60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Detective.
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
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Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
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In the not-so-distant future, a robot witnesses a shocking event and stores the last image it sees in an encrypted memory bank. The player assigned to this robot must scroll through its memories to piece together a visual story and solve the mystery of what happened.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Detective 11.8%, Point & Click 10.1%
In the not-so-distant future, a robot witnesses a shocking event and stores the last image it sees in an encrypted memory bank. The player assigned to this robot must scroll through its memories to piece together a visual story and solve the mystery of what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Noir 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Point & Click 15%, Steampunk 11.7% ★
Noir/Horror themed story rich interactive adventure indie game with party-based RPG elements. As you investigate various mysterious cases, you will learn more about the secrets of this dystopian world and maybe discover why most of mankind has turned into zombies. Each of your choices really matters
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dynamic Narration 14% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Detective 11.1%
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: Noir 16.3%, Dynamic Narration 14.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Detective 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 18.7%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Point & Click 10.6%, Crime 9.9%
'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: Noir 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Detective 13.1%, Point & Click 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
Battle robots, make friends, and uncover a bizarre conspiracy to avert the apocalypse in this comedy of manners and mayhem with steampunk blasters!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Character Customization 19.1%, Steampunk 17.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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: Noir 16.1%, Detective 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dystopian 9%
Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Detective 15.7%, Point & Click 13.5%, Noir 11.4%
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Detective 10.8%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Crime 12.3%, Point & Click 11.3%
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 16.1%, Noir 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Crime 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Rule a mighty city, fight battles and go on adventures as the Ardent or Ardessa of the city of Lake Steelthorne. Find love, power, and a secret that could change the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Character Customization 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Steampunk 17.4% ★, Choices Matter 9.9%
Welcome, detective, to World’s End’s most luxurious hotel: the Tangerine Antarctic at Mt. Hope. The ultimate comfort for the powerful elites past, present and future. No desire is off-limits, privacy is absolute and nothing is certain. Except: you shouldn't be here. And the murders are very real.
Why similar: Noir 18.6%, Dynamic Narration 16% ★, Detective 12.9%, Character Customization 9.4%, Investigation 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Detective 14.5%, Horror 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Crime 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.8% ★, Detective 13.4%, Crime 12.3%, Point & Click 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 14.1%, Point & Click 10.3%, Investigation 8.9%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Detective 11.4%, Point & Click 10.8%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Dynamic Narration 16.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 12.4%, Crime 9.2%
The Wickie is a first-person thriller set in the 1930s Outer Hebrides. Explore handcrafted islands, uncover cosmic horrors, and survive deadly dangers. With no weapons or maps, rely on wit and courage to solve mysteries. Rich in story,art, and Lovecraftian dread, Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Steampunk 18.6% ★, Noir 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Noir 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 12.1%, Point & Click 12%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Detective 14.4%, Point & Click 12.3%, Crime 9.3%
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.7% ★, Noir 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 11.8%
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 16%, Crime 14.7%, Point & Click 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 24%, Detective 17.3%, Crime 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Point & Click 9.6%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Science has never been more dangerous! Death is in the air... Sounds pretty ominous, doesn't it? Help the twin detectives solve a new case!
Why similar: Noir 20%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Detective 13.2%, Point & Click 11.5%, Crime 10.1%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Noir 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
Full Motion Voyeur is a dark FMV thriller where you're trapped in a nightmare of surveillance, obedience, and sacrifice. Guided by the mysterious ADMIN, Claire is ordered to investigate targets, uncover their secrets, and feed them to a Demon or her lover Mona pays the price.
Why similar: Noir 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Crime 12.5%, Investigation 9.2%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Point & Click 12.5%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
Unravel the secrets of the Bariton mansion! Take on the mantle of detective in the role of Lucas Usher, and solve the riddles plaguing the ghosts of those left behind! Uncover their secrets and help them find salvation … or damnation.
Why similar: Steampunk 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Detective 17%, Third Person 9.6%, Horror 6.6%
The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Point & Click 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 10.7%
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Point & Click 16.4%, Detective 15.3%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
Murdered sisters, mind altering drugs and flying cities, to a case that goes way further than the banks of this one detective's little neighbourhood in this Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure set in a post-post-apocalyptical future.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Crime 12.7%, Detective 12.6%, Investigation 11.2%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Crime 12.9%, Detective 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Investigation 9.7%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Detective 14.4%, Point & Click 13.1%
A short interlude from the world of The Slaughter.
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Detective 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Crime 12.7%
The Pirate Princess must infiltrate a memorial to steal an orb with the power to control nature: Ecosphere. Will you manage to steal the precious loot?
Why similar: Steampunk 22.3% ★, Detective 16.4%, Point & Click 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
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 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Investigation 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Crime 16.3%, Detective 14.1%, RPG 11.7%
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Point & Click 12.5%, Detective 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 12.2%, Dynamic Narration 11.8% ★, Detective 11.5%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Detective 16.1%, Point & Click 12.3%, Investigation 10.5%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Dynamic Narration 10.4% ★, Point & Click 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 16.4%, Noir 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Crime 9.7%
Step into the shoes of an ancient mutant and get thrown into the modern, mortal world. Learn what you can about your past as you don the mask of a villain!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Character Customization 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 10.1%
Uncover the dark and tortured legacy of mad science in this psychological horror interactive novel about entrapment and the lingering echoes of trauma.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Character Customization 12.9%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Dystopian 8%
Earthquakes are threatening idyllic Candy Island! Pull yourself together and get to the bottom of what’s troubling the island and its eccentric residents before your whole world breaks apart. UNWOUND is a rollicking yarn: a narrative RPG where people are objects and candy is currency.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Point & Click 12.1%, Character Customization 11%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Crime 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Point & Click 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Just a Memory is a story based choice and consequence game featuring Aaron Page, a 19 year-old college student investigating the murder of his best friend while confronting his demons.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Point & Click 15.1%, Crime 13%, Detective 12.5%
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.3% ★, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Crime 11.8%, Point & Click 10.9%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Noir 16.7%, Detective 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Crime 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 27.5%, Detective 19.7%, Crime 16.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
Nothing brings people together as well as a common grief or crime! Can you bravely confront a criminal puppeteer with no legal defense?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.6% ★, Noir 18.5%, Detective 15.8%, Point & Click 14.6%, Crime 9.6%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Point & Click 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Horror 8.1%
Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.
Why similar: Noir 24%, Dynamic Narration 19.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Detective 7.5%
Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Character Customization 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 9.7%
