
An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.
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An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.

Would you sell your soul
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game

BAROQUE SYNDROME
This ported edition of Baroque Syndrome presents the visual novel depicting the events before the main Baroque story. Play as Kitsune, owner of the Baroque Shop, and experience a branching narrative shaped by your choices. Fonts, stills, animations, and UI have been remastered for smoother play.
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 39.1%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%
This ported edition of Baroque Syndrome presents the visual novel depicting the events before the main Baroque story. Play as Kitsune, owner of the Baroque Shop, and experience a branching narrative shaped by your choices. Fonts, stills, animations, and UI have been remastered for smoother play.
Why similar: Noir 42.4%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Story Rich 4.8%
A suspense ADV of mobsters in Eastern Europe. Walk around the nostalgic city and talk with fascinating characters as you uncover the identity of a terrifying poison. The game system combines elements of exploration, collecting, and visual novels.
Why similar: Noir 35.2%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Collectathon 13.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 6.1%
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: Noir 41.5%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Adventure 5.6%
*A remastered version of this game with enhanced graphics has been released. * "Red Spider" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 105,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 43.2%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Story Rich 5.9%, Adventure 3.8%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 35.1%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Story Rich 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%
"Deep Lake: Prologue" visual novel In the neo-Gothic genre, with a psychological story. Our hero's name is Sali. Sali is a former forensic photographer for the crime department. The accident that happened to him reveals in him a mysterious gift that can lead him to a terrible death.
Why similar: Noir 41.5%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Adventure 7.2%, Story Rich 7.1%, Exploration 6.2%
A contemporary juvenile mystery about young boys and girls who grow up confused and troubled, and adults who harbor secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.1%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Mystery 6.2%
The Ritual is what so many are afraid of, it is not known where it came from, but is it really so? What is his secret, why people take actions because of him, exhausting themselves and, in the end, dying. Can't no one be able to overcome this attack?
Why similar: Noir 38.6%, Visual Novel 29.2%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 7.7%, Dark 6.2%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 41.9%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
紅蜘蛛外伝:暗戦(Red Spider Anecdote: Triangle) is a Hong Kong Noir style Visual Novel.ボイス総収録時間3時間!黒社会を舞台としたハードボイルドなノベルゲーム
Why similar: Noir 53.4%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Story Rich 6.7%, Adventure 5.5%, Female Protagonist 4%
Noir adventure for an unlucky subway's lost and found worker!
Why similar: Noir 48.9%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Adventure 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, 2D 5.1%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 40.3%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Story Rich 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, 2D 6.2%
3 days, 3 dreams, and 3 worlds.
Why similar: Noir 46.1%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 8%, 2D 6.1%
Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?
Why similar: Noir 34.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 8.4%, Thriller 5.3%
You only have one week to befriend the one who lives on the other side of the screen. He’s waiting for you, remembers all your visits, and even notices how long you’re gone. Play mini-games, listen to his thoughts, and simply watch how the world around you changes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.9%, Multiple Endings 22.1%, Adventure 17.8%, 2D 10.1%, Dark 9.2%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 53.6%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.4%, Dark 6.2%, Story Rich 5.2%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, Thriller 4.8%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Noir 50.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Story Rich 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.4%, Adventure 4.9%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 47%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
A detective horror about twin sisters and the mirrors between them. Search crime scenes by flashlight, gather evidence, interrogate suspects - and survive the nights. Accusations need proof. The truth needs more. 7 endings; your choices decide who the monster is.
Why similar: Noir 44%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Adventure 10.6%, 2D 6.1%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 35.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Story Rich 6.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%
“Man Without organs” is a 2D detective adventure game. The player assumes control of “Man Without organs”, whose body is hollow inside, on his journey through a ruined Hong Kong.
Why similar: Noir 54.4%, Story Rich 10.3%, Adventure 8.2%, 2D 7.2%, Dark 6.8%
Honked! is a short narrative-adventure game about a mysterious world of Clowns where not all is as it seems.
Why similar: Noir 47%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Visual Novel 7.3%, Adventure 7%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Noir 35.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 7.9%, Interactive Fiction 6%
‘This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.’ An 30minute black noire game, with an deep story, 30 beautiful images and stunning backroundsound.
Why similar: Noir 49.5%, Visual Novel 25%, Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 6%, Thriller 4.8%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 40.1%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Story Rich 10.9%, Exploration 5.6%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: Noir 42.6%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, 2D 5.3%
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 44.7%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Story Rich 10.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%, Dark 3.9%
Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.
Why similar: Noir 57.1%, Visual Novel 21%, Story Rich 11%, Indie 5.7%, Mystery 3.1%
M. Webb, the I.S.C. requests your immediate presence. Our previous keeper has vanished without explanation. A replacement is needed at once for the offshore lighthouse under our care. Report to the local office of the company as soon as possible. Do not be late.
Why similar: Noir 34.8%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, 1980s 5.7%
PC-98Like command-select adventure/visual novel Witness bugfixer Ino's quest with realistic FM sound
Why similar: Noir 41%, Visual Novel 27.8%, Adventure 13.7%, 2D 7.2%, Story Rich 6.5%
Your new colleagues may be demons in disguise. A bleak horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay.
Why similar: Noir 42.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 8.2%, 2D 5.7%
朝の早い時間、午前五時くらいになると、この町にはときどき濃い霧が出る──。
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Exploration 9.9%, 2D 9.1%
Red Spider 3: A Heroine Never Dies is a Kong Noir style Visual Novel.ボイス総収録時間12.9時間!同人ゲームオブ・ザ・イヤーにて【主演女優部門】【熱部門】【泣き部門】【作曲部門】の4部門にノミネート!
Why similar: Noir 49.5%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, 2D 4.7%, Female Protagonist 3.6%
Experience a nostalgic aesthetic right out of 1970s and 1980s cultural classics, with adventure gameplay and a dark and disturbing narrative!
Why similar: Noir 48.8%, 1980s 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Exploration 7%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 44.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%, Adventure 6.3%
【Demo version includes all routes and endings】A cinematic crime noir. A former assassin seeks vengeance in this hardboiled VN, scored by Yasunori Shiono (Lufia series). (This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Noir 44.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 8.3%, Dark 4.5%
Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband
Why similar: Noir 36.1%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Adventure 7.6%, 2D 7.2%
After your car breaks down on a secluded road, you seek help in an ominous abandoned mansion, only to find a chilling message: "Let's play a game. Take the candle." Solve puzzles, avoid lurking horrors, and escape the nightmare in this retro-style 2D Japanese psychological horror game.
Why similar: Noir 58.7%, Adventure 13.7%, 2D 8.2%, Thriller 5.8%, Dark 5%
A short story that turns everyday tasks into journeys. Can you be the voice that doesn’t let her down?
Why similar: Noir 37.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 6.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.1%
Step into a chilling mystery and peel back the ominous veil shrouding a peaceful southern Russian town.
Why similar: Noir 40.1%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, Thriller 5.8%, Dark 5.5%
―――よい後悔を。 看守のあなたは死刑囚2名のカウンセリングを任される。 死刑までの一ヶ月、彼らと語らい信頼を深めよう。 彼らの死刑を少しでも有意義なものにするためにも。 live2Dで動く面会劇ビジュアルノベル。
Why similar: Noir 54%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Noir 28.6%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Story Rich 7.8%
Angels That Kill - The Final Cut is a dark, first person adventure game that tells the story of two men as they uncover the truth behind a murder that has shaken the city. Play through both sides of the story and discover the truth behind the murder.
Why similar: Noir 61.2%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Dark 5.3%, Indie 4.2%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Noir 36.8%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Story Rich 5.7%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 37.4%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Story Rich 6.1%
NITRO ORIGIN's debut title, Phantom PHANTOM OF INFERNO, is coming to Steam! A web of swirling conspiracies. A whirlwind of bullets. Amidst it all, a poignant tale of a boy and a girl unfolds...
Why similar: Noir 37%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, 2D 6.8%
A Week in Paradise is a narrative mystery where you find yourself in a bar called Paradise. Have a drink each night with its mysterious regular and discover how deeply your stories connect. Hunt down clues in your dreams to find out why you end up here every day, and what keeps you coming back.
Why similar: Noir 44.9%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Story Rich 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 34.1%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 6.9%, Dark 5%
Solve puzzles and find out all the secrets of the disappearance of civilization in a gloomy 2D platformer.
Why similar: Noir 46.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, 1980s 10.1%, Adventure 7.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
A cinematic Hong Kong Noir visual novel. In 2007, an assassin defies orders to kill her savior and becomes a fugitive. Explore her fate through 1,300+ visual cuts and 6 branching routes.(Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Noir 46.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 8.6%, Dark 4.6%
A visual novel with mild choice-based progression. In this prologue story, follow an inquisitve college student into the depths of deceptive corporate lab: Moniker Innovation. Begin to unravel a mystery larger than the young journalist looking for answers and even this game itself.
Why similar: Noir 53.2%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Dark 5.9%, Interactive Fiction 5.6%, 2D 3.4%
"Humility" is a thriller visual novel. Immerse yourself in the fascinating story of a young Elma, who defies a cruel cult to save her beloved.
Why similar: Noir 32.2%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Story Rich 7.2%, Dark 5.8%
Trouble in Warsaw is a short, detective game, combining the genres of Visual Novel and Point&Click, featuring many puzzles, dialogues and related choices solidifying the plot and its finale.
Why similar: Noir 38.2%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Adventure 12.6%, Exploration 6.7%, Story Rich 6.2%
Welcome, Test Subject 0216. The collar on your neck will explode in one hour. To survive, you must quickly raise your scores in Appearance, Wealth, and Power to over 85. If not, you’ll be disposed of. Don't be nervous - This girl, Tomorrow, will guide you. Yet, surviving might come at a cost.
Why similar: Noir 41.8%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Exploration 5.8%
You wire home theaters for people richer than you. Then you buy your first coin with $200 of grocery money, and every gain after it is paid for by someone: the partner who catches your first lie, the friend who trusts you with seven years of savings. A thriller told on your phone. Six endings.
Why similar: Noir 37.7%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 9.1%, Thriller 6.2%
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 57.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Story Rich 7.9%, 2D 7.7%
You're the 14th observer at an isolated NOAA weather outpost. Thirteen names came before yours on the duty roster. A text-driven horror mystery — three branching routes, ten endings, one night at Station 13 that never reads the same way twice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.7%, Adventure 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, 1980s 8.6%, Exploration 8.4%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Noir 39.2%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, 2D 6.3%