60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Visual Novel, Story Rich.
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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A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
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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.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Mystery 10%
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 16.7%, Detective 14%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 26%, Mystery 17%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Point & Click 8.4%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Detective 18%, Mystery 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Investigation 19.4%, Mystery 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
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 22.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 11%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
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 18%, Investigation 14.5%, Mystery 14.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.2%
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 23.9%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
You keep returning to the same woodland over and over again, but why? Something that you can't quite remember holds you captive in this cozy, mystery, adventure RPG.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 14.8%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Mystery 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 26.3%, Investigation 21.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Point & Click 7.3%
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 15.3%, Detective 13.6%, Mystery 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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: Detective 18.6%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
[DEMO available now!] Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried?As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past.
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Investigation 22.3%, Mystery 14.7%, Point & Click 9%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Female Protagonist 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 22.1%, Mystery 15.8%, Investigation 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Mystery 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 20.6%, Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 8%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Investigation 20.1%, Mystery 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Visual Novel 6.6%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
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 23.6%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%
A mystery adventure game featuring a camera-headed detective and a superpowered girl teaming up to solve crimes. Play as the detective to gather and combine clues, reveal the hidden truth, and tear down fabricated lies.
Why similar: Detective 32.2%, Investigation 25.2%, Mystery 16.5%, Point & Click 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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 21.7%, Mystery 16.3%, Point & Click 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%
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 18.9%, Investigation 14.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Investigation 18.6%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
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 22.3%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Investigation 9.1%, Mystery 9%
An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.
Why similar: Detective 37.6%, Investigation 27%, Mystery 17.2%, Point & Click 10%, Story Rich 3.4%
"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 14.6%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Investigation 20.1%, Mystery 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Point & Click 4.9%
Switch between multiple protagonists in this suspense visual novel and follow the event of the three days leading up to Halloween. Piece together clues from each perspective to uncover the truth, as your choices reshape the fates of the others.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Mystery 16%, Investigation 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%
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 20.8%, Investigation 17.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Investigation 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
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 23.9%, Investigation 18.8%, Mystery 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
As a weird 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 22.2%, Investigation 16.9%, Mystery 12%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Point & Click 7.4%
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 26.4%, Mystery 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 25%, Detective 25%, Mystery 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%
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 30.3%, Mystery 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Female Protagonist 13%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 17.4%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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 "howdunnit" cases that are too tough for the local police to crack and uncover a deeper mystery along the way!
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Investigation 25.4%, Mystery 16.3%, Point & Click 8.8%, Female Protagonist 7%
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 26.1%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 12.2%, Point & Click 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%
Modern-day Muscovite Anna awakens in the body of Countess Elizaveta Orlova. Explore the Northern Crown Academy, uncover the secrets of its mirrors, choose your allies, and decide Anna's fate in a visual novel about magic, trust, and two worlds.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Investigation 11.7%
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 22.5%, Investigation 16.5%, Mystery 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 18%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 20.7%, Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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%, Mystery 12.1%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
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 24.1%, Detective 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Mystery 10.7%
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 21.4%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
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 20.5%, Detective 15.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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 26.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Investigation 10.7%
COLIVING is an interactive narrative adventure where you play as a hard-boiled detective and a relentless journalist on two distinct paths. As their cases converge on a shared apartment, your choices shape a complex, branching story. Trust no one—the real danger lives right behind the wall.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Investigation 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%
The legendary "THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE" is reborn! Under the executive direction of Yuji Horii comes an all-new entry featuring five brand-new investigation files. Set in 1980s Kobe, conduct your investigation alongside a new cast of characters and uncover the secrets hidden behind the case.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 29.7%, Investigation 23.3%, Mystery 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 23%, Mystery 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
