60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, 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.
Holy Shift
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.
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 15.5%, Text-Based 11.9%, Detective 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Investigation 9.2%
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 14%, Detective 13.3%, Thriller 12%, Text-Based 11.4%, Conversation 11.2%
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Thriller 14.7%, Conversation 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
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 16.3%, Investigation 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Detective 9.8%, Text-Based 9.7%
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 14%, Investigation 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Investigation 13.2%, Thriller 10%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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 22.3%, Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Thriller 9%, Logic 8.2%
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 18.6%, Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
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 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Thriller 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
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 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Detective 13.9%, Immersive Sim 8.7%
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 17%, Investigation 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Conversation 10.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
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 17.7% ★, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
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 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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 18.4%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Investigation 15.2%, Conversation 12.3%
일레븐지스는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 악마 '메피'는 화자인 '이지원'을 위해 여러 가지 시련을 준비했습니다. 악마를 이기기 위해선 잔머리가 아닌 굳센 의지와 날카로운 직감이 필요합니다. 위대한 대적자, '메피'와 그녀가 준비한 장기말들을 직접 목도하세요.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Thriller 14.1%, Conversation 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
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 19.4%, Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A puzzle game where you are the newest recruit to a government agency dedicated to stopping cyber crimes. You must prove yourself and level up in the system by solving puzzles, at the same time there is a mystery to uncover at the agency. Who can you trust?
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Detective 23.1%, Text-Based 20%, Hacking 11.8% ★, Conversation 11.2%
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 18.1%, Text-Based 15%, Investigation 14.4%, Thriller 14%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
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 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Horror 12.5%
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 15.7%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Thriller 13.2%, Investigation 11%
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 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 14%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Conversation 10.8%
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 19.7%, Thriller 17.5%, Investigation 17%, Conversation 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 15.7%, Text-Based 15.5%, Thriller 12%, Conversation 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 17.1%, Text-Based 14%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10.3%
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 14.3%, Detective 13.1%, Conversation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 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 19.6%, Investigation 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Detective 14.3%, Investigation 12.4%, Conversation 10.1%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
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 17.2%, Thriller 17.1%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Thriller 17%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
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 20.3%, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 7.8%
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 15.7%, Thriller 14.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Conversation 11.4%
"Scientific evidence, eyewitness testimony, and objective facts—when these align, the truth emerges. As my grandfather Holmes used to say: Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Conversation 11.5%, Thriller 10.3%
Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.
Why similar: Thriller 17.8%, Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Immersive Sim 12.5%
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 18.8%, Thriller 18%, Investigation 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Why similar: Thriller 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 14.8%, Investigation 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
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 21.4%, Detective 18.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
Why similar: Thriller 23.2%, Investigation 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 16.2%, Choices Matter 7.1%
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 16.3%, Investigation 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой. Раскройте тайны этого потустороннего мира и найдите ответы, которые изменят всё.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Thriller 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Text-Based 16.7%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
A procedural mystery game where you play as a detective racing against time to solve a murder case. As toxic gas slowly shrinks the map, find hidden clues and freely interrogate suspects with open-ended questioning. Manage your investigation under increasing pressure in a challenge against time.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 14.7%, Thriller 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 11.9%
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 18.1%, Investigation 16.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
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 20%, Thriller 18.9%, Investigation 18.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Hacking 22.8% ★, Thriller 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Investigation 12.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%
Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 19.3%, Conversation 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Immersive Sim 9.8%
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 19.8%, Thriller 17.7%, Investigation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
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 19.3%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Thriller 17.7%, Investigation 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Investigation 16.4%, Conversation 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10.3%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Conversation 10.2%, Thriller 9.6%
You are a nurse trapped in a decaying hospital, surrounded by grotesque patients you must care for… for your own sake. Step into this psychological horror, uncover the reason for your punishment, and survive the darkness born from within yourself. But above all… stay away from him.
Why similar: Thriller 15.2%, Conversation 14.7%, Investigation 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
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 16.8%, Investigation 14.4%, Conversation 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%
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 21.6%, Hacking 18.8% ★, Thriller 14.9%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Investigation 9.1%
