60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings.
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. ✨
The Island: Into The Mist
'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.
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 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Surreal 9.9%, Point & Click 8.6%
'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 9.7%, Point & Click 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%
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 21.6%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 13.2%, RPG 9.3%
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 20.2%, Detective 18.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 9%
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%
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 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, 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 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
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: Crime 18.6%, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 11%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
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 14.4%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 23.4%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 13.8%, Crime 12%, Visual Novel 11.9%
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 18.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Point & Click 10.3%
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 20.5%, Crime 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Surreal 12.3%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Detective 26%, Crime 24.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 10.8%, Point & Click 8.2%
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 14.3%, Text-Based 12.3%
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 25.2%, Crime 19.1%, Point & Click 18.1%, Horror 13%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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 19.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Point & Click 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 22.7%, Crime 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Multiple Endings 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%
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 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Point & Click 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 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
An idol trainee vanishes without a trace. When police investigators hit a dead end, you're dragged into a crime that gets progressively darker as you uncover the truth. 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 18.5%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 14.5%, Surreal 13%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
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 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 14.8%, Point & Click 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%
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 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%
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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, 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 18.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
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 14.3%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
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 12.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
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 24.9%, Crime 21%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%
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 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 10.7%
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 7.2%
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 17.7%, Surreal 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 11.2%
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 pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Horror 9.3%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 19%, Visual Novel 17%, Surreal 16.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 24.3%, Crime 22.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 9.5%, Point & Click 9.4%
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 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Horror 10.5%
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 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Horror 13.7%, Text-Based 13.3%
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 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Point & Click 14%, Horror 13.2%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Horror 8.8%
어떻게든 돌아갈 거야. 가족이 기다리고 있는 집으로.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Crime 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 11%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Point & Click 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Horror 9.3%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 24.8%, Detective 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%
``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 12.8%, Crime 11.5%, Point & Click 11.3%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Point & Click 10.4%
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Surreal 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Horror 9%
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: Detective 22.9%, Crime 16.7%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Surreal 12.7%, Point & Click 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Horror 9.7%
Within a cyberpunk world in the year 2070, become Detective B to investigate crime scenes, discover hidden truths, and dismantle the perpetrators' lies. There's only one problem: you have to do all that "without" stepping foot outside your house.
Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Crime 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Point & Click 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Horror 10%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Surreal 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
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: Detective 22.4%, Crime 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Surreal 13.3%, Text-Based 10%
