60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Detective.
A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.
EmyLiveShow: Case of Four Hot Witnesses
A rookie investigator's first case leads them to four sexy girls. It can stop them... or make them even more determined to find the solution.
Isle of Maligree
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
A rookie investigator's first case leads them to four sexy girls. It can stop them... or make them even more determined to find the solution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Detective 13%, Visual Novel 12%, LGBTQ+ 10.8%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
Challenge four hot beauties and save the world from the attacks of sexy bosses in the new EmyLiveShow game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Detective 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.5%
Embark on a mystical quest that blends Slavic folklore with arcane witchcraft, uncover hidden secrets, and rescue a village lost to the shadows in this magical detective visual novel. Oh, and never forget your cat - he might save you!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Cats 15.7%, Investigation 10.1%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Adventure 7.6%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Detective 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Emotional 15.9%, Investigation 13.9%
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Investigation 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 7%
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 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Emotional 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A visual novel/life sim with Shakespearean characters and Nim, a cat spirit who is searching for her master, the Prince of Cats.
Why similar: Cats 16%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%
Mystery adventure where no one dies. Use your “ability to see too much” to uncover an inconvenient truth.
Why similar: Cats 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Detective 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Mystery 8.8%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Detective 11.2%, Adventure 8.7%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, RPG 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Detective 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Detective 14.7%, Investigation 9.7%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Detective 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Why similar: Cats 20.4%, Detective 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.8%
You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Cats 18.4%, Detective 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Investigation 9.5%
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Adventure 5.5%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%
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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Detective 11.5%
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 11.2%
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich visual novel where you play as a demigod lawyer. You have one week to investigate the divine divorce of Adam and Eve! Flirt, drink, raise your stats and make bold choices in minigames and Heaven's drama.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Funny 9.5%
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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 13%, RPG 11.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Detective 14.9%, Hand-drawn 12%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 8.5%
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Detective 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
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 19.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Investigation 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, LGBTQ+ 9.7%
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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, RPG 9.4%
Many people dream of visiting London, but few ever stop to think about what would happen if they lost all their money in a foreign country. Unfortunately, Max's friend not only finds himself without any cash, but also discovers that it has been replaced with counterfeit banknotes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Investigation 11.2%, RPG 10%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Detective 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Investigation 10.5%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Emotional 11.8%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional 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: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Investigation 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 21.4%, Detective 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Investigation 13.7%
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Investigation 10.1%
A dullahan goes to a speed-dating event: Will she fall head over heels or trip up on her chances for love?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.4%
Did you bring your character sheet this time? We can’t start the game if you don’t know who your character is…anyway…we have an item to retrieve, do you accept this quest?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 12%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Investigation 11.1%, Emotional 8.4%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Emotional 15.7%, Hand-drawn 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
First the King’s sheeps then the King himself! Everyone seems to be mysteriously disappearing lately. As the King’s intrepid daughter, and with the help of a strange talking porcupine, travel through the kingdom and interrogate your subjects to solve the mysterious disappearances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Detective 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Adventure 8.6%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Detective 15.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Investigation 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, RPG 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, RPG 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%
A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Investigation 10.8%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Detective 8.6%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%
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 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Detective 13%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Investigation 10.2%
The cute fantasy visual novel, "How to Sing to Open Your Heart" returns as a remastered version. Princess Myana, who loves to sing, finally comes to Eroolia. A lot of people, like the Imperial Guard Captain, Ludovic, and Princess Anna, are unhappy about it. What will happen?
Why similar: Cats 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
You are a depressed Bake-Neko that everyone mistakes for an adorable cat. Your one and only goal: to end it all. A visual novel with multiple choices, featuring diverse, deep, magical and deeply endearing characters. Every decision will shape your relationships and your fate.
Why similar: Cats 30.7%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Magic 7.1%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 16%, RPG 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%
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 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 15.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Funny 5.8%
A terrible darkness threatens a world of overwhelmingly adorable mares. Can a new cute mare with amnesia save the world or will she lose more than her memories along the way?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, RPG 9.3%
