60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich, Text-Based.
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Call the Tune
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Angelic Agency: Soul Salvation Unit
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Minigames 15.1% ★, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Point & Click 13.9%, Mystery 10%
The Keytox Project follows Anthony as he attempts to turn his life around. He takes a job at a government program, going to space, with his partner, Will. Their job is to hunt down alien lifeforms to ensure the safety of humanity. But what they find outside of Earth is far deeper than planned.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Lore-Rich 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 11%, Choices Matter 6.9%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Detective 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Mystery 5.5%
Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Point & Click 16.1%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
宇宙船を舞台にしたＳＦミステリーゲーム。 とある基地の残骸を回収したことから、有人宇宙船アルタイル号の中で不可解な事件が巻き起こる。 被害を食い止めるべく宇宙船のマスターAIは、壊れかけのアンドロイド・フレムと共に事件の調査に乗り出す――
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Mystery 11.7%, Space 11.3%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 16.1%, Text-Based 12%, Point & Click 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 13%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Detective 14.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Point & Click 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 14%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Mystery 9.9%
Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 26.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Detective 16.4%, Mystery 14.3%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Detective 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Point & Click 9.9%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Point & Click 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko and her assistant tackle 23 cases in this comedy detective ADV. Find clues, shout "The culprit is YOU!" — and get it wrong. Every. Single. Time. The world's worst detective begins her investigation. Skill issue? No. It's a feature.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Detective 18.3%, Point & Click 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11.3%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Detective 14.9%, Point & Click 9.7%, Mystery 9.3%
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Point & Click 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Point & Click 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%
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: Detective 19.2%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Point & Click 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 14.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说，通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话，并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Point & Click 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Lore-Rich 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
Within a cyberpunk world in the year 2070, become Detective B to investigate crime scenes, discover hidden truths, and dismantle the perpetrators' lies. There's only one problem: you have to do all that "without" stepping foot outside your house.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Futuristic 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Point & Click 10.2%, Mystery 10.1%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.8%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.1%, Mystery 10.6%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Mystery 9.6%
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Text-Based 25.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Mystery 10.1%, 2D 6.4%
A visual novel about life, love and death. The sequel to Laments of a Platinum Rose continues the story through the eyes of the abdicated Jane Perdita, who also must overcome insurmountable odds to save the one that she loves.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Point & Click 12.7%, Text-Based 9.2%
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Detective 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Point & Click 16.3%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Space 10.8%, Futuristic 9.9%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Mystery 8.8%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場！
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Point & Click 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements. Wake up in a futuristic room with no memory, and unravel the mysteries of your past. Experience deep storytelling, meet intriguing characters, and uncover hidden secrets.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Futuristic 8.9%
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Point & Click 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12%
Cute visual novel murder mystery game
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Point & Click 21.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Detective 17%, Casual 6.4%
Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Text-Based 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Mystery 7.2%
ミステリー×ラヴコメ！プレイヤーは、シュークリームマンとなって、カヌレ探偵の助手的存在として、事件解決のサポートを行います。シリアスな展開もありますが、日常はコメディータッチで描かれています。時より挿入される選択肢を選ぶことで、周回プレイを楽しむことができます。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Point & Click 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 15.5%, Detective 11.3%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 8.8%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Point & Click 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Detective 13.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
What remains after you lose the one you love? REM is an atmospheric, choice-driven 2D point & click experience exploring a grieving man’s bond with the AI he created, and this consciousness's questioning of reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Point & Click 16.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
Discover the mysteries of Gensokyo through the lens of Shin, a photographer from the outside world. In this immersive visual novel, join forces with the shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei to unravel the truth behind this incident and stop the enigmatic Kurohana.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Mystery 10.4%, Text-Based 9.1%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
KILLA is a 3D adventure mystery with multiple endings. Valhalla, our protagonist, seeks the killer of her mentor, a mentor she treasures like family, venturing to an unknown island. Discover the culprit on this enigmatic island and embark on a journey of revenge.
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Point & Click 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 12%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
In a city ruled by AI, a carefully staged abduction gives you a long-awaited chance for revenge. Every choice comes with a cost—what will you sacrifice?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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 19.4%, Detective 17.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Point & Click 11.8%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Point & Click 14.6%, Detective 11%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%
When you wake from a deep sleep, the first thing the goblin doctor asks is "What's your name?" The problem is: you don't know. Retrace your steps. Find what you've lost. Piece together who you are from the strange and incredible things you can do
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Lore-Rich 17.4%, Point & Click 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 11.7%
Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Text-Based 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Mystery 8.5%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Text-Based 25.2%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%
