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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Point & Click.

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Ghost Hunting Journal is an anime-style narrative adventure game. The duo partners of self-proclaimed "Spirit Agent" accept various supernatural commissions, use a full set of ghost-hunting techniques to tackle urban myths caused by lingering ghosts in the city of Riverrun.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: 麻辣工作室 Spicy Games
Publisher: Okasan's Recipe
Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2022
    Dev: Start Warp
    Windows · Mac

    The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hidden Object 12.1%, Dark Humor 12%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Point & Click 10.3%

  2. #2 The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Spooky DoorwayPub: Akupara Games
    Windows

    You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Text-Based 11.9%, Dark Humor 11.7%, Detective 11.2%

  3. #3 Flying over the penguin's hollow
    96% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2026
    Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
    Windows

    Meet Vinnie, aka "The Trickster." In his dreams, he's a criminal mastermind, the terror of banks and the ladies. In reality, he's the guy who tried to break into a gumball machine, mistaking it for a safe, got his hand stuck, and screamed at it until the cops arrived.

    Why similar: Hidden Object 17.8%, Comic Book 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%

  4. #4 Duppy Detective Tashia
    95% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Spritewrench
    Windows

    Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Point & Click 10.4%

  5. #5 Murder Is Game Over
    94% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2022
    Dev: HitherYon Games
    Windows

    Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

    Why similar: Hidden Object 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dark Humor 12%, Detective 11.6%, Text-Based 11.1%

  6. #6 The Spirit Weaver
    93% matchPositive100% of 41 reviews2026
    Dev: StarBullet StudioPub: GameChanger Studio
    Windows

    The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Point & Click 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Detective 10.8%

  7. #7 Gluck
    94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
    Dev: hayanari
    Windows · Mac

    A short 2D excavation adventure game set in a mining company.

    Why similar: Side Scroller 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Hidden Object 13.3%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%

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    92% matchPositive87% of 47 reviews2024
    Dev: qureate
    Windows

    At long last a completely new sequel to Prison Princess, the mystery-solving adventure game where you guide princesses to escape the clutches of the Demon King!

    Why similar: Hidden Object 16.4%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Comic Book 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Point & Click 11%

  9. #9 MicroMacro: Downtown Detective
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Soft Boiled Games
    Windows

    MicroMacro: Downtown Detective merges hidden-object and detective game into a new genre with a surprising narrative depth. Step into a cartoon city, jam-packed with details, goofy characters – and loads of crimes. Search for clues, follow suspects and make clever deductions to crack all cases.

    Why similar: Hidden Object 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Detective 9.9%, Comic Book 9.5%

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    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 191 reviews2024
    Dev: Shaman Games Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Enter a magical world filled with legendary Fairy Tale characters. Become the greatest wizard. Help a young witch break an evil curse and save the Fairy Tale kingdoms!

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 14.3%, Point & Click 13.7%, Hidden Object 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%

  11. #11 Big Ear Detective
    90% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Fabula Improviso
    Windows · Mac

    Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.

    Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Point & Click 13.1%, Text-Based 12%, Comic Book 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%

  12. #12 We Were Here Before
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Inkdrift
    Windows

    The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Point & Click 11.5%

  13. #13 CatTrigger Horror Collection
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: CatTrigger
    Windows · Linux

    Slice through a collection of HORROR STORIES, produced by a solo dev! Survive through the body horror of health clinics, haunted dating sims, robot takeovers, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE VIDEOS & MORE!

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  14. #14 Fatal Falls
    88% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2024
    Dev: Tripolar Studio
    Windows

    In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Hidden Object 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 11.1%, Detective 10.6%

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    87% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2024
    Dev: Screen Savor Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Detective 11.9%

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    86% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
    Dev: Garage Heathen
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    86% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.

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    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cocodrolo Games
    Windows · Mac

    A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.

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    84% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 14%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10%

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    84% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio Attic Salt
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.

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    83% matchVery Positive82% of 97 reviews2020
    Dev: louis morel
    Windows

    be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.

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    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tempurra Games
    Windows

    Discover the mysterious city of Upper Morkezela, where gods go to die. As an apprentice to the priest of the fungal cult, your task will be to discover what lies behind the mysterious distress signal sent from the city.

    Why similar: Hidden Object 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Detective 14.5%, Point & Click 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%

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    80% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2026
    Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
    Windows

    This city fears me. I saw its true face... And it smelled like sawdust. Welcome to the world of pretentious film noir, where it rains even indoors, and cool guys don't look at explosions (because they forgot to wear sunglasses).

    Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 16%, Point & Click 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Exploration 10.8%

  24. #24 Project Pastorate
    82% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2018
    Pub: Meridian4
    Windows · Mac

    Project Pastorate is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Hidden Object 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Detective 12.1%, Text-Based 11.4%

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    81% matchVery Positive89% of 99 reviews2023
    Dev: Red bean Taiyaki
    Windows · Mac

    Yuri Dating Agency - a speed dating simulator for WLW. You're a girl who likes girls, walking into this Yuri dating agency to find yourself a date. Here, you will be able to get to know lots of girls. Will you be able to win their hearts?

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  26. #26 Earth Must Die
    79% matchVery Positive86% of 242 reviews2026
    Dev: Size Five GamesPub: No More Robots
    Windows

    These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Comic Book 14.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, Side Scroller 14.2%

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    81% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: 15pmPub: yatsutogimaroni
    Windows

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  28. #28 Moth Lake: A Horror Story
    79% matchVery Positive83% of 110 reviews2022
    Dev: Stefano Mazzotta (Il Sui)Pub: Sui Arts
    Windows

    This is the story of Moth Lake, a small town that, behind its peaceful facade, hides a terrible secret. Only a group of teenagers, with a difficult life, will reveal what has been hidden for generations.

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  29. #29 Moratorium: Don’t Beat This Game
    77% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2025
    Dev: O'chu
    Windows

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    78% matchPositive100% of 30 reviews2023
    Dev: HitherYon Games
    Windows

    Embark on a thrilling pixel art adventure with Detective Guy & Cleo as they solve a mysterious murder. Explore an eerie seaside village, search for clues, interview suspects, and unravel the truth in this whodunit mystery.

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    78% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Braveforge
    Windows

    Investigate a chilling birthday murder in a branching mystery filled with secrets, suspects, and puzzles. Uncover the truth, bend time, and stop the killer before reality begins to unravel.

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    77% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
    Windows

    Join Lydia as she takes her fight to expose the corruption in Cypress Ridge to City Hall in the second part of the visual novel series What Lydia Knows.

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    76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: Synthetic Mind Corp.
    Windows

    A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.

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  34. #34 Into the Harmony
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sempiternal Rain
    Windows

    Into the Harmony is a psychological quest set in a post-apocalyptic world after an AI uprising. Awakening with amnesia, Sophia must piece together her forgotten past to uncover a secret that ties her own fate to the destiny of humanity.

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    76% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2023
    Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
    Windows · Mac

    Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.

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  36. #36 Storm the Swan - And the Power of FRIENDSHIP and IMAGINATION
    74% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2024
    Dev: CatTrigger
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!

    Why similar: Dark Humor 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 12.4%, Horror 9.4%

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    74% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2025
    Dev: CASCHA GAMES
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.

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    72% matchVery Positive93% of 83 reviews2025
    Dev: Lich & Lily
    Windows

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    72% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
    Dev: Turnip Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  40. #40 Cannibal Court
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Loomnorth Studios
    Windows

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    75% matchNo user reviews2024
    Dev: Kenbu
    Windows

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    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 251 reviews2023
    Dev: Veratrum
    Windows · Linux

    Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.

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    73% matchVery Positive92% of 61 reviews2020
    Dev: Matthew Vimislik
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    71% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2025
    Dev: Profits Troll Studio
    Windows

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    71% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2024
    Dev: MoshBiT Surfers
    Windows

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    71% matchVery Positive99% of 335 reviews2020
    Dev: SleepingMuseumPub: KEMCO
    Windows

    Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?

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    69% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2026
    Dev: Clermont Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.

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    69% matchPositive76% of 16 reviews2025
    Dev: LLC ANIMAVISION
    Windows

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  49. #49 The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,947 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    70% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Fundamental Studios
    Windows

    A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.

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    69% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2024
    Dev: HitherYon Games
    Windows

    Murder Is Game Over: Deal Killer takes you on an immersive journey through the Italian Alps. Unravel the murder mystery amidst an alpine backdrop, exploring opulent settings and unmasking the killer in this thrilling detective game.

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  52. #52 Dark Tides
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hammered Crow Games
    Windows

    A horrifying point-and-click adventure about a town battling demonic possession. Play as boardwalk psychic Theodora Green and deceive, charm and chat your way into unearthing clues and solving mysteries. The fate of Cape Fortune lies in your hands.

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  53. #53 Fame
    68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
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    Windows

    You’ve been invited to an exclusive stay at the Beggars Hotel, a once-glamorous retreat where only the elite gather. But when the guests begin dying one by one, your dream getaway turns into a deadly game of survival. Who can you trust?

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    68% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2024
    Dev: Trefl S.A
    Windows

    Venture out on a colorful and hand-drawn adventure with Spy Guy! Travel between cities in search of clues and don't let the bad guys get away with the treasures! Will you manage to find them all? Explore the detective world of the bravest Treflik the detective and help him save Treflik City.

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    67% matchNo user reviews
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    67% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Linux

    A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?

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    70% matchMixed55% of 392 reviews2009
    Pub: Meridian4
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 31%

    Nikopol is a first-person dystopian point-and-click sci-fi adventure game. In 2023 France is ruled by an iron-fist religious dictatorship. A mysterious pyramid ship suddenly appears above Paris. Begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the government, your missing father, and Egyptian Gods.

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    65% matchPositive87% of 46 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac

    Sinisomnia is a psychological point-and-click horror game that traps you in a looping nightmare of uncertainty and dread. Scattered fragments, unsettling oddities, and the constant sense that something isn’t right await at every turn.

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  59. #59 Season Island
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: terebiki
    Windows

    Season Island is a point & click visual novel about a mysterious seasonal world.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Detective 13.8%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%

  60. #60 Dead Wrong Detective
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NAGORI EMBER
    Windows

    Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko and her assistant tackle 23 cases in this comedy detective ADV. Find clues, shout "The culprit is YOU!" — and get it wrong. Every. Single. Time. The world's worst detective begins her investigation. Skill issue? No. It's a feature.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Detective 17.9%, Point & Click 14.1%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%

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