60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Adventure, Mystery, Story Rich.
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.
CARTAGRA
Set in Ueno, Tokyo, where the wounds of the Pacific War have not yet healed, detective Takashiro Shugo becomes involved in a series of gruesome murders. A visual novel of love and hatred leading to obsession and madness…
Kara no Shojo
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Set in Ueno, Tokyo, where the wounds of the Pacific War have not yet healed, detective Takashiro Shugo becomes involved in a series of gruesome murders. A visual novel of love and hatred leading to obsession and madness…
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Detective 17.8%, Anime 11.5%, Thriller 10.1%, Investigation 8.1%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 12%, Visual Novel 12%, Thriller 11.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Investigation 9.7%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, Mystery 15.7%, Anime 15.2%, Medieval 14.2%
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: Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 13%, Mystery 12.8%, Investigation 10.3%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Detective 14.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Anime 10.1%, Thriller 10%
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Mystery 17.5%, Detective 10.8%, Anime 10.1%, Thriller 9.5%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Detective 15.4%, Mystery 13%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Detective 19.2%, Mystery 16.1%, Anime 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Detective 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Anime 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Anime 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Mystery 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Thriller 16.4%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Text-Based 9.5%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 15.4%, Anime 14%, Story Rich 9.5%
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk? The story for those who are brave enough to dive in a dark story and are able to think reasonably.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 14.7%, Detective 14.6%, Medieval 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Anime 12.7%, Text-Based 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Thriller 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Mystery 12.8%
Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.2%, Psychological Horror 30.7%, Story Rich 17.6%, Adventure 5.6%, Singleplayer 2%
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Anime 11.4%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Detective 11.2%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 12.4%, Adventure 9.1%
Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Investigation 12.5%
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Thriller 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Detective 14.4%, Mystery 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Adventure 8.5%
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Detective 16.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Mystery 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.9%, Anime 15.9%, Mystery 9.3%, Psychological Horror 7.9%, Adventure 7.2%
Two thousand years ago, the Pestis Disaster swept through the land, corrupting all living things and making it to difficult to live on the land. Having touched the darkest darkness the world has seen, one must now face the dazzling light. Thus I pose this question. Whose wings did I see that day?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Anime 21.9%, Text-Based 15.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Explore a mysterious world as the protagonist in this short adventure game with pixel graphics.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Anime 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 14.1%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Thriller 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Anime 9.2%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.4%, Mystery 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Anime 12.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
"Королевская ночь"– нелинейная визуальная новелла в жанре ужасов. Десятки лет одиночества заставят её мыслить иначе..
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Anime 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Anime 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 15.3%
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: Anime 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Mystery 12.4%, Detective 12%
The samurai detective visual novel! Solve crimes and pass judgment on vigilantes, officials, inventors, and brigands to protect a city of eternal cherry blossoms.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Mystery 15%, Anime 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 18%, Mystery 12.3%, Detective 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one... Make decisions to build your adventure. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 15.7%, Mystery 12.5%, Anime 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II is a suspense-horror game set at a prestigious academy. When rumors circulate about supernatural occurrences at the famed Konoehara Academy in Tokyo’s H City, it’s up to the head of the Kujou family, also known as the “Spirit Doctor,” to take on the case.
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Gore 6.6%
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.6%, Adventure 19.8%, Story Rich 17.4%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, 2D 2.3%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 16.2%, Anime 13.4%, Mystery 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Mystery 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Anime 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Thriller 16%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Mystery 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Step into the shoes of an aspiring author during the Taisho era in this psychedelic BL murder-mystery visual novel. Travel back in time to try and save your friends while confronting your own character flaws. Will you retreat into your fantasies, or can you keep it together enough to rescue them?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Mystery 17.7%, Anime 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 11.1%
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Anime 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Mystery 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 9.4%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Mystery 15%, Anime 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
A housemaid takes on a terrifying murder plan in order to protect her lord, whose life is in danger! A romantic mystery that takes place at an earl's manor in 20th-century England. Depending on the selection, the story will branch into different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Mystery 26%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Adventure 11%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Thriller 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Mystery 9.5%
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Detective 19.9%, Mystery 18.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Anime 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Mystery 12.2%, Investigation 11%
'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 11.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Anime 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
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: Visual Novel 17.6%, Detective 17.5%, Mystery 16.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Anime 11.8%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Anime 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
1988年，日本泡沫经济破灭前夕，化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警，侦查青梅奇怪自杀案，牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密，穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头，在人心与生死的抉择中，搜查蛛丝马迹，找出血案真相。
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
A visual novel/roguelike hybrid where a simple mission spirals into a cannibalistic odyssey. You'll struggle as a fragile human, blood-soaked knight, or flesh-devouring Forsaker. Devour or be devoured—yet your fate dangles by unseen strings. Choose: cling to this broken world... or forsake it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Medieval 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Anime 16.2%, Story Rich 10.3%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Thriller 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 12.8%, Detective 12.4%, Investigation 12.1%
Through the eyes of Torao, explore a story that raises profound questions about the value of life. Questions that speak to those living in modern times, those in the city, and for all of us.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Gore 5.8%
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Detective 15.2%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Mystery 14.3%
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Mystery 21.4%, Medieval 19.2%, Text-Based 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.
Why similar: Detective 47.8%, Visual Novel 39.9%, Adventure 12.4%
Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
