Games Like Murder

A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 45.7%, Point & Click 23.2%, Adventure 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential cyberpunk point-and-click adventure that masterfully explores themes of sentience and morality in a dystopian future.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 61.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Point & Click 11.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-heavy experience focuses on the intersection of technology and human emotion through deep, philosophical dialogue.

Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.9%, Point & Click 24.7%, Adventure 17.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong female protagonist in a sci-fi setting, focusing on detective work and moral choices similar to the seed game.

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 52.6%, Point & Click 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style pixel-art point-and-click adventure that perfectly captures the gritty, neon-soaked aesthetic of the cyberpunk genre.

Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.9%, Point & Click 29.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, noir-inspired cyberpunk adventure that excels at building a compelling, gritty world through pixel art.

Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.7%, Cyberpunk 28.6%, Adventure 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure that shares the seed game's focus on robotic sentience and philosophical inquiry.

A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.9%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 18%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developers, this title shares the distinct pixel-art style and intimate narrative focus of the seed game.

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Why similar: Cyberpunk 62.5%, Point & Click 17%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on conversation and moral dilemmas, mirroring the core thematic exploration of the seed game.

A former combat hacker, a corporate CEO and a malfunctioning android get possessed by mysterious, otherworldly entities and must band together to save themselves and uncover the entities' origins. Talk, puzzle and explore your way through this (often humorous) cyberpunk thriller.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 44.8%, Point & Click 20.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure that blends a gritty future setting with engaging, character-driven storytelling.

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Why similar: Cyberpunk 57.3%, Point & Click 23.6%, Adventure 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven cyberpunk adventure that features a strong focus on character relationships and technological ethics.

Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 45.2%, Point & Click 22.9%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A detective-focused cyberpunk game that emphasizes investigation and the consequences of your choices.

The third game in the Blackwell series

Why similar: Point & Click 57.2%, Adventure 24.4%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural detective adventure that shares the point-and-click mechanics and strong female lead of the seed game.

A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.9%, Adventure 20.6%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian point-and-click adventure that captures the same sense of moral urgency and environmental storytelling.

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: Cyberpunk 47.2%, Point & Click 18.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, pixel-art cyberpunk adventure that mirrors the pacing and visual style of the seed game.

Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.

Why similar: Point & Click 45.6%, Adventure 21.8%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Indie 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the investigative focus of the series, providing a grounded, character-driven mystery experience.

You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.5%, Point & Click 24.2%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Adventure 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled cyberpunk point-and-click adventure that focuses on story-rich exploration and character development.

Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

Why similar: Point & Click 97.5%, Adventure 0.9%, Female Protagonist 0.7%, Pixel Graphics 0.6%, Indie 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a compelling female lead in a mystery-driven point-and-click adventure with a strong focus on narrative depth.

Alternativa is a story that will take you to a world much different to what you'd expect in 2045. To a world destroyed by war and revolutions, a world led by an oppressive and cruel dictatorship. Classic point&click adventure game based on the original sci-fi/cyber-punk script which is composed of a number of shorter stories that...

Why similar: Cyberpunk 40.4%, Point & Click 30.5%, Adventure 29%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian point-and-click adventure that provides a similar atmospheric experience to the seed game.

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Indie 25.8%, Point & Click 22.9%, Female Protagonist 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, morality-focused adventure that challenges the player with difficult ethical decisions.

Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 44%, Point & Click 23.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines detective investigation with a rich cyberpunk setting, offering a deep narrative experience.

Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 67.9%, Female Protagonist 13%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D cyberpunk action-RPG that captures the gritty, neon-dystopian feel of the genre.

Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Indie 37.3%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11%

Why You'll Like It: A short, choice-driven political simulation that explores the impact of media and technology on society.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 72.5%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply narrative-driven cyberpunk game that explores identity and morality through choice-based gameplay.

A mystery visual novel taking place aboard the underwater train Marine Express. Follow student Ranko Togawa on her quest to find the culprit on the murder of an accompanying teacher... with lots of surprises along the way!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 40.3%, Pixel Graphics 33.5%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-focused visual novel with pixel-art aesthetics and a female protagonist.

Join the District Crime Agency in this isometric, modern noir deduction thriller. Explore crime scenes in complex dioramas, organize your evidence effectively, and blur the lines between right and wrong to present your case. Do you have what it takes to be a real detective?

Why similar: Point & Click 34.6%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 26.2%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on detective work and investigation, appealing to those who enjoyed the mystery elements of the seed game.

halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.9%, Pixel Graphics 21%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 11.6%

Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 44%, Point & Click 22.5%, Adventure 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation game that focuses on the moral implications of judicial decisions in a technological future.

An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.9%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 21.6%, Female Protagonist 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: An indie point-and-click adventure that uses atmospheric storytelling and a female protagonist to explore complex themes.

When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.2%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 15%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi point-and-click adventure that emphasizes complex narrative and character-driven puzzles.

"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 50.9%, Point & Click 19.6%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 10.7%

Still Life 2 also now available!

Why similar: Point & Click 51.2%, Adventure 30.7%, Female Protagonist 18.1%

A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 37.7%, Point & Click 29.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%

Take on the role of Agent Amy Tanner and solve a case in a cyberpunk future, where technology and religion have become one - A classic pixel art point&click adventure.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 43.8%, Point & Click 21.6%, Adventure 13.1%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 76.4%, Female Protagonist 23.6%

Rain of Reflections is an atmospheric, dystopian adventure game with exploration and deep character interactions. Its turn-based strategic confrontations are uniquely centered around a motivation mechanic.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 51.2%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 14.6%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 50.9%, Point & Click 25.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Indie 8%

A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.

Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Pixel Graphics 43.9%

Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 49.3%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Point & Click 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 8.8%

A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 64.9%, Female Protagonist 20.5%, Adventure 14.6%

A cinematic techno-thriller about the fate of the intermediate links of progress.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 67.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Female Protagonist 15.1%

The crime... is murder. Our story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux.

Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%

A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.4%, Female Protagonist 32.4%, Indie 28.1%

Love, Internet, and Murder Magic is a Roguelike game. You will role-play an agent of a streamer who died because of a murder. You are trying to "bring her back" through AI technology on the Internet, making her the unique creation of the Internet.

Why similar: Point & Click 56.5%, Female Protagonist 34.3%, Adventure 9.2%

When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.1%, Adventure 21.4%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Indie 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 44.9%, Female Protagonist 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Adventure 13.5%

The World Union is labeled the 'perfect society'. Prosperity is a science, disease and wars have vanished, sex is entertainment, and the future has never looked brighter. Suddenly this perfect society is rocked by the murder of a World Union citizen in the 'Rogue State' of Russia.

Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Point & Click 37.4%, Female Protagonist 23.5%

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 51.5%, Point & Click 16.5%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Adventure 7.9%

When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 61.3%, Adventure 16.2%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Indie 7.3%

It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Female Protagonist 25%, Adventure 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Indie 6.2%

HARDCODED - A non-linear delve through the lives and beds of the people of a cyberpunk city.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 59.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.3%, Female Protagonist 19%

Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

Why similar: Point & Click 69.8%, Pixel Graphics 30.2%

Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.1%, Female Protagonist 23.4%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 15.8%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.2%, Point & Click 17.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.

Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Indie 34.7%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%

Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 49.7%, Point & Click 20.3%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 12.6%

Take the role of ARID, the artificial intelligence within a high-tech combat suit. The Fall is a unique combination of adventure-game puzzle solving and side-scroller action, all set within a dark and atmospheric story. Get ready for a disturbing journey as you explore the world of The Fall.

Why similar: Adventure 28.7%, Cyberpunk 24%, Point & Click 18.9%, Indie 17.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%

Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Why similar: Adventure 43.2%, Pixel Graphics 31.6%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Indie 4.6%

In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Why similar: Point & Click 42.6%, Female Protagonist 22.4%, Adventure 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%

The last game in the Blackwell series.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.4%, Adventure 24.1%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Indie 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%