Games Like Sarawak

No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Detective 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Investigation 9.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 13.8%, Detective 13.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Investigation 10.8%

Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Investigation 9.6%

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: Text-Based 19.3%, Detective 17%, Mystery 15%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Investigation 9.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Detective 11.4%, Mystery 10.2%, Investigation 9.2%

Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16%, Detective 14.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%

「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Detective 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Detective 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 14.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Mystery 10.9%

Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Mystery 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Detective 12%

Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%

A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 10.6%, Investigation 9.2%, Mystery 8.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Mystery 10.8%, Investigation 10.5%

Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Investigation 8%

What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Investigation 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%

A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 14.8%, Detective 12.2%, Investigation 12.1%, Mystery 10%

Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Mystery 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Detective 9.4%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Adventure 11.5%, Mystery 9.3%

A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.

Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 11.9%

This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Investigation 18.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%

Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Mystery 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Investigation 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%

A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Detective 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Investigation 9.4%

“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 13.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Mystery 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Detective 12.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Investigation 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Detective 9.6%, Mystery 9.3%

Explore a sealed classroom and work together with a mysterious girl to escape. As the story unfolds, it gradually begins to seep into reality.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Mystery 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Adventure 11.5%

A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.3%

[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.

Why similar: Mystery 17.6%, Detective 17%, Text-Based 14.7%, Investigation 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Text-Based 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Adventure 6.4%, Indie 4.3%

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: Text-Based 17.9%, Detective 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 10.4%

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%

Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Investigation 7.1%

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.

Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Detective 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Investigation 10.5%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 7.9%

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Detective 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 18.5%, Detective 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%

《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主（你）从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆，发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异，恐怖致命的巨型怪物，你们能否成功逃脱？而这超自然的现象，似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......

Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%

A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%

A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Text-Based 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Adventure 10.6%, Detective 9.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 20.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 8%, Adventure 7.8%

Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Story Rich 6.2%

A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%

Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.

Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Investigation 14.6%, Mystery 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Investigation 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Detective 10.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Detective 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Text-Based 15%, Stylized 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 10.3%

A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Investigation 9.8%

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: Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Detective 15.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Investigation 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%

The last shawarma in town is gone. The owner is destroyed. The police have "real crimes". You work for seeds, and you just took the case.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Detective 11.6%, Stylized 11.5%

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 17.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 10.7%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Story Rich 6.8%

Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 18.3%, Adventure 10%, Story Rich 6.4%

Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 13.1%, Mystery 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%

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

Why similar: Text-Based 14.9%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 11.9%, Stylized 8.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Investigation 14.9%, Detective 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%