- #1 Window Of Perspectives
97% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Orange Hourglass_GamesPub: This was once revealed to me in a dream
Windows
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 15.7%, Detective 15.3%, Dark Comedy 12.5%, Nonlinear 11%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #2 Silent Harbor
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Silent Harbor is a first-person horror adventure game that will immerse you in a creepy story.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%, Dark 8.8%
- #3 The Zodiac Trial
96% matchVery Positive95% of 150 reviews2021
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Detective 11.8%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #4 Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
94% matchVery Positive90% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: Active Fungus Studios
Windows · Linux
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 16.1%, Nonlinear 16%, Investigation 14.7%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #5 Florida Man: Hurricane Hijinks
95% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Tag 44/24
Windows
Six hours until the hurricane hits. Six hours alone on a Florida island. Six hours to reach fame! What will your headline be?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Dark Humor 10.1%, Detective 10.1%
- #6 Something's Not Right
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GA Games
Windows
Ever gone somewhere and thought "Something's Not Right"? Explore, investigate and experience an ever changing environment. Enter the world and decide if everything is the same or whether something is different. Make your choice carfefully as it may be the last decision you ever make.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Dark Humor 11.7%
- #7 Emma Riley: Dream Detective
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Star Fort Games
Windows
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: Detective 22.8%, Investigation 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #8 Fate of New Albans
92% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: OTB Games
Windows
Engage with the townsfolk and native people to make decisions and choices, your actions will decide the fate of New Albans. With multiple endings, solve puzzles, speak to NPCs and explore the land in this story adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Hidden Object 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Puzzle 9%
- #9 The Untitled Show
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joe Highton
Windows · Linux
The Untitled Show is a first person narrative driven game set in the 1980's about a man named Martin in a warehouse late at night and a story that stays on script or not, whether you choose to or not.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Dark Humor 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #10 无效化 Negation
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DUIshui GamePub: DUIshui 兑水室
Windows
Wynnia is the only child in the sanatorium, spending her days lost in adventurous fantasies. Dr. Kai is a cold, meticulous physician who treats patients and diagnoses difficult cases. Innocent imagination and clinical rationality travel different tracks, yet quietly shape each other.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #11 Crime or Punishment
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scale Issue
Windows
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Nonlinear 18%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #12 Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel
89% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2021
Dev: Bandit Visual Games
Windows
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Dark Comedy 16%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #13 Is There a Way?
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SS GC Omnipotens
Windows · Mac
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.1%, Detective 17.4%, Investigation 16.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #14 Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 487 reviews2020
Dev: D'Avekki Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.4%, Detective 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Dark Humor 11.4%
- #15 A Bad Christmas Story
86% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: S&J Games
Windows · Mac
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: Detective 17.4%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Dark 10.8%
- #16 Project: New Light City
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Catch Light Interactive, LLC
Windows
You are Max Boston, tasked with solving a murder-suicide crisis in this third person psychological thriller. Use futuristic forensic tools, gather evidence, interrogate suspects, and solve challenging puzzles as you explore the city. Fair warning, Max has to face a few demons of his own, as well...
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Nonlinear 18.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #17 University of Progress
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blossom
Windows · Mac
A fully voiced visual novel where your choices actually matter. Welcome to college: annoying frat boys, unhinged goth girls, weird roommates, and every flavor of chaos. Go to class, get wasted, find love, whatever. Just try not to die.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Dark Humor 10.5%, LGBTQ+ 10.2%
- #18 Banned Together
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unquiet Games
Windows · Mac
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: Nonlinear 22.6%, Investigation 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #19 Обо: Шоу Теней
84% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Julliet Pub: Julliet Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #20 Unsummited
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Color Warp
Windows · Mac · Linux
A little RPG about a kid and their unbending will to get to the top of an infinite mountain- no matter the cost.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.2%, Nonlinear 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%
- #21 Graywood: Noir Detective
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Investigation 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #22 TEST TEST TEST
81% matchVery Positive92% of 999 reviews2024
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.6%, Detective 18.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Investigation 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #23 Clean Slate
82% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mariano JarPub: Time Ajar
Windows · Linux
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Investigation 17.8%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%
- #24 Nowhere New
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Space Girl Studios
Windows · Mac
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: Nonlinear 21.3%, Investigation 18.5%, Detective 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Dark 8.5%
- #25 Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
81% matchMostly Negative40% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamloop GamesPub: Aksys Games
Windows
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: Detective 18.1%, Investigation 17.2%, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dark Humor 10.1%
- #26 Black Layer
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Montego
Windows
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 26.9%, Detective 25.4%, Story Rich 13.4%, Puzzle 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #27 DEKONSTRUKT
80% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: MASTERBASTION
Windows
An inglorious story of a game developer with plenty of destructive black humor. Interestingly, someone reads this at all?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 26%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
- #28 BIG DRUG
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sour Sugar
Windows
BIG DRUG - Cooperative, Power and Bank Robbery, where you are looking for a robber in the role of a Policeman so that you will not be fired from your job. Your whole life is at stake. Can you find the culprit!? It all depends on you!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.8%, Detective 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #29 Hadaka Shitsuji - Naked Butlers
79% matchVery Positive86% of 148 reviews2019
Dev: MADA LaboPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Naked Butlers is a hardcore yaoi visual novel rife with dark comedy. Unleash your inner sadist and bully these hot butlers good in this solo project from a developer who absolutely loves butlers!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #30 アパシー殺人クラブ
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: SHANNON
Windows
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.1%, Dark Humor 21.7%, Multiple Endings 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 5.8%
- #31 Five Day Detective
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Krunchy Fried Games
Windows
Five Day Detective is a point and click style adventure game featuring multiple murder cases and a twisted sense of humour.
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Dark Comedy 23.2%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Investigation 14.8%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #32 Sammy Jukes: Twin Lakes
77% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Wamill
Windows
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #33 Brood Year
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wurm Fud
Windows
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 16%, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Choices Matter 12%
- #34 Defective Detectives 2
74% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
A comedic detective visual novel in a noir style. Try on an old raincoat, arm yourself with a half-eaten éclair, and set out to find the Mayor's stolen wig! Read dialogue, make choices, and try not to lead the investigation down a dead end before the Sausage Baron takes over the city.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 21.1%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Exploration 10.4%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #35 Vivian Wade: Danger Down The Aisle
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Michelley Studio
Windows
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: Investigation 24.6%, Detective 17.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #36 Pitch Black: A Dusklight Story - Episode One
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Purple JamPub: Purple Jam Ltd
Windows · Mac
A narrative driven exploration game. Close your eyes and listen. Uncover. Choose. Fight. All within the dark and eccentric sound world of Pitch Black. The light will know.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.1%, Dark Humor 14%, Investigation 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Dark 8.6%
- #37 SUSubus
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Forget-Me-Not Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Investigation 17.3%, Multiple Endings 16.2%
- #38 Tales of Herring Lake
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bit GolemPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Welcome to Tales of Herring Lake, where your favourite Sunday fishing show meets Alfred Hitchcock. Grab your gear and start shaping your story!
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.2%, Investigation 22%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
- #39 Deluded I
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: New IDEA Games
Windows
A worn out detective with his demons to fight and a homicide case to solve. Deluded is an interactive crime thriller movie with point-and-click investigation and adrenaline pumped quick time events.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Quick-Time Events 11.5% ★, Nonlinear 7.8%
- #40 Circus Saboteur
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: No Sequels Cooperative
Windows
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.9%, Investigation 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Detective 11.2%
- #41 Poltergirl
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Robert Stephenson
Windows
Make your choice! Are you an ally or enemy of the monsters living right beneath your feet? Take control of a brother and ghostly sister to discover the mystery of your town, as well as life and death itself.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.2%, Detective 19%, Investigation 17.9%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #42 Gambling Simulator - Win it All or Lose it All
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NG Games
Windows
Put everything on the line! your money, your house, your dignity. A chaotic, full of dark humor, disastrous gambling sim, where the real jackpot is knowing when to stop.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.9%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Nonlinear 13%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #43 KaraDedeler 1989
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 36 reviews2021
Dev: Helraiser
Windows
Journalist Mustafa, who heard the news of the "jinn" raid in one of the remote villages of Turkey in 1988, immediately got in his car to investigate the incident and set off.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Nonlinear 20%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Hidden Object 11.1%, Investigation 10.9%
- #44 AI Confidential
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Critical Wit
Windows · Linux
Artificial Intelligence, Real Problems: You are Makenzy Turner, an affable RoboTechnician employed by AI megacorp, Indelligent Solutions. With your trusty assistant ARI, use high-tech tools and old-fashioned empathy to mend everything from broken parts to broken hearts.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Detective 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #45 Creepy Cases Teen Detective Club
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tiago Freitas
Windows
The mysterious death of a girl on the municipal school sports field shook the small town of Sky Cliffs. Haunting days pass, and amid disappearances, paranormal activity, and ghosts, the Teen Detective Club takes on the investigation of these frightening cases.
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.7%, Detective 24%, Investigation 22.2%, Dark 11.2%, Exploration 6.9%
- #46 Let's MEAT Adam 2
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: SoulsofteaPub: Soulsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
LMA2 is a Gay Bara Horror Visual Novel, with murder mystery and puzzle elements; the sequel to 2017's "Let's MEAT Adam".
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Hidden Object 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #47 ANAVASI
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horos Games
Windows
A cinematic narrative adventure set in modern-day Athens. Game developer Jason is drawn into a centuries-old society of vampires hidden beneath the city — where every choice pulls him toward truth, obsession, or damnation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Investigation 11.6%
- #48 Numinous
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bremit Studios
Windows
Investigate a missing content creator in an abandoned kampong in this atmospheric horror game. Explore haunted ruins, uncover dark secrets, and evade the lurking presence of the Pontianak. Will you uncover the truth or become part of the legend?
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Hidden Object 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #49 Endless Bounty
70% matchVery Positive93% of 132 reviews2020
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is a point and click adventure where you lead Drok'tar through the town of Gabranth and its surrounding areas while looking for his bounty. You'll meet a slew of characters along with way, and if you play your cards right, you'll find yourself in more... erotic situations with some of them.
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Nonlinear 17%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #50 Kindergarten 3
67% matchVery Positive95% of 1,735 reviews2025
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.8%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Investigation 11.1%, Choices Matter 10%
- #51 The Vanished Soul
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InBetween Realities
Windows
The Vanished Soul is a solo-developed, first-person psychological horror set in 2016 in the fictional city of Novazenica. Explore a hauntingly realistic world, solve puzzles, make choices that matter, and face randomized scares in every playthrough.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Investigation 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #52 Reventure
68% matchVery Positive95% of 9,820 reviews2019
Dev: Pixelatto
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!
Why similar: Multiple Endings 18.4%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Dark Comedy 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
- #53 White Rats
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zlobster
Windows · Mac · Linux
White Rats is a visual novel about survival, memory, and betrayal inside an abandoned science facility. Make your choice, uncover the truth — or become part of the experiment.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.6%, Detective 17.1%, Quick-Time Events 15.7% ★, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #54 Skool Days
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cocodrolo Games
Windows · Mac
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Hidden Object 9.3%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #55 Private Eye: The Young Heir
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucky 7 Studios
Windows
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 21.3%, Investigation 19.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #56 Find The Murderer 2
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Ilmir Nasertdinov
Windows
The director's body was found in the office. It looks like a suicide but the detective has a different opinion.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24%, Detective 21.1%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Investigation 11.2%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #57 Kindred [High Tide]
66% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Victoria RafaelianPub: Captain Edge Studios
Windows
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 24.3%, Investigation 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #58 Sir Bucket
66% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Christian KielPub: FatLadGames
Windows
Sir Bucket is a choose-your-own-adventure game set in a fantasy world with over 30 different endings. Explore the world and have your story told by a wisecracking narrator.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #59 Whateverland: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive86% of 188 reviews2020
Dev: Caligari Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Prologue to Whateverland, an upcoming point-n-click adventure set in a bizarrely beautiful hand-drawn world, where everyone gets what they truly deserve. Experience the beginning of the journey of Vincent, an unfortunate thief, who can either find a way out or stay trapped there forever.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.4%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%