60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction.
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Methods: The Illusion Murders
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-
Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Why similar: Detective 16%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Crime 10.8%
Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Detective 15.2%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Drama 11.1%
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 16%, Detective 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Crime 10.9%, Text-Based 10%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Mystery 7.5%
This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Drama 11.8%, Detective 9.6%
1990s, Hong Kong. Rookie playwright Keung Siu-ping finally stages her debut, but this windfall has a price: an estranged friend, a childhood idol, an enigmatic musician, and a broken family. Who is your muse? Who is your ruin? When the curtain falls, will you be the only one left on stage?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Drama 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Fabienne a 17-year-old genius, has a rare gift: she detects lies! But when she discovers the body of one of her teachers, she’s left with no choice but to uncover the killer among the residents she’s lived with her entire life.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Crime 11.4%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%
The Club is a fetish visual novel with a number of puzzles. You can play the game as either a trainee mistress or a trainee maid, each of whom visit The Club and become immersed in the wonderful world of fetishism that they find there. All characters are dressed in latex, PVC or leather.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Crime 9.9%
When a famous Human Rights Lawyer dies under mysterious circumstances in her Sevenoaks mansion, Detective Inspector Rosie Morgan and her team of indefatigable investigators are called on the scene to find out who murdered the barrister and why.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Crime 9.6%
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Crime 10.8%
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Drama 11.7%
A story about Ambiguous Affection, Appetite, and Tantalizing Desires.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Crime 11.8%
Gather evidence, interview suspects and send your case to trial. Have you got what it takes to be Tokyo's top detective?
Why similar: Detective 29.5%, Crime 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Drama 8.2%
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 29%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
Do you believe that parallel worlds really exist? An ordinary college student, Chen Chou, wakes up one day to find himself transported aboard a space research vessel. The strangers on the ship all claim to know him. Could it be that he has crossed over into a parallel world...
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Crime 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
"Internship Detective" is a text adventure game of detective story from the perspective of double female masters. The two heroines Doudou (Intership detective) and Bobo (“big” detective) .
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Drama 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Drama 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political tumult wherein an immortal finds both love and suffering.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Drama 10.2%
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 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Drama 9.1%
MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Text-Based 12.2%
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Detective 14.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Crime 10.8%
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Meat Girl is a lesbian visual novel about a girl searching for her mentally ill roommate in cold mountains filled with meat 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Detective 16.8%, Crime 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Crime 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Detective 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Stylized 8.5%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
A narrative-driven game where Deduction meets the Dark Arts. Invest crime scenes for evidence and navigate the razor's edge between "Rationality" and "Inspiration." Unlock branching paths through your choices, forge fragile alliances, and decide who survives the encroaching shadows.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Detective 21.4%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Text-Based 11%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Drama 16%, Detective 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Detective 24.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Drama 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A mystery visual novel taking place aboard the underwater train Marine Express. Follow student Ranko Togawa on her quest to find the culprit on the murder of an accompanying teacher... with lots of surprises along the way!
Why similar: Detective 25%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Drama 13%, Text-Based 11.9%
Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Crime 10.8%
Tap into the mystery as a stranger in the city — a mild mystery visual novel. Kisen runs a tracing agency in a city far from his home. There, he is asked by a local university student to look for his brother missing from twelve years ago. Investigate what happened back then to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Mystery 9.5%
A mature queer visual novel, telling the heated and convoluted story of the love triangle between Quinn, an obsessive police detective, Elias, Quinn's direct superior, and Flynn, a poet with a very talented tongue, caught in a criminal case that spirals rapidly out of hand.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Detective 17%, Crime 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, LGBTQ+ 8.2%
Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Visual Novel 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Mystery 6.3%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Crime 17.1%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Text-Based 7.2%
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
At what point does a simple desire become an obsession? This is one of the dilemmas faced by Beatrice, a photography student as bitter as reality itself. Within a tangle of unfolding mysteries, she will discover that the most beautiful manifestation of the past holds a chaotic future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Drama 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.7%
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story. The killer "Rooster" who killed six innocent girls has committed a new crime.Fortunately, at the scene of the seventh homicide, the police found important clues pointing to the murderer...
Why similar: Detective 31.6%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 9.7%, Mystery 8.9%
A sci fi mystery on a ship drifting through space. Solve dialogue puzzles to help the ship's computer AILISH sift through possible timelines to find which one of them can prevent an impending disaster. What disaster? For some reason, AILISH won't actually tell you...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
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: Detective 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Crime 8.8%
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Detective 23.4%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Drama 8.4%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Drama 13.9%, Female Protagonist 7%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 17.6%, Drama 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Female Protagonist 8%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Detective 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Drama 11%, Multiple Endings 9%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Drama 7.9%
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A yuri martial arts story set in a fictional setting. Players take on the role of a knight roaming the martial arts world, where you'll encounter exciting duels and encounters with diverse characters, all waiting for your exploration.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8%
Which is worse: a toxic friend or a literal demon?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.7%, Drama 17.4%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Story Rich 10.1%
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Detective 26%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Mystery 8%
