- #1 Let Bions Be Bygones
97% matchMixed70% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
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 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Detective 11.8%, Point & Click 10.1%
- #2 MoriA.I.RTy
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Red Meat Games
Windows
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 18.6%, Noir 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Point & Click 15%, Steampunk 11.8% ★
- #3 The Wolf Among Us Remastered
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Telltale
Windows
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Detective 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Investigation 9.9%
- #4 Noir : Dead On Arrival
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AGORA:GAMEPLAY
Windows
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 14.2%, Dynamic Narration 13.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11.1%
- #5 The Island: Into The Mist
94% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'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 15.2%, Detective 13.1%, Point & Click 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
- #6 Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
93% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel Paradise
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Point & Click 10.6%, Crime 9.8%
- #7 A Case of Distrust
94% matchVery Positive82% of 609 reviews2018
Dev: An Open Ben
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 14.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%
- #8 The Butler Did It
92% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.1%, Character Customization 19%, Steampunk 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #9 A Study in Blue
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
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 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dystopian 9%
- #10 Freud's Bones-the game
91% matchVery Positive82% of 84 reviews2022
Dev: Katabasi StudioPub: Fortuna Imperatore AxelFox
Windows
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 19.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Detective 15.7%, Point & Click 13.6%, Noir 11.4%
- #11 Grégoire Lefèbvre Investigations : The Vow of Hate
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TcherryPub: Viridis Cosmos Games
Windows
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Detective 14.3%, Point & Click 13.5%
- #12 Hollow Warden
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shades of Play
Windows
Something is wrong in the ward. As a detective investigating a serious crime, navigate the ruins of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, gather evidence, and follow a trail that leads deeper into madness
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Detective 18.6%, Crime 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
- #13 Whispering Eclipsia
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: First Front Game Studios
Windows
"Whispering Eclipsia is a gripping first-person psychological horror detective game. Step into the shoes of Inspector Keshav to solve a series of ritualistic murders, survive reality-bending loops, and uncover the dark secrets lurking in the shadows of Woodslane."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Noir 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #14 Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play On Words Studios
Windows
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 21%, Dynamic Narration 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 10.9%
- #15 Enoch
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Pug Games
Windows
A murder investigation. Teenagers vanishing for years. On Enoch Space Station, detectives, suspects, and killers each follow their own path, only to uncover a conspiracy that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. A sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Point & Click 12.1%, Detective 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #16 Loretta
86% matchVery Positive91% of 447 reviews2023
Dev: BonereadersPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Crime 12.2%, Point & Click 11.3%
- #17 Dragon of Steelthorne
86% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.2%, Character Customization 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Steampunk 17.6% ★, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #18 Private Eye: The Young Heir
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucky 7 Studios
Windows
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 16.2%, Noir 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Crime 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #19 Tangerine Antarctic
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark Math Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 18.7%, Dynamic Narration 15.9% ★, Detective 12.9%, Character Customization 9.3%, Investigation 7.4%
- #20 Judge SIM
84% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: sunsistudiosPub: sunsixstudios
Windows
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 17.1%, Dynamic Narration 17.1% ★, Noir 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
- #21 Omen Exitio: Hunger
82% matchVery Positive91% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny Bull StudiosPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac
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 16.2%, Dynamic Narration 13.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Detective 12%, Crime 11.4%
- #22 AUTOPHOBIA
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magenta Softworks
Windows · Mac
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Horror 8.5%, Third Person 8.5%
- #23 Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firma Game
Windows
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Detective 15.4%, Crime 9.4%
- #24 A Bad Christmas Story
80% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: S&J Games
Windows · Mac
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 14.6%, Horror 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #25 Lacuna: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive91% of 172 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Crime 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
- #26 Heaven Does Not Respond
79% matchVery Positive91% of 529 reviews2026
Dev: Rise Studios
Windows
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 15.6% ★, Detective 13.4%, Crime 12.1%, Point & Click 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
- #27 SOLEN
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
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 14.6%, Detective 14.1%, Point & Click 10.4%, Investigation 8.8%
- #28 Last Night Last Call
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
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 17%, Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Crime 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
- #29 Duppy Detective Tashia
77% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: Spritewrench
Windows
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 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Detective 14.5%, Point & Click 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
- #30 Betrayal At Club Low
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 17.3%, Dynamic Narration 14.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Detective 11.5%, Point & Click 10.8%
- #31 Reflections in Amber
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frog Croaked Team
Windows · Mac
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 19.7%, Dynamic Narration 16.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 12.5%, Crime 9.1%
- #32 The Wickie : Journey of a Lighthouse Keeper
76% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Crispian RobsonPub: Cheese Tax Productions
Windows
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 18.7% ★, Noir 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #33 Misadventures of Laura Silver
77% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 14.5%, Detective 12.1%, Point & Click 12%
- #34 The Accuser and The Abyss
76% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Spectre Sun Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 16.1%, Detective 16%, Crime 14.5%, Point & Click 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #35 Mandated Fate
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thibaut BillerotPub: Tetrarchy Studios
Windows
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 18.5% ★, Noir 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 11.9%
- #36 The Museum of Everything
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Wonder Room
Windows · Linux
The Mona Lisa is missing! Sleuth through a sprawling space museum, read the past through psychic abilities and unravel an interstellar art caper in this cosy, gas‑lamp mystery.
Why similar: Steampunk 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Detective 13.4%, Point & Click 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #37 Graywood: Noir Detective
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
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 17.4%, Crime 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #38 Cannibal Court
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loomnorth Studios
Windows
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #39 Twin Mind: Nobody's Here Collector's Edition
74% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Do Games Limited
Windows
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 13.4%, Detective 13.2%, Point & Click 11.5%, Crime 10%
- #40 The Farm of the Living
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Noir 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, RPG 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #41 Echoes
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Red Torii Studio
Windows
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% ★, Noir 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #42 FMV - Full Motion Voyeur
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ten Thousand Hearts Ltd.
Windows
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 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Crime 12.3%, Investigation 9.2%
- #43 Resonant Dusk
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Verdite Interactive
Windows
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 22.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Detective 17%, Third Person 9.7%, Horror 6.6%
- #44 Who's Lila?
72% matchVery Positive94% of 3,792 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 12.5%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #45 Accident Investigator Simulator: Black Box
70% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Cottondream Studio
Windows
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Noir 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Dynamic Narration 13.7% ★, Investigation 11.7%
- #46 PolyCity Stories - The Affair
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Andi Liddell
Windows
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 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Investigation 10.6%
- #47 Jackie Hart: Headhunter
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Hazy
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17.3%, Point & Click 16.4%, Detective 15.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #48 This Bed We Made
68% matchVery Positive91% of 3,323 reviews2023
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Crime 12.7%, Detective 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Investigation 9.8%
- #49 Ecosphere - Prologue
70% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Talestrike
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.5% ★, Detective 16.4%, Point & Click 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
- #50 Hill Agency: PURITYdecay
70% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Achimostawinan Games
Windows
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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 12.6%, Crime 12.5%, Investigation 11.2%
- #51 PRAVDA(concept25)
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floating Stone Studio
Windows
Pravda is a narrative stealth-puzzle about journalism under a totalitarian regime. You play Saga, a state-branded “Liar” working for the Resistance to bring down the Party. Your task is clear: Collect information. Craft the truth. Change the world. But in Abil-Gudit, every truth has a cost.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Detective 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, RPG 8.4%
- #52 The Slaughter: Magdalene
71% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Alex FrancoisPub: Brainchild
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short interlude from the world of The Slaughter.
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Point & Click 14.3%, Crime 12.5%
- #53 Who Killed Mr. White?
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: notagamestudio
Windows
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 16.2%, Detective 14.4%, Point & Click 13.2%
- #54 Rumor Reporter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greyhaven Craft
Windows
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 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Investigation 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #55 BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Crime 13.5%, Detective 13.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #56 DEAR SUSPECT
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ELEGISTS STUDIO
Windows
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Noir 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 11%
- #57 Dark City Trouble Nights
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Grey Hair Studio
Windows
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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Crime 16.1%, Detective 14.1%, RPG 11.9%
- #58 Transmission in Progress…
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infinicats
Windows
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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Detective 16.1%, Point & Click 12.3%, Investigation 10.5%
- #59 Erica
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,757 reviews2021
Dev: Flavourworks
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Point & Click 12.6%, Detective 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
- #60 Fatal Falls
66% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Tripolar Studio
Windows
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 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 12.3%, Dynamic Narration 11.7% ★, Detective 11.5%