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Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Why similar: Detective 29%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Story Rich 7.8%, Dark 5.8%

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 27.8%, Investigation 26.7%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Supernatural 11.3%, Story Rich 7.1%

A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.

Why similar: Detective 27.4%, Investigation 25.9%, Typing 18.5% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Mystery 5.7%

Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.

Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 21.6%, Supernatural 15.3%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Story Rich 7.1%

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 37.8%, Investigation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, 1990's 8.3%, Mystery 7.9%

A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.

Why similar: Detective 28.8%, Typing 25.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, 1990's 9.5%, Mystery 6.7%

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 27.9%, Investigation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Mystery 6.9%

You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.

Why similar: Detective 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Text-Based 20.8%, Mystery 6.1%, Retro 2.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Detective 21.4%, Investigation 17.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Dark 5.2%

In 1921: a kidnapping, a revolution... Investigate and uncover the truth behind a dark, mysterious story.

Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Investigation 19.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Story Rich 8.5%, Mystery 6.9%

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Investigation 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, 1990's 10.2%

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: Detective 27.3%, Investigation 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Mystery 5.8%

Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.

Why similar: Investigation 30.1%, Story Rich 19.1%, Mystery 18.2%, Text-Based 17.5%, Retro 4.6%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Investigation 36.7%, Story Rich 14.4%, Mystery 12.3%, Detective 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.

Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Investigation 21.1%, Supernatural 19.6%, Story Rich 7.2%, Mystery 5.9%

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Investigation 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, 1990's 8.5%

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.

Why similar: Detective 26.9%, Investigation 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Story Rich 7.6%, Mystery 6.2%

Bite Night: Dine or Die is a First-Person horror thriller where you play as a diner worker trying to solve the murders of your customers along side your best friend Vamp.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.6%, Investigation 19.1%, Vampires 14.7% ★, First-Person 10.5%, Story Rich 10%

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

Why similar: Investigation 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Detective 14.1%, Story Rich 8.9%

A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?

Why similar: Typing 24.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 15.8%, Dark 4.9%

Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?

Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Typing 23.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Story Rich 6.5%

It's a story about a skeptical detective John who's investigating the abandoned's house massacre where group of teenagers were killed. On early night Detective John arriving to the abandoned house to find out what has happened there but suddenly he realized that he is not alone...

Why similar: Investigation 35.8%, Walking Simulator 26.1%, Story Rich 10.2%, First-Person 7.5%, Dark 6.5%

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 42.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 9.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.

Why similar: Detective 36.9%, Investigation 23.7%, Text-Based 16.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Mystery 7.7%

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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Investigation 20.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Story Rich 7.2%

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

Why similar: Detective 56.6%, Story Rich 17.9%, Dark 12.9%, Walking Simulator 9.4%, First-Person 2.5%

An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.

Why similar: Detective 36.1%, Investigation 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Story Rich 8.6%, Mystery 7.7%

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.

Why similar: Investigation 27.1%, Walking Simulator 27%, Dark 11.1%, Mystery 8.8%, Story Rich 7%

Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

Why similar: Detective 40.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 16.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Mystery 9.4%

The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.

Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Supernatural 15.9%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Story Rich 8.1%

An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.

Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Investigation 20.6%, Supernatural 15.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Story Rich 8.4%

A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.

Why similar: Detective 30%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Supernatural 12.1%, Dark 6.2%

A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.

Why similar: Detective 61.5%, Story Rich 22.3%, Mystery 11.2%, Adventure 1.8%, Indie 1.8%

Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.

Why similar: Detective 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 17.5%, Investigation 13.1%, Story Rich 5.5%

Jack Beckham is found dead, hanging in his apartment alone. Police rule it a suicide. His father, refusing to accept the conclusion, hires you to investigate. Delve into the clues left behind in his apartment to discover what really happened.

Why similar: Detective 38%, Investigation 29.2%, Mystery 8.2%, Story Rich 7.5%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.

Why similar: Detective 61.9%, Mystery 14.2%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 1.9%

As a private detective, you’ll crack word clues left by a mysterious informant, gather evidence, and uncover the truth hidden in the shadows.

Why similar: Typing 54.5% ★, Detective 40.3%, 3D 2.8%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Investigation 17.6%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Story Rich 8.4%

Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.

Why similar: Detective 43.2%, Investigation 34.6%, Story Rich 9.1%, 1990's 5.8%, Retro 1.9%

A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.

Why similar: Detective 38.7%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 16.4%, Story Rich 8.8%, Atmospheric 3.4%

"Tavern in the Woods" is a first person, single-player interactive fiction story that blends mystery, storytelling, and supernatural horror. Players explore and investigate an isolated environment as the narrative slowly unfolds, gradually uncovering the truth behind the eerie emptiness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Investigation 16.5%, Supernatural 13.9%, Dark 8.1%, First-Person 7.9%

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.

Why similar: Detective 53.3%, Mystery 16.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Investigation 8.2%, Atmospheric 4.8%

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Typing 12.5% ★, Detective 12.2%

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Investigation 22.9%, Story Rich 13.4%, Mystery 10.9%, First-Person 10.2%

Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!

Why similar: Detective 49.1%, Text-Based 23.7%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 8.9%, Atmospheric 5.3%

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 18.1%, Mystery 7.6%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Investigation 33.4%, Text-Based 22.5%, Story Rich 9.7%

Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths

Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Story Rich 13.6%, Dark 9.7%

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: Detective 31.3%, Text-Based 24.8%, Supernatural 18%, Story Rich 12.7%, Mystery 10.4%

In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.

Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Investigation 28.7%, Story Rich 10%, Dark 7.8%, Mystery 7.8%

This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!

Why similar: Typing 34.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, Text-Based 8.8%, Dark 7.2%

YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Why similar: Detective 38.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Story Rich 11.6%, Dark 10.1%, Mystery 8.4%

When a murdered family is discovered in 17th Century Salem, at the height of a witch hysteria, people start to suspect something supernatural to blame. An atmospheric murder mystery. Connect the evidence and see if you can deduce the secrets behind the mystery.

Why similar: Detective 40%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 9%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Why similar: Investigation 30%, Walking Simulator 26.4%, Story Rich 11.4%, First-Person 9.1%, Mystery 7.4%

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.

Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Investigation 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Story Rich 9%, Retro 6%

Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, seemingly killed by the mythical creature his attraction is based around... Explore the area, inspect the crime scene, grill suspects, solve puzzles, hunt for clues & uncover the secret of the swamp!

Why similar: Detective 43.1%, Investigation 26.4%, Story Rich 10.9%, Supernatural 10.5%, Mystery 7.1%

An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.

Why similar: Detective 36.2%, Investigation 29.8%, Supernatural 17.1%, Story Rich 9%, Mystery 7.3%

Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.

Why similar: Detective 28.7%, Investigation 22.5%, Supernatural 18.8%, Dark 6.7%, First-Person 6.4%

Search through the interrogation footage of suspects of a bizarre and horrific crime. Decide who committed the crime and see them get arrested and have their day in court. The latest interactive video experience.

Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Typing 22.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Story Rich 6.4%, Mystery 6.1%

Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

Why similar: Text-Based 37.8%, Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Detective 22.4%, Indie 3.8%, Adventure 2.5%