60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Adventure, Singleplayer.
Listen closely. With hand-drawn visuals and the help of a cat named Blinky, escape Dr. Lazarus’s trap and uncover the truth buried in an audio-visual journey through the past.
Detective Malinowski The Truth Will Be Revealed
Body found. Two missing. Detective Malinowski hears what others miss. Noir adventure where sound reveals clues and sketches tell the story. A short case you can finish tonight. Start now.
At His Grave
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Body found. Two missing. Detective Malinowski hears what others miss. Noir adventure where sound reveals clues and sketches tell the story. A short case you can finish tonight. Start now.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Time Manipulation 19.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Minimalist 7.6%
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.7% ★, Time Manipulation 28.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Emotional 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.3% ★, Noir 21.7%, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Visual Novel 8.4%, Supernatural 6.5%
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Why similar: Time Travel 29.6% ★, Time Manipulation 24.5% ★, Noir 19.1%, Visual Novel 7.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%
Participate in the Death Game "Rising Odds", a psychological horror visual novel, with dark and gore themes. Your choices will decide how this story ends!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.2% ★, Time Travel 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dark 7%
Become Rolando the Majestic and find out how he became the most powerful wizard to ever live! Explore parallel levels using magic and time-travel in a stealth based narrative adventure in order to take vengance against the men who took everything from him as a child.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.8% ★, Noir 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Exploration 5.4%, Atmospheric 3.7%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 38.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 8.5%, Emotional 7.7%
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Time Travel 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Emotional 9.3%
A Week in Paradise is a narrative mystery where you find yourself in a bar called Paradise. Have a drink each night with its mysterious regular and discover how deeply your stories connect. Hunt down clues in your dreams to find out why you end up here every day, and what keeps you coming back.
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Emotional 8.9%
Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Why similar: Time Travel 36.5% ★, Time Manipulation 22.5% ★, Exploration 9.4%, Mystery 8.8%, Minimalist 8.4%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 29.5%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Emotional 8.8%
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Travel 53.2% ★, Time Manipulation 44.9% ★, Singleplayer 1%, Adventure 0.9%
The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.3% ★, Time Manipulation 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Experimental 11.8%, Exploration 6.5%
A classic science-fiction point-and-click adventure inspired by the genre’s greatest titles, where you’ll control two characters and solve ingenious puzzles using an innovative temporal superposition mechanic.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.6% ★, Time Manipulation 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 21%, Exploration 9.1%, Mystery 6.1%
Stories Want to be Told is an adventure game. It is more like an interactive story telling game. This the first episode The Prohecy
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Exploration 11.7%, Linear 8.9%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Noir 38.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Supernatural 8.2%
Surely one change shouldn't change everything, right?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44% ★, Time Travel 39.7% ★, Minimalist 12.7%, Adventure 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
A psychological visual novel about grief, memory, and time loops shaped by player choice. Experience a story driven by atmosphere and emotion, where each decision reveals hidden truths and leads toward one of several possible endings.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Time Travel 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 7.8%
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.8% ★, Noir 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Emotional 11%, Minimalist 8.9%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Emotional 15%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Linear 7.3%
Essence of Time is a story rich, hand-drawn RPG. Craft modular moves in a sphere grid as you build friendships, unravel mysteries, and explore timelines and their consequences during the final days of battle school. While students compete to be the next emperor, can you find a future without war?
Why similar: Time Travel 33.8% ★, Time Manipulation 24.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Why similar: Noir 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Minimalist 9.3%
The time-traveling vigilante Hank has been captured by the devious Unraveler. However, before the crime genius gets rid of the hero, he must satisfy his curiosity - How has this pathetic drunk so easily thwarted so many of his plans?
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Time Manipulation 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Atmospheric 2.8%
Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.9% ★, Time Travel 28.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Mystery 8.1%, Visual Novel 7.7%
The Ritual is what so many are afraid of, it is not known where it came from, but is it really so? What is his secret, why people take actions because of him, exhausting themselves and, in the end, dying. Can't no one be able to overcome this attack?
Why similar: Noir 32.3%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Minimalist 19.6%, Dark 10.1%, Linear 9.7%
The iconic game The 7th Guest has been brought back to life with modern technology, delivering an atmospheric story like no other. Explore a foreboding mansion, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets. The 7th Guest is the ultimate mystery adventure, reimagined for modern platforms.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Noir 21%, Mystery 13.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Supernatural 10.5%
The Chronos Principle is a breathtaking journey through a series of intricate puzzles that explore the concept of time manipulation.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.3% ★, Time Travel 26% ★, Minimalist 13.5%, Mystery 7.6%, Atmospheric 6.3%
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.6% ★, Time Travel 27.6% ★, Minimalist 11.2%, Linear 10.4%, Emotional 9.5%
Discover the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a whole new way. A gaming experience where you get to feel what it's like to dive inside a novel as a small dot. Roll left and right, rewind time, and venture deeper through the story as you try to find your way back home.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.2% ★, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Minimalist 12.6%, Emotional 10.6%, Linear 7.7%
Rock, paper, scissors meet anime turn-based fights and time travel!
Why similar: Time Travel 30.1% ★, Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Emotional 9.8%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 34% ★, Time Manipulation 33.8% ★, Emotional 9.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Mystery 7.2%
nothing is inviolate. and that which is sacrosanct gets fucked. fuck god, kill heaven, marry boyfriend. in that order.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Time Travel 18.3% ★, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Linear 10.6%
Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Minimalist 13.8%, Linear 9.5%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 35%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Mystery 7.3%
Experience the mind of a man with schizophrenia in a surreal, single-room narrative. Manage his daily needs, maintain mental stability, and explore shifting memories in a calm, intense psychological journey.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Linear 8.5%, Dark 8.4%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.7% ★, Time Travel 27.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Emotional 9%, Mystery 7%
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Noir 14.8%, Dark 10.1%
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.4% ★, Time Manipulation 38.6% ★, Mystery 9.2%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 2.8%
Narrative-Adventure. A nostalgic journey with VHS aesthetics and immersive music where the story is the heart of everything. This game captures the bittersweet feeling of several generations who grew up between the 80-90-2000s and classic anime aesthetic.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Emotional 18.2%, Linear 12.6%, 1990's 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9%
This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use these mechanics, including reality overlap, to checkmate the king in the present or the past!
Why similar: Time Travel 51.4% ★, Time Manipulation 37.3% ★, Minimalist 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Immerse yourself in Fear Is In The Mind, a psychological horror game that blurs the lines between reality and the mind's darkest corners. Face your fears, decipher the truth, and explore a world where every word can alter your fate.
Why similar: Noir 43.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Linear 10.8%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Exploration 7.1%
Immerse yourself in the depressing and atmospheric city of Hlína, where, as a young boy named Oliver, you face the harsh realities of life. Work in a factory, care for your mother, play mini-games, and uncover a deep story in this hand-crafted city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Emotional 14.8%, Exploration 11%, Linear 10.6%, Mystery 9.8%
Achi ran away from the orphanage and he found himself surrounded by concrete, indifference, and violence. He was saved by a mysterious creature that came from within, and by a peculiar detective. He had no way of knowing that darker, more disturbing voices were about to reach him.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Emotional 14.6%, Dark 7.8%
HERO BOY is a cinematic, narrative-driven point-and-click adventure game about becoming the hero you once needed, featuring: an EMOTIONAL and TIMELESS ORIGINAL STORY, TWO AWESOME PLAYABLE PROTAGONISTS, fresh yet iconic HAND-PAINTED ART, and a DASHING DEBUT SCORE!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Time Manipulation 23.6% ★, Time Travel 16.3% ★, Exploration 13%, Linear 9.7%
This is not just a game—it’s a tribute. Adam wakes trapped in his apartment, surrounded by darkness and strange visions. To uncover the mystery and escape, he must find missing diary pages in this thrilling first-person horror/novel/adventure: The Midnight Town Stories: Adam’s Forgotten Secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Linear 12.1%, Emotional 11.2%, 1990's 10.8%
M. Webb, the I.S.C. requests your immediate presence. Our previous keeper has vanished without explanation. A replacement is needed at once for the offshore lighthouse under our care. Report to the local office of the company as soon as possible. Do not be late.
Why similar: Noir 28%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Adventure 5.7%
Crimson Silk is a political detective thriller with a mind-controlling villain. Investigate the assassination of your grandfather. Plunge into a world of complicated law and wild ESP powers. Gather clues, choose sides, jump timelines, and try not to get stuffed with lead.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.8% ★, Time Travel 18.6% ★, Visual Novel 17.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Exploration 10%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.2% ★, Time Travel 30.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Minimalist 8.9%, Exploration 8.5%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Noir 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Adventure 3.2%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Emotional 16.3%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Linear 13.2%
Childukhtaron is a click-and-read visual novel. You are a young gentleman who, following a fortune that fell from the sky, steps into a stone valley wrapped in an ancient curse — and uncovers the truth behind the legend.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.8% ★, Noir 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Mystery 5.8%
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.6% ★, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Emotional 13.7%, Retro 4.4%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 19%, Emotional 13.9%
"Crisis: The Third Way" is a fantastic visual novel set in a world struggling to recover from a devastating financial crisis that led to World War III.
Why similar: Noir 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Minimalist 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.2%
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Minimalist 14.1%, Experimental 13.4%
A noir narrative puzzle adventure where you manipulate time to investigate a space filled with physically identical characters. Pause, rewind, and fast-forward individual lives, connect fragmented pasts and futures, and uncover the single truth needed to avert impending tragedy.
Why similar: Noir 38.6%, Time Manipulation 30% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Mystery 7.2%, Dark 5.2%
THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Emotional 12%, Exploration 9.8%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Minimalist 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Emotional 12.9%, Mystery 10.7%
A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.
Why similar: Noir 40.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Hand-drawn 18.4%, Linear 7.4%, Mystery 7.2%
Drive the night shift through a cursed city where every passenger hides a secret—and some of them died long ago. Uncover the truth behind each fare, make irreversible choices, and decide who deserves to be saved before your final shift ends.
Why similar: Noir 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Emotional 8.7%, Dark 6.4%
