60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Investigation, Crime, 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 16.8%, Crime 16.5%, Investigation 15.6%, Historical 13.3%, 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 22.7%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 13.4%, 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 20.6%, Detective 18.9%, Historical 18.3%, Investigation 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
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 17.2%, Detective 15.7%, Historical 15.4%, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Crime 21.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 30.4%, Detective 17.6%, Investigation 13.1%, Historical 13%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 14.2%, Philosophical 13.6%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Crime 19.6%, Investigation 18.9%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
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 22.2%, Detective 19.9%, Historical 18.4%, Investigation 18.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 21.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, RPG 10.1%
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 21.8%, Detective 21.5%, Crime 18.9%, Historical 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
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%, Investigation 26.7%, Detective 15%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
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 31.2%, Detective 19.8%, Historical 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 19.8%, Detective 18%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 37.7%, Crime 24.3%, Investigation 19.5%, Historical 8%, 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 20.9%, Investigation 17.9%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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%, Detective 25%, Investigation 19.8%, Philosophical 13.1%, Puzzle 6.2%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Crime 18.4%, Historical 15.7%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
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 19.2%, Detective 17.8%, Investigation 17%, Historical 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 16.7%, Historical 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Philosophical 12.3%, Investigation 9.6%
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: Detective 21%, Crime 20.8%, Investigation 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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 19.3%, Investigation 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
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: Historical 17.9%, Investigation 17.8%, Crime 16.4%, Detective 12.1%, 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 21%, Investigation 20.1%, Crime 16.1%, Historical 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
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 25.4%, Investigation 20.7%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 21.2%, Investigation 19.9%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
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 20.1%, Investigation 19.4%, Crime 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 18.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Emotional 10.4%
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Historical 25.3%, Detective 22.7%, Investigation 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, RPG 7.4%
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 24.1%, Detective 21%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 19.3%, Crime 17.8%, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Emotional 9.7%
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 20.9%, Detective 18.9%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 20.7%, Detective 17.2%, Investigation 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: Crime 25.7%, Detective 21.6%, Investigation 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Investigation 21.3%, Crime 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
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 31.3%, Detective 25.9%, Investigation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.3%
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 24.5%, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7%
A story-driven deduction game set in Okayama, Japan, where everyone has an answer—but you need evidence. Examine evidence and records, cross-reference witness accounts, reconstruct timelines, and separate plausible theories from provable facts across six murder investigations.
Why similar: Crime 31.8%, Detective 28.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Puzzle 9.3%
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 21.5%, Detective 18.6%, Historical 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
《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 21%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Puzzle 8.8%
Many people dream of visiting London, but few ever stop to think about what would happen if they lost all their money in a foreign country. Unfortunately, Max's friend not only finds himself without any cash, but also discovers that it has been replaced with counterfeit banknotes.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, CRPG 18.8%, Investigation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, RPG 8.7%
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 22.5%, Crime 20.1%, 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 29.6%, Detective 27.4%, Investigation 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Puzzle 8.6%
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Historical 19.5%, Investigation 14.2%, CRPG 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
Why similar: Crime 20.9%, Investigation 15.9%, Historical 15.7%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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: Crime 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 14.7%
[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 28.8%, Crime 26.2%, Investigation 26.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Puzzle 6.6%
Do you believe that parallel worlds really exist? An ordinary college student, Chen Chou, wakes up one day to find himself transported aboard a space research vessel. The strangers on the ship all claim to know him. Could it be that he has crossed over into a parallel world...
Why similar: Crime 31.3%, Detective 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Puzzle 7.9%, RPG 7.2%
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 16%, Gothic 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Crime 23.2%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Investigation 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
A bizarre murder breaks the peace of Jin Xiao Apartment. As the new night guard, your only tools are the surveillance cameras and the residents' passing words. Everyone here has a secret. The truth is hidden between your screens and your deduction notes.
Why similar: Crime 22.7%, Detective 18.3%, Investigation 16.9%, CRPG 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
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: Crime 21.5%, Detective 16.6%, Historical 16.2%, Investigation 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Historical 27.1%, Detective 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Crime 26.9%, Investigation 23.5%, Puzzle 7%, Interactive Fiction 6.3%
A 3D psychological detective thriller in a radical film noir style. Explore immersive environments, examine clues from every angle, and connect your evidence on a deduction board to solve a dark conspiracy. Use your pure logic to untangle the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Crime 21.3%, Investigation 20.3%, Historical 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 21.2%, Investigation 20.3%, Crime 18.7%, Historical 14.3%, Immersive Sim 8.9%
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 23%, Crime 22.3%, Investigation 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
