60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Mystery.
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.
Avalon Gates: 1 Million D
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
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.
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Mystery 8.4%
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: Detective 12.6%, Investigation 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Mystery 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Emotional 10%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 10%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Mystery 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 14.9%, Mystery 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Investigation 14.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
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: Detective 17%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Investigation 12%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Investigation 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Investigation 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.
Why similar: Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 10.3%
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 18%, Investigation 14.5%, Mystery 14.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.2%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Investigation 13.7%, Mystery 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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: Dialogue Heavy 15.8%, Detective 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Mystery 11.2%, Investigation 10.4%
『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: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Mystery 16.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Mystery 10.6%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 17%, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Mystery 9.4%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Investigation 10.1%
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: Detective 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 11%
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 14.3%, Emotional 11.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Mystery 10%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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 15.4%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 12.1%, Emotional 12%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Detective 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Emotional 10.4%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 20.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Mystery 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
A Japanese mystery adventure where any of the four could be the killer. Holding the dead man's will, you stay in his estate until the seventh-day memorial. Question the household across 13 locations, but you get only ten moves. Motive, opportunity and proof decide what your accusation is worth.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Mystery 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Emotional 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Emotional 9.6%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Mystery 10.7%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 17.2%, Choices Matter 17%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Detective 11.1%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Mystery 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 8%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Detective 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
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 14.1%, Mystery 12.8%, Detective 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Investigation 8.8%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Mystery 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Investigation 9.1%
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 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Mystery 12.4%, Investigation 11.6%, Story Rich 8.6%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Detective 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Modern-day Muscovite Anna awakens in the body of Countess Elizaveta Orlova. Explore the Northern Crown Academy, uncover the secrets of its mirrors, choose your allies, and decide Anna's fate in a visual novel about magic, trust, and two worlds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Mystery 9.4%
9 kids who wake up in a mysterious shelter with lost memory. Investigate the signs of intruders and murders and discuss them with your colleagues to move towards the truth! Listen to everyone's statements and use your counter-arguments to uncover the truth behind someone's lies!
Why similar: Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Mystery 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Emotional 10.7%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Mystery 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Investigation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
Mohism: Battle of Words is a detective game set in the world of wuxia. The game follows Zhang Xiaochen, investigates unsolved cases and comes into his own as a hero. He must rely on his wits and razor-sharp tongue to best his opponents, find the culprit and ensure justice prevails!
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Detective 13.4%, Investigation 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 11.3%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Mystery 8.9%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Mystery 15.1%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Columbus》 is a dark fantasy visual novel with dual male leads. Play as Weaponzzie, a nameless weapon trapped in a wealthy estate. Dialogue choices drive a branching story to 10 endings—tenderness, ruin, freedom, or downfall. Your bond with the young master is defined by you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Emotional 10.4%
Bia's sister has vanished into a desert of dunes and lagoons, where an old legend has awoken. Guided by a compass that doesn't point north, investigate the disappearances and choose carefully: every decision defines who you save.
Why similar: Mystery 23.1%, Investigation 15.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Emotional 7.7%
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 17.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Visual Novel 11%, Investigation 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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: Investigation 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Detective 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Investigation 12%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 13.2%, Emotional 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 11.6%, Investigation 10.8%
In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Mystery 15.9%, Investigation 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Story Rich 14.7%, Mystery 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9%
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.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Choices Matter 10%
