- #1 White Shirts Red Blood
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The life story of mobster Michael del Conte – with everything except peace of mind and hope for tomorrow.
Why similar: Crime 22.7%, Noir 21.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Retro 8.5%
- #2 Under His Eyes
96% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
Step into the shoes of a rising crime boss in this gritty strategy and management game. Extort local businesses, manage a crew of specialized operatives, and outsmart rival gangs in high-stakes dialogue. Will you build your empire in the shadows, or let the streets run red?
Why similar: Crime 24.9%, Noir 24.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
- #3 Good News
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Augusto Salgado
Windows
You've been hired as a chief editor to make this newspaper grow, but your writers are awful. Correct their drafts, set the tone of the news to fit your audience, make readership grow; and form a relationship with the shady politicians that will push you to give them good press in an electoral year
Why similar: Noir 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Retro 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #4 Dirty Land
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Naturally Intelligent
Windows · Mac · Linux
A videogame about being a real estate salesman in the 80s
Why similar: Noir 26.3%, Crime 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 7%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
- #5 The Money Man
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Fenyx Digital Pub: Fenyx Digital
Windows
In a speakeasy backroom, you verify cash paid to a crime family, using tools and guides to spot counterfeits and expose liars. A century ago, the wealthy fled to Mars. Earth is rotting, and the underworld owns New York. With someone you love on the line, there's no room for mistakes
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Crime 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Point & Click 8.2%
- #6 My Hotel
94% matchMixed44% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: BrainSwapperPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Step into the 1950s with My Hotel. As the new owner of a mysterious hotel, revive its glory through stylish renovations, solve hidden secrets, and master faction intrigues. A captivating blend of history and adventure awaits.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Crime 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #7 Loretta
92% matchVery Positive92% of 453 reviews2023
Dev: BonereadersPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Crime 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7%
- #8 Angels That Kill - The Final Cut
93% matchMixed45% of 33 reviews2015
Dev: Rising Sun Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Angels That Kill - The Final Cut is a dark, first person adventure game that tells the story of two men as they uncover the truth behind a murder that has shaken the city. Play through both sides of the story and discover the truth behind the murder.
Why similar: Noir 39.9%, Crime 28.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Adventure 6.9%
- #9 Doc Tommy: The Vig
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Echelon Create LLCPub: Echelon Create
Windows · Mac
A mob trivia game dressed up as a debt collection. You owe Doc Tommy ten thousand dollars. Answer questions about Our Business — every right answer pays the debt down, every wrong one adds to it. Reach $0 and you walk. Reach $30,000 and you don't.
Why similar: Noir 27%, Crime 26.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #10 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
91% matchVery Positive95% of 786 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9%, Crime 8.5%
- #11 Lacuna: Prologue
90% matchVery Positive91% of 174 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 30.2%, Crime 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 9%
- #12 Sara
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sara Eshard
Windows · Mac · Linux
3 days, 3 dreams, and 3 worlds.
Why similar: Noir 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Point & Click 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #13 Let Bions Be Bygones
89% matchMixed69% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
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 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Crime 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #14 This Is the Police
88% matchVery Positive82% of 11,246 reviews2016
Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
Why similar: Crime 33.1%, Noir 24.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #15 Graywood: Noir Detective
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 31.5%, Crime 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #16 YUMEGIDO
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: トロヤマイバッテリーズフライド
Windows
YUMEGIDO urges the termination of YUMEGIDO.
Why similar: Noir 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Retro 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #17 PolyCity Stories - The Affair
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Andi Liddell
Windows
The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.
Why similar: Noir 32%, Crime 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Point & Click 9%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #18 迅风的米斯特汀 Windy Mystletainn
85% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: 索尼克Pub: 冷笑黑妖
Windows
The king asked you to take an artifact to kill the monster and save the princess, but you think it's not too late to kill the king first and then save the princess!?
Why similar: Crime 29.9%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #19 Mouseman: Point and Click RPG Adventure - Chapter 1
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leech Games
Windows
Noir-themed Point and Click RPG Adventure with Turn-based battles! Pickpocket innocent people, eat cheese, rumble with the C.A.T.S., uncover secrets and rise to the top of the criminal underworld to become Top G!
Why similar: Noir 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Crime 11.6%, Point & Click 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #20 Obsidian Moon
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Cabinet Games
Windows
Investigate your way in a branching noir horror detective game inspired by Lovecraftian horror and ancient Minoan myth. Analyze evidence, connect clues, and uncover dark secrets through genre-bending deduction mechanics. Face a sinister plot—and an ultimate choice.
Why similar: Crime 23.1%, Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #21 Last Night Last Call
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Crime 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #22 Crime or Punishment
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scale Issue
Windows
Play as a corrupt detective on the mob’s payroll, and cover up their crimes. Read files, collect information and obscure evidence to frame an innocent bystander, who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. After all, crime pays.
Why similar: Noir 40%, Crime 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #23 The Wolf Among Us Remastered
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Telltale
Windows
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 27.2%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Crime 14.8%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #24 Russian Prison Tattoo Simulator
81% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Talentless Person Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a tattoo artist in Russian Prison. Get introduced to tattoo iconography and special meanings of Russian Prison tattoos
Why similar: Crime 30%, Noir 22.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Point & Click 8.1%
- #25 Murder In Tehran's Alleys 1933
82% matchMixed48% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: RSK EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
This is a series about brutal murders and innocent children killed by cruel and vicious devils riddled with terrifying violence and a mystery for which no end seems to exist. In such gloomy despair, detective Afshar is the only one who has to try to solve this serial killing case in one of the most loyal adventure games to the classic...
Why similar: Noir 44%, Crime 35%, Point & Click 14.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #26 Your Murder Is Served
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Christian Hubel
Windows
Build a flawless murder plan, then savor the mistake. Plan every detail. Choose the time, place, method, alibi and frame. But no plan is perfect. Serve your murder with style, then watch a brilliant detective find the one tiny detail you missed. Every murder leaves an aftertaste.
Why similar: Crime 40.2%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Noir 9.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #27 The Slaughter: Act One
80% matchVery Positive84% of 145 reviews2016
Dev: Alex FrancoisPub: Brainchild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.
Why similar: Noir 40.7%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Crime 11.6%, Retro 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #28 Getting Away With Murder
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indie Remix Studios
Windows
1954. You killed a man. Now cover your tracks. Getting Away With Murder is a noir point-and-click mystery where every decision is about what you leave behind and whether anyone will find it.
Why similar: Noir 42.3%, Crime 22.4%, Point & Click 13.2%, Story Rich 9.1%, Atmospheric 5.3%
- #29 The Journey Down: Chapter Two
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 560 reviews2014
Dev: SkyGoblin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Chapter Two of The Journey Down, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe. Get ready to embark on an epic journey of brain-teasing adventure!
Why similar: Noir 48.2%, Crime 15.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Point & Click 8.1%, Dark Humor 6.8%
- #30 Escape from Planet Pan: Scam Center
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: nob studio
Windows
A fake job offer traps you inside the notorious Planet Pan Scam Center. Enduring daily abuse from guards, you are forced to scam strangers into fake investments while secretly planning an escape. A unique Butterfly Effect system brings past characters into future runs so you can change their fate.
Why similar: Crime 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #31 Five Biggest Accomplishments
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #32 Fork in the Road
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pigeon in the Booth
Windows · Mac
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #33 Chinatown Detective Agency
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Why similar: Noir 26.8%, Crime 22.1%, Retro 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #34 Dear Edmund
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mind The Grease
Windows
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Story Rich 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
- #35 Weed Runner
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: U.D. Games
Windows
Weed Runner is a drug dealing, crime fueled, story driven, point and click adventure.
Why similar: Crime 32%, Dark Humor 11%, Point & Click 10.7%, Retro 10%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #36 BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Crime 24.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 11%
- #37 Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firma Game
Windows
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Noir 32.3%, Crime 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #38 CLICKOLDING
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,815 reviews2024
Dev: Strange Scaffold
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.
Why similar: Crime 24.6%, Noir 22%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Dark Humor 8.6%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #39 Jack The Reaper : Vagrants in the Mist
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team.ChasingFox
Windows
A 2D noir action game about a protagonist seeking revenge after losing their partner due to a moment of carelessness. Fight through mafia threats, keep a journal, and interrogate suspects to uncover the truth hidden in the mist and bring the true culprit behind your partner's murder to justice.
Why similar: Noir 41.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Retro 5.2%
- #40 Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel Paradise
Windows · Mac · Linux
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 29.4%, Crime 20.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Point & Click 7.7%
- #41 CAPTIVE LOVE♡MELTY HOLIC
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SERIALGAMES Inc.
Windows
Ruito, a popular underground idol, is suddenly kidnapped and confined in an unfamiliar abandoned building. Blocked by tricky traps and relentlessly pursued by obsessive stans—can Ruito safely escape this building of madness...?
Why similar: Crime 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #42 Death Drive
70% matchVery Positive97% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 37.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #43 The Slaughter: Magdalene
73% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Alex FrancoisPub: Brainchild
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short interlude from the world of The Slaughter.
Why similar: Noir 34.7%, Crime 23.3%, Point & Click 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Dark Humor 6.3%
- #44 When Wolf Fades
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HoolignomesPub: Watt Studio
Windows
A pulp crime drama where you are The Big Bad Wolf, the underworld boss of Black City. Every kind of illegal activity, two decks of psychos, six rivals, and one month to survive await you. Run your empire and keep your true identity hidden.
Why similar: Crime 29.7%, Noir 26.2%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 10.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #45 Red Spider:Vengeance
73% matchPositive83% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: studio wasp
Windows · Mac
*A remastered version of this game with enhanced graphics has been released. * "Red Spider" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 105,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 37.9%, Crime 26.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #46 Ministry of Order
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VoltekPlay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Inspect the parents’ medical record and match the newborn who can only be theirs — that is the day’s work in this 1920s dystopian puzzle. A fire burned the birth records, and the Ministry put you in charge of giving the children back. Your choice goes into the report.
Why similar: Noir 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #47 Meridian Archive
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 環浩寺
Windows · Mac
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 35.9%, Crime 23.4%, Story Rich 10.4%, Dark Humor 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #48 Crooked
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: indie-dir
Windows
Climb five venues of underground rock-paper-scissors — by cheating. Peek at throws, distract the ref, bribe the house, break a finger. Read every hustler's tell, bet on every match in the room, and whatever you do — don't get caught. A noir roguelite where the only rule is: don't get caught.
Why similar: Noir 49.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Dark Humor 6.9%
- #49 Melon Knight
70% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Boss Crab Games
Windows
Tiny little adventure with roguelike elements, where your next step decides everything. Fight your way through a dungeon full of monsters, bats and bugs. Find a magic book and save the Kingdom of Lei! (or destroy it). Retro style!
Why similar: Choices Matter 20%, Retro 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%
- #50 The Commentator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tebasaki GamesPub: G-MODE
Windows · Mac
Shape the news. Sway the nation. A visual novel where your choices on-air shift the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Point & Click 10.4%
- #51 FMV - Full Motion Voyeur
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ten Thousand Hearts Ltd.
Windows
Full Motion Voyeur is a dark FMV thriller where you're trapped in a nightmare of surveillance, obedience, and sacrifice. Guided by the mysterious ADMIN, Claire is ordered to investigate targets, uncover their secrets, and feed them to a Demon or her lover Mona pays the price.
Why similar: Crime 23.8%, Noir 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #52 The Deed
69% matchVery Positive90% of 3,781 reviews2015
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.
Why similar: Crime 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #53 MurderAt
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Agata
Windows
London, 1889. Step into the shoes of a young detective in this hand-drawn, point-and-click mystery. Explore the dark halls of Seraphim House, illuminate the shadows, and interrogate suspects to solve a complex locked-room murder. Will you accuse the right person?
Why similar: Noir 32.4%, Crime 14.4%, Point & Click 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #54 Justice.exe
68% matchMixed69% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Crime 23.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Retro 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Story Rich 9%
- #55 Bouncer Story
69% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Helmi GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Bouncer Story, a retro-inspired film-noir featuring a protagonist working as a bouncer to pay off a gambling debt to the underground mafia controlling the city. As a bouncer you are seeing, hearing and experiencing all kinds of events in the your daily work controlling the entrance to a bar.
Why similar: Crime 31.8%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Retro 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
- #56 Black Market Dealer
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Decompression Interactive
Windows
A real-time crime management sim where you build a black market empire from a single hustle to a global operation. Buy fronts, launder money, smuggle contraband, set prices, and outrun the Police, FBI, and INTERPOL as your heat rises. Every deal is a gamble between profit and prison.
Why similar: Crime 43.9%, Noir 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #57 Beat Cop
67% matchVery Positive82% of 6,207 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel CrowPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.
Why similar: Crime 29.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Retro 19.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Point & Click 4.7%
- #58 Carcelera
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Benjamin Grosse
Windows · Linux
Carcelera is a short exploration and light puzzle game. You are in prison, and so is the Moon. Forge your own destiny, you can repent later.
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Retro 10.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #59 Dance by the River (former: Silence of Switchblade)
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Summertime
Windows
In the middle of summer, in the suburbs, in the river, a drowned body is floating. It seems like three-years-earlier incident replays. This story, through the investigation into the case, shows triangular relationship between a male police officer, a female police officer, and a female murderer.
Why similar: Crime 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Adventure 9.3%
- #60 The Dark Field
64% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: TurkiPub: FT5 Studio
Windows
After receiving a strange message, Ahmed Raked finds himself at a remote farm with nothing but his phone to guide him. What starts as a simple job slowly twists into a dark, personal mystery—one that may be rooted deep in his past. Some jobs are more than they seem.
Why similar: Crime 36.8%, Noir 28.5%, Retro 12.5%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Story Rich 6.8%