60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Investigation, Story Rich.
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
The Zodiac Trial
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!
Death off the Cuff
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
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: Experimental 18% ★, Investigation 12.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Detective 10.2%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Investigation 16.9%, Point & Click 12.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
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 16.5%, Detective 13.8%, Investigation 13.3%, Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 11%
They got locked up in a prison for a reason. Try to get the answers in this point and click adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 12.5%, Point & Click 12.4%, Conversation 10%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Investigation 15.3%, Conversation 12.6%, Narration 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Text-Based 10.4%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Experimental 14.4% ★, Text-Based 13.2%, Narration 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Investigation 12.2%, Conversation 10.7%, Text-Based 9%, Horror 9%
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 13.4%, Conversation 11.3%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Detective 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 15.7%, Detective 15.6%, Point & Click 15.3%, Conversation 9.9%
The conjoined twins were bullied and humiliated... Now justice will be served! BLOODY SERVICE is a dark, gory and violent coming-of-age slasher FMV Visual Novel with gruesome deaths and clever one-liners related to tennis. Game, set, machete!
Why similar: Experimental 16.2% ★, Investigation 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Conversation 8.5%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 18.1%, Detective 14.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Conversation 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Detective 18.4%, Point & Click 15.4%, Narration 10.5%, Exploration 9.6%
A short pixel-art mystery where you play as Nathan, a private investigator drawn into a curious case. Interrogate suspects, examine clues, and uncover hidden details
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Investigation 19.6%, Point & Click 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Investigation 15.6%, Detective 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 10%
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 15.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Narration 10.3%
A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone. Point, click and chat as you investigate on your new computer in this puzzle mystery.
Why similar: Investigation 15.7%, Experimental 15.1% ★, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Point & Click 10.8%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Detective 12.5%, Point & Click 12%
Have you ever wanted to make choices that matter and you like cyberpunk? Delete the memories of humans in "Nice to NO you" - a dystopian dialogue game where you decide the fate of individuals and the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Experimental 14.2% ★, Conversation 12.7%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Point & Click 11.7%, Conversation 9.8%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Investigation 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 14%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Conversation 10.8%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Experimental 19.6% ★, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Narration 10.7%
A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.
Why similar: Investigation 30.3%, Narration 20.1%, Experimental 19.1% ★, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 10.2%
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: Investigation 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Narration 11.4%, Text-Based 11%
As a counselor in a mysterious facility, you are to examine children with strange powers and fill in their "Paranormal Records". In this story-based, choice-driven game, you will have to pry open your subjects' minds... but what you find inside them could prove dangerous.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Conversation 18.1%, Point & Click 17%, Investigation 15.7%, Horror 11.4%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Detective 11.2%, Point & Click 10.5%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Investigation 8.6%
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 13.9%, RPG 11.7%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 15.9%, Conversation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
A game that you'll never forget! Memory Lane is a turned based RPG about taking names. Literally.
Why similar: Experimental 17.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Conversation 8%
Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Detective 19.1%, Conversation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Detective 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Narration 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Exploration 7.3%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Conversation 12.6%, Point & Click 10.8%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 12.1%, Investigation 11.4%
A visual novel about a man experiencing his family relationships through a state of compressed time. Choose what happened in his past and then watch it play out as you explore family dynamics and the effects that a person's life events can have on the way they interact with others.
Why similar: Experimental 27.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Conversation 13.3%, Text-Based 10.4%, Narration 10.2%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Detective 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Point & Click 11.6%
A puzzle game where you are the newest recruit to a government agency dedicated to stopping cyber crimes. You must prove yourself and level up in the system by solving puzzles, at the same time there is a mystery to uncover at the agency. Who can you trust?
Why similar: Investigation 25.9%, Detective 21.3%, Text-Based 18.3%, Conversation 11.9%, Narration 9.1%
Forces beyond human comprehension draw a macabre veil over the icy NY of 1927. A child has disappeared and you, a reporter with an unhappy past as an artist, become entangled in the drama. In this story, inspired by true events, you will investigate between reality, dreams and Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Conversation 14.5%, Horror 9.9%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, RPG 11.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Investigation 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Conversation 6.6%
In this narrative game, you play as Paula Cole, a food safety officer for a multinational corporation, who gradually takes on the role of whistleblower. The whole scenario is based on a journalistic work, coordinated with the online newspaper Mediapart.
Why similar: Conversation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Narration 15%, Investigation 13.1%, Text-Based 11.6%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Conversation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Point & Click 12.3%
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Narration 12.6%
[IS THE GIRL IN THE MANOR ALIVE OR DEAD?] Investigate an abandoned manor, gather evidence, and make choices that affect both the past and future in this mystery point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 23.1%, Detective 18.6%, Horror 11.8%, Narration 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.2%
After washing onto a private island, you soon find yourself in the middle of a murder mystery puzzle. The worst part? Everyone thinks you've dunnit! Will you be able to prove Detective Sal's innocence? Find clues, spot contradictions and solve puzzles to discover the truth and find the real killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Conversation 17.5%, Text-Based 17.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Linear 8.4%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Detective 14%, Narration 9.2%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Conversation 12.9%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Investigation 15.6%, Conversation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Let's keep it simple. Detective arrives to Bucarest. Missing guest in a small hotel. And hawaian pizza. If you want to know how those things blend together... Just press the start button.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Investigation 11.1%, Narration 10.2%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 9.2%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Detective 14%, Investigation 12%, Conversation 11.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Point & Click 16.5%, Text-Based 14%, Exploration 6.8%
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Conversation 10.9%
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 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Conversation 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 18%, Detective 15.8%, Point & Click 12.5%, Narration 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, Detective 14.9%, Conversation 11.3%, Point & Click 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 11.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Horror 11.2%
