- #1 Nobody Wants to Die
97% matchVery Positive83% of 7,373 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Cyberpunk 15.4%, Detective 15.2%, Dystopian 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
- #2 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
96% matchVery Positive92% of 2,943 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Crime 10.1%
- #3 Minds Beneath Us
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,307 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Dystopian 14.5%, Point & Click 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #4 Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
95% matchVery Positive88% of 527 reviews2024
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Point & Click 11.3%, Crime 11.2%
- #5 Whispers of a Machine
94% matchVery Positive93% of 2,011 reviews2019
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Cyberpunk 19.8%, Point & Click 18.1%, Noir 18%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #6 Neon Hearts City
94% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Point & Click 15.1%, Cyberpunk 14.3%, Crime 10.5%
- #7 Au Revoir
92% matchVery Positive95% of 125 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Noir 25.8%, Cyberpunk 19.4%, Point & Click 13.3%, Detective 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #8 Chinatown Detective Agency
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 159 reviews2022
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Why similar: Noir 18.8%, Detective 14.4%, Cyberpunk 13%, Point & Click 9.4%, Crime 9.2%
- #9 Gamedec - Definitive Edition
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,735 reviews2021
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Noir 18.8%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Detective 15%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #10 Justice.exe
91% matchMixed69% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Cyberpunk 14.3%, Dystopian 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Point & Click 10%
- #11 Lamplight City
90% matchVery Positive90% of 868 reviews2018
Dev: Grundislav GamesPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Noir 21.9%, Point & Click 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #12 Gemini Rue
89% matchVery Positive88% of 1,884 reviews2011
Dev: Joshua NuernbergerPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Why similar: Noir 30.2%, Cyberpunk 21.3%, Point & Click 20.1%, Detective 10.7%, Dystopian 7.8%
- #13 Lacuna: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive91% of 172 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Noir 20.8%, Detective 14.7%, Cyberpunk 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Crime 9.6%
- #14 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
88% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.1%, Detective 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Dystopian 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #15 The Last Case of John Morley
86% matchVery Positive82% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Noir 36%, Detective 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Story Rich 7.2%, Mystery 5.2%
- #16 Tron: Identity
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
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 23.6%, Noir 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #17 Citizen Sleeper
86% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dystopian 15.5%, Point & Click 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #18 The Roottrees are Dead
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,873 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Trout Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Point & Click 16.9%, Investigation 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Noir 9.2%
- #19 2064: Read Only Memories
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Cyberpunk 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Point & Click 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #20 Dry Drowning
84% matchVery Positive81% of 517 reviews2019
Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Detective 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #21 Mind Diver
81% matchVery Positive95% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: Indoor SunglassesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Noir 25.2%, Detective 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Crime 12.4%, Investigation 8.3%
- #22 Blake: The Visual Novel
83% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Detective 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Crime 7.7%
- #23 Song of Farca
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Cyberpunk 19.4%, Dystopian 15.2%, Point & Click 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #24 Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
79% matchVery Positive93% of 5,660 reviews2025
Dev: Aluba Van+Pub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Point & Click 16.7%, Dystopian 15%, Investigation 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #25 Love Shore
82% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Perfect Garbage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 26.5%, Cyberpunk 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #26 The Sundew
81% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: 2054
Windows · Linux
You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.2%, Point & Click 17.4%, Dystopian 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #27 Neo Cab
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,886 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #28 Abscission
78% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Beyond Booleans
Windows
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Point & Click 20.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Crime 11.1%
- #29 Beyond a Steel Sky
79% matchVery Positive88% of 1,649 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 32%, Point & Click 21.7%, Dystopian 18.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 8%
- #30 Lightracer: For Judge
77% matchVery Positive93% of 499 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Detective 13.9%, Dystopian 11.8%, Point & Click 10.4%
- #31 Observer: System Redux
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,998 reviews2020
Dev: Bloober TeamPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.1%, Detective 22.7%, Dystopian 12.1%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #32 VirtuaVerse
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,115 reviews2020
Dev: Theta DivisionPub: Blood Music
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 34.4%, Dystopian 21.5%, Point & Click 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #33 Murder On Space Station 52
76% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Made From StringsPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped on a space station with the Keychain Killer you must unravel this mystery, or it will be your last. Collect evidence, interrogate suspects and solve puzzles to stand a chance.
Why similar: Noir 30.8%, Cyberpunk 21.2%, Detective 21%, Point & Click 13.9%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #34 Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye
76% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Peanut Button
Windows
Immerse yourself in the shadows, where danger lurks and every step leads you further to the edge of madness. Navigate the neon-lit streets as robo-detective Philip Log and search for Jenny Montage, the automated femme fatale, in this gritty post-apocalyptic saga.
Why similar: Noir 35%, Detective 25.3%, Point & Click 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #35 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
72% matchVery Positive91% of 2,629 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dystopian 16.1%, Point & Click 11%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #36 Tails Noir: Prologue
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,115 reviews2019
Dev: EggNutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Noir 31.3%, Detective 19.6%, RPG 15%, Point & Click 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #37 Primordia
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,432 reviews2012
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.1%, Noir 18.6%, Cyberpunk 16.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Dystopian 8.2%
- #38 No Case Should Remain Unsolved
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,592 reviews2024
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Detective 17.3%, Point & Click 15.4%, Investigation 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #39 Transient: Extended Edition
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 348 reviews2020
Dev: Stormling StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.2%, Dystopian 17.1%, Detective 16.8%, Crime 12.8%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #40 Technobabylon
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,635 reviews2015
Dev: Technocrat GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 47.4%, Point & Click 32.5%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Story Rich 6.7%, Adventure 2.3%
- #41 Subsurface Circular
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,940 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Noir 25%, Detective 20.9%, Cyberpunk 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Point & Click 9.9%
- #42 The Operator
70% matchVery Positive92% of 8,818 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau 81
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Crime 14.2%, Point & Click 12.4%, Investigation 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #43 Kill The Shadow
69% matchVery Positive90% of 527 reviews2026
Dev: ShadowlightPub: Phoenix Game
Windows
Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation. Play as Lucas, a former police officer, alongside a mysterious Shadow who can see the “past.” Remember—every choice you make will change the fate of countless characters!
Why similar: Detective 33.1%, Multiple Endings 16%, RPG 11.3%, Emotional 10.7%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #44 cyberpunkdreams
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,328 reviews2021
Dev: Late Night Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 163.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Crime 11.3%, Dystopian 11.1%
- #45 Keyword: A Spider's Thread
72% matchVery Positive82% of 277 reviews2021
Dev: City From Naught Inc.
Windows
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Why similar: Detective 27.4%, Cyberpunk 21.4%, Crime 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #46 Unavowed
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,607 reviews2018
Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Why similar: Point & Click 27%, Detective 19.3%, Noir 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #47 Tales of the Neon Sea
70% matchVery Positive85% of 5,073 reviews2019
Dev: YiTi GamesPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Why similar: Noir 18.7%, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Detective 14.8%, Point & Click 11.5%, Dystopian 10.9%
- #48 Bionic Heart
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 133 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
London, 2099. The earth isn't what it used to be anymore. Incredible climate changes have corrupted the weather, causing a permanent rain on most of the Earth's surface. You play the role of Luke Black, a 36-year-old bio-informatic engineer. He is one of the lead programmers at Nanotech, a big nanotechnology research company.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #49 Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,323 reviews2014
Dev: Big Finish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
Why similar: Noir 33.1%, Detective 24.4%, Cyberpunk 21.3%, Dystopian 7%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #50 Betrayal At Club Low
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Point & Click 12.2%
- #51 Shadows of Doubt
66% matchVery Positive82% of 17,722 reviews2024
Dev: ColePowered GamesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
Why similar: Noir 36.8%, Detective 32%, Cyberpunk 18.9%, RPG 5.3%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%
- #52 Zarathustra - Cybergeddon
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Tim Rachor
Windows
Take on the role of Agent Amy Tanner and solve a case in a cyberpunk future, where technology and religion have become one - A classic pixel art point&click adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23%, Lore-Rich 19.7%, Detective 18.1%, Point & Click 15.5%, Dystopian 10.2%
- #53 Tails Noir
69% matchMixed67% of 3,467 reviews2021
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dystopian 11.3%, Point & Click 11.1%
- #54 逆光迷途 Lost in Darklight
70% matchMixed52% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Beijing Changyou Chuangxiang Software Technology Co., Ltd.Pub: Changyou.com HK Limited
Windows
Themed on urban suspense, Lost in Darklight is a live action interactive game. A retired ace soldier, four girls, a hidden chamber at home, genetic cloning tech... Experience interactive VR panoramic evidence searching with this game and decide your own ending. Every choice you make is crucial!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #55 Neon Blood
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: ChaoticBrain StudiosPub: Meridiem Games
Windows
Viridis, year 2053. Growing inequality drives Bright City and Blind City further and further apart until idealistic detective Axel McCoin starts a revolution to change the world in this fast-paced cyberpunk adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Detective 17.6%, Crime 11.9%, Investigation 7.4%
- #56 The Red Strings Club
67% matchVery Positive93% of 14,255 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Point & Click 11.2%, Story Rich 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
- #57 Sinless + OST
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2015
Dev: MGP StudiosPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 53.1%, Point & Click 28%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 3.5%
- #58 Omen Exitio: Hunger
63% matchVery Positive91% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny Bull StudiosPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac
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: Noir 20.6%, Detective 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Crime 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #59 Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,354 reviews2025
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Detective 19.7%, Point & Click 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 9.1%
- #60 Unheard - Voices of Crime
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,881 reviews2019
Dev: NEXT Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Crime 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Point & Click 12.8%, Investigation 8.4%