60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Text-Based.
A slow-burn investigative experience focused on reading, deduction, and uncovering connections between cases. Settle in for quiet night shifts, piece together hidden truths, and uncover the stories buried within The Archive.
At Sixes and Sevens
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.
Causal Effect
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
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: Typing 31.6% ★, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 10.4%, Investigation 9.4%
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 17.3% ★, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Time Travel 13.3% ★, Text-Based 13.2%
A point-and-click mystery set in 1998. Explore the early Internet for clues, connect overlooked details, and uncover what really happened at Thornhill Academy. Come for the mystery, stay for the cozy New England private school vibes.
Why similar: Typing 35.1% ★, Detective 17.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Thriller 6.3%
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Why similar: Typing 35.7% ★, Text-Based 20.3%, Point & Click 15.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Minimalist 9.1%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 49.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Puzzle 7.3%, Minimalist 5.7%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 10%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Typing 26.2% ★, Detective 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Investigation 11.3%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Point & Click 11%, Time Manipulation 10.7% ★
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Typing 35.8% ★, Detective 14.2%, Text-Based 11%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Investigation 7.8%
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Typing 30.9% ★, Detective 16.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Point & Click 10.7%
An escape room game where you manipulate time within a room to break free. A man awakens in a strange place, wearing a mysterious helmet. Rewind and alter time to uncover the helmet’s secret and the reason you are trapped—and escape.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 19.3% ★, Detective 16.1%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Point & Click 13.9%, Time Travel 11.3% ★
A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone. Point, click and chat as you investigate on your new computer in this puzzle mystery.
Why similar: Typing 20.8% ★, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 12.1%, Investigation 9.6%
Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
Why similar: Alternate History 19.1%, Time Manipulation 18.2% ★, Detective 15.4%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choices Matter 6.9%
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 21.6% ★, Alternate History 19%, Time Travel 18.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.3%
A meditative and story-driven puzzle game, where you must discover answers to decisions, we all have to make. Can you make a change in a world of endless wars?
Why similar: Typing 36.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Alternate History 13.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Point & Click 18%, Detective 17.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Puzzle 8.9%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Typing 32.3% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Detective 10.8%, Point & Click 8.3%
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 52.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Choices Matter 4%
Uncover the truth behind a 1982 air crash in Blackbox. Use audio recordings and investigation documents to solve the mystery. A story-rich, suspenseful detective experience that puts your skills to the test.
Why similar: Typing 34% ★, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Investigation 9.9%, Point & Click 9.3%
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
Why similar: Typing 29.1% ★, Alternate History 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 13.8%, Point & Click 12%
Mindjack is a plot-progression Visual novels and investigation game about social violence. Hijack instructors' vision terminals, eavesdrop on conspiracies, and capture violent acts. You must uncover dark secrets, and decide whether to save your friends trapped within the time limit.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Time Manipulation 13.2% ★, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Point & Click 11.5%
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.
Why similar: Typing 36.7% ★, Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Puzzle 7.1%
A word-guessing game in which you have to guess the word with hinted "similarity" value
Why similar: Typing 40.1% ★, Text-Based 24.6%, Detective 13.1%, Minimalist 11.2%, Puzzle 4.7%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 20.3% ★, Time Travel 16.1% ★, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Investigation 8.5%
Typing Fireworks is a casual game where your fingers run across the keyboard to set off fireworks! You can only move to adjacent keys, escape the danger zone before the fuse burns out, and look up to enjoy the dazzling display when the fireworks bloom!
Why similar: Typing 57.6% ★, Text-Based 20.9%, Puzzle 7.9%, Minimalist 6.2%, Casual 3.9%
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 44% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Story Rich 3%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 20.5% ★, Time Travel 17.9% ★, Investigation 11.4%, Detective 10.7%, Point & Click 10.1%
Solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Brentwood in this mysterious point-and-click adventure. The unique powers you hold will lead to moral choices that directly influence the story, the fate of the town, and which of the multiple endings you unlock. Will you follow destiny or fight against it?
Why similar: Time Travel 25.3% ★, Point & Click 17%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Time Manipulation 8.9% ★
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Typing 47.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Story Rich 5.6%
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Typing 29.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 19.9%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Thriller 6.2%
A hacking sim that runs inside a fake desktop OS, with no menus laid over the top. You get a terminal, 72 hours, and one job: get into North Korea's missile network and send its rockets to the Moon instead of Seoul. Do it quietly and nobody ever finds out you were there.
Why similar: Typing 50.8% ★, Detective 14.5%, Text-Based 9.4%, Point & Click 8.5%, Puzzle 7.2%
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: Alternate History 20.5%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Lore-Rich 14.1%
Hermes Library is a simulation game in which you will play as the new librarian Rainn Echo. In six weeks, you will be helping people to borrow and return books, while discovering hidden messages in books, meeting new friends and unraveling the mysteries happening at Hephaestus University.
Why similar: Typing 24.3% ★, Alternate History 16.3%, Point & Click 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Soul Nexus is a text-based adventure game where you explore strange environments and interact with even stranger individuals. Will you wander the spaces forever or will you eventually fulfil your goal of being free?
Why similar: Typing 19.8% ★, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
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: Alternate History 22.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Detective 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.
Why similar: Typing 35.6% ★, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Investigation 10.2%, Point & Click 8.3%
A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?
Why similar: Typing 30.1% ★, Detective 12.1%, Point & Click 11.4%, Text-Based 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
探偵となって依頼人の失踪した婚約者を探しましょう。 現場にいるキャラクターからさまざまな情報を引き出すことで、思わぬ真実にたどり着くかもしれません。
Why similar: Typing 46.3% ★, Detective 18.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Investigation 10.7%, 3D 4%
A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.
Why similar: Typing 35.7% ★, Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 14.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Detective 17.5%, Point & Click 14.5%, Thriller 9.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 20.3%, Time Travel 19.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 13.5%, Investigation 11.8%
The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Point & Click 16%, Text-Based 15.9%, Thriller 9.7%, Investigation 8.3%
A reimagining of the classic 'Hangman' game turned into a horrific thrill ride...
Why similar: Typing 43.8% ★, Point & Click 16%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Puzzle 8.4%, Thriller 7.2%
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: Typing 20.4% ★, Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Detective 12.2%, Minimalist 7.5%
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
Why similar: Typing 47.5% ★, Text-Based 19.8%, Investigation 10.1%, Thriller 8.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 24.6% ★, Time Travel 23.2% ★, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%
Abyss Archives is a detective mystery game with elements of horror. You play as an investigator sent to a construction site shut down after a supernatural incident. Using old photographs, you trace the memories of the dead and piece together the truth hidden beneath the abyss.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.3% ★, Detective 25.4%, Investigation 12%, Point & Click 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Point & Click 16.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Investigation 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Point & Click 14.7%, Detective 11.3%, Lore-Rich 11%
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Why similar: Typing 41.7% ★, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Thriller 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.1%
Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.
Why similar: Typing 31.9% ★, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Investigation 9.8%
A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?
Why similar: Typing 38.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Detective 14.8%, Investigation 8.3%, Minimalist 7.8%
Project DeepWeb: Eternal Nightmare is a desktop-like adventure game about exploration of the Deep Internet, a sequel to Project DeepWeb. Inspired by Internet lore and real netstalking experience, it tells a story of a person who got stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Why similar: Typing 37.4% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Point & Click 11.8%, Puzzle 6.6%
A court-driven, text-based strategy game where your words become decrees. Two petitions per turn—type carefully, face the backlash, and remember: you WERE a King.
Why similar: Typing 50.9% ★, Alternate History 24.2%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 4.3%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Detective 16%, Text-Based 15.9%, Point & Click 15.3%, Investigation 14%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Detective 22.9%, Point & Click 21.5%, Puzzle 11%, Choices Matter 6.4%
cr4ckr is a puzzle game about cracking passwords.
Why similar: Typing 57.1% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Linear 8.7%, Minimalist 6%, 2D 4.5%
A science fiction point and click word puzzle video game. Navigate an off-course spaceship, and find a way toward returning home. The end is near… Can you save the Bay Bell?
Why similar: Typing 46.7% ★, Time Travel 16.4% ★, Point & Click 14.9%, Puzzle 8.3%, Story Rich 5%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Typing 34.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 15.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Welcome to What’s father’s father called? — a relative relationship puzzle game that has you laughing your head off while questioning life itself!
Why similar: Typing 57.2% ★, Detective 21.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Casual 5.4%
