60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Story Rich, Mystery, Detective.
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!
The Colour Beyond: A Zeroth Kind
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
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 18.6%, Investigation 18.3%, Mystery 12.5%, Detective 11.7%, Story Rich 10.6%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Mystery 18.8%, Story Rich 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 14.6%, Mystery 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, 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 14.5%, 2.5D 14.3%, Detective 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Nonlinear 10.5%
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 19.5%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Detective 14.8%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Mystery 11.4%, Drama 9.6%
Help solve a crime.
Why similar: 2.5D 24.5%, Investigation 12.6%, 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 17.1%, Detective 15.8%, Mystery 15.6%, Conversation 13.6% ★, Investigation 9.1%
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 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Mystery 12.8%, Detective 11.8%
Bia's sister has vanished into a desert of dunes and lagoons, where an old legend has awoken. Guided by a compass that doesn't point north, investigate the disappearances and choose carefully: every decision defines who you save.
Why similar: Mystery 25.6%, Investigation 17.1%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 15.1%, Adventure 7.7%
Restless is a detective-style, point-and-click game where you listen to real stories from real people to solve puzzles. Track down spirits, perform divinations, and restore grave sites to bring peace to a mysterious island, all while connecting more deeply with your fellow humans.
Why similar: Mystery 23.1%, Detective 18.9%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Investigation 11.8%
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 17.4%, Investigation 15.6%, Detective 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Mystery 9.6%
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: 2.5D 17%, Investigation 16.9%, Detective 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 9.4%
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 20.8%, Detective 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 9.9%
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: Mystery 17%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Investigation 13.9%, Detective 13.2%, Story Rich 11.4%
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%, Mystery 15.9%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
An exploration game about knowledge and discovery. Change the seasons, investigate plants, and discover secrets about the world to stop an ecological disaster.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, 2.5D 17.8%, Detective 15.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Nonlinear 8.9%
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 16.6%, Detective 15.3%, Mystery 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Drama 11.6%
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
Why similar: Investigation 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Detective 12.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Nonlinear 11.7%
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 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 12.3%, 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 17.8%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Nonlinear 9.9%
Tale'Switch is a narrative mystery puzzle game about changing events recorded in a book. Replace the people, objects, and places in its sentences, witness the consequences, trace the choices behind recurring tragedies, and carry clues between stories to unlock the next character's record.
Why similar: Mystery 20.9%, Investigation 19.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 21.7%, Detective 20.1%, Mystery 18%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 10.9%
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 15.3%, Mystery 12.5%, Exploration 10.9%
Spring break at Briarwood College turns lethal when a student is found dead on campus. Journalism major Chandler Chase finds himself caught in a murder investigation he never asked to be part of. Interrogate suspects, solve puzzles, and unravel a conspiracy someone is desperate to keep hidden.
Why similar: 2.5D 20.9%, Detective 19.4%, Investigation 16.8%, Mystery 13.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
The first thing you notice is the darkness of the basement as you awaken, your memory wiped clean by a brutal attack. Nearby, a young woman is tied up, her eyes filled with a familiarity you can’t place – she seems to know who you are, but you don’t remember her...
Why similar: Conversation 18% ★, Investigation 17.7%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Detective 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
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 19.5%, Detective 19.3%, Mystery 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 20.6%, Mystery 18.2%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Investigation 12.9%, Story Rich 12.2%
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 19.2%, Mystery 16.9%, Detective 12.9%, Story Rich 11.1%
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%, Detective 20.7%, Story Rich 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Adventure 9.6%
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 29.2%, Conversation 23.3% ★, Investigation 13.1%, Exploration 12.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
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 26.6%, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Drama 10.2%, Exploration 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 16.9%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Mystery 12.9%, Story Rich 12.2%
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 20.6%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Detective 17.6%, Story Rich 10.8%, Mystery 7.5%
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%, Mystery 16.2%, 2.5D 14.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Story Rich 11.7%
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 26.5%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 14.3%, Story Rich 13.4%, Drama 10.6%
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 18.7%, Investigation 18.3%, Mystery 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Story Rich 8.4%
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 21.1%, Investigation 19.9%, Mystery 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 22.8%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Exploration 11%
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 19.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Exploration 13.6%
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 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Exploration 9.5%, Story Rich 8.1%
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 25.4%, Mystery 16.8%, Investigation 16.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
As Lia, follow the gripping final investigation of your reporter stepdad to uncover buried secrets in this supernatural mystery where every choice can not only change the world, but also the powers within you.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.4%, Mystery 19.4%, Investigation 17.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Adventure 11.9%
Switch between multiple protagonists in this suspense visual novel and follow the event of the three days leading up to Halloween. Piece together clues from each perspective to uncover the truth, as your choices reshape the fates of the others.
Why similar: Mystery 19%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Detective 13.3%, Nonlinear 13%, Investigation 12.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Investigation 18.8%, Detective 18.6%, Mystery 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%
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 23.2%, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 12.3%
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 18.3%, Detective 17.4%, Mystery 15%, Choices Matter 12.6%
“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 17.7%, Mystery 16.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Investigation 9.1%
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 21.3%, Mystery 19.2%, Detective 14.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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%, Mystery 15%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Detective 12.9%, Nonlinear 10.1%
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 25.7%, Detective 13.6%, Story Rich 12.9%, Investigation 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
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 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Mystery 8.1%
Turtle Soup World – lateral-thinking mystery game. Each chapter: one strange case. Explore, inspect, question NPCs, ask the host Yes/No/Both questions to find the truth. Works with local LLM or API.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Mystery 19.3%, Investigation 16.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
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 20.7%, Mystery 18.9%, Investigation 15%, Story Rich 13.4%, 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 13.8%, Mystery 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 8.5%
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 23.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Investigation 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 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 24.4%, Choices Matter 23.6%, Drama 17.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
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 19.6%, Detective 19.3%, Mystery 18.8%, Drama 17.8%, Conversation 6.4% ★
