60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich, 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!
Expelled!
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.
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: Cozy 14.8%, Conversation 14.5%, Detective 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Investigation 9.7%
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: Conversation 15%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Detective 8.4%, Historical 8.4%
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: Conversation 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Detective 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%
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 17%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Conversation 8.8%
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: Conversation 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Life Sim 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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: Conversation 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Conversation 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 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: Conversation 14.3%, Historical 11.5%, Detective 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Cozy 14.8%, Historical 13.6%, Investigation 11.9%, Conversation 11.9%, Detective 11.8%
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+ 17.9%, Conversation 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Conversation 17.2%, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 11.4%, Mystery 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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: LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Mystery 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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+ 17.2%, Conversation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Overcome your past and become someone new in Truer than You. A choice-driven narrative adventure about love, loss and being lost in life. You're hired as a gig-working actor to play roles in real-life situations. Have conversations, get a good rating and follow the rules. All good?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Conversation 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Investigation 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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: Conversation 16.8%, Historical 14%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Detective 9.4%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Conversation 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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 16.8%, Conversation 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Mystery 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Historical 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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: Conversation 22%, Life Sim 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%
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 20.8%, Conversation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Conversation 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 18.7%, Investigation 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
《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 17.5%, Historical 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Mystery 10.4%
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 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Detective 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
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+ 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Conversation 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
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 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Investigation 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Mystery 10.1%
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: Visual Novel 12.8%, Conversation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Mystery 9.5%, Detective 9.4%
Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.
Why similar: Conversation 18.6%, Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 17.3%, Conversation 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 22.5%, Life Sim 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Investigation 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%
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 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Odesa, 1929. A woman wakes up. This will be her last morning. An all-powerful film camera forces her to watch her life again. Can she find what was missing? A very short choose-your-own-adventure based on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Conversation 13.2%, Historical 12.3%
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+ 19.5%, Historical 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Conversation 11%, Mystery 9.2%
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Life Sim 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 15.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Cozy 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Conversation 12%
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: Conversation 19.5%, Life Sim 15.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
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+ 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Life Sim 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Conversation 9.3%
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 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Conversation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Mystery 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 15%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A Week in Paradise is an interactive narrative mystery. Discover the unusual circumstances of your arrival to a bar called Paradise, and drink through the night with the bar's charismatic regular. Each night, unravel the threads holding back memories in your dreams.
Why similar: Conversation 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 10.2%
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: Conversation 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
Live the life of a Monster within a society of fantastic creatures. Hunt for food, make friends and allies, and battle your own instincts in order to rise above your humble origins in the sequel to the best-selling Monster Loves You!
Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Conversation 16.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
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+ 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
『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: Conversation 26.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Detective 12.8%
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 12.2%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
“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+ 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Conversation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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: Conversation 15.7%, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 14.2%, Life Sim 10.8%, Choices Matter 10%
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: Conversation 16.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 16.2%, Investigation 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 16.6%, Conversation 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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: Investigation 15.3%, Conversation 15%, Detective 13.6%, Historical 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10%
