Games Like Hymer 2000

A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Why similar: Typing 36.3% ★, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Point & Click 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Hymer 2000, this game relies on a database search mechanic where players must uncover keywords to piece together a fragmented narrative.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Detective 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Story Rich 18.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Point & Click 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the investigative, text-based surveillance gameplay and the ethical weight of digging into private digital lives.

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

Why similar: Detective 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Point & Click 17.3%, Story Rich 15.2%, Puzzle 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a similar non-linear search interface that requires players to actively discover clues through keyword-based video and text analysis.

Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.

Why similar: Typing 26.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 24.7%, Detective 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Story Rich 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game is built around the core mechanic of conversing with an AI to solve mysteries, closely aligning with the primary loop of the seed game.

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Typing 25.7% ★, Text-Based 25.2%, Story Rich 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a meta-narrative experience where you interact with an AI that evolves and reacts to your choices, much like the dynamic nature of Hymer.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Typing 43.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 27.8%, Dynamic Narration 17.3% ★, First-Person 6.1%, Story Rich 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on direct, free-form text interaction with an AI, capturing the same feeling of conversing with a potentially unstable digital entity.

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.8%, Detective 22.6%, RPG 19.9%, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Story Rich 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of hacking and investigative work that rewards players for connecting disparate pieces of digital information.

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 19.7%, Story Rich 13%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends traditional text-adventure tropes with modern meta-fictional elements, creating a similar sense of unease and discovery.

No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?

Why similar: Typing 30.7% ★, Text-Based 23.3%, Detective 16%, Puzzle 8%, Story Rich 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a focused detective experience that relies on text-based puzzles and logical deduction to progress through the story.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Text-Based 61.3%, Point & Click 19.7%, Story Rich 11.8%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully uses retro computer interfaces and text-based commands to create an immersive, puzzle-heavy atmosphere.

To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.

Why similar: Typing 35.3% ★, Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Puzzle 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique language-deciphering puzzle mechanic that requires the same level of careful observation and keyword gathering as Hymer 2000.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Point & Click 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of exploring a simulated, retro-digital environment while performing investigations through a unique desktop interface.

A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?

Why similar: Typing 19.1% ★, Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Immersive Sim 15%, Detective 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on immersive investigation and logical deduction within a simulated environment, perfect for fans of the seed game's puzzle structure.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, RPG 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a fantasy world, its heavy reliance on text-based choices and gathering information makes it a strong thematic match for interactive fiction fans.

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Abstract 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the nuances of dialogue and information gathering, which is essential to the puzzle-solving experience in Hymer 2000.

Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 35.8%, Puzzle 29.5%, Story Rich 22.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game forces you to investigate a smartphone interface to uncover secrets, mirroring the intrusive, puzzle-solving nature of the seed game.

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Text-Based 30.7%, Puzzle 28.7%, Story Rich 26%, 2D 6%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It uses word-based puzzles and psychological themes to challenge the player, fitting the investigative and experimental nature of the seed.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Point & Click 38.8%, Pixel Graphics 26.4%, Story Rich 25.3%, 2D 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the voyeuristic thrill of gathering information through surveillance and text-based interactions with a simulated world.

Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

Why similar: Puzzle 23.2%, Story Rich 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Linear 16.9%, RPG 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a minimalist puzzle game that uses text as its primary visual and mechanical element, mirroring the text-based focus of Hymer 2000.

After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.

Why similar: Typing 51.3% ★, Point & Click 16.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Story Rich 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game puts you behind a virtual computer screen to solve crimes, emphasizing the same immersive desktop-interface gameplay.

DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.

Why similar: Typing 25.8% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Artificial Intelligence 18%, Dynamic Narration 12.1% ★, Visual Novel 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uses generative AI to facilitate text-based adventures, directly mirroring the AI-interaction core of the seed game.

You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Detective 22.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a simulated file system to tell its story, appealing to players who enjoy the desktop-interface style of the seed game.

Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.

Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Puzzle 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a straightforward simulation of detective work that emphasizes the gathering of clues through text and observation.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.6%, Pixel Graphics 27.4%, Story Rich 15.7%, Puzzle 15.2%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a document-based interface to create a tense, puzzle-heavy narrative where every detail matters.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 31.8%, Story Rich 27.5%, Point & Click 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Puzzle 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features deep, dialogue-heavy interactions and a cyberpunk atmosphere that complements the narrative style of Hymer 2000.

A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.

Why similar: Typing 29.3% ★, Text-Based 21.7%, Detective 19.1%, Puzzle 7.4%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This investigative game relies on word-based clues and detective work to solve mysteries in a modern setting.

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Point & Click 11%

Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?

Why similar: Typing 25.6% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Detective 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Typing 61.1% ★, Detective 22.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This terminal-based hacking simulator provides the same feeling of direct interaction with a system that the seed game offers.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Point & Click 19.2%, Story Rich 18.8%, 2D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at building a narrative through dialogue and atmosphere, providing a similar 'fly-on-the-wall' perspective on a complex digital world.

Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.

Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Incremental 17.1%, Point & Click 16.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Story Rich 12.5%

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?

Why similar: Typing 31.6% ★, Text-Based 19.4%, Detective 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Point & Click 7.8%

"Let's play a typing game." Dyping Escape is a simple game where you type according to instructions from the game master, a mysterious eyeball. But be careful; everything you type becomes reality. Just be careful not to brick your computer.

Why similar: Typing 35.8% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Story Rich 7.1%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Story Rich 21.3%, Text-Based 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of chat-based storytelling and the emotional weight of digital communication.

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Detective 22.2%, Incremental 18.7%, Puzzle 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%

This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.

Why similar: Typing 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Immersive Sim 13%, Artificial Intelligence 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%

A detective narrative puzzler without pre-set options! Raise your questions at will, and an AI-host will answer only with 'yes' or 'no.' Drive the investigation with your curiosity; the path to solving the mystery lies in questions you ask. Can you dig out the truth through your questions?

Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Typing 14.1% ★, Point & Click 12.6%

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Story Rich 9.8%

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.

Why similar: Typing 26.7% ★, Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Detective 18.5%, Story Rich 8.6%

This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Incremental 25%, Point & Click 19.6%, Puzzle 17.3%, 2D 4.5%

A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.

Why similar: Typing 25.8% ★, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

Why similar: Detective 37.4%, Puzzle 17.9%, Point & Click 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Story Rich 11.6%

Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.9%, Puzzle 20.7%, Story Rich 17.5%, Linear 16.5%, RPG 15.4%

A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Story Rich 8.4%

In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Point & Click 19.3%, Puzzle 13.5%, Story Rich 13%

Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Point & Click 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Why similar: Detective 38.2%, Puzzle 17.6%, Story Rich 16.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, RPG 6.2%

A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.

Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Visual Novel 23%, Story Rich 15.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Artificial Intelligence 10.4%

Acolyte: Prologue is the first act in a dynamic narrative detective/puzzle game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely without pre-defined dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Abstract 15.4%, Text-Based 12.2%

Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Point & Click 10.2%

Bird Game is an abstract, exploration-based RPG with unique, stylized visuals and puzzle mechanics

Why similar: Design & Illustration 42% ★, Abstract 16%, Text-Based 13.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Point & Click 12.2%, Story Rich 8.1%

The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.

Why similar: Text-Based 38%, Detective 23%, Abstract 15.6%, Puzzle 14.5%, Incremental 8.8%

The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Text-Based 28%, Visual Novel 23.1%, RPG 11.4%, Story Rich 5.9%

10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.

Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Puzzle 19.4%, Text-Based 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Point & Click 13.4%

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Point & Click 10.7%

Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 11%, Point & Click 9.7%

"Xiangsheng Simulator" is a humorous and witty adventure that takes you into the unique world of Xiangsheng. As a Xiangsheng Penggen, you'll team up with your Dougen partner to deliver a performance filled with laughter.

Why similar: Text-Based 31%, Immersive Sim 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Casual 5.9%

Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Point & Click 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 14%, Story Rich 13.1%

From a consumer of stories to a creator of them. Saga & Seeker is a "storycrafting game" where you can generate endless tales with your favorite characters. The words you write become a part of the story itself in this immersive entertainment experience powered by your imagination.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 8.9%