60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, 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.
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 11.2%, 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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
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 13.4%, Thriller 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%
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%
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: Investigation 15.4%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
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 13.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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 21.7%, Investigation 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Thriller 8.6%, Logic 8%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.8%, Thriller 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Investigation 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Your story begins to kill people after you "die". The genius and notorious creator "Gasai Kanju" met her social demise. Six years later, the investigator "Igarashi" was entrusted by the police to step into the scene of the murder. She investigated the bizarre crime scene, to identified the culprit.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 11.4%, Thriller 9.6%
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 17.7%, Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%
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 16.7%, Investigation 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 18%, Detective 16.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Horror 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Thriller 11%, Psychological Horror 8%
Analyze anomalous objects as a prisoner serving a 900+ year sentence. Identify threats, make critical decisions, and survive increasingly disturbing encounters that challenge both logic and sanity.
Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Immersive Sim 8.7%
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 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Immersive Sim 8.8%
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 17.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Investigation 13.9%, Thriller 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
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 15.9%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Immersive Sim 10.8%
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 18.1%, Detective 17.2%, Investigation 15.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 19.2%, Thriller 16.8%, Investigation 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 14.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 13.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 19.7%, Thriller 17.5%, Investigation 16%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Thriller 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
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%, Detective 14.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Investigation 11.7%, Horror 8.3%
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 11.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Immersive Sim 10%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
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 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
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 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 22.4%, Detective 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
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 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Thriller 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 20.6%, Text-Based 17.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Thriller 8.1%
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 17.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 16.1%, Investigation 14.3%, Thriller 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%
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 19.6%, Detective 17.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Investigation 14%, Horror 12.7%
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 16.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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%
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 20.1%, Investigation 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Thriller 13.1%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Psychological Horror 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 17.9%, Text-Based 14.5%, 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 20.9%, Detective 19.2%, Investigation 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 8.2%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Text-Based 18.6%, Investigation 14.7%, Immersive Sim 8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
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 13.4%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
In the infamous haunted building "Changrong Tower," security guard Li Cheng has come to understand the true nature of ghosts and their purposes. This time, he embarks on another adventure to help vengeful spirits, driven by a desire to uphold his deepest values.
Why similar: Thriller 20%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Horror 9.1%
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 17.7%, Investigation 16%, Choices Matter 10%, 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 19.5%, Thriller 18.2%, Investigation 18.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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%, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 16.4%, Thriller 14.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
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 15.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. 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.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Thriller 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 10.8%
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 15.2%, Detective 13.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
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 14.2%, Detective 10.1%
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Thriller 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
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 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.7%
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 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
