60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Investigation, Mystery, 2D.
The legendary "THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE" is reborn! Under the executive direction of Yuji Horii comes an all-new entry featuring five brand-new investigation files. Set in 1980s Kobe, conduct your investigation alongside a new cast of characters and uncover the secrets hidden behind the case.
The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~
The legendary Okhotsk Disappearance... is coming back.
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In the Animal's Head is an adventure and narrative game focused on exploration, with interactive dialogues and minigames.
The legendary Okhotsk Disappearance... is coming back.
Why similar: 1980s 28.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Adventure 10.5%
In the Animal's Head is an adventure and narrative game focused on exploration, with interactive dialogues and minigames.
Why similar: 1980s 31.7%, Point & Click 17.4%, Detective 14.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Investigation 11%
Interrogate villagers, uncover their secrets, and decide who will burn before sunset.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 16.5%, 1980s 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
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 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Julian Reed is a 13-year old student at a New England all-boys Catholic boarding school in the early 1980s. When people begin disappearing and no one else seems to remember they ever existed, Julian investigates, with the help of a girl he has never seen, separated from him by a wall.
Why similar: 1980s 37.2%, Point & Click 18.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Detective 9.9%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Mystery 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Detective 13.5%, Point & Click 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Mystery 11.4%
『D.D.D. ― 災薬対策課 ―』は、2人プレイ専用の推理アドベンチャーゲームです。 ナノロボット医療が発達した近未来を舞台に、プレイヤーは特別組織〈D.D.D.〉に所属する二人の刑事となり、 違法ナノロボット《DisasterDrug》が関わる事件の真相を追います。 互いに異なる情報を持ち寄り、通話で協力しながら、事件の謎を解き明かしましょう。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Mystery 17.1%, Detective 13.5%, Adventure 11.8%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Point & Click 17.5%, Detective 15.6%, Investigation 12.7%, Adventure 11.5%
A point-and-click comedy adventure game featuring original pixel-art and music, quirky puzzles, and fully voice acted dialogue. Play as Hank and Duck, who only showed up in town to put on a rockin' concert, but ended up smack dab in the middle of a mutating cola-based pollution catastrophe.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, 1980s 24.4%, Point & Click 21.7%, Adventure 13%, Mystery 9.1%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Mystery 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Investigation 12.3%
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: 1980s 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Point & Click 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
A clickable adventure game reminiscent of detective adventure games of the '80s and '90s. The story follows the main character, a young detective, as he meets a series of unique characters and works to solve a case.
Why similar: 1980s 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Detective 16%, Point & Click 14.4%, Mystery 12.6%
A murder at Camp Lonesome: Peggy was killed one night. Investigate the area, interview the campers, connect the clues, and catch the culprit before everyone gets sent home for good.
Why similar: 1980s 24.6%, Detective 22.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Investigation 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Why similar: 1980s 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Detective 14%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%
The second retro-style travel mystery adventure! This game is a suspense command ADV set in Akita's Oga region in Japan.The character designer is a manga artist Kiyokazu Arai, following his previous work "Iseshima Mystery Annai".
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Investigation 20%, 1980s 19.9%, Detective 18%, Adventure 7.7%
A Supernatural mystery in the beating heart of a Latin American city. Scour the past memories of an abandoned house, build out a web of connections between its inhabitants, and learn of the sinister truth that led to their downfall.
Why similar: 1980s 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Point & Click 16.7%, Detective 12.1%, Adventure 10.4%
A true crime detective game where you map suspects, reconstruct timelines, and use deduction to find the truth everyone missed.
Why similar: 1980s 19.6%, Investigation 19.1%, Detective 18.8%, Mystery 14.7%, Point & Click 14.3%
Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 13.2%, Point & Click 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Vampires infiltrate the nightclub queue. You are the bouncer. Check documents, observe suspicious behavior, and use tools to decide who gets in and who stays outside, but the final decision is always yours.
Why similar: 1980s 31.5%, Point & Click 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Mystery 10.5%
When a cursed cassette awakens a sentient Pomodore 64, Cloudydale High is overrun by 8-bit villains! Join alt-rock trio Blueberry Finn-Hank, Duck, and Alex-as they battle mole men, aliens, dinosaurs and more in a bizarre, musical quest to save the world!
Why similar: 1980s 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Point & Click 19.6%, Adventure 11.5%, Mystery 9.9%
“A full-fledged 3D mystery adventure that blends exploration and deduction” Use your own deductive skills to uncover the truth hidden within the mansion!
Why similar: Mystery 18.3%, Point & Click 17%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 12%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.1%, Detective 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Mystery 13.7%, Adventure 8.2%
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 23.4%, Point & Click 21.2%, Investigation 17.5%, Mystery 16.1%, Adventure 12.7%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Detective 11.4%, Investigation 9.2%
A videogame about being a real estate salesman in the 80s
Why similar: 1980s 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Detective 12.1%, Investigation 11.7%
Eight time periods from across human history collide in a competitive bid to stop the end of the world. Go from fighting monsters to solving a murder, dating sim to escape game. Experience seven vastly different routes in a bid to solve the mystery as to why you've all been brought together.
Why similar: 1980s 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Point & Click 17%, Adventure 10.3%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 9.9%, Mystery 7.6%
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 16.7%, Point & Click 13.7%, Mystery 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 13%, Detective 12.5%, Investigation 6.9%
Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world-renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve "howdunnit" cases that are too tough for the local police to crack and uncover a deeper mystery along the way!
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Investigation 20.4%, Mystery 16.1%, Point & Click 14.7%, Adventure 8.1%
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Point & Click 16.3%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Mystery 11.4%
An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 11.9%, Detective 11.7%, Investigation 9.2%
Project Judgment is a story-driven detective adventure game where the narrative unfolds as you complete quests. Play as Cain, a detective who has lost his memory. Travel from city to city, solve cases, and uncover the truth behind your forgotten past.
Why similar: 1980s 18.5%, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 12.5%
As a counselor in a mysterious facility, you are to examine children with strange powers and fill in their "Paranormal Records". In this story-based, choice-driven game, you will have to pry open your subjects' minds... but what you find inside them could prove dangerous.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Point & Click 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Adventure 8.2%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Mystery 16%, Investigation 15.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Detective 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Point & Click 11.5%
Agents Ray and Reyes are investigating a murder at the Mansion. In a spoof of a classic whodunit, everyone is a suspect and the murderer will be confronted…... If you can find them. Not really a sequel. Not really a prequel. It’s more Thimbleweed Park and just as weird.
Why similar: 1980s 25.8%, Point & Click 21.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Detective 11.2%, Adventure 10.1%
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: Mystery 15.8%, Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Investigation 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%
A knowledge discovery game inspired by ancient astronaut theories. Travel across nine world regions, consult expert informants, and piece together evidence of non-human intelligence hidden in ancient civilizations. Every discovery brings you closer to the truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Point & Click 16.9%, Adventure 10.6%, Detective 10.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Detective 16.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Investigation 11.1%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Investigation 19%, Mystery 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Point & Click 13.5%
You keep returning to the same woodland over and over again, but why? Something that you can't quite remember holds you captive in this cozy, mystery, adventure RPG.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Mystery 12.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Detective 13.2%, Investigation 11%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Detective 15.2%, Mystery 11.9%, Adventure 10.7%
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 15.3%, Mystery 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Investigation 18.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Mystery 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%
殺された花嫁が神の力によって生き返り、自分を殺した犯人を探す和風伝奇ミステリーADV。事件は幾度となく起こり、花嫁は幾度もの死を迎えながら、事件の真相に迫っていく――
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Mystery 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Adventure 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Detective 16.6%, Point & Click 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Investigation 8.7%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Point & Click 14.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Separated by disaster. Connected by choices.In Thargelia, a narrative adventure multiplayer game for two players, your decisions shape more than just your own fate. Cooperate, sabotage, or survive at any cost. How far are you willing to go to save your own life?
Why similar: 1980s 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Point & Click 14%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Investigation 10.1%
Bar by bar, a young woman wanders through the night. Conversations with bar owners and patrons, along with little things that catch her eye, bring back memories of her father, mother, grandfather, and family trips in this narrative exploration adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Point & Click 25.4%, Mystery 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Adventure 8.3%
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: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%
