60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Interactive Fiction, Investigation, Adventure.
A noir detective gamebook where careless reading gets you killed. A tycoon has vanished: 4 investigation paths, 780 choices, 11 endings — 85% of all runs end in death or prison. Every clue you uncover stays in your case file forever. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese. The case is yours.
Lacuna: Prologue
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.
DEAR SUSPECT
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.
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 20.3%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Crime 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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: Detective 17.3%, Noir 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Investigation 10.5%
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 20.1%, Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Crime 11.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Noir 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Noir 17%, Investigation 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
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 19.2%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Text-Based 8.8%
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: Noir 15.7%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Crime 9.8%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Noir 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Investigation 11.3%, Crime 11%
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 19.3%, Noir 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Investigation 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 25.4%, Detective 20%, Crime 14%, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Detective 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Crime 11.5%, Text-Based 10.7%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Noir 16.9%, Detective 13.7%, Crime 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Text-Based 9.2%
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 17.8%, Noir 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Investigation 10.4%
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Detective 11.1%, Crime 10.7%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Detective 13%, Noir 12.5%
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Detective 13.7%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Crime 8.6%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Detective 23.9%, Investigation 13.5%, Crime 11.4%, Mystery 11.2%
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 21%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Investigation 10.6%, Crime 10.3%
Desktop mystery: you're journalist Max Drascher, reopening Jory Michener's 2016 disappearance for a GlimmerTV documentary. Email, web searches, social feeds, phone calls. Every clue lives on your machine. Evansburg would rather you let it rest.
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 12.3%, Crime 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%
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 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 11.9%, Crime 10.9%, Text-Based 10.9%
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Noir 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Espionage 11.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Detective 10.7%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Detective 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Crime 13.1%, Mystery 9%
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 23.5%, Crime 15.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Noir 13%, Mystery 11%
Seven murders in motion by a killer calling himself the Messiah. Interrogate witnesses, spot contradictions in their testimonies, and build a criminal profile piece by piece in this detective thriller where every word is evidence.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Crime 8.3%, Difficult 7.7%
'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: Noir 19.7%, Detective 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Text-Based 10.1%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Noir 18.8%, Investigation 12%, Crime 10.2%, Mystery 9.5%
A 3D psychological detective thriller in a radical film noir style. Explore immersive environments, examine clues from every angle, and connect your evidence on a deduction board to solve a dark conspiracy. Use your pure logic to untangle the truth.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 12%, Crime 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Detective 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Crime 10.8%
A monster-themed deduction game focused on solving brutal murders. Investigate crime scenes by uncovering hidden evidence, analyzing fingerprints, and testing blood samples. Identify the killer, determine the creature responsible, and solve seven thrilling cases
Why similar: Noir 28.2%, Detective 25.4%, Investigation 14.7%, Crime 13.9%, Mystery 12.3%
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: Noir 17.8%, Detective 13.9%, Crime 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Mystery 10.9%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Noir 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 15.1%, Text-Based 11.2%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Noir 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Investigation 12%, Crime 11.6%
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 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Detective 10.7%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
Black File is a story-driven detective simulator set in Istanbul. Investigate crime scenes, inspect evidence, connect clues, interrogate suspects, and uncover the truth behind a file that should have stayed closed.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Noir 20.8%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Noir 19.8%, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 12.3%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A moral-descent thriller told through your phone, your feeds, and a trading terminal. Chase a California fortune one "just one more trade" at a time — through a crypto mania where every gain has a price. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings. How far will you go?
Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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: Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Crime 12.5%, Investigation 12%
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Lore-Rich 12.3%
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 26.2%, Detective 20.7%, Crime 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Investigation 9.9%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Crime 17.1%, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Noir 14.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 10.4%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Noir 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Detective 14.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 11.9%
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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Investigation 12.1%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 22%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.1%, Crime 9.5%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Noir 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Mystery 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Detective 19.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.5%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
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: Noir 17.1%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Mystery 8.6%
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: Detective 22%, Crime 15.8%, Noir 14.9%, Investigation 14%, Mystery 12.7%
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Why similar: Noir 22%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Crime 11.7%, Mystery 9.3%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Crime 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%
Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Investigation 13.3%, Mystery 10.8%
