60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Adventure, Exploration, Mystery.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Neoproxima
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
The Restricted Index
You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories and decide what knowledge survives.
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Cold War 20.9% ★, Narrative 20.4% ★, Alternate History 15.4%, Dystopian 11.7%, Investigation 9%
You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories and decide what knowledge survives.
Why similar: Narrative 23% ★, Alternate History 17.4%, Dystopian 16.7%, Investigation 12.3%, Mystery 7.6%
Unravel an ancient cult conspiracy in this hand-drawn mystery adventure. Travel across London, Beijing, and Rome, crossing paths with eccentric characters while piecing together clues in an odyssey that blurs the line between myth and reality.
Why similar: Narrative 18.3% ★, Noir 17%, Alternate History 16.5%, Dystopian 14.4%, Investigation 12%
the tide always wins
Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Alternate History 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Investigation 9.6%, Realistic 8.4%
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Noir 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Realistic 8.2%, Mystery 6.8%
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: Investigation 14.6%, Narrative 14.2% ★, Noir 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Explore the erased cold war era Soviet town of Novokirsk, where fear became alive. Uncover the truth behind Project Zvezda and the entity Nyog’vran in this atmospheric, narrative-driven psychological horror with no combat, only sound, light, and your sanity.
Why similar: Cold War 23.5% ★, Noir 17.9%, Alternate History 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Realistic 7.6%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Narrative 15.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dystopian 14.3%, Investigation 10.1%
After losing his family to the killer he seeks to unmask, Detective Jack Whiting is kidnapped and locked in a basement of harrowing puzzles, soul-crushing decisions, and hellish sacrifices. Survival comes at a great cost, but before you can survive, you have to truly open your eyes.
Why similar: Cold War 27.6% ★, Alternate History 21.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Realistic 10.3%, First-Person 7%
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: Dystopian 19.7%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Mystery 9.8%
This is a branching visual novel with multiple endings, centered around a public incident. Depending on your perspective, you will only be able to see part of what happened. And your choices will ultimately shape the fate of the protagonist and those around him.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.8%, Narrative 22.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Dystopian 13.9%, RPG 10.4%
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: Noir 17.5%, Dystopian 13.7%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Noir 12.4%, RPG 11.3%
An adventure game set in the near future in a world of cataclysmic climate changes. As one of the few lucky survivals, you’re about to embark on a full of peril, pitfalls, and difficult choices journey to the epicenter of the weather disaster to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Alternate History 29%, Dystopian 19%, Investigation 12.5%, Exploration 7.7%, Mystery 7.3%
The Undying Sea is a first-person exploration title about dealing with death, exploring a city in decline, and reaching out a hand to those who need it on a long-decaying oceanic city filled with once immortal beings now way too aware that they aren't immortal anymore...
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Alternate History 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Investigation 11.3%, Exploration 6.9%
A Pythonesque Indie point and click adventure game set in the year 2035. Follow the journey of a bureaucrat as he tracks down a malevolent force running experiments on citizens. Armed with a government issue briefcase and a pet mouse, he tracks down an evil agent only to find more than he expected
Why similar: Noir 20.4%, Alternate History 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dystopian 13%, Investigation 8.9%
In this non-linear dystopian adventure, your goal is to hunt down dissidents standing in the way of a brighter future. Interrogate your fellow citizens, gain evidence of dissent, reveal their motives, and decide their fates. Support the system or use your position to dismantle it, brick by brick.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.1%, Investigation 17.5%, Futuristic 12%, Choices Matter 10.4%, RPG 9%
RIP Love: A Story of Pain is a narrative-driven experience about love, loss, and betrayal. Explore the emotional weight of grief and depression through interactive storytelling, atmospheric design
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, Noir 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Realistic 8.7%, Third Person 8.1%
You wake on the last train at an unfamiliar terminus. Only one app opens on your phone: Orange Wiki, a guide to this place, its entities, and your escape. Explore, compare clues with wiki entries, and find a way out in this first-person horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Investigation 12.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Exploration 8%
Play as Ollie and Spade, a rebel and detective, on both sides of a high-profile murder case, in a dual-character investigative-stealth experience. Discover the secrets plaguing the citizens of Andropolis.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Dystopian 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Investigation 10.1%, Realistic 9.2%
A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Investigation 11%, Realistic 9.4%
You play as Audrey, who has just inherited a mansion from an uncle she never met. Step inside and explore the mansion to unveil the story of what happened to your uncle Otto, his butler, and this kinda creepy place. 😬
Why similar: Narrative 31.8% ★, Investigation 22.4%, Mystery 12.5%, Exploration 11%, Third Person 9.6%
Join a thrilling adventure with an Ambassador of the United States & a Hungarian Crown Guard to keep the Hungarian Holy Crown from Nazis and return it to Hungary during the Cold War. You can't trust anyone on this journey; only your wits.
Why similar: Cold War 23.9% ★, Noir 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Third Person 8.3%
You are a field agent with the criminal investigation unit: sweep the scene, photograph it, bag the evidence and pin it to your board until one name is left. Five cases, 31 suspects, 83 pieces of evidence, no quest markers. Nobody confirms your theory: you sign the accusation.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Narrative 18.3% ★, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Realistic 7.6%
Havana Blood is a crime‑noir shooter grounded in real Cuban and exile history. Fight, sneak, and survive across Havana and Miami as crime, loyalty, and violence collide. You play as Héctor Mendoza, former officer for Fulgencio Batista, fight for your family and for Havana. Join the revolution, now!
Why similar: Cold War 20.2% ★, Noir 19.3%, Narrative 18.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.4%, Realistic 7.8%
In a reality stuck in a technologically unadvanced society stricken with the negative impacts of a worldwide climate disaster, you are a uniquely powered private investigator tasked with uncovering advanced technology from another reality with the potential to save your whole world.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Investigation 14.3%, Alternate History 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, RPG 6.1%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Narrative 24.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.
Why similar: Alternate History 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 12.4%, Exploration 7.9%
Jack Beckham is found dead, hanging in his apartment alone. Police rule it a suicide. His father, refusing to accept the conclusion, hires you to investigate. Delve into the clues left behind in his apartment to discover what really happened.
Why similar: Noir 28.3%, Narrative 20.6% ★, Investigation 17.8%, Mystery 10%, Exploration 5.8%
You are in a post-apocalyptic underground vault where every decision carries weight. As you embark on quests and unravel a deep, twisting story, your actions will permanently alter the lives of your fellow inhabitants.
Why similar: Narrative 23.4% ★, Dystopian 20%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Mystery 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 34% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 8.4%, Mystery 6.9%
A grimy, neon filled immersive sim set in a dystopian alternate history 1972. Sneak, fight, and trick your way through a beautifully ugly city, and discover the world of Spectra.
Why similar: Cold War 22.1% ★, Noir 22%, Alternate History 19.7%, Dystopian 12.4%, Realistic 9.1%
A linguistic detective game. Decrypt the Soviet computer to prevent total nuclear annihilation.
Why similar: Cold War 31.4% ★, Noir 18.1%, Alternate History 17.9%, Dystopian 10.8%, Realistic 7.3%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Noir 19.6%, RPG 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
Dreambreak is a story-driven adventure set in an alternative post-Cold War world, a quirky and unique mix of clashing gameplay genres. Get fingered for murder in without actually going there!
Why similar: Cold War 29.9% ★, Dystopian 17.8%, Alternate History 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Investigation 10.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Noir 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, RPG 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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: Narrative 22.1% ★, Noir 16.9%, Investigation 16.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Third Person 7%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Exploration 7%
Investigate the grisly murder of Philip Cartel in this dazzling sci-fi post-apocalyptic visual novel. You play an android detective piecing together their past while meeting strange and exotic characters, traveling a brutal world and unraveling the many mysteries it holds.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 12.8%, Futuristic 9.9%
A first-person choose-your-own adventure set in an anachronistic city.
Why similar: Alternate History 21.7%, Noir 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
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 22.3%, Investigation 15.1%, Mystery 10.3%, Third Person 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Dystopian 15.4%, Futuristic 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Third Person 8%
Play as a memorialist and investigate a dystopian city in this 3D adventure game. Collect memories, unlock visions, hack encrypted data, and expose the truth in the face of a regime that manipulates memory.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.4%, Investigation 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 12.1%, Third Person 8.7%, Mystery 8.2%
Sobakistan — the land of dogs, is a darkly satirical narrative immersion in a closed-off totalitarian dog state — where any step could send you to prison.
Why similar: Cold War 32.8% ★, Dystopian 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Exploration 7.5%
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: Investigation 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Narrative 15.8% ★, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 7.2%
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Why similar: Narrative 33.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 10%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 9.8%, Investigation 8.6%
On Tape << Rewind is a psychological horror story told through cassette tapes. Play recordings, search for clues, discover hidden cassettes, and manipulate audio. Unravel the mystery of a scientist’s disappearance and the obsession that consumed him — tape by tape.
Why similar: Narrative 25.9% ★, Cold War 19.1% ★, Investigation 18.1%, Mystery 9.6%, First-Person 6.7%
The Wickie is a first-person thriller set in the 1930s Outer Hebrides. Explore handcrafted islands, uncover cosmic horrors, and survive deadly dangers. With no weapons or maps, rely on wit and courage to solve mysteries. Rich in story,art, and Lovecraftian dread, Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Alternate History 20.7%, Noir 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, First-Person 7.3%
Exsomnis: Fires of Pompeii is an atmospheric first-person adventure set in the ancient city of Pompeii, as Mount Vesuvius erupts and the city is thrown into chaos.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.7%, Realistic 11.9%, Investigation 11.7%, Exploration 9.8%, First-Person 9.3%
All Aboard! The Twilight Train is a first-person narrative-adventure set on an interdimensional train. Explore the train, talk to the passengers, drink carrot juice, and help fellow passengers make it to their destination off this weird train.
Why similar: Narrative 25.9% ★, Noir 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Futuristic 9.9%, First-Person 7.2%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, RPG 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
In Neo Naarm in the 22nd century, augmentation technology has run amok. Combining deduction, visual novel and point and click gameplay, play as Grant Grover, private detective, one of the only remaining citizens without augmentations, as he solves crimes across the city.
Why similar: Noir 25%, Dystopian 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Narrative 10.6% ★
EXPLORE A 2.5D CINEMATIC WORLD. As the doomed city of Astro deals with civil unrest, climate-catastrophes and power-outages, you play a scientist-robot duo who must solve the mysteries of this world. The classic Point & Click system has been reinvented for a new type of action-packed storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Narrative 22.8% ★, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 8.1%, Futuristic 7.5%
"Whispering Eclipsia is a gripping first-person psychological horror detective game. Step into the shoes of Inspector Keshav to solve a series of ritualistic murders, survive reality-bending loops, and uncover the dark secrets lurking in the shadows of Woodslane."
Why similar: Noir 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 7.8%, Exploration 7.5%
A former agent. A past that won't stay buried. Your choices shape Blake Turner's mood and his mood reshapes the story, the world, and even the music itself. A psychological, choice-driven adventure of betrayal, identity, and redemption.
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Narrative 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Uncover the origins of SCP-173 in the abandoned exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl. Told through the lens of found footage recordings, explore a hidden facility where Soviet secrets should have remained forgotten.
Why similar: Cold War 30.8% ★, Alternate History 23.4%, First-Person 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Realistic 7.5%
"Crisis: The Third Way" is a fantastic visual novel set in a world struggling to recover from a devastating financial crisis that led to World War III.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Alternate History 21.2%, Dystopian 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Realistic 9.6%
