60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, 2D.
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Fateful End: True Case Files
Solve your own murder in this thrilling true crime adventure game. You've come face-to-face with your fate and someone close to you is going to kill you...unless you find out who it is before the time runs out!
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Surreal 9.9%, Point & Click 8.6%
Solve your own murder in this thrilling true crime adventure game. You've come face-to-face with your fate and someone close to you is going to kill you...unless you find out who it is before the time runs out!
Why similar: Crime 19.5%, Detective 17.7%, Point & Click 11.6%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 8.8%
'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 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 9.6%, Point & Click 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%
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 26.2%, Detective 20%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Point & Click 8.5%
Take on the role of Detective Kobayashi, the one and only genius detective who has a reputation for solving any case, however dark or difficult...if he isn't playing games at the office or awkwardly hitting on girls, that is.
Why similar: Crime 25.4%, Detective 21.7%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 9.7%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Crime 13.5%, Point & Click 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%
Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Point & Click 13.5%, Text-Based 13.1%, RPG 9.4%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 9.8%, Horror 9.4%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Crime 12%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9%
Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Point & Click 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Surreal 9%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 13.1%, Text-Based 11%
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Point & Click 13.4%, Horror 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Crime 24.6%, Detective 23.5%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Embark on a mysterious ride. Solve puzzles, make choices, and uncover the truth behind a hidden crime in this point & click with the depth of a visual novel, all set in a haunting subway filled with secrets.
Why similar: Crime 22.9%, Detective 18.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Point & Click 10.3%
Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...
Why similar: Crime 29%, Detective 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 14.3%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Crime 24.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 10.7%, Point & Click 8.2%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Surreal 12.3%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Episode 1: When fresh bodies start appearing from an explosion that happened weeks ago it's up to the "God Busters" to crack the mystery behind this case.
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, RPG 14.4%, Text-Based 12.2%
The Pirate Princess must infiltrate a memorial to steal an orb with the power to control nature: Ecosphere. Will you manage to steal the precious loot?
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Point & Click 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Crime 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Crime 19%, Point & Click 18.1%, Horror 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%
The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Horror 9.2%
"Old tradition VS Zombie = ???" The mismatched duo is tackling a bizarre case in the freezing midsummer of Shimofuri Village. A one-of-a-kind comedy-mystery adventure!
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Crime 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Horror 12.1%, Point & Click 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
Idol-themed murder mystery. Play as a detective, solve logic puzzles, and shape your relationships in this VN inspired by Danganronpa & Famicom Detective Club.
Why similar: Crime 20.7%, Detective 18.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Let's keep it simple. Detective arrives to Bucarest. Missing guest in a small hotel. And hawaian pizza. If you want to know how those things blend together... Just press the start button.
Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Surreal 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Horror 9%
It’s an adult choice-based visual novel developed using the Ren'Py engine, featuring a unique twist: the story takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — a setting rarely explored in this genre.
Why similar: Crime 19.5%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
陰陽師の少女達が冒険をする純和風テキストアドベンチャーゲーム。 妖の蔓延る殺伐とした世界を、小説感覚で読み進んでいく。 ヒトに仇なす者には、容赦はしない。例えそれがヒトの形をしていたとしても━。 途中の選択肢で結末が変化するマルチエンディング形式を採用。 陰陽少女達の旅を見届けられるのは、アナタしかいない。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Surreal 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
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: Crime 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Crime 20.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Text-Based 10.5%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Point & Click 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Horror 8.8%
A tale of treachery, beauty and passion, don’t miss the first installment in the New England Detective series. NED: Breakfast in Boston is a crime mystery detective visual novel with an intriguing dating sim aspect.
Why similar: Crime 21.4%, Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Why similar: Crime 24.2%, Detective 18.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%
An interrogation adventure where you play as the lead detective. Exploit suspects’ weaknesses, shake their resolve, and force the truth out of them. Use the weaknesses of a cast of unique suspects to uncover the truth behind the case.
Why similar: Crime 25.2%, Detective 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
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 17.1%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Horror 9.2%
An occult-mystery-adventure game set in Kyoto—detectives investigate to solve bizarre and complex cases. What did Kamotan detectives finally uncover on their way to the truth of these cryptic incidents?
Why similar: Crime 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 7.1%
5% of murder cases remain unsolved... it's time to open up these cases and confront the supernatural with forensic science! Solve cases by analyzing evidence and consulting with specialists. Enter a world that artfully blends 2D illustration and real-life visuals!
Why similar: Crime 19.3%, Detective 16.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Point & Click 9%
22 people awake and find themselves trapped in a game underground. To win, they must escape the world beneath our feet.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Point & Click 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Horror 8.8%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 11%, Point & Click 9.8%
Kirin plays the elevator game and disappears. Will her girlfriend, Asahi, be able to find her? The Elevator Game with Catgirls is a horror visual novel with point-and-click elements, inspired by the Korean urban legend, Elevator to Another World.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Horror 14.4%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Crime 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Detective 17%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Surreal 13.3%, Horror 11.2%
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber agency, doing their best to uncover the identity of both the killer and VTuber's real face.
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Crime 22.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Point & Click 9.4%, Text-Based 9.4%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Point & Click 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Horror 9.4%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Horror 10.6%
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 13.2%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A self-staged arson at a sales center drags you into the murder case of a female sales agent. With both your career and life in shambles, you must find a way to clear your name. The path to the truth is fraught with danger. Can you rise from this abyss and reclaim the reality you once envisioned?
Why similar: Crime 24%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, RPG 7.4%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Horror 13.3%
Homicide detective Ralph is distraught when his trusted, reliable partner goes missing around the same time strange killings begin to take place. While solving the case, Ralph is paired up with an impish rookie he can't get along with.
Why similar: Crime 22%, Detective 16.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Point & Click 13.9%, Visual Novel 12%
Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko and her assistant tackle 23 cases in this comedy detective ADV. Find clues, shout "The culprit is YOU!" — and get it wrong. Every. Single. Time. The world's worst detective begins her investigation. Skill issue? No. It's a feature.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.2%
``I hate cherry blossoms. They bring back bad memories.'' The sequel to the escape x mystery adventure game ``Hornet the Vanguard'' is here! Hachiya and Akino - grasp the truth from two perspectives. "I like cherry blossoms. They remind me of important promises."
Why similar: Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Crime 11.5%, Point & Click 11.3%
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: Crime 19.1%, Detective 18.4%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Surreal 9.5%
