60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Investigation, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
An interactive VR narrative adventure in which you operate a fully interactive elevator, meet fascinating characters, and make decisions that change their lives, and the fate of the hotel forever.
The Last Reunion
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Bahnsen Knights
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Narrative 21.4% ★, Detective 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
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 19.2%, Detective 18.3%, Narrative 17.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Investigation 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Heist 15.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Investigation 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Narrative 15.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Detective 12.4%, Point & Click 11.5%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Narrative 13.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 10.1%
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 17.4%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Investigation 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%
You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
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 16.5%, Investigation 13.1%, Narrative 12.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Point & Click 9.7%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Why similar: Narrative 18.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Detective 11.1%, Investigation 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A single-player narrative game where you play as a quirky wannabe cowboy exploring the dystopian futuristic world for his own revenge.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Investigation 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Point & Click 10.9%
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 23.3%, Investigation 18.4%, Narrative 15.2% ★, Point & Click 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
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%, Investigation 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Point & Click 10.5%
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 15.4%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Investigation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Detective 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 11.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Investigation 12.3%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 23.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Detective 12.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Investigation 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.8%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Investigation 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
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 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.3%
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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Investigation 12.1%
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: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Funny 10.5%
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: Investigation 14.9%, Detective 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%
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 19.4%, Detective 17.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
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 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Funny 9.4%
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%, Investigation 17.3%, Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Point & Click 11.4%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Play cards with a group of adorable animal friends who robbed the largest bank on the Eastern Seaboard 12 years ago, and are willing to let you decorate their boat in return for not being executed by the mafia.
Why similar: Heist 24.6% ★, Narrative 17.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Detective 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Point & Click 8.7%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 20.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 24.8%, Investigation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.7%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Narrative 10.5% ★, Visual Novel 10.4%
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Narrative 16.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Detective 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Investigation 14%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Narrative 15.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 11.9%
An HD-remaster of a comedy-horror visual novel from 2009, mixing classical Russian literature with anime, zombies and glam rock.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Investigation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Step into the role of a tram conductor robot in a future where humanity is preparing to leave Earth. Are you suited for something greater than being scrapped?
Why similar: Narrative 27.7% ★, Detective 17%, Point & Click 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.
Why similar: Narrative 20.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 8%
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%, Investigation 17.8%, Point & Click 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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 20.2%, Investigation 16.7%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
The classic award winning adventure returns in glorious 4K with fully remastered audio. Step into the shoes of intrepid tourist George Stobbart and sharp-witted journalist Nico Collard as they unravel a deadly Mayan conspiracy steeped in ancient artifacts and dark magic.
Why similar: Narrative 26% ★, Investigation 17.6%, Detective 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Cartoony 8.1%
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 16.3%, Investigation 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
Embark on a mystical quest that blends Slavic folklore with arcane witchcraft, uncover hidden secrets, and rescue a village lost to the shadows in this magical detective visual novel. Oh, and never forget your cat - he might save you!
Why similar: Detective 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Investigation 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Detective 14.7%, Narrative 14.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Investigation 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Point & Click 8.8%
