60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
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...
Death off the Cuff
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.
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 20.1%, Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 9.4%, Investigation 9.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Detective 17.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Investigation 9.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Detective 20.2%, Text-Based 8.6%, Investigation 5.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Detective 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 11.5%, Puzzle 9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 19.2%, Text-Based 9.3%, Investigation 9%
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 37.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Text-Based 22.5%, Puzzle 4.8%, Adventure 4.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 15.7%, Adventure 8.6%, 2D 5.2%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Atmospheric 4.8%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Detective 14.6%, Investigation 7.5%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Text-Based 11.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Story Rich 4.4%
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 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Puzzle 12%, Text-Based 11.2%, Hand-drawn 6.1%
You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Mystery 5.8%
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 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Investigation 11.1%, Text-Based 10.2%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 18.3%, Detective 11.5%, Investigation 6.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Investigation 7.8%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Adventure 4.9%
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: Detective 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Investigation 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Detective 17.8%, Text-Based 9.2%, Adventure 7.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Hand-drawn 8%
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 27.7%, Detective 20.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Investigation 10.4%, Adventure 8.8%
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Detective 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 9.9%, Text-Based 8.1%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Detective 15.1%, Puzzle 9.2%, Investigation 5.2%
ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.6%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 16.3%, 2D 5.8%, Story Rich 5.7%
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 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Investigation 11.8%, Text-Based 11.8%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Detective 28%, Text-Based 15.6%, Puzzle 11.8%, Mystery 6.3%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Detective 17.8%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Text-Based 5.9%
Shirabe Hatcho and Ancient Music Score is a puzzle-solving ADV game where you solve the puzzles by ear. Listen to audio, read music, and play an instrument. Use your sense of pitch to solve the mystery and prevent the phantom thief from committing his crimes as a member of the detective agency.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Puzzle 12%, Text-Based 8.6%, Adventure 8.6%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.4%, Detective 18.9%, Mystery 9%, Story Rich 8%, Text-Based 7%
The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Text-Based 19.6%, Adventure 11%, Indie 1.4%
You wake on the last train at an unfamiliar terminus. Only one app opens on your phone: Orange Wiki, a guide to this place, its entities, and your escape. Explore, compare clues with wiki entries, and find a way out in this first-person horror adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Adventure 9%, Investigation 8.9%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 16%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Adventure 5.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Detective 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 10%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
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 22.1%, Detective 17%, Investigation 13.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Investigation 10.6%, Text-Based 10.5%
This Lovecraftian psychological horror text game puts you as an Observer spared by the Round Table. You randomly possess one of ten unknown mortals per round. Deduce your host and three Old Ones' emissaries via dialogue, clues and table talks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Detective 23.7%, Text-Based 13%, Puzzle 10.1%, Hand-drawn 7.1%
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 11%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Detective 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Investigation 11.3%, Text-Based 9.3%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 20.2%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 3.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 11.6%, Text-Based 11.3%
Find the Golden Pineapple and the crimes against the Mayans. In Pineapple Legend, solve investigations with amusing and humorous situations. Explore the city of Takitani: investigate, solve puzzles, collect cards, equip accessories, fish, garden, fight in the arena, and increase your affinity!!!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Detective 19.1%, Investigation 10.9%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Detective 19.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Investigation 9.8%
Investigate a chilling birthday murder in a branching mystery filled with secrets, suspects, and puzzles. Uncover the truth, bend time, and stop the killer before reality begins to unravel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Detective 13.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Adventure 9.2%
Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 16.2%, Puzzle 12.2%, Adventure 4.9%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 9%, Hand-drawn 8%
Turtle Soup World – lateral-thinking mystery game. Each chapter: one strange case. Explore, inspect, question NPCs, ask the host Yes/No/Both questions to find the truth. Works with local LLM or API.
Why similar: Detective 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Puzzle 12.9%, Investigation 10.4%, Mystery 7.9%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 18.6%, Story Rich 7.4%, 2D 5.8%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Detective 17.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Hand-drawn 4.9%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Text-Based 17.2%, 2D 5.7%, Adventure 5.3%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.7%, Interactive Fiction 31%, Text-Based 18.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Pick up “words” from conversations and combine them with evidence to uncover the truth behind the cases. A former detective turned coffee shop owner takes on a series of baffling cases. As you get closer to the truth, your own “lost memories of the past” begin to unravel—
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, Detective 28.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Mystery 8.8%, Adventure 6.8%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Story Rich 5.8%
A genealogy deduction game set in Republican-era China. Play as a lawyer, search newspapers, case files, letters, and old photos, and follow clues to identify people and uncover family ties. Reconstruct the Chen family tree and uncover the secrets behind your commission.
Why similar: Detective 34.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Mystery 7.6%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Story Rich 7%, Adventure 6.4%
Gather information on social media in-game to take down every last boss in this deduction-based puzzle adventure game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn. It's release day for the latest entry in a legendary action game series, and you need to beat it. Fun is secondary, victory is all.
Why similar: Detective 31.6%, Investigation 13.8%, Text-Based 11.1%, Puzzle 10.8%, Adventure 7%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Detective 14.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Investigation 7.4%
