Games Like Haunted Record

As Lia, follow the gripping final investigation of your reporter stepdad to uncover buried secrets in this supernatural mystery where every choice can not only change the world, but also the powers within you.

Why similar: Supernatural 20.8%, Investigation 17.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Cinematic 9.4%, Adventure 7.6%

Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.

Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Supernatural 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 11.8%

The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.

Why similar: Supernatural 19.1%, Investigation 19%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.9%

Awaken in a ruined world with no memory. A second chance to redeem yourself, but survival is a daily challenge. Aid survivors, manage madness with a black cat's help, and uncover your true purpose.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Cinematic 13.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Third Person 7.2%

Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.

Why similar: Investigation 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Cinematic 14.2%, Exploration 7.5%, Mystery 6.8%

A cinematic point-and-click adventure where you step into the shoes of photographer Charlotte Gray as she explores the abandoned camp of Deer Creek and uncovers the tragedy that befell the camp and its people.

Why similar: Supernatural 20.7%, Investigation 15.4%, Cinematic 12.9%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%

Bia's sister has vanished into a desert of dunes and lagoons, where an old legend has awoken. Guided by a compass that doesn't point north, investigate the disappearances and choose carefully: every decision defines who you save.

Why similar: Mystery 23.2%, Investigation 22.6%, Supernatural 15.3%, Third Person 6.9%, Adventure 6.5%

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 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Investigation 16.6%, Supernatural 12.3%, Adventure 9.3%

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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Supernatural 14.9%, Investigation 13.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

Wander the halls of an eerie 1920s mansion as haunting visions torment you and the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Step into the role of grieving widow Eleanor Hartfield and uncover the chilling truth behind your husband’s mysterious death.

Why similar: Supernatural 25.5%, Mystery 18.2%, Cinematic 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Exploration 7.9%

Welcome to Woodside, a haunting survival horror adventure. Explore, investigate and survive as Grace, confronting supernatural terrors that plague a seemingly quaint British village. Experience dynamic horror as spirits react to the way you play. Can you find the truth before it's too late?

Why similar: Supernatural 27.5%, Investigation 26.5%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Mystery 12%, Exploration 5.2%

Don't Turn Back is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game. You play Bethany, A young woman who has just inherited her grandfather's mansion. Get immersed in the deeply emotional story of Bethany's family, and experience everything there is inside this home...good and evil.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Investigation 17.1%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Mystery 8.6%

Your job: An old mansion, a mysterious letter, a box of old memorabilia. Explore the present and past to uncover the secrets of the extraordinary family that lived here. Remember a time long gone as you set foot in this late 1990s-inspired mystery with intricate puzzles and eccentric characters.

Why similar: Investigation 22%, Supernatural 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Mystery 12.9%, Third Person 6.7%

A choose-your-own-adventure horror game about using the memories of the dead to scavenge lost civilisations.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Supernatural 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Investigation 13.6%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.

Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Cinematic 13.1%, Mystery 9.6%

Clara is doing everything she can to stay emotionally stable. But something is hunting her, and every place seems to know what she still refuses to understand. Explore places filled with whispers, gather the fragments and roll your d20s to help Clara find a way out.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Third Person 10.6%, Adventure 9.9%

Play as Maya, an aspiring urban explorer, and unravel the truth behind every rumor and myth that haunts every dark corner. Traverse the shadows, survive the horrors, and keep your sanity intact as you uncover the secrets buried within.

Why similar: Supernatural 23.4%, Investigation 21.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Third Person 10.6%

A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?

Why similar: Investigation 26.4%, Supernatural 20.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Exploration 6%

Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?

Why similar: Investigation 27%, Supernatural 25.2%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%

Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.

Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Supernatural 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Mystery 10.8%

Regret has chased Lilith across the years… but a chance to escape is within reach. Drawn in by a message from your estranged daughter, you must reshape reality with a mystical Film Reel to solve a mass vanishing. To erase your guilt, you'll decide what… and who… to leave on the cutting room floor.

Why similar: Supernatural 29.8%, Investigation 17.8%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Female Protagonist 8.1%

You’ve come to visit a friend you haven’t seen in years. 305 is unlocked, but no one is home. When you try to leave, the apartment building changes. Find a way out.

Why similar: Supernatural 22%, Investigation 20.5%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.6%

Step into the unsettling world of The Blackwood Legacy, a first-person puzzle horror game set in the eerie halls of Blackwood Manor. Solve intricate puzzles, unveil long-held secrets, and decipher the mystery surrounding your father's disappearance.

Why similar: Supernatural 31.1%, Mystery 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Investigation 8.5%, Stylized 8.4%

An adventure visual novel following an unlucky trio who find themselves hunting monsters for the powerful being known as Kurokami-sama.

Why similar: Supernatural 26.1%, Investigation 23%, Mystery 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

Immerse yourself in a fairy tale, where your actions shape the story! Become a princess, navigate the murky political landscape, forge an alliance with the Fae, or turn your back on them. Make decisions that could save your kingdom, or destroy it if you misjudge the circumstances.

Why similar: Cinematic 18.7%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Mystery 12.7%, Investigation 11.8%, Third Person 11.7%

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: Investigation 20.6%, Mystery 15.6%, Cinematic 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%

The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Cinematic 15.5%, Supernatural 14.8%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Mystery 8.9%

Scour is a third-person cleaning simulator set in a dilapidated Victorian mansion, where routine tasks reveal a ruinous past for this grieving home. Scour challenges the player to brighten this home while delving into its darkest secrets.

Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Third Person 14.2%, Mystery 9.9%

A Cambodian-American family becomes haunted by a ghost. Enjoy this story-driven narrative as the haunting unfolds. Inspired by horror movies in the late 2000s-2010s.

Why similar: Supernatural 25.5%, Investigation 20%, Cinematic 14.4%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.

Why similar: Investigation 24.5%, Mystery 17.9%, Supernatural 13.9%, Cinematic 13.5%, Exploration 7.2%

What traps us is not time, but our faith in it.

Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Mystery 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Cinematic 10%

17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.

Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Cinematic 12.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11%

Alone in a dark castle, you must find a way to escape. You will have to explore the castle grounds, find keys, solve puzzles, and if push comes to shove, you will have to use your gun. Be careful however. Your gun only fires one bullet at a time.

Why similar: Investigation 32.1%, Mystery 17.4%, Supernatural 14.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%

The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.

Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Supernatural 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 12.1%

Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Mystery 9.2%, Third Person 9.1%

A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.

Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Cinematic 14.6%, Supernatural 11.8%

Play as an adventurer, along side your companion, and uncover a dark secret within the most haunted castle in Ireland. This is a third person mystery adventure and the first installment of a larger series.

Why similar: Supernatural 22.4%, Investigation 16.7%, Cinematic 13.8%, Mystery 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%

Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

Why similar: Investigation 19.3%, Supernatural 18.5%, Mystery 13.2%, Cinematic 12%, Female Protagonist 11.9%

Dark Observations is a first person bodycam horror game where every discovery gives the darkness in the house more power. Search a decaying mansion, recover lost evidence, and uncover the truth behind a growing paranormal threat.

Why similar: Investigation 30%, Supernatural 20.5%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Cinematic 8.7%

‘SOMBRAS: negative frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.

Why similar: Supernatural 28.3%, Investigation 17.8%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Adventure 7.2%, Exploration 5.9%

Witness the resurrection of the foretold nemesis of the Jurnal Risa family, which was never revealed before. Unveil its dark destiny within this horror-adventure game. This is all about family. Tale of Jurnal Risa, as recounted to me by Risa herself.

Why similar: Supernatural 23%, Investigation 21.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.2%

Mystiques is an adventure mystery game about the four worst women you've ever met running a failing antique store. Also, it is haunted.

Why similar: Investigation 22.8%, Supernatural 18%, Mystery 14.8%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Third Person 6.3%

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: Supernatural 19.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 15.6%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%

An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.

Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Cinematic 14%, Mystery 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Explore a dark & unknown Venice in this point-and-click adventure. Your goal? Find a way to reunite your soul & body. Gather information & solve puzzles in your spectral form to make your way into this world despite the shenanigans of a troublesome demon!

Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Supernatural 12%, Mystery 9.3%

Explore an alien world alongside an enigmatic companion. Follow the threads of a lost expedition while unravelling your own forgotten past. A mystery-driven adventure where knowledge is your greatest tool as you investigate interconnected ecosystems and gradually understand their rules.

Why similar: Investigation 34.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Third Person 8.2%, Adventure 7.6%

COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Investigation 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Cinematic 15.9%, Mystery 13.1%

You are the winter caretaker of a seaside hotel nobody visits between October and March. The owner's rules are pinned above the desk: no guests, no exceptions. Then somebody knocks — off the last bus, in the rain, with cash and no booking. You decide who gets a key, and which room.

Why similar: Supernatural 24.5%, Investigation 22.8%, Mystery 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

ChangelingVR is a virtual reality first-person interactive mystery. Enter the thoughts of each one you touch: A different memory, a different world, a different story.

Why similar: Supernatural 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Investigation 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

You play as Audrey, who has just inherited a mansion from an uncle she never met. Step inside and explore the mansion to unveil the story of what happened to your uncle Otto, his butler, and this kinda creepy place. 😬

Why similar: Investigation 34.2%, Mystery 21.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Third Person 9.5%

In the 1930's, Samuel, a man with occult beliefs is contacted by S. Stenfield, an elderly man desperate for the suicide of Alice, his daughter. Through a voodoo ritual, Samuel enters a world that only the dead can access. There he will try to recover Alice's soul... But nothing is what it seems.

Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Cinematic 18.8%, Supernatural 14.2%, Mystery 11%

A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Mystery 12.8%, Investigation 8.1%, Emotional 7.9%

Use your wits and iconic ghost hunting equipment to uncover the mystery of what happened to the residents of an abandoned apartment complex in this narrative-driven horror experience.

Why similar: Supernatural 27.4%, Investigation 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Mystery 15.3%, Emotional 8.3%

A narrative ASMR adventure about a supernatural barbershop in late 70s Barcelona. Trim and style your supernatural clientele, gain their trust, and uncover their darkest secrets.

Why similar: Supernatural 25.1%, Investigation 21.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Cinematic 8.9%

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: Investigation 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Mystery 13%, Cinematic 11.7%, Supernatural 10.6%

In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.

Why similar: Investigation 25.3%, Mystery 18.5%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Third Person 7.7%

Lones is a single-player adventure. Leave stress behind and live off-grid in the Canadian woods. Investigate and uncover the truth behind a mysterious and peculiar shadow.

Why similar: Investigation 28.6%, Mystery 18.6%, Cinematic 16.7%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 7.5%

Olivia Herrera's closest friend Kyle went missing at a frat house two years ago. A party at that frat house is her chance to investigate what happened to him, and get to the bottom of a strange connection she shares with her former group of friends.

Why similar: Investigation 22%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Cinematic 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Investigation 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Mystery 10.4%

We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.

Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Emotional 7.9%