60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure, Visual Novel.
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.
Rumor Reporter
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.
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
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.
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 18.5%, Investigation 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
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: Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Detective 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Text-Based 10.2%
'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: Detective 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Text-Based 8.4%, Visual Novel 7.9%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Detective 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.1%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Investigation 14.9%, Detective 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 8.9%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 10%, Point & Click 9.1%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Investigation 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%
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 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 12.4%, Detective 10.7%, Visual Novel 10%
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 12%, Text-Based 10.8%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Investigation 10.7%
In a city ruled by AI, a carefully staged abduction gives you a long-awaited chance for revenge. Every choice comes with a cost—what will you sacrifice?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Cyberpunk 10%
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: Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Dystopian 9.2%
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 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Point & Click 8.9%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
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: Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.1%, Investigation 9.8%
This fan game is based on the lore of the character 'Anna Amur Tiger'. In this game you have to deliver a package to Anna! Find out where the tiger is hiding! Deliver the package and don't stop until you succeed. Remember, nothing is what it seems...
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Investigation 13.5%, Point & Click 11.8%
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 20%, Investigation 15.5%, Point & Click 11.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15%, Detective 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 10.5%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Point & Click 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
A psychological horror narrative game disguised as an AI assistant. Launch what appears to be a helpful terminal, but discover the "intelligence" responding isn't only artificial - something or someone else is tagging along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 6.6%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%, Detective 8.9%
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: Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Point & Click 10.1%, Detective 9.7%
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: Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Cyberpunk 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 9.4%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Investigation 11.3%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Dystopian 14.4%, Artificial Intelligence 14%, Investigation 10.7%, Cyberpunk 10.5%, Text-Based 9.7%
The internet is dying. You're a verification operator. Filter out AI impostors from humanity's last clean network. Interrogate live LLM agents that think, lie, and bribe in real-time. Use investigation tools to detect deception. Every verdict shapes the internet.
Why similar: Investigation 14.6%, Detective 14.3%, Dystopian 12.2%, Cyberpunk 10.1%, Point & Click 9.6%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Investigation 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
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 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Detective 16.4%, Investigation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.5%, Detective 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 10.5%, Investigation 9.7%
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: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Investigation 14.3%, Point & Click 9.2%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Dystopian 15.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Point & Click 10.9%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Investigation 10.5%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Investigation 18.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 13%, Artificial Intelligence 6.7%
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Detective 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological Horror 9%, Investigation 8.9%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Point & Click 10.4%
Immerse yourself in a realm of madness and bone-chilling terror as you step into our gripping horror adventure, meticulously crafted to send shivers down your spine. Explore a nightmarish world where each step unveils sinister secrets and heart-pounding encounters.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22.1%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 16%, Cyberpunk 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Investigation 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
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: Detective 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dystopian 9.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Point & Click 8.3%
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: Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Cyberpunk 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Investigation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Point & Click 10.5%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Detective 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dystopian 11.4%, Investigation 10.6%
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 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Point & Click 12%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Investigation 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Trapped in a deadly time loop on a remote research facility, a security officer must expose an alien imposter before the day resets. A tense, fully voiced sci-fi mystery where you are stuck in a cycle of life, death, and wrongful accusations.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Artificial Intelligence 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Cyberpunk 13.3%, Dystopian 11.4%, Artificial Intelligence 10.2%
