60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Detective, Mystery, Singleplayer.
Your mother disappeared 15 years ago, a mystery surrounds a hospital, and you live in seclusion in the apartment directly across the street. Use your computer to retrace the last clues left by your mother and try to solve this mystery.
The Case of Arcadia Springs
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
A Study in Blue
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.
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 38.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Mystery 8.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
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 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, 1990's 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 9.3%, Choices Matter 8%
Brinkmanship is a first person sci-fi mystery about greed, manipulation, and trust. As a spaceborne colonist 20 years into your voyage you’ve just discovered that your ship has secretly altered its heading. Your parents give you a gun. The ship goes into lockdown. What do you do? Who will you trust?
Why similar: Detective 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, First-Person 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Apparatus Inspector is a retro OS horror simulation where you are locked underground evaluating synthetic AI robots for anomalies. Chat with infected bots, execute commands, deliver judgement, and hide from physical threats to survive your 7-day shift.
Why similar: Detective 34.6%, 1990's 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, First-Person 7%, Immersive Sim 6.7%
ASTRO AMIGO is a story-driven sci-fi adventure game where you explore a strange Wisconsin town, investigate its secrets, play mini-games, and make story-shaping choices as young Austin searches for his missing dog, Amigo.
Why similar: 1990's 18.3%, Supernatural 15.5%, Sci-fi 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Kibukawa’s debut case as a detective is finally revealed. Uncover the strange mystery surrounding the Midoumaru Manor!
Why similar: Detective 43.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Mystery 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Retro 4.9%
"What's up with this...?" An eerie urban legend becomes a nightmare that eats away at reality.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
In the heart of the egret left behind, red leaves will dance again this year. The story of detective assistant Sagishima Izuna and her unknown past.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Shangri-La, an amusement park named after an ideal world In a paradise overflowing with smiles, a banquet in the name of judgment begins.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
The "Kailoukan", a strange building surrounded by the sea on all sides. Inside a mansion closed underwater, the curtain rises on a tragedy.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
I follow his shadow in the pale dull sky.... Eight years ago, the Kibukawa Detective Agency, another great detective.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Serial Murder x Disappearance of a female secretary Uncover the hidden truth from these two intersecting perspectives.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
A lost chihuahua and a kind policeman in town. With the image of the detective they longed to be in their hearts, the uneven duo runs the streets!
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Embraced by illusions, I put on a mask... A mysterious series of murders intertwine in the virtual and real worlds.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
The year is 1999. The end of the century is a whirlwind of ominous prophecies and incidents. What is the purpose of the "Eigo-kai," an unidentified organization involved...
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Online RPG that dies when played. Uncover the secret behind the game and its truth.
Why similar: Detective 52.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, 1990's 11.3%, Mystery 10.7%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Why similar: Detective 29.2%, 1990's 27.9%, Mystery 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Retro 8.1%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.
Why similar: Detective 35%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, 1990's 13%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%
Shadowless is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a creepy house marked by tragedy, where dark entities and the past haunt you. Defenseless, you face a nightmare that consumes you before you can escape.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, First-Person 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Use your wits and iconic ghost hunting equipment to uncover the mystery of what happened to the residents of an abandoned apartment complex in this narrative-driven horror experience.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Supernatural 16.5%, First-Person 13.1%, Mystery 10%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 10.5%
Izuna and Ikurumi were cleaning the Detective Agency. As they were cleaning, they uncovered hidden documents. The documents revealed a tragic event from the past, long kept hidden...
Why similar: Detective 45.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Mystery 9.2%, Retro 4.8%
Stika is a single-player stealth horror game steeped in Ukrainian folklore. Navigate the Ukrainian forest, find clues, and solve puzzles to unravel the mysteries of night, all while evading folklore creatures. With multiple-endings, your choices matter — can you survive a night with the Rusalka?
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Supernatural 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Mystery 8.8%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Detective 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, 1990's 13.3%, Supernatural 11.5%, First-Person 7.6%
A short psychological-horror narrative in which your choices matter. Journey through the give stages of grief as Liam, a man who just recently lost his wife due to... unknown... circumstances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, First-Person 14.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
The 1st chapter of mystic trans-media adventure with the atmosphere of Eastern Europe of the last century. After completing the 1st chapter, each player can influence the further plot of the game chapters/short films/visual novel.The plot in your hands...
Why similar: Detective 30.6%, 1990's 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.4%, First-Person 9.2%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, First-Person 8.1%
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 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%
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 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Mystery 12.5%
Mystery adventure where no one dies. Use your “ability to see too much” to uncover an inconvenient truth.
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Mystery 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
The famous detective Sarako Imai (Sherlock-chan) takes on a difficult case! Sherlock-chan and Watson-kun are on a comfort trip. Can they solve a murder case at a winter spa resort? A murder mystery with a challenge to the player.
Why similar: Detective 36.2%, 1990's 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Mystery 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
Their cries reach no one. In a distorted cage, they quietly await the hand of salvation.
Why similar: Detective 40.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.
Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Sci-fi 9.3%
"Anesama" is there. What do the silent walls and folklore tell us?
Why similar: Detective 40.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Mystery 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%
In the thrilling conclusion of the Amanda the Adventurer trilogy, follow Riley as they uncover the ultimate secrets behind Amanda, Hameln, and mysteries that have plagued Kensdale for decades.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, 1990's 18.7%, First-Person 12.8%, Supernatural 9.1%
'Just A Regular Night Patrol' is a first-person simulation game. Over the course of 8 days, review and execute your daily tasks based on the instructions. No jumpscares or anomalies. The goal is to simply be an ordinary night security guard and complete your shifts without making mistakes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, 1990's 17.6%, First-Person 14%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 36%, 1990's 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Dive into the eerie realms of "The Silent Bells" a spine-chilling horror anthology video game. Unearth four haunting stories, each woven from the threads of internet horror and creepypastas. Brace yourself, for every silent bell tolls the arrival of a new nightmare.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, First-Person 15.2%, Mystery 9.6%, 1990's 8%
Past Memos is a detective game set in the foggy atmosphere of 90s New York. As a former detective, you strive to clear your name while solving dark cases and uncovering the secrets of a mysterious past.
Why similar: Detective 30.4%, 1990's 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A point-and-click mystery set in 1998. Explore the early Internet for clues, connect overlooked details, and uncover what really happened at Thornhill Academy. Come for the mystery, stay for the cozy New England private school vibes.
Why similar: Detective 33.2%, 1990's 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, First-Person 10.6%, Mystery 9.5%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 47.6%, 1990's 17.9%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%
What if I had made a different choice then? The truth and consequences of memory.
Why similar: Detective 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Mystery 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Retro 8.1%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 37.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Mystery 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 10.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Mystery 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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: Detective 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, First-Person 15%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Mystery 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%
In this sci-fi pick your own story game, you must help astronaut Dorothy Chen survive in a vast underground alien city beneath the moon's surface. She faces insane robots, mutant canines, starvation, and insanity inside the city of the Anthria. Whether she survives is up to YOU.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%
In Amanda the Adventurer 2, the story continues as Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. Travel to the Kensdale Public Library and dig deeper into the mystery of Amanda the Adventurer.
Why similar: 1990's 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, First-Person 11.6%, Supernatural 8.1%
Noir gamebook. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Mystery 9.4%, Choices Matter 9%
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 51.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, First-Person 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Two cases are intertwined in a spiral, Heading toward a sad truth.
Why similar: Detective 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Mystery 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Retro 8.1%
The culprit is—the maid. And the protagonist. your mission is to strike down six unsuspecting guests, one by one. But beware—you must never be suspected before your plan is complete. To escape suspicion, engage in heated debates and refute your opponents. Hide your true identity at all costs.
Why similar: Detective 44.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Mystery 16.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Casual 4.8%
