60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Crime, Investigation, Story Rich.
An adventure mystery game set in the world of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.A game for people who:Like to solve mysteriesEnjoy exploring beautiful pixel art environmentsWant their dialogue choices and moral decisions to matterAre fans of Les Mis!
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Dark City Trouble Nights
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Crime 16.6%, Investigation 15.6%, Historical 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Crime 23%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Crime 20.8%, Detective 18.8%, Historical 18.2%, Investigation 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
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: Crime 17.3%, Detective 15.6%, Historical 15.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.
Why similar: Crime 30.7%, Detective 17.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Historical 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Crime 22.4%, Detective 19.8%, Historical 18.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Crime 21.7%, Investigation 14.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%, RPG 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: Crime 19%, Detective 17%, Investigation 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Detective 21.3%, Crime 19.1%, Historical 11.9%, Choices Matter 6.9%
Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...
Why similar: Crime 31.4%, Detective 19.7%, Historical 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.
Why similar: Crime 31.1%, Investigation 25.1%, Detective 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10%
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Why similar: Detective 37.5%, Crime 24.6%, Investigation 19.6%, Historical 7.9%, Puzzle 5.8%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Crime 21%, Investigation 17.9%, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Slip into the role of a detective and find out why a seemingly peaceful village suddenly has to hold a funeral every other day. To solve the mysteries, act as the perpetrator and simulate the crimes. Left completely to your own devices, it’s up to you to prove your ingenuity and wit.
Why similar: Crime 30.4%, Detective 24.9%, Investigation 19.9%, Philosophical 13%, Puzzle 6.1%
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Why similar: Crime 19.4%, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 17.1%, Historical 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Crime 21%, Detective 20.9%, Investigation 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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: Crime 19.5%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Detective 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
Danse Macabre: A Revolutionary AI-Powered Text RPG - Immerse Yourself in a World of Intrigue, Deceit, and MysteryEmbrace the Future of Gaming with the World's First AI-driven RPG - Available Now for FREE on Early Access!
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Historical 17.7%, Crime 16.6%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 20.1%, Crime 16.3%, Historical 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 25.6%, Investigation 20.7%, Detective 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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: Historical 21%, Investigation 19.9%, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 19.4%, Crime 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Crime 24.3%, Detective 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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: Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Emotional 10.4%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Crime 21.1%, Detective 18.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Crime 17.9%, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Emotional 9.7%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: Crime 25.8%, Detective 21.5%, Investigation 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Detective Trent is a narrative-driven mystery game inspired by Trent’s Last Case. Investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and uncover the truth through evidence and dialogue. Your reasoning shapes the case, leading to multiple outcomes and endings.
Why similar: Crime 24.7%, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.1%
DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.
Why similar: Crime 31.5%, Detective 25.7%, Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.3%
The Lawyer - Episode 1: The White Bag is the first part of an episodic adventure game which combines gripping crime story with classic courtroom drama. Immerse yourself into a world set in early 90’s in which you gather (or fabricate!) evidence, deduct and run fierce courtroom battles.
Why similar: Crime 19.8%, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
《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 27%, Historical 20.9%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Puzzle 8.7%
An oriental narrative mystery. The story branches upon your choices. The dice lies.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Historical 18.3%, Investigation 13.7%, CRPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 8%
EXCALIMURDER is a nonlinear murder mystery game inspired by the sword in the stone legend. Explore an orphanage, meet weird people and solve logic puzzles, all in a colorful pixel art world. Bonus: Excalibur is the murder weapon.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Crime 20.3%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
The Wolf is Dead is a murder mystery game. When the Big Bad Wolf is found murdered at a party for his biopic, you're called in. Interrogate suspects, investigate the scene of the crime and use this to travel back in time and reconstruct the events of the evening. Who killed Alexander Wolff?
Why similar: Crime 29.8%, Detective 27.2%, Investigation 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 21.5%, Detective 18.6%, Historical 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
[DEMO available now!] Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried?As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past.
Why similar: Detective 28.6%, Crime 26.4%, Investigation 26.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Puzzle 6.5%
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Investigation 22%, Philosophical 15.8%, Gothic 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
The Mona Lisa is missing! Sleuth through a sprawling space museum, read the past through psychic abilities and unravel an interstellar art caper in this cosy, gas‑lamp mystery.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Investigation 21.6%, Philosophical 21.1%, Historical 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Crime 20.4%, Investigation 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
A logical puzzle game where timing and planning matter. Guide Luna through a cursed labyrinth using candlelight and echoes of past attempts to reach the Eternal Flame. Solve layered challenges and uncover meaning in every flicker of hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Philosophical 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline during the cold war on a globe-trotting adventure following a trail of spies from a quiet English harbour town to a frozen Finnish fishing village and the corridors of an intelligence service rotten at its core.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 20.4%, Crime 18.9%, Historical 14.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Historical 16.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Crime 16.2%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Crime 22.5%, Investigation 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
DETECTIVE Minerva Case is a crime deduction and solving game, with an adult and original story. Visit the crime scene, look for all the evidence and understand what happened.
Why similar: Crime 24.4%, Detective 20.4%, Investigation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Philosophical 11.9%
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Crime 25.4%, Investigation 18.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Emotional 7.1%
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: Crime 25%, Detective 22.4%, Investigation 21.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
In a Detective's Mind is an investigation game that seeks to put you in the role of a detective, who needs to solve cases and deal with obscure problems from his past.
Why similar: Detective 36.7%, Investigation 29.4%, Crime 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, 2D 3.7%
Solve online cases with 2–6 players: investigate scenes, track leads, compare notes, and piece together the truth in Red Chair where misdirection is real, but evidence wins.
Why similar: Crime 25.8%, Detective 22.5%, Investigation 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%, Puzzle 7.2%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Crime 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 14.7%, Investigation 13.3%
Become a Crime Scene Investigator, gather evidence, and connect not obvious facts which will lead you to solve the crime and find the guilty! Don't let criminals get more innocent victims!
Why similar: Crime 29.5%, Detective 22%, Investigation 20.8%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 19.5%, Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Crime 28.1%, Detective 24.8%, Investigation 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Puzzle 5.2%
When Sirens Fall Silent is a dark psychological thriller set in 1990s Italy. Play as Mila, a troubled policewoman drawn into a high-profile case of kidnappings and murders. As the case unravels you must not only save her from herself, but from being swallowed by a vortex of violence and confusion.
Why similar: Crime 23.3%, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 16.3%, Philosophical 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%
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: Detective 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Crime 14.7%, Puzzle 9%
Put on your gloves and enter the crime scene. In this investigation simulator, you will have to solve 9 unique and independent cases full of plot twists. Use drones, robots, and chemical analysis to discover what really happened. Here, you don't shoot the bad guys; you catch them with science.
Why similar: Crime 28.8%, Investigation 22.4%, Detective 18.2%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: Crime 26.9%, Detective 23.2%, Investigation 21.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Crime 28.9%, Detective 22.9%, Investigation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Puzzle 8.1%
