60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Detective, Story Rich, Mystery.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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An interrogation adventure where you play as the lead detective. Exploit suspects’ weaknesses, shake their resolve, and force the truth out of them. Use the weaknesses of a cast of unique suspects to uncover the truth behind the case.
Accident Investigator Simulator: Black Box
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
An interrogation adventure where you play as the lead detective. Exploit suspects’ weaknesses, shake their resolve, and force the truth out of them. Use the weaknesses of a cast of unique suspects to uncover the truth behind the case.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Modern 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 8.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 10.9%, Noir 10.5%, Text-Based 10.5%
Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Mystery 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 10%
No choices but deduction. No game over. No multiple endings. A mystery "novel" adventure you can play with the same focus as reading a detective novel. Defy the sun with twenty-six bullets—even if the revolution of the heavenly spheres cannot be stopped.
Why similar: Modern 21%, Detective 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 11.9%
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 23.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Mystery 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 10.6%
A branching detective mystery. Evidence never lies. But your interpretation might. Your choices shape the truth— and what you uncover may reflect yourself.
Why similar: Modern 21.8%, Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Detective 16.2%, Noir 13%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Investigation 7.7%
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 27.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Mystery 15.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Investigation 9%
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 26%, Mystery 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Investigation 12.1%, Logic 10.6%
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 25.9%, Visual Novel 19%, Mystery 12.6%, Investigation 11.6%, Text-Based 7.9%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 26.9%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Investigation 11.8%, Mystery 10.9%, Text-Based 8.8%
A storm-lashed island, a nursery rhyme that foretells death, seven prodigies, serial murders, modern locked-room mysteries, classic locked-room mysteries, astrology, a jigsaw of flesh and blood, a survivor—and one lie told only so you would see this story.
Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Mystery 13.3%, Modern 13.1%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 28.1%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Investigation 12.4%, Mystery 7.9%
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Investigation 11.1%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Investigation 9.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Noir 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 22.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 13.5%, Text-Based 11.4%, Investigation 10.8%
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 22.9%, Investigation 13%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 12.2%, Text-Based 10.4%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Investigation 10.9%, Text-Based 10.6%
A mystery visual novel set in a fading secondhand bookshop. Five childhood friends confront small-town scandals armed only with what they've read — drawing on the themes of unrelated books to unsettle the things people won't admit. 15 cases, 5–10 minutes each.
Why similar: Modern 24.8%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Detective 17.2%, Mystery 12.6%, Investigation 12%
Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.
Why similar: Mystery 20.6%, Detective 19%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Modern 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Mystery 12.1%, Text-Based 8.4%
The greatest detective in São Paolo is dead, and you are the prime suspect in his death. Investigate the detective's past cases, unravel the web of mysteries that binds the great city, and prove your innocence. Enigmatic letters, hidden secrets, and one certainty: Every story has two sides.
Why similar: Detective 27.8%, Noir 17.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.9%, Logic 8%
瓔珞事件簿系列遊戲是一系列以私人偵探拍擋瓔．珞為主角的推理解謎遊戲 你將會與兩位充滿火花的偵探, 一同破解一個又一個離奇案件!
Why similar: Modern 23.6%, Detective 21.8%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Mystery 9.4%, Text-Based 8.2%
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 29.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Mystery 13%, Investigation 12.3%, Crime 7%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Noir 14.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Mystery 10.4%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Investigation 14.7%, Mystery 12.8%, Text-Based 10.9%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Investigation 12.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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 20.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Investigation 10.2%
お嬢様刑事とうらぶれ探偵が挑む１７の事件！ 池袋を舞台に男女コンビが大活躍！元ギャング執事に天才高校生ハッカーなど個性あふれるキャラクター達と力を合わせて、サスペンスにコメディ、オカルトなど多彩な事件に挑もう！
Why similar: Modern 31.4%, Detective 26.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Mystery 13.5%, Adventure 11.9%
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Text-Based 10.3%, Investigation 9.3%
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 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Noir 11.6%, Investigation 9.7%, Mystery 9.5%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Investigation 13%, Mystery 11.5%, Crime 5.8%
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: Detective 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Noir 10.1%, Mystery 9.6%
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 23.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 10.6%
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: Detective 19.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Investigation 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Mystery 10.6%
A hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the “true crime” genre. Only by unraveling the logic and grasping at the motivations behind each case can the crimes be completely solved. Perfect as a social-style mystery fiction.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Modern 19%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Logic 10.4%
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 25.8%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Noir 12.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A free, story-driven short visual novel with no choices. The narrative weaves between the present (202X) and the past (200X), depicting the suffocating chain of violence within a Korean school setting with stark realism.
Why similar: Modern 27.1%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Text-Based 18%, Realistic 14%, Story Rich 4.8%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Noir 13.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 9.5%, Investigation 8.5%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Noir 16.8%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Mystery 11.8%
Tap into the mystery as a stranger in the city — a mild mystery visual novel. Kisen runs a tracing agency in a city far from his home. There, he is asked by a local university student to look for his brother missing from twelve years ago. Investigate what happened back then to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Mystery 17%, Text-Based 16.2%, Story Rich 6.3%
“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: Detective 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Mystery 14.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 34%, Visual Novel 21%, Mystery 14.6%, Noir 8.2%, Investigation 6.9%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 15.1%, Mystery 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 9.1%
Revelation(레벨레이션)은 텍스트 기반의 1인칭 2D 어드벤처 게임입니다. 여러분은 탐정이라는 직업이 없는 세상인 '알바트로스'에서 탐정을 꿈꾸는 주인공 류드가 되어 다양한 사건을 수사합니다. 이젠 어른이 된 류드의 다섯 친구들과 함께, 강력 범죄를 수사하며 거대한 진실에 도달하는 여정을 떠나보세요.
Why similar: Modern 25.6%, Detective 22.1%, Mystery 11.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 8.2%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Noir 16.9%, Detective 16.8%, Mystery 13.4%, Text-Based 12%
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 20%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Mystery 14.2%, Investigation 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Dark Humor 8.8%, Logic 8.4%
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: Visual Novel 15.3%, Detective 14.6%, Mystery 11.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Mystery 9.3%, Investigation 8.9%
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 23.5%, Mystery 11.8%, Investigation 11.3%, Noir 9.4%, Logic 8.3%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Mystery 10.8%, Text-Based 9.9%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Mystery 9.5%, Noir 9.2%, Investigation 8.6%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Detective 31.3%, Mystery 18.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Crime 8.8%, Logic 6.6%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Modern 12.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Noir 10.9%
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Detective 19%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Mystery 12%, Noir 11.5%, Text-Based 9.8%
