60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, Detective, Interactive Fiction.
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?
Suhoshin
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
I AM RIPPER
I AM RIPPER is a British Thriller set in the brutality and economic decline of the 1980's. You are a forensic investigator called on to solve one of the UK's most prolific crimes.
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Thriller 15.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Detective 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Investigation 9.2%
I AM RIPPER is a British Thriller set in the brutality and economic decline of the 1980's. You are a forensic investigator called on to solve one of the UK's most prolific crimes.
Why similar: Thriller 17.7%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13.3%, Thriller 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Text-Based 11.3%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Thriller 15.8%, Investigation 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Detective 9.6%, Text-Based 9.4%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 13.8%, Investigation 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Thriller 8.6%, Logic 7.9%
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 17.8%, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Investigation 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Thriller 11%, Psychological Horror 8%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
The town of Stonecreek is haunted. People keep disappearing into thin air, leaving nothing but an eerie symbol behind. With the townsfolk gripped with fear, use a missing victim's phone to unlock the truth in the third entry of the acclaimed horror series, SIMULACRA.
Why similar: Hacking 17.8% ★, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Immersive Sim 10.8%
Become Shepherd, an inquisitor sent to a suspicious village. Unveil the secrets of a world filled with fear, and make an inevitable choice. In this visual novel mystery, your decisions change the world. Can you survive the desperate horror?
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Investigation 14%, Thriller 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Investigation 17.5%, Detective 16.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Horror 10.4%
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 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, Detective 14.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Thriller 18%, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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.
Why similar: Investigation 15.2%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
Investigate paranormal cases using a 1990s CRT terminal. Analyze photos. Decode audio. Interrogate suspects and decide what’s real, what’s fake and who’s lying. But the deeper you go, the more the system starts watching you back.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Investigation 16.3%, Hacking 13.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.4%
An evidence-based detective game set in rural India. Investigate your friend's disappearance by searching crime scenes, interrogating suspects, and presenting proof to break through lies. Race against time to expose a conspiracy before the 9:45 PM train leaves.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Thriller 16.7%, Investigation 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Thriller 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
In 2005, a sophomore student named Maha Igarashi boarded a private train to Soukyo City. However, she vanished upon alighting at the "Kisaragi" station. Five years later, her lover, Shizuno Yokoyama, initiated an investigation into her disappearance, unraveling a series of mysteries along the way.
Why similar: Thriller 15%, Text-Based 14.4%, Detective 14.4%, Investigation 11.7%, Horror 8.2%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Text-Based 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
Tale of serendipity is a third person survival horror with multiple endings, in which the search of your lost feline will make you question yourself the limits of reality and obsession When facing danger is not an option, the only thing left is survive.
Why similar: Thriller 20.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
The story begins the moment he kills his lover. Kazuma is driven into a corner by Asana’s obsessive love. Madness, jealousy, obsession, deception, and regret collide— plunging the case toward an unpredictable end. A yandere suspense novel of intense love and insanity: Crimson Reflection.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Text-Based 15%, Thriller 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 17.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
A narrative adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements. Play as a young FBI agent in New Orleans, investigate crime scenes, profile suspects, and make choices that shape a branching story mixing offbeat humor with a gripping crime thriller.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Investigation 14.3%, Thriller 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%
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 19.7%, Detective 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Investigation 14.1%, Horror 12.6%
a weird console message appears on your screen should you check it out or shut down the pc the choices are yours but be careful your choices will shift everything
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
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 16.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Players will enter the Town of Dusk, built on the eve of Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, along with other characters. Avoid being killed by other characters! Find the mastermind behind the scenes, unravel all the conspiracies, and uncover the truth! Ultimately escape the Town of Dusk!
Why similar: Thriller 20.6%, Detective 17.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Welcome to the mysterious village of "Folk Show"! This is a domestic plot-oriented micro-horror game that will take you into a rural story full of suspense and thriller.
Why similar: Thriller 21%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 16.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 8.1%
After the city was shrouded with nightmares, you’ve been assigned to dive into this psychological survival-horror adventure to uncover the strange phenomenon that were affiliated to a certain science-tech corporation and bring them to justice.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Thriller 17.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A Memory Maze Spanning Life and Death: A Tender Web of Salvation and Deception Follow protagonist Ye Yuyao into the Tai Xu. Through fragmented memories and relentless inquiry, unravel the hidden truth behind an anonymous organ donor in this haunting interplay of light and shadow.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Thriller 13.1%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Investigation 8.5%
You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Investigation 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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 16.3%, Thriller 14.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
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 17.6%, Investigation 16.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9%
A psychological horror experience where you reshape reality with graffiti. As an artist who has lost their memory, paint the walls, open hidden passages, and escape the dark labyrinth of your mind.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Investigation 18.2%, Thriller 18.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choices Matter 8%
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Choices Matter 9%
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 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
Nothing good gets printed at 3 AM. Work the graveyard shift at a rundown copy shop. Smile at the strangers. Copy their files. But when the machine whirs, look deeper. There's a reason they came in the dark. Find out what they're hiding, before they realize you know too much
Why similar: Thriller 23%, Investigation 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 14.1%, Detective 10%
Strange things frequently happen in the apartment, such as the black shadow by the bed, the face behind the curtains, and the eccentric neighbor... This old apartment seems to be hiding some unknown secrets... Will you walk ignorantly into death or discover the truth and escape to safety?
Why similar: Thriller 17.9%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Thriller 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.5%
Don't Turn Back is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game. You play Bethany, A young woman who has just inherited her grandfather's mansion. Get immersed in the deeply emotional story of Bethany's family, and experience everything there is inside this home...good and evil.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Thriller 17.2%, Investigation 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Hacking 18.3% ★, Thriller 14.4%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Investigation 8.8%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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: Thriller 18.8%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
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: Text-Based 16.5%, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Thriller 9.8%
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 23.5%, Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%
An evolving death game set in a bar, where getting to know its players is the only way out. Each person hides one of the game's rules. Discover them through their pasts, tastes, and finding hidden clues, then face them in an all-out discussion. Only three can survive, unless you fight back.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Thriller 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Investigation 12%, Logic 7.2%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Thriller 13.7%, Investigation 11.5%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 15.9%, Thriller 13.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.
Why similar: Thriller 17.8%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Immersive Sim 12.5%
A portal inspired walking simulator horror game.
Why similar: Thriller 19%, Text-Based 17.7%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
When Sirens Fall Silent is a dark psychological thriller set in 1990s Italy. Play as Mila, a troubled policewoman drawn into a high-profile case of kidnappings and murders. As the case unravels you must not only save her from herself, but from being swallowed by a vortex of violence and confusion.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Thriller 17%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Investigation 17.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
