mystery 15.8%, Thriller 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #39 Single Player: Horror
74% matchMixed54% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Paul Windmill-Sear
Windows
Single Player: Horror is a unique POV interactive experience. You don’t just play the role of Sophie, you see through her eyes. You wake up to find a Psycho Axe Killer in your living room who is desperate to chop you into pieces. Will you survive the night?
Why similar: FMV 49.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #40 Hacked: The Streamer
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 267 reviews2026
Dev: Button InteractivePub: GameDev.ist
Windows
You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this thrilling interactive movie. The fate of PinkyPie, a fan-favorite streamer, is in your hands.
Why similar: FMV 34.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Mystery 6.8%
- #41 Choose Cthulhu Files: The Call of Cthulhu
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildspell Games
Windows · Linux
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Thriller 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Mystery 9.4%, Horror 9.3%
- #42 好久不见 - Long Time No See
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 251 reviews2020
Dev: SleepwalkStudioPub: 橙光游戏
Windows
The story centers around a frustrated middle-aged man named Yu Kaijie. Along with his friend Ma Zhigao, they participated in a class reunion and used the chance to rob the safe of their rich classmate. But against all expectations, the tranquil villa turned into a closed-off crime scene...
Why similar: FMV 46.2% ★, Nonlinear 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Mystery 7.2%
- #43 MADE : Interactive Movie – 01. Run away!
72% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: JOONSPICTURES
Windows
One day, JURI gets kidnapped and wakes up in dark basement. Desperately seeking her way to escape, JURI runs into a random guy who is indeed another hostage. And someone is chasing them! Who kidnapped them and why? Would they be able to survive?
Why similar: FMV 43.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 7.8%, Thriller 5.7%
- #44 林葬屋前传:冥声
69% matchVery Positive88% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
"Mourningwood Lodge2:Hidden Voice" is a Chinese folk horror FMV mystery about a forbidden ghost marriage, a cursed nursery rhyme, and a string of fear-stricken deaths. Investigate a haunted mansion, uncover buried sins, and face multiple endings.
Why similar: FMV 29.4% ★, Thriller 10.4%, Supernatural 9.1%, Story Rich 8.7%, Horror 8.7%
- #45 The Gallery
71% matchMixed69% of 169 reviews2022
Dev: PRM Games
Windows · Mac
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: FMV 31.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Detective 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #46 Lost Media Agency
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artur Latkovsky
Windows
A found footage horror game where you need to piece together a timeline in chronological order of a Kaiju incident that occurred.
Why similar: FMV 35.3% ★, Horror 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Conspiracy 9.4% ★, Detective 8.1%
- #47 Bloodshore
71% matchMixed69% of 935 reviews2021
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize.
Why similar: FMV 39.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 8%, Visual Novel 7.3%
- #48 The Void Between
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Key Compass
Windows · Mac
When one man's dream holiday turns into a nightmare, it's up to you to save him from himself...
Why similar: FMV 42.3% ★, Horror 11.5%, Supernatural 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #49 Creepy Crypt Critters
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcade Eleven
Windows
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Horror 11.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #50 BAD END
71% matchVery Positive84% of 394 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Mystery 14.9%, Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
- #51 Cellveillance
67% matchVery Positive86% of 605 reviews2025
Dev: KARMAGAME HK LIMITEDPub: EpicDream Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.
Why similar: FMV 32.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, Detective 8.3%
- #52 Heart of the Forest
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 184 reviews2026
Dev: Trapped PredatorPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
Why similar: FMV 29.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Mystery 8.8%, Horror 8.1%
- #53 Deluded I
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: New IDEA Games
Windows
A worn out detective with his demons to fight and a homicide case to solve. Deluded is an interactive crime thriller movie with point-and-click investigation and adrenaline pumped quick time events.
Why similar: FMV 31.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Detective 11.6%, Thriller 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #54 TAPE: Unveil the Memories
68% matchVery Positive98% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: BlackChiliGoat StudioPub: Meridiem Games
Windows
Use a special video camera that can rewind time to explore memories of the past in TAPE: Unveil the Memories, a first-person narrative mystery adventure set in 1990s Northern Spain.
Why similar: FMV 44.4% ★, Thriller 14.5%, Horror 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 10%
- #55 ROUGH KUTS: The Thirsty Dead
68% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: ROUGH KUTS
Windows
Interactive Film: THE THIRSTY DEAD
Why similar: FMV 32.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Mystery 8.6%
- #56 The Complex
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,503 reviews2020
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.
Why similar: FMV 47.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Adventure 6.6%, Thriller 5.6%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #57 Cradlemoor
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TallHead
Windows · Mac
Cradlemoor is a cinematic multi-layered narrative game, which casts you as Journalist William Marlowe as he journeys to the Dartmoor village of Cradlemoor to investigate a missing film crew. Cradlemoor features a persistent story across multiple playthroughs and hours of film, files and documents.
Why similar: FMV 34.9% ★, Detective 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Thriller 11.6%, Mystery 11.4%
- #58 Kung Fu Time Travel
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YU QIULIN
Windows · Mac
Players assume the role of the protagonist who travels back to his previous life to change his destiny, gain love and achieve career success. The game features elements of comedy, ingenious strategies, reasoning and fantasy, with multiple choices and multiple endings.
Why similar: FMV 24.8% ★, Mystery 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Detective 10.9%, Conspiracy 8.6% ★
- #59 Back:Fade
65% matchVery Positive82% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
《Back:Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
Why similar: FMV 31.9% ★, Thriller 10.9%, Horror 9.4%, Supernatural 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%