60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Story Rich, Adventure, Investigation.
Past Memos is a detective game set in the foggy atmosphere of 90s New York. As a former detective, you strive to clear your name while solving dark cases and uncovering the secrets of a mysterious past.
Discarded Memories: A Red Iron Story
Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.
Kona II: Brume
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Narration 14.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Narration 15.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 19.8%, Mystery 14.2%, Narration 8.5%, Open World 7.6%
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Survival 17.4%, Narration 11.6%, Open World 11%, First-Person 6.7%
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Investigation 15%, First-Person 9.2%, Adventure 9.1%
A narrative noir thriller set in Kyoto. Detective Thomas Bennett investigates the disappearance of a British agent, only to collide with the Yakuza, a shadowy conspiracy, and a truth that should never surface.
Why similar: Narration 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 16.7%, Mystery 10.3%, Adventure 8.5%
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 26.1%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Narration 8.6%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Mystery 17.3%, Investigation 17.2%, 1990's 12%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
After yet another night of brooding over his wife's murder, Detective Edgar receives a mysterious letter. A music star asks to investigate her own murder. Interrogate the suspects, search for clues and find out what happened. Will you be able to unravel the truth from the lies?
Why similar: Narration 25.2%, Detective 24.8%, Investigation 16.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Exploration 7.2%
Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Why similar: Narration 19.5%, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Time Management 17.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Narration 16.1%, Quick-Time Events 14.5% ★, Multiple Endings 14%, Investigation 10.1%
Discover an untold crime story from the mysterious youth of the famous detective Hercule Poirot.
Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Investigation 17.2%, Narration 16.8%, Mystery 14.8%, Story Rich 7%
After a mysterious and anonymous phone call to the police, Sonia's body was found in an abandoned public toilet. The more we learn about her, the more mysterious this case becomes. Become the detective, investigate her murder and find out who killed Sonia Verninac.
Why similar: Detective 33.5%, Investigation 15.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Mystery 13.5%, Story Rich 8.8%
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Investigation 13.7%, Narration 13.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Open World 10.4%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Narration 16%, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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 20.3%, Investigation 15.5%, Time Management 15.4%, Mystery 11.7%, Survival 11.3%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Investigation 21%, Detective 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Exploration 8.1%, Story Rich 8%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Investigation 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Mystery 10.2%
An exploration-driven mystery set on quarantined Scottish islands, where you investigate abandoned settlements, uncover hidden clues, and reveal the truth behind a decades-old government seal.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Mystery 19.5%, Investigation 16.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Exploration 8.9%
Follow detective Carol Reed in this colorful mystery, made with real-life photographs. The game features a classic adventure game interface, plenty of puzzles, and a series of minigames as an integrated part of the story.
Why similar: Detective 30.9%, Investigation 20.6%, Mystery 16.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Exploration 6.1%
The Wolf is Dead is a murder mystery game. When the Big Bad Wolf is found murdered at a party for his biopic, you're called in. Interrogate suspects, investigate the scene of the crime and use this to travel back in time and reconstruct the events of the evening. Who killed Alexander Wolff?
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Narration 20.6%, Mystery 17.2%, Story Rich 7.8%, Multiple Endings 5%
Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare is a 3D horror adventure game, with the direction and the original script by Ruggero Deodato. Take control of different characters in a desperate expedition to the virgin jungles of Borneo.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 14.5%, 1990's 11.6%, Mystery 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Narration 20.4%, Time Management 14%, Investigation 13.5%, 1990's 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
One cold case, four deathbed flashbacks. Every shift in perspective overturns the "truth" you believed. Story-driven, with exploration, deduction, puzzles, and combat. Ready for a mind-bending thrill ride with twists at every turn?
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Investigation 17%, Mystery 13.1%, 1990's 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 22%, Detective 19.8%, Mystery 19.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Exploration 7.5%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Narration 18.4%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Mystery 12%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Detective 26.8%, Investigation 20%, Mystery 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, 1990's 9.4%
A powerless, FAKE therapist facing raw truth. Balance financial pressure and patients' collapse in this narrative RPG. Use speechcraft and the "Mind Reading Spell" to dive into minds and shatter cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or redemption?
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Time Management 18.2%, Investigation 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
Explore Silhouette: Chapter One - A First-Person, Story-Driven Mystery Adventure. Assume the role of Jim Grayson, an unwavering homicide detective hot on the trail of a disturbing serial killer with confusing motives.
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Investigation 16.9%, Narration 15.3%, Mystery 13%, Story Rich 7.3%
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 21.8%, Time Management 20.7%, Investigation 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8%
A Little Time is a first-person interactive story. You play as a young but determined detective investigating a man's disappearance. You will travel to a variety of locations and pick up clues while experiencing the story, dialogue, and atmospheric visuals.
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Investigation 19.5%, Mystery 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Story Rich 7.3%
Solve your own murder in this thrilling true crime adventure game. You've come face-to-face with your fate and someone close to you is going to kill you...unless you find out who it is before the time runs out!
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Quick-Time Events 16.2% ★, Narration 14.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Investigation 13.4%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 27.6%, Investigation 19.1%, Narration 15.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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 27.9%, Investigation 19.9%, Mystery 16.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 26.9%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9%
Explore & embrace SONDER, a first-person exploration game set within an asteroid in which time flows back and forth, harbouring a vibrant paradise and a communal civilisation doomed by an imminent flood.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Mystery 15.7%, Investigation 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Open World 8.2%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Narration 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Investigation 12.9%
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 27.5%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 15.5%, Story Rich 7.7%, First-Person 7.4%
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Narration 17.2%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 12.9%, Open World 10.5%
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?
Why similar: Detective 30.4%, Time Management 23.9%, Investigation 19%, Mystery 16.7%, Story Rich 6.5%
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
Why similar: Detective 44%, Investigation 18%, Mystery 16%, Adventure 6.3%, Story Rich 5.4%
A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 12.6%, 1990's 9.9%, Mystery 8.7%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, discover and deduce redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Investigation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, 1990's 10.1%, Story Rich 7.2%
After You is a narrative game with puzzles, but it is not an easy game, here you will not have indicators or tutorials, nor can you save when you want. In After You you need to put all your attention and use paper and pencil to move forward, if you're looking for an easy game, this is not your game.
Why similar: Narration 23.1%, Investigation 18.8%, Detective 17.3%, Mystery 9%, Exploration 7%
Children have been vanishing while playing with the brand new Room2Room handheld gaming system. You have been contracted to monitor playtest sessions, document any unwanted quirks, and help young testers play safely.
Why similar: 1990's 19.9%, Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Mystery 12%, Exploration 6.9%
DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Narration 17.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
The owner of the Golden Rose Manor died mysteriously in the secret room. Everyone in the manor has an alibi, but their speech is full of loopholes... You will go to the crime scene, search for clues, analyze the suspect's statement, make reasonable inferences, reveal the truth of the case!
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Investigation 16.1%, Mystery 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Blackhall takes place in the 1970s and lets you explore a remote underground shelter that became home to an isolated community. The facility, long abandoned and left to deteriorate, still shows traces of the people who lived there and the society they built.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Adventure 9.8%, Investigation 9.6%, Mystery 9.5%
Your mother disappeared 15 years ago, a mystery surrounds a hospital, and you live in seclusion in the apartment directly across the street. Use your computer to retrace the last clues left by your mother and try to solve this mystery.
Why similar: Detective 30.2%, 1990's 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Encounters is an open-world, Exploration game about hunting for aliens and cryptids
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Investigation 14.1%, Exploration 12.1%, Open World 11.9%, Mystery 9.4%
Put on your detective hat, and get ready for the mystery of a lifetime. Embark on a plot-driven, walking simulator-puzzle video game with an amazing plot and surprise ending.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Narration 19.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, 1990's 12.6%, Mystery 8.3%
When a long-forgotten race returns for an artifact capable of controlling the destiny of the know worlds, can you find the Spindle of Fate first and save the realms from destruction?
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Narration 17.1%, Investigation 16%, Adventure 11.1%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 33.7%, Narration 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Exploration 7.9%, Investigation 5.7%
Within a universe dominated by Artificial Intelligences, you step into the shoes of an AI detective to solve the mystery hidden within the Proxy Bar, a jazz club. You can ask the suspects ANYTHING, but will you ask the right questions?
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Investigation 18.7%, Mystery 16.1%, Exploration 4.9%
You are a detective on a rogue manhunt through the beautiful country of Italy. Gather clues, interview witnesses and uncover dark secrets to solve the case. Follow your own path to the solution in this 1970's noir crime road-trip.
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Investigation 20.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Inventory Management 7%, Story Rich 6.8%
Into the Wilderness is a quiet, atmospheric survival experience where every trail tells a story. Scavenge, craft, and endure as you navigate hunger, thirst, and exhaustion. Restore broken shelters, uncover forgotten lore, and find solace in the silence.
Why similar: Narration 27.1%, Mystery 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 8.8%
