60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Detective, Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure.
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.
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Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
The Girl Who Wasn't There
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...
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 16.8%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Detective 13.9%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
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 22.1%, Investigation 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
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 23.7%, Investigation 18.1%, Mystery 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
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 26.2%, Investigation 21.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Investigation 20.2%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Detective 17.4%, Mystery 15%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Mystery 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Investigation 9.1%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Investigation 15.9%, Mystery 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 16%, Mystery 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Investigation 9.2%, Mystery 9.1%
The culprit is—the maid. And the protagonist. your mission is to strike down six unsuspecting guests, one by one. But beware—you must never be suspected before your plan is complete. To escape suspicion, engage in heated debates and refute your opponents. Hide your true identity at all costs.
Why similar: Detective 30.2%, Mystery 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Visual Novel 9%
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: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Mystery 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 8%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Detective 13.5%, Mystery 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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 31.8%, Mystery 24.1%, Female Protagonist 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Investigation 19.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
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 30.1%, Investigation 22.1%, Mystery 16.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 19.9%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.2%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 17.5%, Mystery 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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: Detective 17.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 23.8%, Investigation 19.1%, Mystery 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Investigation 17.1%, Mystery 12%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Point & Click 7.3%
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 cases that are too tough for the local police to crack.
Why similar: Detective 34.2%, Investigation 25.8%, Mystery 16.4%, Point & Click 8.7%, Female Protagonist 6.8%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 19.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Investigation 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 24.2%, Detective 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Mystery 10.7%
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
Why similar: Female Protagonist 13.7%, Mystery 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
A short pixel-art mystery where you play as Nathan, a private investigator drawn into a curious case. Interrogate suspects, examine clues, and uncover hidden details
Why similar: Detective 28.6%, Investigation 22.1%, Point & Click 11.8%, Mystery 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 26.4%, Mystery 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Investigation 10.8%
Seoyeon Yu, a former police officer, works as a private investigator for a rich family. However, during her investigation, she discovers evidence linking them to her husband's death. Using her ability to see people's guilt, she begins an investigation to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Detective 30.5%, Mystery 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Point & Click 7.3%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 19.4%, Mystery 14%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 29.6%, Investigation 23.6%, Mystery 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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: Investigation 17.6%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.
Why similar: Mystery 23.7%, Detective 21.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Point & Click 13.6%, Female Protagonist 6.6%
In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 19.7%, Mystery 17.1%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A comedy-mystery visual novel about Captain Fox, Detective Raccoon and the danger of pineapple pizza.
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Point & Click 9.9%
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Why similar: Detective 29.8%, Mystery 15.8%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Investigation 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
'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: Detective 20.5%, Mystery 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 11.2%, Choices Matter 9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Detective 17%, Mystery 14.2%, Investigation 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Investigation 20%, Mystery 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Mr. Wise is an adventure visual novel with multiple endings. The events in the game revolve around two archaeology professors and their unlikely discovery which can re-write the history itself. But Mr. Wise has another plans for their plans.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Detective 15.4%, Mystery 11.2%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Investigation 19.5%, Mystery 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Mystery 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Mystery 13.1%, Investigation 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
In this visual novel, Maggie Crane and 15 others are invited to partake in the Isolated Society Study, where they must forge a peaceful society while attempting to outsmart each other in complex challenges. Just as the study is about to conclude, the Golding Foundation introduces a sinister twist.
Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Mystery 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 35%, Investigation 23.2%, Mystery 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Point & Click 6.1%
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 30.4%, Investigation 22.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 21.9%, Mystery 14.1%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Investigation 14.5%, Mystery 11%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A buddy-cop rom-com visual novel set in a medieval fantasy world.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 14.9%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Mystery 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
