60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Investigation.
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
Xochi's Apothecary
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Kamilia
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.
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Investigation 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Narrative 13.4% ★, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Investigation 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Detective 14%, Narrative 13.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Investigation 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Tea for Sana is a story-driven exploration game set in a Slavic-inspired fantasy world. You play as Vesna, a spirit healer who is losing her memory. Discover recipes, find new ingredients, and cook traditional dishes to restore the balance between the mountain spirits and the villagers.
Why similar: Cooking 22.7%, Narrative 19.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 5.8%
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Gothic 18% ★, Detective 16.1%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Mystery 8.4%
Frog Holm is a narrative-driven cozy mystery game about a young frog who returns home to run the old family pub and finds himself caught in the mysterious disappearance of a fellow islander.
Why similar: Narrative 17.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Investigation 10.2%
Unravel the secrets of the Bariton mansion! Take on the mantle of detective in the role of Lucas Usher, and solve the riddles plaguing the ghosts of those left behind! Uncover their secrets and help them find salvation … or damnation.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Gothic 13.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Exploration 8.5%
Investigate the mysteries of a haunted mansion as you solve various challenging puzzles in this Victorian-inspired, narrative-driven escape room game. With only your wit and a lantern to light the way forward, will the choices you make seal your fate, or open the path to freedom?
Why similar: Gothic 19.6% ★, Narrative 16.6% ★, Detective 13.6%, Investigation 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%
An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Dark Humor 15.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Mystery 9.3%
In most visual novels, you only read what characters say. In The Bastard Who Rewrote the Empire, you decide how deeply to read each line. Use Inner Voice, Sincerity, Appraisal, and X-Ray Vision to expose thoughts, lies, profiles, and secrets—then outwit conspiracies and rewrite a kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Investigation 11.4%
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Why similar: Cooking 29.3%, Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Detective 13.5%, Investigation 10.2%, Choices Matter 10%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Investigation 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
India ’89 is a story based cooking game, where you are a 10 year old from the UK experiencing a small village in India in 1989. You cook various dishes as a street food vendor in different locations. Explore the joy of village life, family and cooking.
Why similar: Cooking 29%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Narrative 6.6% ★
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 22.4%, Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Mystery 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Detective 15.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Exploration 7.7%
Mohism: Battle of Words is a detective game set in the world of wuxia. The game follows Zhang Xiaochen, investigates unsolved cases and comes into his own as a hero. He must rely on his wits and razor-sharp tongue to best his opponents, find the culprit and ensure justice prevails!
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Investigation 13.7%, Mystery 8.3%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 13.6%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Investigation 10.8%
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: Narrative 15.2% ★, Detective 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Investigation 9.5%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Visual Novel 7.9%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Cooking 22.8%, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Why similar: Cooking 24.8%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Visual Novel 7.5%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Narrative 10.8% ★
In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.9%, Detective 18.7%, Investigation 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 9.5%
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 18.3%, Investigation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Narrative 11.6% ★, Choices Matter 8.5%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Puzzle 9.2%, Mystery 9%, Exploration 8.6%
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: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Investigation 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
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 20.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Narrative 19.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A comedic detective visual novel in a noir style. Try on an old raincoat, arm yourself with a half-eaten éclair, and set out to find the Mayor's stolen wig! Read dialogue, make choices, and try not to lead the investigation down a dead end before the Sausage Baron takes over the city.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Exploration 9.8%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Mystery 8.2%
A Greek Myth-based, heartfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.
Why similar: Cooking 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Mystery 8.7%
A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?
Why similar: Investigation 17%, Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 10.5%
You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
Why similar: Detective 14.1%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Investigation 11.2%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 25.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Story Rich 9.3%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Investigation 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%
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 21.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 9.5%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Investigation 12.2%, Mystery 8.2%, Visual Novel 7.8%
The Wolf is Dead is a murder mystery game. When the Big Bad Wolf is found murdered at a party for his biopic, you're called in. Interrogate suspects, investigate the scene of the crime and use this to travel back in time and reconstruct the events of the evening. Who killed Alexander Wolff?
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20.3%, Investigation 10.8%, Mystery 10.4%, Puzzle 8%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Detective 14%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Exploration 10.2%
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 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 11%, Visual Novel 10%
On the night of the full moon, a young man becomes assistant to his childhood friend, a detective. They take on guild quests, solve mysteries, and chase the phantom thief “Obrutale,” a figure both feared and admired. A mystery RPG full of story, battles, and secrets.
Why similar: Cooking 32.2%, Detective 23.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Mystery 9.7%, Exploration 8.4%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Mystery 9.5%
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 8.3%
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: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 13.6%, Dark Humor 11%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Narrative 9.7% ★
A first-person mystery solving game, where you try to find out what happened at Syn Archives.
Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Investigation 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Exploration 7.4%
An evidence-based detective game set in rural India. Investigate your friend's disappearance by searching crime scenes, interrogating suspects, and presenting proof to break through lies. Race against time to expose a conspiracy before the 9:45 PM train leaves.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
The end of the world is near! After a mysterious package unleashes paranormal events in Triton Town, experience a chapter-based narrative through the eyes of multiple protagonists. Solve puzzles, explore detailed environments, and interview witnesses to uncover the truth before time runs out!
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Narrative 17.5% ★, Dark Humor 14.7%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 8.8%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Narrative 11.5% ★
You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories and decide what knowledge survives.
Why similar: Narrative 21.9% ★, Detective 14.3%, Investigation 13.7%, Mystery 9.5%, Puzzle 7.3%
Save the alcoholic, debt-ridden Mei by bringing both her restaurant and herself from ruin. Manage your ragtag team of employees, decorate your venue, craft cohesive menus, and piece together the truth behind her story. Can you get her back on her feet before the three-year deadline?
Why similar: Cooking 28.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
An audio restoration job becomes an investigation into the occult, as an elusive musician’s damaged cassette tapes are exhumed in northern Italy. Use a fully-operational desktop to sift through files, descending into the artist’s world in this slow-burning ghost tale of creativity and obsession.
Why similar: Narrative 20.6% ★, Detective 14.6%, Investigation 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Mystery 8.2%
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: Detective 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Investigation 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 10.7%
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 23.4%, Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Mystery 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
