- #1 180 Files: The Aegis Project
97% matchPositive92% of 38 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Espionage 64% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.5%, Choices Matter 4.9%, Visual Novel 4.3%
- #2 Stamp of Fate
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: One Dev Studio
Windows
You are a passport control officer at a busy international airport. Inspect documents, catch wanted criminals, and choose whether to resist or accept bribery. Every stamp shapes your rank and your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 61.5% ★, Simulation 22.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #3 MythiCorp
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scoot o' Speed Studios
Windows
Working 9-5 as a corporate goblin. 💼 Train your stats, make some friends, expose your enemies, and uncover a conspiracy of mythical proportions! One wrong move and you're fired!🔥
Why similar: Espionage 24.7% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #4 Undercover Agent
96% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Think fast and lie faster! When you go undercover to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon, can you pull off the mission and escape with your life?
Why similar: Espionage 67.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%, Choices Matter 4.4%, Story Rich 2%
- #5 Sinful Hearts
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SirAlaxor
Windows · Mac
As the priest of Santa Cecilia, save a village’s souls or exploit their sins. Sinful Hearts is a dark fantasy RPG visual novel with point & click investigation, branching choices, and consequences that can redeem, corrupt, or destroy.
Why similar: Time Management 18.3%, Hidden Object 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 12.7%
- #6 Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,904 reviews2018
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Espionage 52.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Visual Novel 6.8%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #7 Alone in the crowd
93% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: Machine Nun
Windows · Mac
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Why similar: Espionage 34.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Point & Click 10.4%, Isometric 8.6%
- #8 Chronicles of Ella: Whispers of Mythrillis
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: VewDew
Windows · Mac · Linux
A lost mercenary navigates a dangerous monster girl village, where every choice, lie, and word could mean survival—or exposure.
Why similar: Espionage 50.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
- #9 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
92% matchVery Positive90% of 15,522 reviews2016
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Espionage 72.9% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 1.4%, Point & Click 0.8%
- #10 Signal Drift
91% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Alcove Research LLC Pub: Alcove Research LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
Why similar: Espionage 44.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 6.6%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%
- #11 Selenelion
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SLM
Windows
A portal back to August, Friday the 13th, 2021.
Why similar: Simulation 24%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Point & Click 18%, Hidden Object 12%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #12 A Maid Choice
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyclops Clover Studio
Windows
In this 2D choices matter/ visual novel game. Will you rise up to make the kingdom a better place? Steal the crown? Or burn it to the ground?
Why similar: Simulation 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%
- #13 The Black Shift
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Vortexon Studios
Windows
In this AI-powered thriller, your phone is the gateway to a dark past. As a mine chief, you receive messages from a mysterious stranger demanding you put your workers in danger in exchange for uncovering forgotten historical secrets. Who will pay the price for the truth?
Why similar: Espionage 46.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Hidden Object 10.6%, Point & Click 8.4%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%
- #14 Project: Idol / Empire
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eros Game Studio 79
Windows
Behind the cheerful "Internet's Darling" persona is a ruthless hacker mastermind! In Project: Idol / Empire, balance a double life: be an adored idol while waging cyberwar for world domination. Defend your streams, plan network takeovers, and build an empire under a mask that fools the whole server!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Time Management 12.8%, Simulation 11.9%
- #15 EVIDENCE
87% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: MOROZ GAMES
Windows
EVIDENCE is an atmospheric neo-noir detective thriller. Investigate murders, narcotics trafficking, underground casinos, disappearances, arson cases, robberies, and strange incidents that slowly begin connecting into something far bigger.
Why similar: Simulation 21%, Point & Click 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Hidden Object 10.8%
- #16 Annoy This Guy
86% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Point & Click 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Nonlinear 11.2%
- #17 Legion Was Here
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Geoffroy MondePub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 46.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Point & Click 7.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #18 The Polar Darkness
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Horsefly Games
Windows
A Lovecraftian folk horror mystery set during the polar night of 1980s northern Finland. When a child preacher disappears during a revival sermon, a journalist becomes trapped in an isolated village where something ancient is beginning to awaken.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Point & Click 15%, Hidden Object 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, 2.5D 11.3%
- #19 Knight, Death and the Devil
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frequency eye
Windows
Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Point & Click 13%, Nonlinear 12.7%
- #20 Homicide Desk
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shu'la Lab LLC
Windows
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Espionage 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Point & Click 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #21 MysteryOS
82% matchMixed42% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Clermont Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Point & Click 16.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #22 Not Anyone's Business But My Own
83% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Andrey Chegodaev
Windows · Mac
Navigate a local princess through the pages of a hand-crafted fairy tale and help her solve the mystery of a golden ring in this narrative-driven point-and-click adventure game with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Hidden Object 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Point & Click 14%, Nonlinear 11.5%
- #23 Project Looking Glass
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MORPH
Windows · Mac
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.
Why similar: Espionage 49.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 10%, Hidden Object 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Point & Click 8%
- #24 What Happened to Squad 7
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Scarf Games
Windows
What happened to Squad 7 is a military visual novel where you will decide the outcome of the world, what members of the cast live and die, and Orion, the Frontman of Squad 7 which you play as. Will you follow orders? Or will you dig deeper beyond what you're given clearance?
Why similar: Espionage 46.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Point & Click 10.6%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #25 The Silent Front: World War Ⅱ
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oceanwave Technology Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
In 1939, just before graduating from a German military academy, your true infiltration begins. You are Britain's hidden asset codenamed DEEP. Spying, deciphering, and moving through the shadows, you navigate rival factions, where every choice shapes your fate, your homeland, and peace.
Why similar: Espionage 63.6% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%, Story Rich 5.9%, Choices Matter 4.3%
- #26 N.E.R.D
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Forever Entertainment S.A
Windows
N.E.R.D is a story-driven escape room puzzle game, brought to life as a gripping interactive movie. Inspired by cult classic thrillers, this is an experience that will pull you in - and won’t let go. Dark, intense, and deeply unsettling, every moment pushes you further into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Point & Click 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Puzzle 10.5%
- #27 Entities Detected
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blackjard Games
Windows
Your shift as janitor involves mopping spills and serving coffee to "hard working" scientists. Finish your chores, keep the entities from creating chaos and survive the night using every tool and gadget at your disposal.
Why similar: Espionage 59.7% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #28 Exploring Friscott
79% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Point & Click 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Puzzle 11.8%
- #29 Skool Days
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cocodrolo Games
Windows · Mac
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Hidden Object 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #30 Book Smugglers
77% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: FLUXO GAMES
Windows · Mac
Smuggle banned books to save the Nation! Make tough choices, manage resources, and decipher secret messages in this narrative adventure based on true events. Help preserve a forbidden language - one dangerous mission at a time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.8%, Point & Click 13.3%, Inventory Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #31 Hotel Hermes
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adjective Noun Studios
Windows · Linux
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Point & Click 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Time Management 14.4%, Puzzle 11.6%
- #32 REFORI
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEN
Windows
We are born, live through countless choices, and in the end, we die. Because death is not a choice, what you're given is the path, not its end. The ending is already written. Will you uncover the truth, or pretend not to know? REFORI: a mystery adventure where your choices shift the perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, 2.5D 14.2%, Nonlinear 11.8%
- #33 quietd
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hollow Frame
Windows
quietd is a no-input game you simply watch. A terminal hacks on its own across all 50 stages while you idle by. No commands, no clicks, no win, no score, no game over. Just chill, ambient cyberpunk: silent monospace text drifting in a corner of your desktop. Glance over and let it run.
Why similar: Espionage 59.1% ★, Simulation 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #34 Coolmath Games: The Game
75% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2024
Dev: Sideby InteractivePub: Coolmath Games
Windows
A point-and-click adventure where you get to play the role of a Coolmath Games intern! Talk with the crew, solve puzzles and help us launch our game!
Why similar: Point & Click 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #35 Charon 卡戎
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shurei Studio
Windows
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Point & Click 14.1%, Puzzle 11.3%
- #36 My Wife is a Spy?!
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Transparent Games
Windows · Mac
In this otome isekai visual novel you're thrown into an arranged marriage with the cold Duke of the North. Explore political tension, shifting loyalties, and two routes: romance or rebellion. Support your husband or betray him like a true villainess and take control of your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 48.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 6%
- #37 Last Seen
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Red Ash Studios
Windows · Mac
Reopen your late father's phone repair shop to survive. But every device holds someone's secrets — and the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the sister who vanished. Repair. Extract. Investigate. The truth has a price, and so does staying clean.
Why similar: Espionage 65.2% ★, Point & Click 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Exploration 6.1%, Story Rich 5%
- #38 Artificial Nexus
73% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Point & Click 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #39 Momo Don't Leave
71% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Point & Click 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, 2.5D 13.3%
- #40 Upper Morkezela: A Weird Game
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tempurra Games
Windows
Discover the mysterious city of Upper Morkezela, where gods go to die. As an apprentice to the priest of the fungal cult, your task will be to discover what lies behind the mysterious distress signal sent from the city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Hidden Object 19%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Point & Click 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
- #41 Skin Tailor
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Espionage 44.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 5%
- #42 Engram
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sitokaPub: Yet Another AI
Windows · Mac
In a desolate sci‑fi world, search for a way to save your sister Mia. In Engram, you will make many choices that affect and change the fate of every character in the story. Like an intricate web of butterfly effects, a unique story will emerge under the influence of your decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Point & Click 14.4%, Time Management 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Nonlinear 13%
- #43 The Imaginary Circle
73% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: RMTeam
Windows
The Imaginary Circle is a narrative experience, lasting about an hour and a half, in which you must find your way around an abandoned prison. Rummage through the documents, force open doors, call former employees, craft tools, but overall ask yourself: Should I use my only bullet now?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Hidden Object 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Isometric 10.7%
- #44 Cannibal Court
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loomnorth Studios
Windows
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%
- #45 Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
74% matchVery Positive90% of 167 reviews2014
Dev: MicroProse Software, IncPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
Why similar: Espionage 74.2% ★, Simulation 25.8%
- #46 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
- #47 Whispering Eclipsia
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: First Front Game Studios
Windows
"Whispering Eclipsia is a gripping first-person psychological horror detective game. Step into the shoes of Inspector Keshav to solve a series of ritualistic murders, survive reality-bending loops, and uncover the dark secrets lurking in the shadows of Woodslane."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Hidden Object 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Point & Click 13.5%
- #48 Monologin
68% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Point & Click 16.3%, 2.5D 12.9%
- #49 Parina's Demon Lair Adventure
70% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Scripting Ventures
Windows
Step into the fantastical world of Parina and embark on an exhilarating journey through realms of magic and mystery! Sharpen your senses as you delve into this captivating hidden object adventure, where every scene is brimming with treasures waiting to be discovered.
Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Point & Click 18.6%, Hidden Object 15%, Puzzle 9.9%
- #50 Fixer's Tale
69% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Isometric 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #51 LifeSimOS
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #52 嘘!超能少女代购中!
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 纸皮便当工作室
Windows
Broke and fired, Qiqi gets a phone that teleports her to any photo! Her plan? Cross-border smuggling! In this 3-hour comedic simulator, manage inventory, stealth-teleport, and bluff through deadly customs checks to scalp goods. One bad lie means jail! Unlock 40+ hilarious endings in this hustle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Time Management 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #53 Soul Sorter: A Morality Personality Test
67% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Alomy
Windows
A point and click personality test game where you take the role of a Sorter, a soul tasked with determining the fate of the recently deceased. Learn their stories and sentence them to an afterlife of either punishment or forgiveness as you confront your own morality.
Why similar: Simulation 25.5%, Dialogue Heavy 20.8%, Point & Click 20%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #54 The Dark Prophecy
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Start Warp
Windows · Mac
The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 15%, Hidden Object 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #55 Paper Trails
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eduard Röhrig
Windows
Paper Trails is an AI-assisted detective investigation game set on a believable desktop. Analyze files, emails, logs and clues, interrogate a sharp persona, connect evidence, and solve procedural cases that adapt to your decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Simulation 19.6%, Nonlinear 11%, Hidden Object 10.4%, Puzzle 10.1%
- #56 Good Bones
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 41 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: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 15.8%, Hidden Object 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%
- #57 life: Start To Return
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salutations=System
Windows · Mac
Live an 'ordinary life' as a game programmer. Go to work, pay your rent, and make time for yourself in your free time. What could go wrong?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Time Management 20%, Point & Click 20%, Simulation 6.3%
- #58 Hakuba School ! Hunting Prey
69% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Kenbu
Windows
Welcome to Hakuba school! Live a student life in Hakuba and solve the mysteries surrounding the school and your past...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 16.8%, Simulation 14.1%
- #59 A Binding Unmade
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zircona Works
Windows
Play as Hawke, a veteran Guardian hunting a monstrous hag across the Arcadian Empire. Investigate strange locations, solve puzzles and hidden-object scenes, and survive a story-rich game of cat and mouse in the science-fantasy world of the Crosshollows.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Hidden Object 15.2%, 2.5D 13.2%, Puzzle 11.6%
- #60 Survivor's guilt
67% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: あみそ組
Windows
A great earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 occurred. The day when rescue arrives is unknown. Make full use of your smart phone and the supplies you have left, and continue to fight against the hunger and fear that is attacking you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Inventory Management 14.9%, Point & Click 12.9%, Hidden Object 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%