- #1 Erica
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,713 reviews2021
Dev: Flavourworks
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Thriller 12.6%, Crime 11.8%, Point & Click 11.5%
- #2 Martha Is Dead
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,639 reviews2022
Dev: LKAPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Why similar: Psychological 23.9%, Thriller 21.3%, Narration 15.6%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Drama 12.4%
- #3 She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,141 reviews2019
Dev: Rhinotales
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.8%, Thriller 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #4 A Night at the Watermill
95% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Neon Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Why similar: Thriller 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
- #5 Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
94% matchVery Positive82% of 998 reviews2021
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
Why similar: Thriller 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological 13.9%, Drama 13.1%, Narration 13%
- #6 YOUR HOUSE
94% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 18.1%, Thriller 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Narration 10.1%
- #7 Lorelai
93% matchVery Positive91% of 1,604 reviews2019
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The little she had was taken away, but Lorelai refuses to give up, she will fight. And not even death will stop her from getting it all back...
Why similar: Female Protagonist 24%, Drama 23.5%, Point & Click 23%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 7.5%
- #8 Cabernet
91% matchVery Positive95% of 1,924 reviews2025
Dev: Party for IntrovertsPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 11.5%
- #9 Afterdream
92% matchVery Positive93% of 339 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Psychological 27.3%, Narration 16.7%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Drama 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #10 Saint Kotar
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 277 reviews2021
Dev: The-Mark EntertainmentPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Point & Click 13.7%, Thriller 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #11 SIMULACRA
90% matchVery Positive90% of 4,596 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Thriller 18.5%, Point & Click 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #12 Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
88% matchVery Positive94% of 2,911 reviews2024
Dev: SimogoPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
Why similar: Psychological 34.6%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Noir 14.7%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #13 Bad Faith
89% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 22.2%, Thriller 20%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Narration 12.1%, Drama 11.5%
- #14 A Case of Distrust
89% matchVery Positive82% of 601 reviews2018
Dev: An Open Ben
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Narration 10.5%
- #15 The Wreck
87% matchVery Positive89% of 273 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #16 Who's Lila?
85% matchVery Positive95% of 3,515 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #17 DEAD LAMB WALKING
84% matchVery Positive97% of 187 reviews2024
Dev: Lyn Mametchi
Windows
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Narration 11.5%, Thriller 10.5%
- #18 Chinatown Detective Agency
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 156 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 24.9%, Crime 22%, Point & Click 13.3%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #19 Blake: The Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive90% of 62 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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Thriller 11.8%, Crime 11.5%
- #20 BAD END THEATER
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #21 Love Alone Death
82% matchVery Positive99% of 402 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Point & Click 23%, Drama 19.1%, Female Protagonist 18.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #22 Misadventures of Laura Silver
83% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Noir 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Point & Click 11.1%
- #23 Hazy Mind
80% matchVery Positive86% of 318 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #24 I Saw Black Clouds
82% matchMixed62% of 633 reviews2021
Dev: Ghost Dog FilmsPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.
Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #25 One's Own Exile
78% matchVery Positive100% of 394 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Story Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #26 Case #1472
81% matchMixed57% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Broken at Release Game Studio
Windows
A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Psychological 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Drama 14.8%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
- #27 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
78% matchVery Positive89% of 3,231 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 25%, Point & Click 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
- #28 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Thriller 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #29 Lucky Bastard
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: LLP Clerik Studio
Windows
Married, immoral, and nearly broke — but with a brilliant plan to get rich. Luck favors bastards, but not forever. Sex, intrigue, betrayal, and questionable morals. Manipulate, seduce, or save yourself — your path leads to lust, redemption, or reckoning.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Adventure 5.9%
- #30 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
77% matchVery Positive97% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Story Rich 14.3%, Adventure 7.5%
- #31 Lighthouse of Guiding Flames
79% matchVery Positive88% of 68 reviews2019
Dev: TomoToroPub: NARRATIVE NINE LTD
Windows
Ethani lost her way and ended up at the Lighthouse. Where did she come from and where should she go? Explore this fantasy Visual Novel to reveal her past and set sail once more...
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Drama 16.1%, Thriller 15.8%, Narration 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #32 Wheels of Aurelia
81% matchMixed50% of 199 reviews2016
Dev: Santa Ragione
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A narrative road trip game set in the roaring Italian 70s, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coast of Italy, the famous “Via Aurelia”.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Narration 11.5%, Drama 9.9%
- #33 GESTALT: The Fifth Day
76% matchVery Positive94% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: KINJAKOPub: 072 Project
Windows
Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.6%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 12%
- #34 This Bed We Made
73% matchVery Positive91% of 2,983 reviews2023
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Noir 25.8%, Crime 22.2%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #35 Will Die Alone
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #36 Whispers of a Machine
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,957 reviews2019
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Point & Click 25.4%, Noir 23.5%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #37 Snowfall's Mystery
73% matchVery Positive86% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Psychological 26%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
- #38 While We Wait Here
71% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Multiple Endings 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Thriller 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #39 Folie Fatale
72% matchVery Positive86% of 2,482 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #40 Gerda: A Flame in Winter
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 515 reviews2022
Dev: BirdIsland/PortaPlayPub: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Why similar: Narration 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #41 Her Story
74% matchVery Positive89% of 10,228 reviews2015
Dev: Sam Barlow
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Why similar: Crime 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Point & Click 12.2%
- #42 Lost in the Woods
71% matchVery Positive95% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: delulu girl
Windows
'One last try' Violet is determined to save her broken marriage - at any cost!Wandering through a dark forest in search of lost mementos, she finds the world around her shifting with every step.
Why similar: Psychological 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Point & Click 13%, Narration 12.3%, Visual Novel 12%
- #43 Crimson Gray: Dusk and Dawn
74% matchVery Positive94% of 124 reviews2018
Dev: Sierra Lee
Windows · Mac · Linux
A slice of life visual novel with the emphasis on the slicing. Play as a mentally unstable young woman with blood on her hands trying to adapt to a normal life.
Why similar: Psychological 26.4%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%
- #44 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
72% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Fantastico Studio
Windows · Mac
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Crime 14.9%, Thriller 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #45 Virginia
75% matchMixed64% of 3,351 reviews2016
Dev: Variable StatePub: 505 Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
Why similar: Thriller 20.7%, Psychological 17.2%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #46 Obsessed : Night Shift
69% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2025
Dev: arydkPub: Akhir Hayat Studio
Windows
A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.
Why similar: Thriller 42.8%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Adventure 7.4%
- #47 This Is Not Your House
69% matchVery Positive88% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Tierson (Trash Eyes)Pub: Trash Eyes
Windows
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: America 15.1% ★, Crime 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Psychological 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #48 The Cat Lady
70% matchVery Positive94% of 6,079 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Point & Click 21.4%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Drama 14%, Story Rich 11.8%
- #49 Burnhouse Lane
68% matchVery Positive94% of 1,072 reviews2022
Dev: Harvester Games
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Burnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...
Why similar: Drama 25.4%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Story Rich 12.1%
- #50 Tails Noir Preludes
68% matchVery Positive92% of 297 reviews2023
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
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: Visual Novel 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #51 Marlon’s Mystery: The darkside of crime
68% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2023
Dev: Made in Mavis
Windows · Mac · Linux
Marlon's Mystery will test your skills as an investigator. Join Abby Marlon to solve the riddles in this captivating mystery and hidden object game. Embark on an enigmatic adventure and discover the darkest secrets of the Taylor family.
Why similar: Noir 20.5%, Crime 20.3%, Thriller 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Point & Click 10.5%
- #52 I fell from Grace
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 78 reviews2017
Dev: Deep Taiga
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
I fell from Grace is a retro style adventure game, that blends storytelling and puzzle solving in a branching narrative style. Can you solve the mystery of the strange gift that has cured your wife of terminal illness, but unleashes sinister events before it's too late?
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.5%, Adventure 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Indie 15.8%
- #53 Restless Dreams
65% matchVery Positive95% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: Room410
Windows
Before you realize it, dreams have become a curse. Wander through a darkened room and descend into the depths of her mind. A story-driven first-person horror game that leads you into an abyss of anguish and despair. Dedicated to those who once pursued their dreams—and to those who still do.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 46%, Adventure 21.3%, Story Rich 18.8%, Indie 10.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #54 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,791 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 18.5%, Crime 16.2%, Thriller 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Narration 10%
- #55 Rosewater
65% matchVery Positive92% of 384 reviews2025
Dev: Grundislav GamesPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.3%, Drama 20.5%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%
- #56 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
67% matchVery Positive86% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #57 Jessika
70% matchMixed68% of 238 reviews2020
Dev: Tritrie GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Jessika committed suicide, and it’s up to you to find out why she did what she did by prying into her digital past. What at first seems to be a job like any other quickly develops into a dark drama with twists and turns.
Why similar: Crime 24.9%, Thriller 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Drama 10.1%
- #58 Recall: Empty Wishes
66% matchVery Positive93% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Puff Hook StudioPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Recall: Empty Wishes is a psychological thriller set in Taiwan during the 2010s. Follow Yonny, a sister determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Tommy. As she delves deeper, she confronts unsettling secrets, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Story Rich 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Drama 11.2%
- #59 Night Loops
66% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: JiaquariumPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Multiple Endings 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #60 Degraman: Act I. Vincent
67% matchVery Positive84% of 190 reviews2021
Dev: NamNorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
An otome visual novel - play a powerless victim of a terrifying, unfair world. 200+ choices, 50+ endings, 20+ hours of play - and only one way to escape.
Why similar: Thriller 25.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%