60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel.
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
K-Drama Game 1
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
LaurEli & the Blood Dipped Manor
An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 10.2%, Exploration 8.8%
An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Detective 9.4%, Exploration 8%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%
You wake on the last train at an unfamiliar terminus. Only one app opens on your phone: Orange Wiki, a guide to this place, its entities, and your escape. Explore, compare clues with wiki entries, and find a way out in this first-person horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Puzzle 9%, Lore-Rich 8.7%, Exploration 8.2%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Detective 13.8%, Lore-Rich 9%, Investigation 8.9%
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 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 13.1%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Exploration 10.5%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Detective 16.7%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Exploration 9.4%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Investigation 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
Talk Insomnia is a visual novel that blends suspenseful weird tales with mixology. You play as Ming, a bookstore staff member who prepares drinks for guests during the day and delves into their stories at night. With the warmth of a single drink, you draw out the secrets buried deep in their hearts.
Why similar: Detective 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10%, Logic 9.9%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Exploration 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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Detective 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Investigation 10.8%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Exploration 7.7%
《影视界》是一款兼具视觉小说、冒险、探索、悬疑和剧情元素的独特游戏体验。在这个神秘的世界中，每个场景都有多个NPC实时演绎剧情，而玩家需要精明地选择观察哪一部分剧情。通过掌握有限的信息或不断重复游玩，以不同视角审视事件，玩家将逐渐理解每个角色的行为轨迹和动机，最终破解一切的谜团。 在《影视界》中，您将扮演局外人的角色，以上帝视角观察并影响这个充满悬念和挑战的世界。选择不同的视角会对剧情有着不同的理解。准备好挑战自己的观察力、推理能力，探索这个引人入胜的冒险世界，揭示隐藏在每个角色之间的秘密，解开这个充满谜团的世界的终极真相。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Surreal 8%, Investigation 7.8%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Investigation 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Surreal 9.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 8.2%, Puzzle 7.4%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
雪山ペンションで起こる殺人事件を阻止するため、 聞き込みとパソコンで情報整理するマルチエンドミステリーADV『夜明けの影法師』！
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Logic 10%, Detective 9.2%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Investigation 12%, Female Protagonist 11.7%
The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 13.7%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Lore-Rich 9.2%, Exploration 7.7%
Uncover the secrets of Arkham in a dark cosmic horror adventure. Solve puzzles, cross hidden dimensions, and use the Eye of Kadath to reveal the impossible. Knowledge comes at a price... are you willing to pay it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Logic 9%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Detective 18.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Investigation 7.3%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Detective 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Investigation 12.2%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Puzzle 8.7%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Detective 11.2%, Investigation 6.8%
Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Detective 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Surreal 10%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Detective 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Lore-Rich 11%, Investigation 10%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A sculptor is confined in a monastery asylum.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Surreal 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 10.2%
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.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Detective 11.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
We are born, live through countless choices, and in the end, we die. Because death is not a choice, what you're given is the path, not its end. The ending is already written. Will you uncover the truth, or pretend not to know? REFORI: a mystery adventure where your choices shift the perspective.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Detective 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.7%
Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
《迷渡桥》是一款水墨风格的国风悬疑推理游戏，你将扮演牵涉谋逆的罪臣后人宁不移，背负着家族十年的冤屈，在弥留之际踏上迷渡桥，换一个查明真相的机会。调查一桩桩离奇命案，窥见朝堂内的暗流涌动。当迷雾散尽，揭开深埋于王朝的骇人秘密......
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 8.4%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
Dive into an enigmatic world, solve captivating puzzles, and unravel the mysteries of an endless dream. Reconstruct a fragmented life as the line between reality and illusion blurs. Challenge your mind and uncover the hidden truth in a gripping adventure that will leave you amazed!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Surreal 9.9%, Exploration 8.4%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Investigation 9.4%
Rediscover the clockpunk universe of Benoît Sokal in this fully remastered version of the first Syberia game. Join Kate Walker and Oscar, a strange and charming automaton, in pursuit of the brilliant inventor Hans Voralberg, and embark on an adventure more immersive and poetic than ever.
Why similar: Detective 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Exploration 8.9%
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 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.4%
As a weird detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Investigation 10.2%, Exploration 6.5%
Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets. Break them with words or evidence — or realize too late that you were only a pawn in their game. A detective game built around truly lifelike NPCs.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Exploration 10.4%
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is a first-person point-and-click adventure inspired by Welsh mythology, focused on investigation, puzzles, and a dark, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Detective 15%, Female Protagonist 10%, Exploration 8.3%, Puzzle 7.6%
Seventy-eight years after the Great Collapse, the city of Belmarc stands as a beacon of civilization amid the ruins. A city where magic and technology intertwine, where humans and machines coexist. And in its depths, one Courier begins to chase the forgotten sins of the past.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Investigation 10.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
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.
Why similar: Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Surreal 10.4%
本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Mystery 9.2%
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Surreal 12.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Detective 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Investigation 9.8%
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 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Investigation 8.2%, Mystery 7.8%
A choose-your-own-adventure horror game about using the memories of the dead to scavenge lost civilisations.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Exploration 8.7%
"Whispering Eclipsia is a gripping first-person psychological horror detective game. Step into the shoes of Inspector Keshav to solve a series of ritualistic murders, survive reality-bending loops, and uncover the dark secrets lurking in the shadows of Woodslane."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Detective 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
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: Visual Novel 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Detective 12.1%
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 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 11.6%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Surreal 8.7%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Exploration 7.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Lore-Rich 11%
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 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Investigation 11.2%, Lore-Rich 8.4%
