60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction.
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Best Served Cold
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Cozy 14.4%, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Investigation 9.6%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: Cozy 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Life Sim 10.6%, Visual Novel 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Investigation 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Detective 8.8%, Historical 8.7%
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Detective 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Investigation 10.2%
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Life Sim 9.3%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Mystery 10.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Historical 13.9%, Investigation 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Detective 9.3%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Historical 11.5%, Detective 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Detective 14%, Investigation 11.3%, Mystery 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Cozy 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%
After successfully leading her friends through a one-shot TTRPG campaign, part-time barista and full-time gamer Flora now faces a new challenge… How can she possibly muster up the courage to tell her DM that she likes him?!
Why similar: Life Sim 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Otome 11% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 12.8%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Balance sleuthing and romance to solve the murder of a Duke who... pretty much deserved it. Both the Empire and your love are at stake!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Mystery 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Mystery 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10%
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: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Detective 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Investigation 9.9%
You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Life Sim 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Investigation 14%, Detective 12.4%, Historical 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Horror vs. Heartfelt: You decide, when you play a teen sneaking out to hold a seance for your lost twin sister on the anniversary of her death. Lovingly handmade, this atmospheric short visual novel can be meditative or delightfully chaotic depending on how you play.
Why similar: Cozy 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Cozy 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
1 broken down car, 2 weeks in a hidden seaside town, and 7 men waiting to sweep you off your feet. Will you follow the threads of destiny in Brine Bay?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14%, Life Sim 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9%
Fishbowl is a narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Why similar: Cozy 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Investigation 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 10.1%
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Life Sim 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Detective 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Mystery 9.9%, Detective 9.8%
Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Historical 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Mystery 9.1%
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Life Sim 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
欢迎来到碗镇。这是一则虚构的现实故事，讲述了少数群体的困境和自救。碗镇的居民几乎都是是兽人，如果你仔细观察会发现，他们在历史和现实中都有自己的名字，他们的故事也似曾相识。你是偶然逃到碗镇的兽人厨师，在碗镇流动设宴款待居民，在食物与交谈之中，完成自我和居民的治愈。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Life Sim 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Resource Management 9.5%
Enter a colorful town where new stories evolve every day. What clues will you find in this mystery life-sim? Will you make new friends? Be the local trouble-maker? Spend a rainy day at your treehouse?
Why similar: Cozy 22.3%, Life Sim 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Investigation 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%
《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 18.7%, Historical 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Mystery 11%
『D.D.D. ― 災薬対策課 ―』は、2人プレイ専用の推理アドベンチャーゲームです。 ナノロボット医療が発達した近未来を舞台に、プレイヤーは特別組織〈D.D.D.〉に所属する二人の刑事となり、 違法ナノロボット《DisasterDrug》が関わる事件の真相を追います。 互いに異なる情報を持ち寄り、通話で協力しながら、事件の謎を解き明かしましょう。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 12.6%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Mystery 9.6%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Mystery 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Detective 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Historical 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Detective 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Investigation 10.4%
You play as pharaoh Horem during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. You have to balance your work and home life as the living embodiment of a god, how hard could it be? What is right and wrong? Can there be an allowance for a lapse in judgment? Can you forge a path to getting to sleep peacefully each night?
Why similar: Historical 19.4%, Investigation 17%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
《谍：玫瑰》是一款聚焦于1938年武汉的谍战文字冒险游戏。你将潜入情报漩涡中心的「玫瑰饭店」，在五位身份各异的嫌疑人中，揪出代号「尘土」的致命叛徒。通过搜证与周旋，在谎言与忠诚之间做出抉择。夜幕下的武汉暗流涌动，你能否揪出内奸，重建地下情报网，点燃象征黎明的星星火焰？
Why similar: Historical 20.5%, Detective 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Mystery 12.5%, Story Rich 9.2%
You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Investigation 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
An evidence-based detective game set in rural India. Investigate your friend's disappearance by searching crime scenes, interrogating suspects, and presenting proof to break through lies. Race against time to expose a conspiracy before the 9:45 PM train leaves.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 14%, Life Sim 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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 17.7%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Life Sim 13.2%, Detective 12.3%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A fast-paced visual novel game where you must survive the whims of a mad queen, with a unique combination of classic art scenes and cartoon people
Why similar: Life Sim 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Historical 16.3%, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Investigation 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%
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 17.6%, Investigation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Mystery 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Historical 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
