60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Investigation, Mystery, Story Rich.
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat
Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat is a dark neo noir point and click adventure game where you start as a police detective Joe Kowalski and try to solve a murder that happened in Joe's neighborhood.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 14%, Noir 13.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Comic Book 6.8%
Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat is a dark neo noir point and click adventure game where you start as a police detective Joe Kowalski and try to solve a murder that happened in Joe's neighborhood.
Why similar: Noir 18.1%, Detective 13.3%, Crime 11.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Point & Click 9.2%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 15.4%, Detective 13.8%, Comic Book 12.8%, Crime 11.8%, Investigation 11%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 17.7%, Crime 12.2%, Detective 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Why similar: Noir 16.2%, Detective 11.8%, Comic Book 11.6%, Crime 10.8%, Investigation 9.7%
Ring of Fire: Prologue is the first case in a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London. Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth.
Why similar: Noir 14.6%, Detective 11.1%, Crime 10.1%, Investigation 9.9%, Comic Book 8.7%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 15.2%, Noir 14.9%, Investigation 12.8%, Crime 9.9%, Point & Click 8.8%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Detective 13.3%, Investigation 11.5%, Crime 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
A noir first-person murder mystery set in a gloomy 1947 Pacific Northwest city. Play as the renowned Detective D.W. Dagger to help solve his latest case. A violent murder, a possible suicide, and a handful of suspects. Can you deduce what happened?
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Detective 16.4%, Investigation 14%, Crime 11.9%, Comic Book 10%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 17%, Detective 13.2%, Comic Book 12.3%, Crime 11.4%, Investigation 11.1%
What happens when a video game character is self-aware? Cadulium is a mystery science fiction adventure video game.
Why similar: Noir 15.8%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Cinematic 9.8%, Investigation 9.6%
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.
Why similar: Noir 13.2%, Comic Book 11.9%, Detective 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Point & Click 8.9%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Detective 17.3%, Investigation 15%, Crime 14.8%, Mystery 7.8%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Investigation 13.6%, Crime 12.1%, Noir 12%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Noir 16.7%, Detective 15.7%, Crime 12%, Investigation 11.5%, Point & Click 8.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 15.6%, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%, Psychological Horror 8%
Investigate serial crimes and city government secrets! You're the only one who can get on the trail and break the chain of murders. Are you up for the challenge?
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Detective 14.1%, Crime 11.7%, Investigation 10.6%, Point & Click 9.2%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Crime 15.6%, Investigation 15.2%, Noir 10.8%, Mystery 8.9%
Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Detective 13.2%, Investigation 12.5%, Crime 10.3%, Cinematic 7.8%
In New York, private detective Ikeda Sen happens upon the enigmatic Lila shortly before his client, Walton, hands him a strange device. And in Japan, Izumozaki Neneko stumbles upon a corpse by the canal on her way to school. Two unrelated stories unfold, intersecting in bizarre and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.9%, Detective 16.8%, Crime 13.6%, Investigation 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Noir 17%, Investigation 15.7%, Point & Click 9.8%, Mystery 8.2%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Detective 16.8%, Crime 13.6%, Investigation 10.8%, Point & Click 7.3%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 16.7%, Detective 14.8%, Point & Click 11%, Crime 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Crime 11.9%, Investigation 10.6%, Visual Novel 9%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Can you think like a killer? In this short murder mystery find details in evidence, interpret criminal behaviors and prove your worth to the FBI as new detective Desmond.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 18.1%, Comic Book 12.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.
Why similar: Noir 17.6%, Detective 16%, Investigation 14.2%, Crime 10.1%, Comic Book 9.7%
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Noir 16%, Comic Book 8.9%, Point & Click 8.7%, Visual Novel 7.3%
[DEMO available now!] Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried?As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Investigation 18.2%, Crime 15.2%, Point & Click 11.7%, Mystery 9.6%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Noir 16.6%, Point & Click 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Comic Book 15.3%, Noir 15.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Detective 21.4%, Investigation 16.2%, Crime 12.4%, Mystery 9.4%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Noir 14.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Crime 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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 17.9%, Investigation 14.8%, Noir 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Mystery 8.4%
The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Investigation 14%, Point & Click 11.5%, Crime 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Detective 17.1%, Crime 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Investigation 10.2%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Crime 16.3%, Noir 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 11%
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 19.8%, Comic Book 14.2%, Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Crime 9.3%
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
Why similar: Comic Book 13.1%, Crime 12.4%, Detective 12.2%, Cinematic 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Noir 14.4%, Crime 13.7%, Investigation 12.9%, Point & Click 9.5%
The greatest detective in São Paolo is dead, and you are the prime suspect in his death. Investigate the detective's past cases, unravel the web of mysteries that binds the great city, and prove your innocence. Enigmatic letters, hidden secrets, and one certainty: Every story has two sides.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Detective 21.2%, Investigation 16.2%, Visual Novel 7.2%, Crime 7%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Investigation 10.6%, Crime 10.3%
1954. You killed a man. Now cover your tracks. Getting Away With Murder is a noir point-and-click mystery where every decision is about what you leave behind and whether anyone will find it.
Why similar: Noir 28.1%, Detective 19.3%, Point & Click 16.4%, Crime 12.8%, Mystery 11.2%
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 18.7%, Noir 16.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Mystery 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Crime 14.6%, Investigation 12.7%, Cinematic 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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 19.4%, Noir 17.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 9%, Mystery 8.9%
A monster-themed deduction game focused on solving brutal murders. Investigate crime scenes by uncovering hidden evidence, analyzing fingerprints, and testing blood samples. Identify the killer, determine the creature responsible, and solve seven thrilling cases
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Detective 22.6%, Investigation 17.4%, Crime 15%, Mystery 10.4%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Investigation 13.2%, Crime 13.1%, Detective 12.4%, Cinematic 11.3%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 20.7%, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Point & Click 10%, Crime 8.6%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Detective 17.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Cinematic 9.2%
'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: Noir 17.7%, Detective 15.1%, Point & Click 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Mystery 7.8%
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: Investigation 20.2%, Detective 18.9%, Noir 10.9%, Mystery 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Noir 23.3%, Crime 18.1%, Investigation 10.3%, Cinematic 7.3%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Detective 13.6%, Investigation 10.3%, Crime 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Detective 16.1%, Comic Book 11%, Investigation 11%, Cinematic 10.9%
Investigate a replayable Hollywood murder mystery where everyone has something to hide. Question guests, uncover contradictions, and identify the killer before they escape justice.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Crime 16.4%, Investigation 16%, Noir 12.6%, Mystery 10.3%
You are a detective about to enter the island where the crime of the century happened. Disturbing crimes were hidden behind power and influence. Explore, collect evidence, connect clues, and expose the truth that real monsters are never supernatural, they are people protected by power.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Detective 15.3%, Crime 13.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Cinematic 8.6%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 15.3%, Detective 15.1%, Crime 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Point & Click 7.9%
A point-and-click mystery game. Search for the truth in 26 days, playing as two different characters, in a town during 1907.
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Detective 14.7%, Crime 13.1%, Investigation 12.9%, Point & Click 12.7%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Noir 16.6%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 7.9%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Noir 16.2%, Detective 13.2%, Crime 13.1%, Investigation 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
