- #1 Misadventures of Laura Silver
97% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Comic Book 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Point & Click 12.2%, Detective 11.8%
- #2 Expelled!
96% matchVery Positive95% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
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: Comic Book 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Detective 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #3 A Bad Christmas Story
96% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: S&J Games
Windows · Mac
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Detective 15.6%, Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Point & Click 10.6%
- #4 One Night: Burlesque
95% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.3%, Comic Book 11.7%, Detective 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #5 Overboard!
94% matchVery Positive90% of 652 reviews2021
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Comic Book 11.4%
- #6 Major's Heart
94% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Dormouse
Windows
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Point & Click 20.4%, Detective 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Adventure 6.6%
- #7 Death Trick: Double Blind
93% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: Citreat StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Point & Click 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13%
- #8 Morth
92% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Crawlspace Studios
Windows
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: Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Point & Click 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%
- #9 The Princess and the Porcupine
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Small is Beautiful Studio inc.
Windows
First the King’s sheeps then the King himself! Everyone seems to be mysteriously disappearing lately. As the King’s intrepid daughter, and with the help of a strange talking porcupine, travel through the kingdom and interrogate your subjects to solve the mysterious disappearances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Point & Click 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Detective 13%, Adventure 5.6%
- #10 Pararecords
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 6th Sense GamesPub: Kodansha
Windows · Mac
As a counselor in a mysterious facility, you are to examine children with strange powers and fill in their "Paranormal Records". In this story-based, choice-driven game, you will have to pry open your subjects' minds... but what you find inside them could prove dangerous.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Point & Click 17.7%, Horror 8.7%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #11 Duppy Detective Tashia
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spritewrench
Windows
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #12 A Sketchbook About Her Sun
89% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Comic Book 17.6%, Point & Click 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Female Protagonist 12.5%
- #13 Hauma - A Detective Noir Story - Prologue
89% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: SenAm GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.2%, Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Point & Click 11.6%
- #14 Leviathan: An Interactive Comic Book
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
A seaside village – and a monstrous threat. Explore as you choose, by day or by night. Can you unravel the secrets of history and defeat the Leviathan? A choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Comic Book 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #15 Night Errand
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Lantern Studio
Windows
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 19.8%, Point & Click 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
- #16 Am I Nima
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 14%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #17 Pixel Detective: Curse of the Paintings
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NorthLightPixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short pixel-art mystery where you play as Nathan, a private investigator drawn into a curious case. Interrogate suspects, examine clues, and uncover hidden details
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Point & Click 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 7.3%
- #18 War of the Western Deep
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunsgrove Studios
Windows
Explore a lush, hand-animated world as you solve puzzles, meet intriguing characters, and duel nefarious foes in tense sword battles. Join Mirren, a royal courier sent to the dangerous Border Coast on the eve of war, and immerse yourself in this innovative mix of adventuring and cinematic combat.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Female Protagonist 11.7%
- #19 Rumor Reporter
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greyhaven Craft
Windows
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 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Point & Click 10.9%
- #20 Vulnerable
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breakpoint Games
Windows
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Comic Book 15.8%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
- #21 A Weekend Trip
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: lukepagca
Windows
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Point & Click 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 6%
- #22 Perseverance: Part 3
83% matchMostly Negative39% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Titanite NovelsPub: Feardemic
Windows
Perseverance: Part 3 is the much-awaited conclusion to the drama/horror visual novel series full of intrigue, guts, and gossip. Swap between Jack, a father trying to protect his family, and Karen, an ex-agent on the run from her troubled past, and help them form an unlikely alliance. 🧟♂️🧟♀️
Why similar: Comic Book 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #23 Isle of Maligree
81% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Gilded Rune Games
Windows · Mac
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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 7.5%
- #24 The Big Hollow: 1982
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Krams DesignPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
The Big Hollow: 1982 is a tightly focused 2D animated murder mystery. A serial killer’s dumping ground is exposed in a small truck stop town. Find details in the evidence, interpret criminal behaviors and prove your worth to the FBI’s new Behavioral Science Unit as new detective Desmond.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Point & Click 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Comic Book 15.1%, Investigation 8.1%
- #25 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
82% matchMixed64% of 154 reviews2014
Dev: Arberth StudiosPub: Meridian4
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is a first-person point-and-click adventure inspired by Welsh mythology, focused on investigation, puzzles, and a dark, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Detective 16.6%, Point & Click 15.9%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Horror 7.6%
- #26 Purrfect Tale
80% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: BadMouse
Windows · Mac
When you awake, you find yourself transported back to the time when you were a student. You find it hard to breathe under the massive study load and oppressive environment, until you meet a stray cat that manages to wriggle its way into your world by chance...
Why similar: Comic Book 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 15%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #27 Pale Flamingos
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mrs. Battle's Games
Windows
Pale Flamingos is a visual novel murder mystery with choices and a branching narrative. The year is 1986; the place, Miami. Florita and Melba, two Cuban grandmothers, are at the Miami Travel Agents' Convention where the owner of St. Neville Airways is found dead. Florita and Melba investigate.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12.8%
- #28 King of the Cul-De-Sac
79% matchVery Positive92% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: Matthew Vimislik
Windows · Mac · Linux
An Interactive Comic with PUNCHING in it.
Why similar: Comic Book 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Point & Click 18%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #29 KaRu
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Point & Click 19.1%, Choices Matter 9%, Horror 7.9%
- #30 The Last Reunion
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 제이게임즈
Windows
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Point & Click 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
- #31 Camille and Laura
77% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: BonjourBorzoi
Windows
Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Female Protagonist 7.3%, Adventure 6.8%
- #32 A Case of Missing Identity
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AwesomeTrinket
Windows
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 14.4%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
- #33 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 44,750 reviews2020
Dev: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Comic Book 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 11.6%
- #34 False Testimony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bizi Games
Windows
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Detective 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #35 Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 251 reviews2023
Dev: Veratrum
Windows · Linux
Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%
- #36 Crackernuts
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hairy Heart Games
Windows · Mac
Crackernuts is a narrative game about a goat-headed girl and her sister, a no-bodied head. They are on quest to find themselves and rescue their village from a curse of darkness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Linear 9%
- #37 イカスミポーション
73% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Nyamoli@
Windows
"イカスミ"でポーションをつくる!?怪しいポーション屋さんのイカ『スミミ』と共に、個性豊かな人外キャラクター達にポーションを売るアドベンチャーゲーム!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Point & Click 14%, Comic Book 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
- #38 Frieda is Changing
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mucks! Games
Windows · Mac
A fun-horror point & click adventure following Frieda, a 14-year-old girl, determined to uncover the mystery of her sister's disappearance. Explore an expansive village, solve puzzles, unlock memories, and discover monsters where you least expect them.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Point & Click 16%, Comic Book 15.9%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Horror 8.6%
- #39 Times and Galaxy
73% matchVery Positive91% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Copychaser GamesPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
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: Detective 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Comic Book 15.1%, Point & Click 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
- #40 Legend of Cozar
74% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Legend of Cozar is an interactive fantasy graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 possible story endings. Lead Cozar on a quest to return the Fire Stone to the Temple of Vulcan.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Comic Book 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Adventure 8.1%
- #41 Beware of the Cartographer!
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tohu Bohu Games
Windows
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 18.9%, Point & Click 18.1%, Detective 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #42 YOUR HOUSE
72% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Comic Book 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Point & Click 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #43 Big Ear Detective
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fabula Improviso
Windows · Mac
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Point & Click 18.7%, Comic Book 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #44 Operation Blackfox
72% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Operation Blackfox is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to rescue as many characters as possible. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Comic Book 24.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Adventure 8.4%
- #45 Always On
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
- #46 Spooky Crew: Mask of the Mysterium
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matt Sanderson
Windows
Join the Spooky Crew and uncover the secret of the Mask of the Mysterium in this point and click adventure game. An encounter with a masked figure leads the crew to investigate the secrets of a local museum.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Point & Click 15.9%, Detective 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
- #47 Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut
70% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Screen Savor Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Point & Click 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Detective 14.6%, Hand-drawn 6.3%
- #48 The Beyond: An Interactive Comic Book
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide. Can you find your way through the doors of the great library of the Beyond? A new choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Comic Book 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Hand-drawn 5.3%
- #49 Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness
69% matchVery Positive98% of 237 reviews2023
Dev: Zima software
Windows · Mac
Join the crazy police detective Francis in his search for a kidnapped cloned beauty and go through countless escapades with him in this classic point & click adventure full of comedy.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Comic Book 15.9%, Detective 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%
- #50 The Island: Into The Mist
71% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Point & Click 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #51 Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries
69% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Outsider Games
Windows · Linux
In 1921, young French artist Jennifer Chevalier becomes embroiled in death, espionage and revolution, assisted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde. A hand-drawn Point & Click adventure with a unique comic book inventory design.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.4%, Detective 17.6%, Comic Book 15.7%, Female Protagonist 13%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
- #52 Holy Deadline
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunday Morning Meet-up Studio
Windows
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich visual novel where you play as a demigod lawyer. You have one week to investigate the divine divorce of Adam and Eve! Flirt, drink, raise your stats and make bold choices in minigames and Heaven's drama.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 17.5%, Point & Click 16.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #53 Trick Eight
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: White Babel StudioPub: WhisperGames
Windows · Mac
On a remote village shrouded in bloody tradition, a centuries-old ritual endures. You are a detective with unique skills, yet branded as a traitor. Will you surrender your limbs to ascend like an immortal? Or risk everything at the edge of science and plunge into the abyss of truth?
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Comic Book 15%, Point & Click 13.3%, Female Protagonist 12.6%
- #54 Halloween Stories: Horror Movie Collector's Edition
68% matchPositive95% of 40 reviews2021
Dev: Elephant GamesPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows
It’s Only a Movie... Right?
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Point & Click 20.6%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Horror 10.3%, Linear 9.5%
- #55 Artificial Nexus
67% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Why similar: Point & Click 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%
- #56 It Happened Here: Streaming Lives
67% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Elephant ArPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Are you ready, detective? Step into a tale of mystery, intrigue, deceit, and murder!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 20.1%, Detective 16.6%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Linear 7.4%
- #57 Finding Fate
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Superpog ApSPub: Playtopia.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
A hidden object game following the journalist Fate, in her quest to uncover the truth and her own past.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Point & Click 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Comic Book 12.3%
- #58 The Guilty Hearts
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Singlecore Games
Windows
Seoyeon Yu, a former police officer, works as a private investigator for a rich family. However, during her investigation, she discovers evidence linking them to her husband's death. Using her ability to see people's guilt, she begins an investigation to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Point & Click 14.2%, Adventure 7.2%
- #59 Arthur & Susan: Almost Detectives
66% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Apexchimps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Arthur and Susan, two inseparable friends solving mysteries together. Fun and cozy indie point&click. Don't miss it!
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Point & Click 20.8%, Comic Book 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Investigation 7.3%
- #60 ELISSA :Body in the bedroom
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KANUE
Windows · Mac
Detective novelist MEL Gideon, whose career is facing difficulties, receives a strange letter claiming someone is in trouble and needs her help. Intrigued, she decides to investigate. As she digs deeper, she starts to realize that her past is far more complicated than she ever imagined...
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Point & Click 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Hand-drawn 6.3%