60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich, Adventure.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
The Lost & The Found
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
The Allure Of Wanton Cove
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Dynamic Narration 9.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.8%, Noir 13%, Investigation 9.7%, Text-Based 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.6%, Dynamic Narration 17.1% ★, Noir 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Visual Novel 7.9%
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Noir 15.6%, Lovecraftian 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Investigation 8.7%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Investigation 10.4%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Detective 8.2%
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Dynamic Narration 13.5% ★, Lovecraftian 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Detective 8.4%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 13.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Historical 11.1%, Detective 10.7%, Text-Based 9.3%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Historical 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Crime 10.7%, Investigation 10.7%, Detective 10.4%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Dynamic Narration 16% ★, Historical 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 10.6%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 15.6%, Dynamic Narration 14.9% ★, Investigation 11.8%, Historical 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 17.1%, Dynamic Narration 15.2% ★, Text-Based 10.5%, Detective 9.5%, Crime 8.9%
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: Historical 15.6%, Investigation 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Text-Based 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Noir 17%, Historical 15.3%, Crime 13.2%, Detective 12.9%, Investigation 10.3%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Investigation 16.6%, Crime 14.9%, Detective 14.2%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Crime 13.5%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Text-Based 9.5%
Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Dynamic Narration 17.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Cthulu Mysteries: The Veins of Arkham is Lovecraftian narrative mystery, where staying sane is the greatest challenge. Interview the witnesses, gather clues and draw conclusions to solve the most unusual case. Will you be able to handle the truth?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, Noir 16.3%, Detective 11.2%, Hidden Object 10.8%, Investigation 10.7%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22%, Noir 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Noir 15.5%, Investigation 14.5%, Detective 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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: Noir 14.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Crime 11%, Investigation 10.1%, Detective 10%
Dive into the world based on the Lovecraft universe and its successors. In immersive visual novel discover the secret of the temple and learn the truth about your companions and your father’s past!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Text-Based 8.7%
Nothing brings people together as well as a common grief or crime! Can you bravely confront a criminal puppeteer with no legal defense?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.5% ★, Noir 15.7%, Detective 11.8%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Crime 11.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Detective 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
A city forgotten by everyone, two women trying to unravel its secrets, and a dismal silence of war. Is it possible to create without the hope of being heard? Is it possible to mourn for someone obliterated in memories? And what horrors are hidden in the shadows of forgotten town?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.9%, Noir 20.1%, Detective 11.7%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Noir 14%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 10.3%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.5%, Investigation 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Play as the Count of Monte Cristo in 19th-century France. Charm & Dominate your enemies. Exploit their weaknesses, and orchestrate their downfall in this gripping narrative-driven tale of revenge.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Historical 9.8%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 9%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 18.8%, Investigation 13.6%, Detective 11.6%, Crime 11%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 14.9%, Noir 14.1%, Detective 13%, Historical 12.6%, Crime 12%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 25%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.4% ★, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Detective 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Investigation 15.7%, Detective 13.8%, Noir 13.1%, Crime 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Investigate your way in a branching noir horror detective game inspired by Lovecraftian horror and ancient Minoan myth. Analyze evidence, connect clues, and uncover dark secrets through genre-bending deduction mechanics. Face a sinister plot—and an ultimate choice.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.1%, Noir 15.8%, Crime 13.6%, Investigation 11.5%, Detective 9.8%
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: Investigation 14.9%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
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: Noir 18.9%, Crime 12.9%, Detective 11.3%, Investigation 11%, Text-Based 10.3%
Truth Beneath the Shadows – A detective game where players unravel hidden mysteries by connecting clues to expose a secret organization. Every piece of evidence brings you closer to the dark truth lurking in the shadows.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Dynamic Narration 16.4% ★, Detective 11.7%, Hidden Object 10.1%, Crime 9.7%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Noir 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Dark 8.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Horror 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 10.7%
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.
Why similar: Historical 17.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Detective 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
Full Motion Voyeur is a dark FMV thriller where you're trapped in a nightmare of surveillance, obedience, and sacrifice. Guided by the mysterious ADMIN, Claire is ordered to investigate targets, uncover their secrets, and feed them to a Demon or her lover Mona pays the price.
Why similar: Noir 14.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Crime 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Historical 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Dynamic Narration 17% ★, Historical 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Investigation 16.8%, Crime 15.8%, Detective 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Immersed yourself in an interactive story with multiples choices, in the style of "choose your own Adventure book" (CYOA).Will you be able to survive ?Probably not!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Crime 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Detective 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 8.8%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 13%, Detective 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 14.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Investigation 11.2%, Detective 11%, Text-Based 10.3%
Detective Norman faces one of the longest nights of his career. Alone, he searches for the missing girl, Felicia, only to discover that this case runs far deeper than he ever imagined.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Lovecraftian 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 11.5%
A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.
Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Lovecraftian 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Investigation 11.2%, Detective 10.9%
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Detective 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 17.6%, Investigation 14.7%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Detective 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Visual Novel 9%
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 14.4%, Investigation 13.9%, Horror 13.1%, Detective 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%
