- #1 A Death in the Red Light
97% matchMixed68% of 47 reviews2024
Dev: Mystery City Games BVPub: indie.io
Windows
Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Investigation 15%, Dark Comedy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Crime 8.6%
- #2 Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Pixel Paradise ®
Windows · Mac · Linux
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes, interrogate suspects, and survive in this point-and-click remake, rebuilt from the ground up. Solve the mystery before your demons consume you. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Investigation 14.1%, Point & Click 11.5%, Crime 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
- #3 A Case of the Crabs: Rehash
96% matchVery Positive94% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Pinhead Games
Windows
A complete remake/remaster/rehash of the award winning Flash game: A Case of the Crabs! Play as smart-ass detective, Nick Bounty, in this hilarious point & click adventure and hunt down a nefarious counterfeit crab ringleader!
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Investigation 20.4%, Point & Click 18%, Cinematic 11.7%, Adventure 7.9%
- #4 The Slaughter: Magdalene
94% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Alex FrancoisPub: Brainchild
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short interlude from the world of The Slaughter.
Why similar: Noir 27.1%, Point & Click 14.4%, Dark Comedy 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Crime 11.9%
- #5 M.S. Salmon
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SoybloQ
Windows · Mac · Linux
M.S. Salmon is an interactive 2D story adventure. Help Ben Hearnden and Ranieri solve a murder on a luxury liner. As they gather more evidence, they uncover not only the truth about the murder but also their own dark past.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Point & Click 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Cinematic 12%, Investigation 10.4%
- #6 Impirical Evidence
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Match Head Studio
Windows
A comedy adventure game featuring classic inventory based puzzles. Arthur is a skeptic who dedicated his life to denying the paranormal. Murray is the electric Imp he accidentally summoned. Now Arthur must solve mysteries while bound to the very evidence of the supernatural itself.
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Investigation 17.1%, Point & Click 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Crime 8.8%
- #7 26 Moves: The Queen's Plot
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Danari Games
Windows
Silence is a luxury you don't have. Unravel a dark noir point-and-click mystery where justice and revenge blur. You have exactly 26 moves to reach the end. In this psychological duel, are you the master of your own fate, or just a pawn in someone else’s game?
Why similar: Noir 30.1%, Point & Click 16.6%, Investigation 14.7%, Crime 12%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #8 The Final Print
91% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Dummy DetectivesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
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 22.4%, Crime 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Investigation 12.1%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #9 Au Revoir
91% matchVery Positive96% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Noir 25.9%, Point & Click 14.5%, Cinematic 11.2%, Investigation 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
- #10 Frankie and Suede Private Detectives
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HurlingGames
Windows
Get big laughs while you point and click to search for clues and solve mysteries with Hollywood's most deranged private investigators, Frankie and Suede. Be immersed into a cinematic experience with slapstick characters in this film noir comedy adventure.
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Dark Comedy 19.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Investigation 8.8%, Crime 8.5%
- #11 Private Eye: The Young Heir
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucky 7 Studios
Windows
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 17.8%, Noir 16.6%, Crime 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #12 Man of Nollyn
88% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Slater Chae
Windows
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 30.1%, Investigation 19.8%, Crime 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #13 These Nights Alone
89% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2020
Dev: ryArt
Windows
Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Investigation 17.8%, Point & Click 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #14 MoriA.I.RTy
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Red Meat Games
Windows
In the not-so-distant future, a robot witnesses a shocking event and stores the last image it sees in an encrypted memory bank. The player assigned to this robot must scroll through its memories to piece together a visual story and solve the mystery of what happened.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Point & Click 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Crime 12%
- #15 Critical Interrogator: Messiah Hunt
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Benedict King
Windows
Seven murders in motion by a killer calling himself the Messiah. Interrogate witnesses, spot contradictions in their testimonies, and build a criminal profile piece by piece in this detective thriller where every word is evidence.
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Point & Click 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 9.6%, Crime 8.8%
- #16 Subway Story
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spawn Cube
Windows · Mac
A narrative-driven exploration game set in the New York City subway, where you ride trains, interact with strangers, and make choices that shape how the city's underbelly responds.
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Cinematic 12.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #17 Sammy Jukes: Twin Lakes
85% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Wamill
Windows
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.1%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Investigation 12%
- #18 Who Killed Mr. White?
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: notagamestudio
Windows
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Crime 7.8%
- #19 Nick Bounty - The Goat in the Grey Fedora: Remastered
82% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2022
Dev: Pinhead Games
Windows
A complete modern remaster of the award winning Point & Click detective comedy adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 39.1%, Point & Click 26.2%, Cinematic 13.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, Adventure 7.7%
- #20 PataNoir
84% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Noir 26%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Crime 11.9%, Investigation 10.3%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #21 This Bed We Made
81% matchVery Positive91% of 2,983 reviews2023
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Investigation 15.8%, Crime 12.9%, Cinematic 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #22 Murder In Tehran's Alleys 1933
83% matchMixed48% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: RSK EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
This is a series about brutal murders and innocent children killed by cruel and vicious devils riddled with terrifying violence and a mystery for which no end seems to exist. In such gloomy despair, detective Afshar is the only one who has to try to solve this serial killing case in one of the most loyal adventure games to the classic...
Why similar: Noir 38.8%, Point & Click 25.2%, Crime 20.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Mystery 7.3%
- #23 Ring of Fire
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Investigation 17%, Point & Click 10.6%, Cinematic 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
- #24 Universe 25
82% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: The Northern Bureau
Windows
A Pythonesque Indie point and click adventure game set in the year 2035. Follow the journey of a bureaucrat as he tracks down a malevolent force running experiments on citizens. Armed with a government issue briefcase and a pet mouse, he tracks down an evil agent only to find more than he expected
Why similar: Noir 23.5%, Dark Comedy 16.1%, Point & Click 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 10.1%
- #25 Hill Agency: PURITYdecay
80% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Achimostawinan Games
Windows
Murdered sisters, mind altering drugs and flying cities, to a case that goes way further than the banks of this one detective's little neighbourhood in this Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure set in a post-post-apocalyptical future.
Why similar: Noir 26.2%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Crime 12.7%, Point & Click 8.6%
- #26 Hauma - A Detective Noir Story - Prologue
79% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: SenAm GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Investigation 15.1%, Crime 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Point & Click 10.8%
- #27 Graywood: Noir Detective
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 29.4%, Crime 14.5%, Investigation 14.3%, Point & Click 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
- #28 Let Bions Be Bygones
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: Microprose Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 26%, Point & Click 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Crime 8.2%
- #29 The Murder of Ava Monroe
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BUNKWORKS
Windows · Mac
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Noir 28.9%, Point & Click 22.3%, Investigation 15.8%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 9.8%
- #30 Metaphobia
78% matchVery Positive85% of 487 reviews2020
Dev: Digital Mosaic Games
Windows
Metaphobia is an investigative mystery game in the style of classic 1990’s point-and-click adventures. Take control of Richard Elmstat in his journey to solve his father's murder.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.4%, Noir 27.1%, Investigation 24.1%, Mystery 10.1%, Adventure 9.3%
- #31 Robot Detective
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Atreyu Games
Windows
Investigate the grisly murder of Philip Cartel in this dazzling sci-fi post-apocalyptic visual novel. You play an android detective piecing together their past while meeting strange and exotic characters, traveling a brutal world and unraveling the many mysteries it holds.
Why similar: Noir 23.5%, Investigation 14%, Crime 13%, Point & Click 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #32 FMV - Full Motion Voyeur
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ten Thousand Hearts Ltd.
Windows
Full Motion Voyeur is a dark FMV thriller with brutal gameplay: investigate video feeds, judge sinners, and feed them to a hungry Demon. Uncover buried secrets, grapple with moral choices, and decide if obeying the Demon to protect your loved ones is worth it. How far will you go to feed the Demon?
Why similar: Noir 19.1%, Investigation 16.1%, Crime 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
- #33 D.W. Dagger: Chapter One
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Lime Interactive
Windows
A noir first-person murder mystery set in a gloomy 1947 Pacific Northwest city. Play as the renowned Detective D.W. Dagger to help solve his latest case. A violent murder, a possible suicide, and a handful of suspects. Can you deduce what happened?
Why similar: Noir 31.7%, Investigation 19.8%, Point & Click 13.8%, Crime 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
- #34 Kingfisher: An Autism Tale
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Possibly Pixels
Windows
Experience how people with autism see, feel and interact with the world around them in this thrilling detective adventure, taking place near the Belgian coast and in the woods around a local nature reserve.
Why similar: Noir 27.9%, Point & Click 15.9%, Cinematic 14.4%, Crime 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #35 Hauma - A Detective Noir Story
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: SenAm GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Crime 12.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #36 YOUR HOUSE
73% matchVery Positive86% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Point & Click 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #37 Good Bones
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Point & Click 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Noir 11.5%
- #38 Lacuna: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 169 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 28.3%, Crime 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Investigation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #39 Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
73% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: AI Media Design
Windows
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: Noir 19.3%, Investigation 18.2%, Point & Click 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Crime 12.9%
- #40 Inspector Detective: Private Eye
73% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Michael GilmourPub: A Winter's Night Games
Windows · Mac
Everyone in town has their version of what happened at Timmons Manor. None of them were there. Everyone has their theories about why a Timmons relative has not set foot on the property in 100 years. None of them are correct...
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Investigation 18.8%, Dark Comedy 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #41 To Hell With The Ugly
71% matchVery Positive88% of 146 reviews2023
Dev: La Poule NoirePub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac · Linux
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
Why similar: Noir 30.4%, Investigation 14.5%, Point & Click 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Puzzle 6.2%
- #42 Feeding The Velociraptors
70% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: workHate Inc
Windows
Feeding the Velociraptors is a narrative dinosaur mystery horror comedy where you wander corridors, trying to escape both the blame for your past actions—and the scientifically realistic raptors who cast no blame upon you for said past actions, but will still eat you regardless.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.9%, Point & Click 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #43 Mystical Riddles: Ship From Beyond Collector's Edition
71% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Do Games Limited
Windows
All hands on deck! A strange, oily fog has enveloped the waterfront of the port town of Quietcape, where local fishermen go, never to return again... Can you solve this mystery?
Why similar: Point & Click 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Investigation 11.9%, Crime 11.9%
- #44 Blacksad: Under the Skin
71% matchVery Positive84% of 6,719 reviews2019
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Microids
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Investigation 14.5%, Crime 12.9%, Point & Click 12.9%, Cinematic 8%
- #45 Richard & Alice
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 427 reviews2014
Dev: Owl Cave
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.
Why similar: Noir 26.7%, Point & Click 26.5%, Crime 19.9%, Adventure 12.2%, Mystery 7.7%
- #46 Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iron Noir Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat is a dark neo noir point and click adventure game where you start as a police detective Joe Kowalski and try to solve a murder that happened in Joe's neighborhood.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Point & Click 15.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Crime 14.5%, Cinematic 10.8%
- #47 Beach Cafe: Caribbean Sand
72% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Killbug StudioPub: Cooking and Publishing
Windows
Where is Grandpa? and why has his beach bar been closed for more than 2 years? An adventure full of puzzles and mystery begins! Explore, discover all the clues and read them correctly in order to advance. Let yourself be enveloped by a story of intrigue set on a beach.
Why similar: Investigation 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Point & Click 16.4%, Puzzle 14.8%, Adventure 10.4%
- #48 Arsenic & Absinthe
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laborastory 604
Windows
A Bartender point-and-click simulator game mixed with visual novel-style storytelling set in a noir-fabled world. As you have only 7 days to live, to save yourself from a collapsing life, it’s time to investigate, mix the drink and discover the secret recipe of success you deserve all along.
Why similar: Noir 35.8%, Point & Click 16.3%, Cinematic 13.1%, Crime 11.8%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #49 Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2025
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Investigation 18.8%, Point & Click 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Puzzle 6.5%
- #50 Cold Case: The Red Dress Murder
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nessie Games
Windows
A desktop-detective mystery where you’re tasked with investigating an unsolved murder. Scour case files and use logic and deduction to discover the truth of a thrilling story.
Why similar: Investigation 24%, Noir 21%, Point & Click 16.2%, Crime 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
- #51 Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 580 reviews2026
Dev: BRANEPub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Investigation 16.9%, Point & Click 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #52 Dirty Land
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Naturally Intelligent
Windows · Mac · Linux
A videogame about being a real estate salesman in the 80s
Why similar: Noir 28.9%, Investigation 15.4%, Crime 14.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #53 Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,506 reviews2025
Dev: Happy Broccoli Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Investigation 23.6%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Mystery 6.4%
- #54 Cadulium
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Osgoode Media
Windows
What happens when a video game character is self-aware? Cadulium is a mystery science fiction adventure video game.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Investigation 13.7%, Point & Click 12.4%, Cinematic 12.3%
- #55 QUIET DAN
66% matchVery Positive95% of 1,320 reviews2025
Dev: ВСЖ
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
Why similar: Noir 26.1%, Dark Comedy 18%, Crime 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Cinematic 9.4%
- #56 Nirvana Noir
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feral Cat DenPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
A noir adventure beyond time and space. The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities - one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.
Why similar: Noir 28.5%, Investigation 16.1%, Point & Click 13.5%, Crime 12.7%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #57 Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: LorestromePub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
A point and click noir mystery, set in a grim and corrupt Wonderland. Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds is a complete remake of the classic Flash game trilogy, including all new art, added puzzles, expanded lore, and plenty of secrets for old and new fans alike.
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Point & Click 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%, Crime 10.4%
- #58 Hope in the City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
Windows
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover a dark world beneath the surface of her peaceful life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Cinematic 11.7%, Puzzle 6.6%
- #59 Sockpuppet Noire
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LizardFactory
Windows
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Noir 28.9%, Dark Comedy 19.6%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%