60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Detective, Investigation, Mystery.
The Examiner has a number. You are not issued a name. You do not require one. Names are an operational measure applied to units, for the reasons set out above, and staff are not units. You do have a name. You are simply not using it here. Nobody has asked for it in some time.
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A sci-fi interrogation game. No more than ten people in the galaxy can do your job. The person across the table is already convicted. Find out why they did it, then decide what the truth will cost them.
Sunset Inferno
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But when a bomb destroys your transport, it also cracks your programming. Uncover who attacked you before your makers decide you've changed too much.
A sci-fi interrogation game. No more than ten people in the galaxy can do your job. The person across the table is already convicted. Find out why they did it, then decide what the truth will cost them.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 16.4%, Dystopian 10.9%, Psychological 10.1%, Conspiracy 8.8% ★
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But when a bomb destroys your transport, it also cracks your programming. Uncover who attacked you before your makers decide you've changed too much.
Why similar: Dystopian 16.6%, Investigation 15.7%, Robots 12.9%, Psychological 11.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
You were hired to watch. Not to ask questions. Night shift. Corporate building. Cameras, reports, anomalies. Your predecessor left no final report. Now you're going to find out why. Please proceed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Investigation 16%, Detective 14.9%, Psychological 14.3%, Dystopian 12.5%
You wake up locked up in an unknown place with 8 strangers. Who are these people ? Why are you here ? You have a bad feeling. But suddenly, the phone rings, and it's up to you : Will you dare answer and go deeper in this mysterious plot ? Will you reveal the horrible truth... and survive it ?
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Psychological 10.9%, Story Rich 6.7%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Investigation 15.3%, Psychological 12%, Story Rich 6.8%
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: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 18.4%, Robots 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Noir 7.3%
A noir detective game played at your desk. Read evidence photos, CCTV footage and records, compare fingerprints and voices, and fill in the suspect matrix yourself before you accuse anyone. Juggle action points, fees and deadlines across eight cases as a criminal organization closes in.
Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Investigation 23.6%, Conspiracy 9.5% ★, Noir 7.5%, Mystery 5.9%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Investigation 19%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Psychological 13.6%, Choices Matter 6.9%
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 29.2%, Investigation 22.8%, Conspiracy 8.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%, Noir 8%
Work for a dystopian Inspection Bureau, Determine whether the subjects are humans or not, Uncover secrets, Endure psychological horrors and reach your work quota - or else.
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Investigation 14.3%, Conspiracy 13.8% ★, Psychological Horror 13%, Dystopian 11.4%
A realistic first-person horror deduction game. Identify NON-HUMAN entities and navigate critical decisions within the Zone. Earn your survival, upgrade your booth, and-above all-don't let the NON-HUMANS in.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Investigation 17.1%, Psychological 14.3%, Choices Matter 8%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 10.7%, Noir 7.5%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Conspiracy 14.7% ★, Dystopian 10.9%, Noir 10.1%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 28.8%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Detective 13.1%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 8.2%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Investigation 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Noir 8.2%
A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.
Why similar: Detective 34.4%, Investigation 28.1%, Conspiracy 13.4% ★, Noir 7.2%, Mystery 6.4%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Detective 31.4%, Investigation 23.3%, Noir 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%, Mystery 6.6%
Save the day with Clash!
Why similar: Detective 33.5%, Robots 27.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Mystery 6.7%
Explore a quarantined island chain and an automated hospital abandoned for twenty years. Investigate a returning signal, read the evidence left behind, solve mechanical systems, and evade machines that still believe they have patients.
Why similar: Investigation 24.9%, Detective 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Conspiracy 10.5% ★, Robots 10%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Detective 30.9%, Investigation 25.3%, Psychological 17.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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: Investigation 21.4%, Detective 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Dystopian 12.5%, Choices Matter 8%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Psychological 10%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Investigate a little girl's disappearance at a rundown trailer park. Play as Detective Partridge and cross examine three suspects to find the truth with fully freeform interrogation. Type anything and ask anything you want.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Investigation 22.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Conspiracy 10.8% ★, Multiple Endings 6.7%
An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.
Why similar: Detective 42.4%, Investigation 31.3%, Mystery 7.7%, Point & Click 6.2%, Story Rich 6.2%
As Devin and AV1NA, players will use a combination of psychic abilities and advanced artificial intelligence to solve intricate puzzles, interact with a cast of richly drawn characters, and untangle a web of intrigue that threatens the very heart of Neo-Chicago.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 15.9%, Robots 14%, Psychological 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Explore the world of the dieselpunk society of robot-bugs in The Energy Case. Follow Detective "Dec" in solving the murder of a scientist, who was working on cleaner energy sources, and maybe join the energy transition for a cleaner, greener future!
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 18.4%, Robots 11.2%, Noir 11.1%, Dystopian 10.7%
1993, just after Czechoslovakia split in two. Play as reporter Marek and investigate the death of a company director in name only. In Prague, journalist Eva pursues a case of her own. Explore locations, read documents, and uncover where their cases meet in a classic 2D point-and-click mystery.
Why similar: Detective 26.8%, Investigation 22.5%, Conspiracy 12.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Story Rich 6.7%
Investigate a replayable Hollywood murder mystery where everyone has something to hide. Question guests, uncover contradictions, and identify the killer before they escape justice.
Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Investigation 22.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Psychological 9.7%, Mystery 7.2%
MALPRAXIS™ is a dialogue-heavy sci-fi detective game where you play an experimental medical robot aboard a failing starship. Diagnose patients, investigate suspicious incidents and piece together what is happening to the crew.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Robots 17.5%, Investigation 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
Aliens are infiltrating Earth disguised as humans! It's your job to expose these imposters. Can you tell who is human and who is not? Choose your own path while you keep the Earth safe.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Investigation 19.8%, Dystopian 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Story Rich 7.4%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Investigation 16.7%, Dystopian 14.6%, Psychological 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Why similar: Detective 28.7%, Investigation 22.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Conspiracy 10.4% ★, Story Rich 7.1%
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 37.9%, Investigation 30.3%, Story Rich 9.8%, Noir 8%, Mystery 7.3%
The Final Witness is a first-person psychological horror detective game where every case tells a different story. Explore a haunted family mansion, uncover hidden truths, analyze conflicting evidence, and identify the true killer before the darkness consumes your sanity.
Why similar: Detective 32%, Investigation 24.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Mystery 6%, Choices Matter 5.4%
Psychological horror at a morgue's night intake desk. Bodies arrive with paperwork that has to match the body. Weigh it, measure it, take its temperature — listen to its chest. Some still have a pulse. The rulebook gains a page every night, and some of what you sign in does not stay signed in.
Why similar: Investigation 24.1%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Dystopian 18.3%, Story Rich 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 23.3%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Dystopian 18.9%, Conspiracy 7.1% ★, Choices Matter 5.8%
A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Examine clues and solve puzzles to uncover a story full of twists and turns.
Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Investigation 25.8%, Conspiracy 20.2% ★, Story Rich 7.3%, Mystery 7%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 31.7%, Investigation 24.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%, Story Rich 7.7%, Mystery 6.9%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 27.4%, Investigation 26.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
Explore historical locations, find and analyse evidence. Unmask the real perpetrator so that justice can be served and the Wrongly Accused can be found innocent. Use problem solving, deduction and critical thinking skills to uncover the truth and maybe even expose a conspiracy in your own time.
Why similar: Detective 34.1%, Investigation 26.1%, Dystopian 8.2%, Story Rich 6.4%, Point & Click 5.8%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 22.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Psychological 9.8%, Story Rich 7%
Mysteries of Perception is a detective game where you will see the same scene through the eyes of different characters. Uncover their secrets by analyzing all the clues. Switch perspectives and learn everything about the artifacts of the Distant and the deaths in their wake. Glory to the Stars!
Why similar: Detective 26.9%, Investigation 21.7%, Conspiracy 17.9% ★, Dystopian 17.8%, Story Rich 6.6%
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a simulation game about processing paperwork in an obsolete office system and digging up what it buried. As a journalist working undercover inside the Bureau, uncover the truth of a disaster twenty years ago. Follow the regulations, or report the truth.
Why similar: Investigation 20.5%, Detective 18.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Dystopian 10%, Conspiracy 8.8% ★
You are the winter caretaker of a seaside hotel nobody visits between October and March. The owner's rules are pinned above the desk: no guests, no exceptions. Then somebody knocks — off the last bus, in the rain, with cash and no booking. You decide who gets a key, and which room.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Investigation 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Psychological 12.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.2%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Investigation 13.9%, Conspiracy 12.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
A mysterious object brings a former detective to a distant place in the middle of nowhere, where the worst nightmares clash with reality. Are you prepared to face your fears in what might be your last investigation?
Why similar: Detective 28.1%, Investigation 23.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Psychological 14%, Story Rich 8%
When did you become a monster? In this nightmare, everyone is guilty. Everyone has a secret. A demon will make you remember what you did. Piece together your shattered past in a detective psychological horror and... WAKE UP!
Why similar: Detective 38.1%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Investigation 20.6%, Mystery 7.7%, Atmospheric 3.7%
Embark on a mission to unveil the truth behind a missing daughter case. Utilize the search engine to gather clues and uncover the dark secrets of TempleTech. Experience a suspenseful journey through the eyes of Hazel.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Investigation 24%, Conspiracy 10.7% ★, Story Rich 8.4%, Dystopian 7.7%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 18%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Psychological 14.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
In Floor13, reality doesn’t change all at once — it shifts quietly, waiting for you to notice.You walk the same office corridor over and over, but something always feels… slightly off.Your task is simple: observe, detect, report. If you fail to see the difference, the corridor will keep you forever.
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Investigation 20.3%, Psychological 15.9%, Choices Matter 5.2%
[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 27.5%, Detective 27.4%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Story Rich 7.4%, Choices Matter 7%
Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world-renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve "howdunnit" cases that are too tough for the local police to crack and uncover a deeper mystery along the way!
Why similar: Detective 40.1%, Investigation 30.5%, Mystery 7.6%, Dialogue Heavy 6.1%, Point & Click 5.7%
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 20.9%, Investigation 16.4%, Dystopian 13.1%, Conspiracy 13% ★, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Investigation 16.2%, Story Rich 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.2%
Investigate like it's 1993. Hunt clues on VHS tapes, shortwave radio, and the early internet. Pin evidence to your board, connect the strings, and publish theories for cash and followers. Just try not to lose your mind.
Why similar: Investigation 23%, Conspiracy 19.9% ★, Detective 17.5%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 6.4%
A faceless nightmare is here to rid the world of the chemical that made impossible technology possible. You, as the puny human Chance, have just crashed in the middle of that warzone. Good luck.
Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Investigation 19.8%, Psychological 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Dystopian 6.7%
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 33.3%, Investigation 28%, Story Rich 8.9%, Mystery 7.3%, Choices Matter 6.4%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 32.7%, Investigation 24.4%, Story Rich 9%, Mystery 8.1%, Noir 7.3%
Dive into a decade of secrets, mysterious characters and their inexplicable deaths - in the shadow of the darkest time in human history. Investigate crimes, decode documents, collect clues and solve riddles - one word at a time. The deeper you read, the less any of it seems to be an accident.
Why similar: Detective 33.3%, Investigation 25%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Point & Click 6.2%, Mystery 5.3%
