60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Story Rich, Detective, Mystery.
Sherlock and 9 other individuals are forced to participate in a mysterious experiment, the purpose of which is unclear. Why are they here, and what is in store for them? The mysteries of the odd facility and even themselves may unfold in unexpected ways….
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A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Investigation 19.3%, Detective 18.9%, Thriller 10.1%, Mystery 6.5%
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Detective 17.3%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Thriller 14.8%, Mystery 6.4%
A weaponless psychological thriller. Become trapped in the dark simulation within Gabriel’s mind after surviving a deadly plane crash. Run, hide, and piece together your memories to wake from this dystopian nightmare before Protocol 66 is activated.
Why similar: Investigation 20.7%, Detective 20%, Thriller 13.1%, Supernatural 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%
Immerse yourself in the Psychological horror adventure of James Charouz on his way to find his missing wife and uncover the dark secret of his hometown.
Why similar: Investigation 19.5%, Thriller 13.4%, Detective 13%, Psychological 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
Welcome to Woodside, a haunting survival horror adventure. Explore, investigate and survive as Grace, confronting supernatural terrors that plague a seemingly quaint British village. Experience dynamic horror as spirits react to the way you play. Can you find the truth before it's too late?
Why similar: Investigation 26.5%, Detective 20%, Supernatural 16.2%, Thriller 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Investigation 21.9%, Detective 16.6%, Thriller 14.1%, Supernatural 11.5%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
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 23.3%, Investigation 22.7%, Mystery 8%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%, Psychological 7.7%
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to investigate a cursed black cat statue that has been terrorizing a local theater.
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Detective 21.7%, Psychological 10.1%, Thriller 9.7%, Mystery 8.7%
Investigate a replayable Hollywood murder mystery where everyone has something to hide. Question guests, uncover contradictions, and identify the killer before they escape justice.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Detective 22.6%, Thriller 13.9%, Mystery 9.1%, Psychological 7.8%
Enter another person’s memories and search for clues to identify the culprit. Together with former police officer John Victor, solve the case assigned for his career advancement.
Why similar: Investigation 26.6%, Detective 25.8%, Thriller 17.3%, Psychological 14.3%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.8%, Investigation 17%, Detective 15.1%, Thriller 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 6.5%
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Investigation 16.1%, Thriller 12.1%, Mystery 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Step into a small town in 90s China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Investigation 25.8%, Detective 25.7%, Thriller 9.3%, Logic 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Investigation 19.9%, Supernatural 12.4%, Psychological 11.3%, Sci-fi 9%
Solve a variety of perplexing cases in the sleuthing shoes of Detective Hindsight - who gets help from Phoebe: a young orphaned girl with dreams of being a storyteller and powers to look into the past. Uncover the truth with her sketches done in crayon. The catch? She can't draw very well.
Why similar: Detective 31.7%, Investigation 26.8%, Thriller 12.9%, Mystery 10.2%, Logic 6.2%
A point-and-click adventure with innovative detective mechanics. Help Ollie, a fledgling reporter on his first day at the Signal & Echo newspaper, to solve the mystery behind a schoolgirl's disappearance. Developed by an ex-journalist.
Why similar: Investigation 27.7%, Detective 26.1%, Point & Click 9.1%, Mystery 8.2%, Old School 7.1%
You wake up locked up in an unknown place with 8 strangers. Who are these people ? Why are you here ? You have a bad feeling. But suddenly, the phone rings, and it's up to you : Will you dare answer and go deeper in this mysterious plot ? Will you reveal the horrible truth... and survive it ?
Why similar: Investigation 26%, Detective 22.2%, Thriller 13%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Psychological 10%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 17.8%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Memes 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Remedy for Personality is a visual novel that blends genres: a comedy horror with elements of detective. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of mysticism, mystery, and hidden threats, spiced up with a generous dose of witty humor.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Thriller 16%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Lore-Rich 8.3%
A dark comedy RPG set in streets and psyches.
Why similar: Investigation 26.8%, Dark Comedy 25.3%, Grid-Based Movement 12.6%, Detective 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
Cradlemoor is a cinematic multi-layered narrative game, which casts you as Journalist William Marlowe as he journeys to the Dartmoor village of Cradlemoor to investigate a missing film crew. Cradlemoor features a persistent story across multiple playthroughs and hours of film, files and documents.
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Detective 20.3%, Thriller 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Psychological 8.3%
An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.
Why similar: Detective 36.8%, Investigation 34.3%, Mystery 10.5%, Point & Click 8.7%, Adventure 5.1%
A narrative adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements. Play as a young FBI agent in New Orleans, investigate crime scenes, profile suspects, and make choices that shape a branching story mixing offbeat humor with a gripping crime thriller.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 18.3%, Thriller 13.2%, Psychological 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
Point-and-click adventure game with a thrilling, Native American-inspired narrative. Use your wit to solve fun and challenging puzzles as you explore and interact with the townsfolk of Birchwood Hollow and the Native reservation. Secrets will be uncovered, and truths revealed, as the leaves fall.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 20%, Thriller 15.9%, Supernatural 13.1%, Point & Click 8.3%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Thriller 15.3%, Detective 15.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Supernatural 11.1%, Lore-Rich 9.1%
The director's body was found in the office. It looks like a suicide but the detective has a different opinion.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.2%, Detective 22.2%, Thriller 13.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare is a 3D horror adventure game, with the direction and the original script by Ruggero Deodato. Take control of different characters in a desperate expedition to the virgin jungles of Borneo.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 19.9%, Thriller 17.3%, Psychological 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
You were hired to watch. Not to ask questions. Night shift. Corporate building. Cameras, reports, anomalies. Your predecessor left no final report. Now you're going to find out why. Please proceed.
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Thriller 14.4%, Detective 14.3%, Psychological 13.8%, Supernatural 8.8%
Truth is not singular. Gather the evidence, build your own scenario, and experience the outcome.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Investigation 23.6%, Thriller 15.2%, Psychological 11.9%, Mystery 8.1%
1990s: Windswept mining town Linshan, dependent on fading coal mines, worshipped a mountain god’s stele. After it cracked and oozed brown liquid, a strange illness spread. Lin Tianqing returned for his sick father, uneasy as the eerie town neared, having overheard whispers.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Thriller 18.5%, Investigation 15.4%, Lore-Rich 9.2%, Mystery 8.1%
The mansion your grandfather left you is more than an inheritance. When the power comes on, not only the lights awaken, but the darkness buried inside. Shadow Mansion 2 is a first-person psychological horror focused on atmosphere, exploration, and stealth.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Investigation 22.3%, Thriller 22%, Supernatural 8.3%, Mystery 6.3%
Welcome to the mysterious village of "Folk Show"! This is a domestic plot-oriented micro-horror game that will take you into a rural story full of suspense and thriller.
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Detective 22%, Thriller 21.5%, Psychological Horror 10%, Mystery 9.9%
Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve cases that are too tough for the local police to crack.
Why similar: Detective 33.6%, Investigation 32.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Point & Click 7.7%, Logic 7.1%
A monster is hiding behind one of the voices on the line. Identify the liar before you reveal your location. One wrong judgment, and it comes to your door. Each playthrough changes who's lying.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 21.1%, Thriller 18.3%, Supernatural 14%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Five Day Detective is a point and click style adventure game featuring multiple murder cases and a twisted sense of humour.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.8%, Detective 26.1%, Investigation 18.5%, Point & Click 9.2%, Story Rich 6.4%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Investigation 27.3%, Detective 26.4%, Thriller 14.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
DOMUS ABSCONDITA is single player horror and mystery adventure. Step into the shoes of a private investigator and try to uncover all the secrets of the Manor. Will you escape with the truth, or will you become another lost soul within its haunted halls?
Why similar: Investigation 23.9%, Detective 23.2%, Thriller 22.1%, Psychological 12.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
Players will enter the Town of Dusk, built on the eve of Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, along with other characters. Avoid being killed by other characters! Find the mastermind behind the scenes, unravel all the conspiracies, and uncover the truth! Ultimately escape the Town of Dusk!
Why similar: Thriller 21.5%, Detective 20.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Mystery 9.1%
A curse lurks in the fog in this psychological and investigative horror game. Use a strange lantern to uncover the truth and solve the mystery of Centreville and its ghostly inhabitants. Will you break the curse… before it drives you insane?
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Detective 16.7%, Thriller 14.5%, Psychological 10.9%, Supernatural 10.5%
A worn out detective with his demons to fight and a homicide case to solve. Deluded is an interactive crime thriller movie with point-and-click investigation and adrenaline pumped quick time events.
Why similar: Investigation 22.6%, Detective 21%, Thriller 18.4%, Psychological 12%, Interactive Fiction 8%
A first-person investigative thriller where your family is kidnapped and you must carry out various demands from the kidnapper in order to prolong their lives. However, if you are sharp, you might also uncover clues to track down their location and devise a rescue plan.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Thriller 20%, Investigation 18.5%, Psychological 9.7%, Mystery 8.5%
Play as an untethered spirit, collecting fragments of your past while fleeing a cryptic force looking to consume your soul. Explore and survive an increasingly nightmarish world. Who are you? How will you avoid the harvest of your soul? What will you uncover with the time you have left?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.2%, Thriller 20.1%, Investigation 18.2%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Mystery 6.6%
Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.8%, Investigation 20.8%, Detective 20.1%, Mystery 7.5%, Logic 7.1%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 28.7%, Investigation 26.6%, Thriller 13.1%, Mystery 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 7%
A psychological horror experience where you reshape reality with graffiti. As an artist who has lost their memory, paint the walls, open hidden passages, and escape the dark labyrinth of your mind.
Why similar: Investigation 25.7%, Detective 22.6%, Thriller 19%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Mystery 8.3%
Manage a hotel for criminals, spot anomalies, and find out who killed your sister 15 years ago.
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Thriller 22%, Psychological 16.3%, Investigation 8.6%, Survival 8.2%
The narrative is the puzzle itself. You have no power, no resources, but a cryptic force sends you to face the impossible, where you have to see through your opponents lies before they see through yours, be they human or not.
Why similar: Investigation 25.4%, Thriller 15.7%, Supernatural 11.7%, Psychological 11.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline during the cold war on a globe-trotting adventure following a trail of spies from a quiet English harbour town to a frozen Finnish fishing village and the corridors of an intelligence service rotten at its core.
Why similar: Investigation 23.6%, Detective 22.1%, Thriller 12.4%, Mystery 7.6%, Lore-Rich 7.4%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Investigation 25.6%, Detective 22.1%, Dark Comedy 20.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Point & Click 8.3%
Talk Insomnia is a visual novel that blends suspenseful weird tales with mixology. You play as Ming, a bookstore staff member who prepares drinks for guests during the day and delves into their stories at night. With the warmth of a single drink, you draw out the secrets buried deep in their hearts.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 18.3%, Supernatural 11.7%, Logic 9.2%, Mystery 8.6%
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Why similar: Investigation 31.4%, Detective 25.8%, Supernatural 10.9%, Mystery 10%, Thriller 9.9%
An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.
Why similar: Investigation 21.3%, Detective 20.5%, Dark Comedy 20.2%, Supernatural 9.8%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.2%, Thriller 17.1%, Detective 13.1%, Memes 13.1%, Investigation 11.9%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 34.1%, Investigation 25.9%, Mystery 11.7%, Point & Click 8.3%, Logic 6.7%
A medical detective game set in the late Victorian era. Uncover the perpetrators behind an assortment of grizzly murders by examining meticulously hand-animated cadavers.
Why similar: Detective 33.4%, Dark Comedy 30.1%, Investigation 9.8%, Lore-Rich 8.9%, Point & Click 8.1%
A faceless nightmare is here to rid the world of the chemical that made impossible technology possible. You, as the puny human Chance, have just crashed in the middle of that warzone. Good luck.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 21.9%, Thriller 15.6%, Psychological 13.9%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
The Phantom Fellows is about two best friends who start a paranormal investigation business together, since one of them is already dead.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.7%, Investigation 24.1%, Detective 20.5%, Point & Click 7.8%, Old School 6.4%
A first person perspective horror game for finding anomalies. This realistic style of 'Escape from 30 Day Cycle' may be suitable for you. You will play the role of a stay at home man. One day, the player is trapped by a mysterious force and needs to explore secrets and find ways to escape
Why similar: Investigation 31.4%, Supernatural 17.6%, Thriller 16.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11%
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Why similar: Investigation 22.6%, Detective 21.1%, Thriller 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.9%
