60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Mystery, Singleplayer.
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
This Bed We Made
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!
Twin Mirror
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
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: LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Cinematic 12%, Investigation 11.5%, Detective 11.2%, Mystery 8.1%
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Cinematic 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.
Why similar: Cinematic 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Third Person 7.6%
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Cinematic 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Emotional 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
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 14.7%, Investigation 12.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Cinematic 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Emotional 9.8%
A 20 minute story about a mysterious ghost and an even more mysterious journalist.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Cinematic 13.1%, Mystery 9.6%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Emotional 10.1%, Cinematic 9.1%
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: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Mystery 10.3%
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%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Emotional 9.1%
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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Cinematic 16.8%, Detective 14.9%, Emotional 8.3%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Emotional 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Cinematic 14.5%, Investigation 11.8%, Emotional 9%, Mystery 7.9%
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: Detective 14.6%, Cinematic 14.2%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Enter a seductive visual novel where love meets temptation. Explore hotwife, cuckolding, corruption, NTS and optional NTR paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Cinematic 10.1%, Emotional 9.6%
A Little Time is a first-person interactive story. You play as a young but determined detective investigating a man's disappearance. You will travel to a variety of locations and pick up clues while experiencing the story, dialogue, and atmospheric visuals.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 17.5%, Cinematic 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Mystery 9.4%
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 19%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Don't Turn Back is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game. You play Bethany, A young woman who has just inherited her grandfather's mansion. Get immersed in the deeply emotional story of Bethany's family, and experience everything there is inside this home...good and evil.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 12.8%, Emotional 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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 16.6%, Cinematic 15.6%, Detective 15%, Investigation 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
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 18.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
What happens when a video game character is self-aware? Cadulium is a mystery science fiction adventure video game.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Cinematic 14.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Just a Memory is a story based choice and consequence game featuring Aaron Page, a 19 year-old college student investigating the murder of his best friend while confronting his demons.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Cinematic 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Detective 12.2%, Mystery 9%
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
Why similar: Naval 23.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Third Person 8.3%
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: Detective 15.3%, Investigation 14.3%, Cinematic 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Emotional 10.4%
In our story rich game Gold Of Lotusland you play as Lead Engineer Daniel Quinn as he uncovers the dark truth about the robots he designed as well as the world he lives within. Could the machines be capable of murder? What is Lotusland? You as the player must make the choices to discover the truth.
Why similar: Cinematic 15%, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 12.2%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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: Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Cinematic 12.8%, Emotional 11.2%
Shadowless is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a creepy house marked by tragedy, where dark entities and the past haunt you. Defenseless, you face a nightmare that consumes you before you can escape.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 10.6%, Emotional 9.2%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Emotional 12.4%, Cinematic 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Emotional 11.3%, Cinematic 11%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Cinematic 10.8%
A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Detective 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Investigation 11.8%
Longing for Chang’an is a historical mystery visual novel set in the Middle Tang after the An Lushan Rebellion. An exiled aristocrat is drawn into a murder case that reveals a brutal power struggle in the Hexi Corridor, where every truth has a price and every choice shapes the frontier’s fate.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Cinematic 14.4%, Historical 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Investigation 18.6%, Adventure 9.1%, Female Protagonist 7.1%
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 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Historical 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Cinematic 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Cinematic 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Third Person 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Immerse yourself in a fairy tale, where your actions shape the story! Become a princess, navigate the murky political landscape, forge an alliance with the Fae, or turn your back on them. Make decisions that could save your kingdom, or destroy it if you misjudge the circumstances.
Why similar: Cinematic 21.5%, Third Person 12.3%, Emotional 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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: LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Investigation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Cinematic 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Detective 13.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Investigation 11.7%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Detective 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Investigation 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
An atmospheric first-person adventure set on a ship lost at sea. Uncover a mysterious retro-scifi story set in 1953, through exploration and puzzle solving, using unique 3D audio mechanics. An audiovisual experience blending retro graphics with modern visual effects.
Why similar: Naval 33.2% ★, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 13.7%, Cinematic 11.3%, Historical 9.6%
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 21.3%, Detective 18.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Investigation 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Paradise Club is known to the wealthy as the island of all fantasies. The leaders cater to every need: young women, submissives, strippers, twins, etc... Our two heroes arrive on the island to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of their half-sister.
Why similar: Investigation 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 12.7%, Detective 9.5%
Awaken in a ruined world with no memory. A second chance to redeem yourself, but survival is a daily challenge. Aid survivors, manage madness with a black cat's help, and uncover your true purpose.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Cinematic 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Investigation 11.3%, Emotional 10.7%
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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving. Uncover the mystery of this eerie event while building a dynamic relationship between the only two people remaining, through the many impactful and hard-hitting choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Emotional 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Mystery 10.6%
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 23.3%, Investigation 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Mystery 10.4%
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 24.8%, Investigation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Mystery 11%
Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Cinematic 14%, Emotional 10.5%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Historical 13.2%, Investigation 12.2%, Mystery 8.9%
Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Cinematic 10.7%
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 18.7%, Investigation 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Detective 14%, Mystery 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%
