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Games Like The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Point & Click, Interactive Fiction, Puzzle, Detective.

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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.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: Spooky Doorway
Publisher: Akupara Games
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,008 reviews2021
    Dev: Spooky DoorwayPub: Akupara Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

    Why similar: Dark Comedy 11.7%, Detective 10.8%, Point & Click 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Text-Based 8.9%

  2. #2 Murder Is Game Over
    96% matchVery Positive96% of 57 reviews2022
    Dev: HitherYon Games
    Windows

    Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Dark Comedy 13.9%, Point & Click 9.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Dark Humor 9.4%

  3. #3 LaughterLost
    96% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2024
    Dev: Mix StudioPub: USC Games
    Windows

    LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dark Humor 15%, Dark Comedy 14.9%, Point & Click 13.1%, Text-Based 11.2%

  4. #4 Crowpoint Manor
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MayMoodPub: MayMood Games
    Windows

    Step inside Crowpoint Manor, where every guest harbours a dark secret. As an undercover detective, you’ll solve bizarre puzzles, navigate dangerous traps, and witness hilariously tragic accidents. Can you uncover the “truth” before you become the next victim?

    Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 5.5%

  5. #5 Spellchanted 2D Hidden Object Puzzle Adveture Tile-Matching
    94% matchMostly Positive73% of 191 reviews2024
    Dev: Shaman Games Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Enter a magical world filled with legendary Fairy Tale characters. Become the greatest wizard. Help a young witch break an evil curse and save the Fairy Tale kingdoms!

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Detective 12.5%, Text-Based 10.4%

  6. #6 Puzzle Agent
    94% matchVery Positive89% of 2,838 reviews2010
    Dev: Telltale
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Point & Click 17.9%, Detective 17.9%, Puzzle 11.8%, Dark Humor 9.4%

  7. #7 Big Ear Detective
    93% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Fabula Improviso
    Windows · Mac

    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 15.7%, Point & Click 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%

  8. #8 Five Day Detective
    92% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Krunchy Fried Games
    Windows

    Five Day Detective is a point and click style adventure game featuring multiple murder cases and a twisted sense of humour.

    Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.3%, Point & Click 16.3%, Detective 16%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Puzzle 8.2%

  9. #9 Happy Birthday: With Sergio Spellbound
    91% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2024
    Dev: Lazer Genu
    Windows

    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: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 14.1%, Dark Comedy 13.9%, Dark Humor 11.9%, Text-Based 8.7%

  10. #10 Defective Detectives
    91% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2026
    Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
    Windows

    This city fears me. I saw its true face... And it smelled like sawdust. Welcome to the world of pretentious film noir, where it rains even indoors, and cool guys don't look at explosions (because they forgot to wear sunglasses).

    Why similar: Point & Click 16.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 14.6%, Exploration 13.6%, Detective 13.5%

  11. #11 FAKEBOOK
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 822 reviews2024
    Dev: banjihagames
    Windows · Mac

    Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Point & Click 11.3%, Text-Based 11.1%

  12. #12 Exploring Friscott
    89% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.4%, Puzzle 9.8%

  13. #13 False Testimony
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bizi Games
    Windows

    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 23.4%, Point & Click 19.9%, Detective 15.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%

  14. #14 Space Detective 14
    88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: Videogame Collective
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Dark Comedy 16.4%, Point & Click 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Dark Humor 10.7%

  15. #15 No Case Should Remain Unsolved
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,592 reviews2024
    Dev: Somi
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Detective 11.2%

  16. #16 Don't Let Me Fade
    86% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: AinkOink
    Windows

    Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.

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  17. #17 Desktop Explorer
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,696 reviews2026
    Dev: Recurring Dream
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

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  18. #18 Cold Case
    86% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: BANJIHAGAMES
    Windows · Mac

    Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.

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  19. #19 Busty Barrister Barbara
    85% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Baller Industries
    Windows · Mac

    A short visual novel set in Hong Kong where you play as Barbara, a newly minted barrister. This game is quite short, you can probably play through it in about two hours. Features two legal cases, fully voice acted and also has nice music.

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  20. #20 Major's Heart
    84% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
    Dev: Dormouse
    Windows

    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 26%, Point & Click 19.1%, Detective 14.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Text-Based 7.8%

  21. #21 The Will of Arthur Flabbington
    82% matchVery Positive95% of 184 reviews2023
    Dev: Gugames
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A comedy point-and-click adventure game about a dead uncle, a hidden treasure, a reluctant ghost sidekick, old people and pizza.

    Why similar: Point & Click 19.8%, Dark Comedy 14.9%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Puzzle 9.1%

  22. #22 The Dark Prophecy
    82% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2022
    Dev: Start Warp
    Windows · Mac

    The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.

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  23. #23 Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut
    81% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2024
    Dev: Screen Savor Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Point & Click 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Detective 11%

  24. #24 Puzzle Agent 2
    83% matchVery Positive87% of 1,158 reviews2011
    Dev: Telltale
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    81% matchMostly Positive72% of 184 reviews2025
    Dev: coly Inc.
    Windows · Mac

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  26. #26 A Detective Story
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Methodox Technologies, Inc.
    Windows

    An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.

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    79% matchVery Positive97% of 105 reviews2024
    Dev: 七月柒月七
    Windows

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  28. #28 Midnight Saturn
    77% matchPositive88% of 40 reviews2026
    Dev: Cosmic Void
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  29. #29 Nine in Flight
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Shook Loose
    Windows

    An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Detective 16.2%, Point & Click 13.2%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%

  30. #30 Mystery Case Files: Incident at Pendle Tower
    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2023
    Dev: Grandma StudiosPub: BFG Entertainment
    Windows · Mac

    Pendle Tower was once a lavish high-rise hotel, but a new renovation has awakened a long-dormant secret within its foreboding halls.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Point & Click 18.9%, Detective 11.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, Exploration 9.5%

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    78% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
    Dev: Elephant ArPub: BFG Entertainment
    Windows · Mac

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  32. #32 Ghost Hunting Journal
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 麻辣工作室 Spicy GamesPub: Okasan's Recipe
    Windows

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    76% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: TAPROMANCE
    Windows

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    76% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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  35. #35 Super Chillers: The Chat Room
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Rose Arcana Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Point & Click 16.8%, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Detective 10.7%

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    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SLUMPS
    Windows

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    Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.8%, Point & Click 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Funny 7.1%

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    73% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2025
    Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 13%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 10.1%

  38. #38 Marcella Moon: Secret on the Hill
    75% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2020
    Dev: Hidden Ocean Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 16.1%, Detective 15.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Puzzle 10.7%

  39. #39 Sockpuppet Noire
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: LizardFactory
    Windows

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    74% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2023
    Dev: Elephant ARPub: BFG Entertainment
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Point & Click 21.2%, Detective 11.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Exploration 9.3%

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    73% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2024
    Dev: zelun_
    Windows

    Impersonal is a game about lights, about relationships and how these relationships can affect people.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Point & Click 23.1%, Exploration 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Casual 9.5%

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    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 53 reviews2025
    Dev: Bloom Digital MediaPub: Disney
    Windows

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Point & Click 25.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Casual 9.6%

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    72% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2023
    Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
    Windows · Mac

    Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 13.6%, Detective 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%

  44. #44 Chains of Judgment
    71% match2 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
    Dev: ChaniMK
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Point & Click 16.8%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Detective 12.2%

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    72% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2022
    Dev: 济沧海工作室Pub: Pujia8 Studio
    Windows

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    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AppleHead Games
    Windows · Mac

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    70% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2024
    Dev: Radek VolfPub: Walker & Volf
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Exploration 10.9%

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    68% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2026
    Dev: Spritewrench
    Windows

    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: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Detective 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Exploration 9.9%

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    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Birnchen Studios GmbHPub: Birnchen Interactive GmbH
    Windows

    In this point & click puzzle-adventure novel, Sara has been betrayed by criminals and now must solve numerous puzzles to find her stolen money. Join her on her thrilling journey, help her decipher clues, and face the criminals!

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Point & Click 16.3%, Detective 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Puzzle 9%

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    68% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2025
    Dev: HwachaPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
    Windows

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    69% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: DigiTales Interactive
    Windows

    A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?

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  52. #52 Dawn After Dusk
    68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
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    Windows

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  53. #53 Methods: The Detective Competition
    69% matchVery Positive91% of 754 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.

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  54. #54 Wolf Adventures
    70% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2021
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    Windows

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  55. #55 Death off the Cuff
    70% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
    Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
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    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.

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  56. #56 The Spirit Weaver
    66% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2026
    Dev: StarBullet StudioPub: GameChanger Studio
    Windows

    The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.

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  57. #57 Murder Meet Cute
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Kitico
    Windows

    Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?

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  58. #58 Edwin Earstwhile: Medical Examiner
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Callum Page
    Windows

    A medical detective game set in the late Victorian era. Uncover the perpetrators behind an assortment of grizzly murders by examining meticulously hand-animated cadavers.

    Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Dark Comedy 21.4%, Point & Click 16%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Puzzle 11.4%

  59. #59 Синяя Борода
    66% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2025
    Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
    Windows

    Instead of sunny days, carefree relaxation, and dates, he has a “responsible” task ahead of him — to look after the sinister but seemingly empty mansion of the mysterious, absent owner whom everyone calls Bluebeard. Denis thought it would be easy, watering flowers and bored in silence...

    Why similar: Point & Click 18.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Detective 11.8%, Exploration 10.6%

  60. #60 Neon Hearts City
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2025
    Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Point & Click 17.5%, Detective 15.9%, Exploration 10.1%, Puzzle 9.4%

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