
2D sidescrolling adventure narrative game with puzzle solving and platforming elements.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Detective, Noir.

2D sidescrolling adventure narrative game with puzzle solving and platforming elements.

LumineNight
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.

Au Revoir
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Why similar: Detective 33.5%, Side Scroller 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 9%, Cartoony 6.8%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.2%, Detective 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Retro 13%, Story Rich 9.4%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, World War II 15% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.1%
The Secret of Retropolis is a VR narrative game of a new kind, a blend of classic point-and-click adventure with immersive cinematography. Embody the witty protagonist of a film noir plot. Meet unforgettable characters. Solve puzzles. Lose yourself in the retro-futuristic atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 37.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Cyberpunk 10.4%, Story Rich 10%
Untangle a gripping conspiracy in this noir-influenced mystery, laced with classic RPG elements. Navigate seedy streets to collect clues, upgrade skills and customize weapons. Brawl in turn-based combat with timed hits & combos, to reveal the dark truth that plagues the city’s core and your sanity.
Why similar: Detective 51.9%, Retro 27.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Adventure 3.7%, 2D 1.7%
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: Detective 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Cyberpunk 14.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Story Rich 8%
The film noir stealth game. Calvino Noir is the exploratory, sneaking adventure through the 1930s European criminal underworld. Architecture meets Noir as you become unwillingly entangled in a revolutionist plot.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
Why similar: Puzzle 34.8%, Detective 27.5%, Steampunk 10.3% ★, Story Rich 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Detective 44%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Puzzle 15.5%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 2.6%
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: Detective 75.6%, Puzzle 12.2%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Adventure 3%, 2D 2.3%
An adventurous engineer, a diesel-punk world divided by endless conflict, and a whole lot of colossal guns. Sounds like a good time! With massive war machines threatening your home, will you be the one small cog that brings it all to a halt?
Why similar: Steampunk 49.1% ★, Side Scroller 22.6%, Puzzle 9.8%, 2D Platformer 8.9%, Story Rich 6.2%
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: Detective 41.7%, Cyberpunk 23.4%, Retro 11.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Story Rich 6.6%
2D side scrolling, adventure, horror game where you avoid monsters and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Side Scroller 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 23%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Action-Adventure 9%
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Why similar: Steampunk 58.2% ★, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Retro 9.4%, Story Rich 8.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
Renoir is a story-driven puzzle platformer that draws inspiration from classic 1940s film noir. Detective James Renoir has but a single shot to crack one hell of a case: his own murder!
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.
Welcome to the 7th Sector, set in a mysterious cyberpunk world. Immerse yourself on this intricate path, solving different puzzles, facing its dangers and collecting scattered information to discover the story of this world.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 93%, Adventure 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Steampunk 72.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 12.3%, 2D 1.2%
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Detective 45.8%, Retro 18%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Story Rich 10%, Atmospheric 3.5%
Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.
Why similar: Narration 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Cyberpunk 18%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Side Scroller 9.4%
Follow R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, on a cinematic adventure through an alternate 1980s America. Explore an atmospheric cyberpunk world full of high-stakes action wrapped in a unique 2.5D pixel art style.
Why similar: Side Scroller 29.9%, Cyberpunk 25%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 9.3%
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: Detective 44.8%, Cyberpunk 24.3%, Retro 16%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 2.4%
A pixel-art sci-fi adventure set in the midst of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, LUNARK is a modern take on the 2D cinematic platformer genre of the '90s. Run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through gorgeous and mysterious locations!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.1%, Side Scroller 23.2%, Retro 18.2%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
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 43.1%, Retro 20.9%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 13%, Atmospheric 5.7%
A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Retro 39.4%, 2D Platformer 25.7%, Puzzle 14.9%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Adventure 6.5%
Immerse yourself in the shadows, where danger lurks and every step leads you further to the edge of madness. Navigate the neon-lit streets as robo-detective Philip Log and search for Jenny Montage, the automated femme fatale, in this gritty post-apocalyptic saga.
Why similar: Detective 44%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Puzzle 14.9%, Story Rich 10.2%, Cinematic 7.2%
Rot Gut is an action packed platformer set in America’s 1920’s Prohibition era. You take control of an agent who, to uncover their mysteries, goes on a mission to fight the city’s underground armed to the teeth organizations.
Why similar: Side Scroller 44.5%, 2D Platformer 19.5%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Story Rich 13%, Atmospheric 4.7%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Side Scroller 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 3.9%
You are a journalist in search of your breakthrough story. A promising lead takes you to the abandoned island of Mythargia where you have to discover its buried history connecting two different dimensions.
Why similar: Side Scroller 44%, Puzzle 18.5%, Retro 16.4%, Story Rich 7.1%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Story Rich 21%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Detective 52.6%, Narration 18.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Retro 5.9%, Puzzle 4.7%
JAD is an atmospheric jumping and puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Side Scroller 31.8%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Puzzle 17.4%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Retro 5%
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 61.3%, Puzzle 18%, Story Rich 14.1%, Adventure 3.9%, Visual Novel 2.1%
Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
Why similar: Side Scroller 89.8%, Adventure 4.5%, 2D 2.6%, Story Rich 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A sidescrolling 3D adventure shortgame that combines multiple genres and features various action and puzzle sequences. Its artistic approach is supported by powerful visuals, intense atmosphere and a unique game narrative on the boundaries of science-fiction and fantasy.
Why similar: Side Scroller 51.7%, Action-Adventure 17.1%, Story Rich 13.1%, Cinematic 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.2%
The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.
Why similar: Detective 56.1%, Puzzle 18.5%, Story Rich 14.9%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Adventure 2.6%
Escape2088 is an old-school escape room game set in a futuristic, cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 35.9%, Detective 34.8%, Puzzle 20.7%, Cinematic 4.7%, Adventure 3.6%
Erra: Exordium is a 2D action adventure game in Dieselpunk setting. Explore a world based on Sumerian-Akkadian mythology. Take the role of a scientist who was able to cheat death and fight the rebellious army of mechatrons.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 26.5%, Action-Adventure 22.3%, Side Scroller 20.2%, Story Rich 13.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
Why similar: Retro 29.5%, Story Rich 22%, Puzzle 18.6%, Cinematic 13.6%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
Why similar: Puzzle 43.7%, Side Scroller 34.2%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
An action/adventure game taking ques from both film-noir and samurai-drama's of old, "samurai_jazz" takes players on an adventure through an enigmatic city, engaging in sword-fights, encounters with mythological beings, and quirky dialog with the local inhabitants presented with a pseudo 8-bit style.
"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Side Scroller 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, 2D Platformer 9.1%
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Why similar: Visual Novel 54%, Story Rich 38.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Detective 38.6%, Cyberpunk 26.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Story Rich 11.7%, Atmospheric 4.7%
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 50.4%, Side Scroller 33.5%, Story Rich 8.2%, Atmospheric 3.6%, Adventure 2.5%
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 51.6%, Retro 23.7%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 7.8%, 2D 1.2%
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Detective 42.5%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Puzzle 13.3%, Story Rich 10.9%, Atmospheric 4.5%
扮演偵探溫特前往多年前發生案件的宅邸,遭遇各種事件並解開謎題,還原故事的全部真相。
Why similar: Side Scroller 42.7%, Visual Novel 19.9%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Adventure 3.1%
Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.
Why similar: Steampunk 66.3% ★, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 3.7%, Adventure 2.2%
Play as the Cat Detective Albert Wilde. Walk, talk, interrogate, joke, solve a mystery, and experience an old film noir setting with humanoid animal characters. A story of quantum theory and parallel universes served with a lot of humour.
Why similar: Detective 39.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Story Rich 15.7%, Cinematic 11.4%, Atmospheric 6%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Detective 38.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Story Rich 10.1%, Cinematic 6.6%
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
Why similar: Detective 42.3%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Cartoony 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Why similar: Puzzle 27.5%, Story Rich 22.6%, Retro 21.4%, Detective 15.9%, Atmospheric 9.6%
The very first PUNCH & CLICK! Brok is an innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
Why similar: Detective 58.9%, Action-Adventure 17.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Atmospheric 5%, Adventure 2.8%
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Detective 55.6%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 10.2%, Retro 8%, Cinematic 4.8%
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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Story Rich 12.5%, Atmospheric 5.3%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Detective 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 4.5%
Lock, load, and get ready for a new kind of action adventure! Immerse yourself in a noir rain-soaked city inside a paperback comic. Uncover a cyberpunk conspiracy against human rights. THIS is the revolution.
Why similar: Side Scroller 38.5%, Cyberpunk 30.9%, Action-Adventure 14%, Story Rich 12.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
Step into the shoes of Alfred Fox, a private eye with a knack for getting into trouble, and confront the danger looming over your old flame, Barbara Le Purr. Using your own intuition and wide investigation techniques you will follow the intrigue and face many, sometimes deadly, consequences.
Why similar: Detective 57.5%, Puzzle 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 5.6%