60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Investigation, Choices Matter, Singleplayer.
What's it like to be queer in a totalitarian regime? Explore your identity as a wolf detective working for the state. Sniff for clues. Interrogate or date other characters. Make lasting choices. Will you fight your instincts or embrace who you really are and face the consequences?
BlightFog
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
The Grant Grover Anthology
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.
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Wolves 29% ★, Transhumanism 23.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Lore-Rich 6.6%
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: Transhumanism 30.3% ★, Detective 19.9%, Noir 14.4%, Investigation 12.4%, Dystopian 9.2%
A game about building and exploring connections. Explore a rich vibrant world of diverse people as you figure out what mystery awaits in The Mossfield Archives
Why similar: Transhumanism 34.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 22%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Investigation 7.5%, Story Rich 7.1%
You are a former servant, sold off as an instructor to take care of a Beastkin! Flatter the Beastkin by having chats, gifting presents, and more. Whether or not you can take great care of her is up to you.
Why similar: Wolves 87.8% ★, Romance 5.7%, Adventure 3%, Exploration 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Why similar: Wolves 72.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Story Rich 4.6%, Stylized 4.3%, Exploration 3.4%
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: Detective 29.8%, Investigation 27.4%, Story Rich 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Stylized 7.1%
Born yesterday, you are a detective in a Sumerpunk city ruled by gods. Navigate shifting allegiances, make impossible choices, and decide who survives as the divine order fractures. Will you remain a pawn or shape your own fate?
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 14%, Transhumanism 12.7% ★, RPG 10.4%, Dystopian 9.5%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.9% ★, Detective 17.4%, Investigation 12.5%, Noir 11.8%, Psychological 9.5%
Command your minions to solve mysteries and cover up scandals in a high-class boarding school, where the competition is cut-throat and image is everything. But be careful - one of your minions is a traitor.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Investigation 15.1%, Noir 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Investigation 20.4%, Psychological 14.3%, Noir 11%, Story Rich 7.2%
Trapped in the Shadow Fortress, you play as a Hunter. Scour for gears and link the clues to unmask the lies. Execute the hidden werewolves before you become the next nightly sacrifice.
Why similar: Wolves 54.3% ★, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 12.6%, Dynamic Narration 10.4% ★, Choices Matter 6.6%
A 2.5D game immersing you in the atmosphere of Soviet perestroika. A grim mystery awaits in the city of M, where a terrifying incident has occurred. You’ll explore locations, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets hidden in the shadows of events that shook this world.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 17.8%, Dynamic Narration 16.2% ★, Choices Matter 9.6%, Lore-Rich 7%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 33.9%, Investigation 23.9%, Transhumanism 18.8% ★, Story Rich 7.5%, Choices Matter 5.9%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 36.8%, Investigation 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Story Rich 8.4%, Stylized 3.8%
Explore the acclaimed animal adventure in never before seen beauty! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Why similar: Wolves 72.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 14%, Story Rich 5.3%, Exploration 3.8%, Adventure 3%
In The Beat you take on the role of Leo, a closeted cop investigating a murder in the gay community. Each choice you make has a meaningful effect on the story and the more drama you create the higher your score.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26%, Detective 20.8%, Noir 17.7%, Investigation 11%, Dynamic Narration 6.3% ★
The Supreme Committee congratulates you on your promotion. Your task is to identify citizens infected by the unknown virus. Interrogate, inspect, pass a verdict. Test your deduction in a world of total control. Remember: the Standard above all.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Investigation 19.2%, Dystopian 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Return to a mountain reserve abandoned after the storms. Restore its radio network, repair roads, survive the wilderness, and follow a nine-year-old transmission into the sealed North Range. Play alone, online, or in local split-screen co-op.
Why similar: Wolves 57.2% ★, Investigation 11.6%, Dystopian 7.9%, Adventure 7.1%, RPG 6.7%
Become Yoon Seunghyun, a young cadet starting his internship, and face a real, mysterious crime on your very first day.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Detective 21.3%, Investigation 14.3%, Psychological 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Investigation 18.5%, Noir 13.1%, Psychological 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 33%, Investigation 24.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Noir 13.4%, Story Rich 5.1%
Truth hides in the details. Investigate crime scenes, photograph evidence, analyze case files, and search the police database. Connect clues on the detective board, return to locations when something does not add up, and identify the culprit in each standalone case.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 24.1%, Psychological 15.3%, Noir 14%, Stylized 5.8%
In this twisted love story of a visual novel by CLOCKUP, an insomniac must decide whether to protect his position as a yakuza bigwig’s pet killer or the mysterious woman who can put him to sleep.
Why similar: Wolves 71.1% ★, Romance 6.8%, Choices Matter 5.8%, Dark 5.6%, Stylized 4.9%
A sapphic fairy tale mashup as Robin Hood teams up with Red Riding Hood to save their town set in a historically accurate medieval England.
Why similar: Wolves 59.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Story Rich 5.9%, Romance 5.6%
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: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Noir 14.1%, Psychological 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
The human microbiome, activated by an ancient virus, develops self-awareness, creating a conflict between the microbial consciousness and human self-awareness. The protagonist's father is controlled by the awakened microbiome, setting off a series of tragedies.
Why similar: Transhumanism 37.9% ★, Detective 16.7%, Investigation 15.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Dystopian 6.9%
BWM is a 3D multiplayer Werewolf survival game for 12 players with day/night shifts. Share info by day, fight monsters by night. But beware: hidden Werewolves lurk among you, leading to psychological war. Use 3D proximity voice chat to survive this terrifying paranoia!
Searchbar Detective is a 2D Mystery Game set in a virtual world in which you use your searchbar to solve crimes and uncover conspiracies.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Dynamic Narration 16.3% ★, Noir 12.7%, Dystopian 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
The Examiner has a number. You are not issued a name. You do not require one. Names are an operational measure applied to units, for the reasons set out above, and staff are not units. You do have a name. You are simply not using it here. Nobody has asked for it in some time.
Why similar: Detective 29.5%, Investigation 23.5%, Psychological 12.5%, Dystopian 10.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%
A first-person, turn-based dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by six ancient mythologies. Create your character, master spells, craft and enchant equipment, recruit followers, and battle gods, monsters, and the undead across 60 handcrafted dungeons.
Why similar: Wolves 61.1% ★, Lore-Rich 10.3%, RPG 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Story Rich 6.2%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Investigation 17.3%, Psychological 15.2%, Choices Matter 11%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Investigation 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Lore-Rich 8%
An investigative RPG where every choice changes the town, and you. Explore dangers across Day, Night, and Twilight, uncover what’s really happening, and survive the things that notice you noticing them.
Why similar: Detective 30.2%, Investigation 20.8%, RPG 15.4%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Explore the world of the dieselpunk society of robot-bugs in The Energy Case. Follow Detective "Dec" in solving the murder of a scientist, who was working on cleaner energy sources, and maybe join the energy transition for a cleaner, greener future!
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Noir 19.4%, Investigation 18.8%, Dystopian 8.2%, Story Rich 6.6%
You are a detective on a rogue manhunt through the beautiful country of Italy. Gather clues, interview witnesses and uncover dark secrets to solve the case. Follow your own path to the solution in this 1970's noir crime road-trip.
Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Investigation 24.8%, Noir 19.3%, Story Rich 7.1%, Adventure 5.8%
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 39.5%, Investigation 30.8%, Noir 14%, Story Rich 9.8%, Adventure 4.9%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Detective 32.8%, Investigation 26.2%, Psychological 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 5.9%
Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.
Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Investigation 18.5%, Dynamic Narration 16.9% ★, Psychological 12.7%, Noir 9.3%
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: Detective 31.6%, Investigation 23.8%, Noir 20.3%, Stylized 6.9%, Story Rich 6%
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Investigation 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Noir 14.5%, Choices Matter 9%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Investigation 24.8%, Noir 19.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Adventure 6.3%
A supernatural mystery where perspective informs reality. Guide agents from the Eventide Agency through paranormal investigations across a neon-soaked cityscape. Explore, collect clues, and interpret the evidence to uncover the facts of each case and expose a deeper truth.
Why similar: Detective 28%, Investigation 21.1%, Noir 16.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Story Rich 5.9%
A sci-fi interrogation game. No more than ten people in the galaxy can do your job. The person across the table is already convicted. Find out why they did it, then decide what the truth will cost them.
Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Investigation 22.6%, Psychological 13.4%, Dystopian 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 19.3%, Dynamic Narration 15.1% ★, Choices Matter 10%, Story Rich 6.7%
A murder mystery visual novel where you play a fish-out-of-water college student who must face the best and worst traits animalkind has to offer. Solve the mystery of this school as you develop close bonds, get intimate, and uncover shocking secrets with alluring, yet deeply flawed, ordinary men.
Why similar: Detective 34.4%, LGBTQ+ 30.1%, Investigation 13%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Romance 6%
How much damage can love do when there is no one watching? A first-person psychological horror game. One facility. One voice. Two realities.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.9% ★, Investigation 15%, Psychological 13.7%, Dystopian 11.1%, Dynamic Narration 10.7% ★
A mystical action-detective game immersed in Soviet retro-futurism. Solve puzzles and cross the line between the real and mental worlds. Use stealth, parkour, and chases to help the heroes reach their goals. Uncover the deep secrets of a small town called Tiolis.
Why similar: Detective 32.2%, Dynamic Narration 20% ★, Noir 14.5%, Psychological 8.3%, Lore-Rich 7.2%
You were hired to watch. Not to ask questions. Night shift. Corporate building. Cameras, reports, anomalies. Your predecessor left no final report. Now you're going to find out why. Please proceed.
Why similar: Investigation 18.5%, Detective 17.6%, Psychological 16%, Dystopian 10.9%, Noir 10.3%
You are a corporate flesh object with no way to speak on your own trying to pose as a human by mimicking what other people say. Serve the corporation that owns you, complete your assignment.
Why similar: Transhumanism 32.4% ★, Investigation 16.7%, Dystopian 11.4%, Psychological 10.2%, Lore-Rich 8.6%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 29.6%, Investigation 23%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Noir 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 27%, Investigation 19.7%, Noir 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Dystopian 10.1%
Unravel the mystery of three magical artists who went missing during World War II in this challenging, story-rich deduction game. Explore artworks, letters, photographs, and interviews to answer the question: What really happened to the Surradistes?
Why similar: Detective 29.6%, LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Investigation 26%, Story Rich 8.3%, Lore-Rich 4.8%
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: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Psychological 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 35.9%, Investigation 21.9%, Noir 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Story Rich 8.5%
Join Ludovik in a 2D Stealth Platformer and Graphic Adventure, as he explores the jungles of a futuristic Babylon to discover the secret behind the Library of Babel’s sudden lockdown and the mysteries behind their mythical creators.
Why similar: Transhumanism 33% ★, Detective 22.2%, Noir 15.8%, Dynamic Narration 13.7% ★, Choices Matter 9.1%
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 35.1%, Investigation 25.3%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Lore-Rich 8.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Dynamic Narration 17.1% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Psychological 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Go ahead and take on this psychological point and click puzzle adventure. Uncover the truth behind Jim’s shady past, his current mental illness and his peerless journey to vanquish a madman!
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Noir 16.4%, Psychological 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 7.9%
Necropolis Suite, is an immersive narrative-driven cosmic horror game about discovery, knowledge, and the meaning of transcendence. Can you escape the terror that lurks in the suite?
Why similar: Detective 32%, Investigation 16.4%, Noir 15.2%, Story Rich 8.4%, Lore-Rich 8.3%
The greatest detective in São Paolo is dead, and you are the prime suspect in his death. Investigate the detective's past cases, unravel the web of mysteries that binds the great city, and prove your innocence. Enigmatic letters, hidden secrets, and one certainty: Every story has two sides.
Why similar: Detective 35.1%, Investigation 25.1%, Noir 21.7%, Story Rich 9.2%, Exploration 4.8%
