60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Noir.
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.
Last Night Last Call
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?
REPROCESS
The suspect claims to be human. The system says otherwise. Interrogate suspects, play evidence cards, expose contradictions, apply emotional pressure, use apparatus data, build case maps, adapt your protocol stack, and decide whether the machine uncovered the truth — or produced a false positive.
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 15.6%, Detective 11.5%, Alternate History 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
The suspect claims to be human. The system says otherwise. Interrogate suspects, play evidence cards, expose contradictions, apply emotional pressure, use apparatus data, build case maps, adapt your protocol stack, and decide whether the machine uncovered the truth — or produced a false positive.
Why similar: Noir 15.6%, Detective 15.4%, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Dynamic Narration 11% ★
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Detective 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Alternate History 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Dynamic Narration 15% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance is pretty tricky on a good day but it’s damn near impossible when your boss threatens foreclosure on your mortal existence. As the new bartender at DEAD-END, you’ll make new friends, mix weird drinks, all while navigating Life, Death and everything in between.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Dynamic Narration 17.2% ★, Detective 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 26%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Lovecraftian 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dynamic Narration 11.4% ★
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Alternate History 11.9%, Detective 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
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 24.3%, Dynamic Narration 16.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 26.4%, Detective 14.9%, Cyberpunk 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Crime 11.8%
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 28.1%, Cyberpunk 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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 18.7%, Dynamic Narration 13.5% ★, Lovecraftian 12.2%, Detective 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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: Noir 19.9%, Dynamic Narration 17.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Detective 10.8%
Unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Druhyus' favorite celebrity playboy, Walker Kahmenos. Join investigative journalist Verity Lux, in this interactive fiction title and follow leads, conduct interviews, and submit your findings as you seek out the truth - before it's too late.
Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Alternate History 12.4%, Crime 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
An HD-remaster of a comedy-horror visual novel from 2009, mixing classical Russian literature with anime, zombies and glam rock.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Alternate History 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Detective 12.6%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Lovecraftian 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 25.1%, Cyberpunk 14.4%, Detective 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
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.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 10.9%
A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Cyberpunk 13.4%, Character Customization 13%, Detective 11.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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: Noir 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 30.1%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Crime 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
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: Noir 20.4%, Alternate History 16.4%, Detective 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.7% ★, Noir 17.7%, Lovecraftian 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 9.1%
Further Education is a visual novel set in 80s inspired world, mainly in a divided USA where choices matter. Take on mind bending cases, collide with world powers and combat your inner demons - in hopes of becoming a better son, a better friend and ultimately - a better person.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Alternate History 16.1%, Cyberpunk 15.4%, Detective 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Lovecraftian 7.4%
Detective Norman faces one of the longest nights of his career. Alone, he searches for the missing girl, Felicia, only to discover that this case runs far deeper than he ever imagined.
Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 13.1%, Lovecraftian 12.8%
A visual novel in the "noir story" genre, where the grit of Sin City meets the humor of The Naked Gun, the madness of Archer, and a dose of Italian brainrot!
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Detective 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Crime 11.6%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Noir 14.6%, Detective 11.4%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 32%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Detective 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Detective Trent is a narrative-driven mystery game inspired by Trent’s Last Case. Investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and uncover the truth through evidence and dialogue. Your reasoning shapes the case, leading to multiple outcomes and endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Crime 12.9%, Dynamic Narration 12.6% ★
Searchbar Detective is a 2D Mystery Game set in a virtual world in which you use your searchbar to solve crimes and uncover conspiracies.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.8% ★, Noir 20.7%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Dialogue Heavy 21%, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Detective 13.6%, Cyberpunk 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Detective 11%, Crime 10.6%
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 24.2%, Dynamic Narration 17.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Cyberpunk 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 22.3%, Dynamic Narration 17.1% ★, Detective 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Why similar: Alternate History 17.1%, Lovecraftian 16.4%, Cyberpunk 13%, Noir 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Dynamic Narration 12.8% ★, Alternate History 12.8%, Noir 9.5%
Shore of Jord is a story-driven cRPG set in an alternate world of Europa, where you take on the role of a retired military officer trying to resolve mysterious events from your past and survive the longest winter in history: strengthen or break friendships, find your love, and discover who you are.
Why similar: Noir 24.1%, Alternate History 15.4%, Detective 13.9%, Cyberpunk 12%, Visual Novel 9.7%
A visual novel with mild choice-based progression. In this prologue story, follow an inquisitve college student into the depths of deceptive corporate lab: Moniker Innovation. Begin to unravel a mystery larger than the young journalist looking for answers and even this game itself.
Why similar: Noir 35.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Detective 7.9%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Noir 30.2%, Detective 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Cyberpunk 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Noir 24%, Dialogue Heavy 21.8%, Cyberpunk 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Investigate impossible mysteries in a Latin American cyberpunk Bogotá. Explore atmospheric locations, talk to characters, collect clues, connect evidence, and formulate hypotheses in a narrative detective adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Noir 16.3%, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Detective 11.8%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 32.5%, Detective 19.1%, Crime 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 21.8%, Dynamic Narration 17.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 12.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
Why similar: Noir 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Detective 11%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Detective 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, RPG 7%
'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 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Detective 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, RPG 9.9%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%
In 1630, Ming Dynasty collapses—famine, war, and rebellion plague the land. When a tyrant is murdered in "utopian" Baichu County, detectives Yue Wuxi and Feng Shengjue investigate, unwittingly uncovering a conspiracy that will shake both court and martial world...
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Alternate History 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Detective 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%
