60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Story Rich, Mystery, Adventure.
Lost & Found is an adventure-mystery game where you return townsfolk’s lost belongings & uncover personal stories behind each item. It features a hybrid animation style that blends 2D, 3D, pixel art, & more. Gather clues, investigate locals, & ensure every lost belonging ends up in the right hands.
The Last Slava
Become a trickster detective embarking on an Eastern European adventure full of spatial puzzles. Observe your relatives’ loops, sabotage them, and piece the story together at a grandiose feast. Solve a mystery while pranking your family!
Strix and Scholar
Follow the story of Blanca Silverurn—a strix entangled in a murder mystery. Explore the Grimstrand campus and learn about its unique magic. Delve into the secrets of students and faculty members. Affect their relationships, including a spicy romance between Blanca and her enigmatic mentor.
Become a trickster detective embarking on an Eastern European adventure full of spatial puzzles. Observe your relatives’ loops, sabotage them, and piece the story together at a grandiose feast. Solve a mystery while pranking your family!
Why similar: 2.5D 18.7%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Detective 11.7%, Story Rich 10.5%
Follow the story of Blanca Silverurn—a strix entangled in a murder mystery. Explore the Grimstrand campus and learn about its unique magic. Delve into the secrets of students and faculty members. Affect their relationships, including a spicy romance between Blanca and her enigmatic mentor.
Why similar: 2.5D 15.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Mystery 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Detective 9.6%
Explore the settlement, gather clues, interact with its inhabitants, and uncover a conspiracy. Your actions shape your relationships with the locals – will they help you, or deceive you? Your choices will determine whether the protagonist can escape, or if his tragic fate will repeat itself again.
Why similar: Investigation 14.6%, 2.5D 14.3%, Detective 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Nonlinear 10.4%
The owner of the Golden Rose Manor died mysteriously in the secret room. Everyone in the manor has an alibi, but their speech is full of loopholes... You will go to the crime scene, search for clues, analyze the suspect's statement, make reasonable inferences, reveal the truth of the case!
Why similar: Detective 13.8%, Investigation 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Mystery 11.5%, Drama 9.1%
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 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Detective 14.7%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Help solve a crime.
Why similar: 2.5D 24.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Detective 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Mystery 10.5%
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters. What dark secrets wait to be found? The clock is ticking and you, as Alex Hill, must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Why similar: 2.5D 17.3%, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 15.8%, Conversation 13.1% ★, Investigation 9.3%
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: 2.5D 15.6%, Investigation 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%, Mystery 12.8%, Detective 11.8%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, 2.5D 17%, Detective 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 9.3%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: 2.5D 17.3%, Investigation 15.6%, Detective 14.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Mystery 9.6%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Mystery 21.1%, Investigation 20.9%, Detective 13.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 9.8%
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: Choices Matter 17%, Mystery 17%, Investigation 14%, Detective 13.1%, Story Rich 11.3%
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, Mystery 15.9%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Story Rich 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
An exploration game about knowledge and discovery. Change between seasons, investigate plants, and discover secrets about the world to stop an ecological disaster.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, 2.5D 17.9%, Detective 15.7%, Mystery 14.4%, Nonlinear 8.8%
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover dark secrets beneath her peaceful urban life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
Why similar: Investigation 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Mystery 12.5%, Detective 12.5%, Nonlinear 11.6%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Detective 15.3%, Mystery 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Drama 11%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Investigation 14.9%, Mystery 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Detective 17.6%, Mystery 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Nonlinear 9.8%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Detective 20.1%, Mystery 18%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Story Rich 10.8%
Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Conversation 17.4% ★, Choices Matter 15.1%, Mystery 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Explore an abandoned mansion, solve puzzles, find secrets, and discover what happened to Penelope Rose in this 2D mystery adventure.
Why similar: 2.5D 28.2%, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 12.5%, Exploration 10.9%
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: Investigation 19.6%, Detective 19.2%, Mystery 19%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Multiple Endings 8%
Oblivistar is a story-driven adventure game where you will help solve a mystery that sinks into the place you call home.
Why similar: 2.5D 21.5%, Investigation 19.3%, Mystery 16.9%, Detective 12.9%, Story Rich 10.9%
Classic first-person point-and-click adventure game set in contemporary Prague. As a programmer and treasure hunter, you embark on a long journey to uncover the secrets of the infamous Executioner. Your task will be complicated by a sect of fanatic cultists and your own unexplained heritage.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.9%, Mystery 18.3%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Investigation 13%, Story Rich 12.1%
You take part in testing a next-generation experimental android on a restricted floor of a research complex. But soon it becomes clear that the experiment is far more complicated, and you'll have to uncover what’s really happening here.
Why similar: Investigation 25.2%, Detective 20.6%, Story Rich 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Adventure 9.3%
A point-and-click mystery game set during the summer of 2000 in the mysterious landscapes of Okinawa. You play as Kami, a guardian angel tasked with guiding Haruki, a struggling journalist, as he delves into the baffling disappearance of a beloved actress.
Why similar: Investigation 17%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Mystery 13%, Story Rich 12.1%
Read between the lies in this first-person mystery puzzle game. You are the last librarian in Britain. Identify books. Recommend them. Ban them. Burn them. Uncover a catalogue of secrets and lost stories buried between the pages.
Why similar: Investigation 21.1%, Mystery 20.1%, Detective 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Story Rich 10.4%
Grayton the Detective is a narrative adventure game about a homeless man who once lived in wealth and comfort, now showers with a kettle, and solves petty mysteries on the streets of Cleveland. However, with the disappearance of mysterious Golden Spoon, everything may change.
Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Detective 17.6%, Story Rich 10.7%, Mystery 7.5%
In this third installment of the popular RHEM series of intricate pure-puzzle first-person adventure games, the adventures of brothers Kales and Zetais continue in the mysterious land of RHEM.
Why similar: Mystery 22.4%, Investigation 19.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Adventure 14.8%, Exploration 13.6%
Rusty Winter is a sidescrolling adventure game inspired by hardboiled detective stories and urban legends. Meet a diverse cast, chase down leads that blur the boundaries between reality and the paranormal, and explore a cold, once-glorious industrial town in search of your missing loved one.
Why similar: 2.5D 29.7%, Conversation 22.6% ★, Investigation 13.4%, Exploration 12.2%, Story Rich 9.9%
A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery. Switch between four playable protagonists trapped in an island mansion to explore, investigate, piece together clues from their mysterious past, and uncover the truth behind their predicament.
Why similar: Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 16.2%, 2.5D 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Story Rich 11.6%
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 18.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Mystery 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 8.3%
When a body mysteriously washes up on the shores of Clearwater Bay, you, as Detective Alex Hill, are hired to investigate. Was it a tragic suicide or is something more sinister at work? Solve puzzles, look for evidence, and confront a web of lies as you work to uncover the truth.
Why similar: 2.5D 26.9%, Detective 13.8%, Investigation 13.7%, Drama 9.7%, Exploration 9.4%
Assemble gear boxes, meet your crew, escape the factory. The Funnel is a short and replayable narrative puzzle game where you may help or betray any of the people you meet. But be careful, the Funnel is watching...
Why similar: 2.5D 25.1%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Story Rich 8%
Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.
Why similar: Mystery 26.7%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 14.5%, Story Rich 13.3%, Drama 10.1%
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 21%, Investigation 20.1%, Mystery 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Investigation 23%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, Exploration 11%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Investigation 18.9%, Detective 18.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Story Rich 12.5%
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18%, Mystery 16.5%, Story Rich 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Investigation 9.2%
After a mysterious and anonymous phone call to the police, Sonia's body was found in an abandoned public toilet. The more we learn about her, the more mysterious this case becomes. Become the detective, investigate her murder and find out who killed Sonia Verninac.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Mystery 16.8%, Investigation 16.7%, Story Rich 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
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: Choices Matter 23.5%, Investigation 15.2%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 12.2%
Project Judgment is a story-driven detective adventure game where the narrative unfolds as you complete quests. Play as Cain, a detective who has lost his memory. Travel from city to city, solve cases, and uncover the truth behind your forgotten past.
Why similar: 2.5D 19.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Detective 17.3%, Mystery 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.8%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Choices Matter 26%, Detective 13.3%, Story Rich 12.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Mystery 19.3%, Detective 14.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Set off on an adventure set in a sprawling world that blends satisfying, mechanical puzzles with a rich narrative. Explore a stunning pixel-art world, repair intricate machines & meet unforgettable characters in a story about connection, resilience, and life that clings on in a world left to ruin.
Why similar: 2.5D 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Mystery 8.1%
A horror visual novel where you take on the role of a spy delving into the memories of others to find dirt on a sinister biocorporation. Not for children or the easily disturbed.
Why similar: Investigation 15.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Mystery 14.9%, Detective 12.8%, Nonlinear 10%
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But when a bomb destroys your transport, it also cracks your programming. Uncover who attacked you before your makers decide you've changed too much.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.9%, Mystery 18.9%, Investigation 15.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 9%
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Why similar: 2.5D 18%, Investigation 14.8%, Choices Matter 14%, Mystery 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
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 18.1%, Mystery 13.1%, Detective 12.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
After crash-landing on a mysterious planet, novice engineer Nova Collins must unravel the secrets of a town's messy past to escape it. Talk your way through this enigmatic place, but beware: ideas manifest as things that can be traded and lost, so don't lose yourself along the way...
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Detective 15.6%, Mystery 15.5%, Nonlinear 14%, Choices Matter 10.8%
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 8.5%
A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.
Why similar: Mystery 24.6%, Choices Matter 24.2%, Drama 17.1%, Story Rich 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.3%
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, 2.5D 15.9%, Detective 15.4%, Mystery 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%
Tale of serendipity is a third person survival horror with multiple endings, in which the search of your lost feline will make you question yourself the limits of reality and obsession When facing danger is not an option, the only thing left is survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.2%, Mystery 18.1%, Investigation 17.2%, Story Rich 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Lu Yan has 9 days to find the truth and bring five strangers back alive. Hours of cinematic video — surveillance, dashcam, interrogations — are the evidence you study; a punishing board demands you connect 130+ clues and 70+ deductions by hand. Stuck? Spend Intuition. 6–8 hours.
Why similar: Investigation 20%, Detective 19.5%, Mystery 19.1%, Drama 17%, Story Rich 6.3%
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
Why similar: Investigation 16.2%, Detective 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Mystery 14.3%, Nonlinear 11.8%
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
Why similar: Investigation 21.1%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Mystery 15%, Story Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Mystery 17.6%, Story Rich 11.9%, Investigation 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Mystery 18.2%, Detective 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Investigation 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Investigation 19.7%, Mystery 17.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
