60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Detective, Interactive Fiction, 2D.
A short narrative deduction game set in the overly litigious bowels of Hell. A simple text-based investigative game about asking the right questions of the right people. When surrounded by pathological liars always remember, the detail's in the devils. A simple text-based investigative game.
The Case of Andrew D.
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
梦蝶
《梦蝶》是一款水墨画风，以汉字拆解重组为解谜核心的游戏。辽沐跟随着一只蝴蝶，来到了儿时母亲提起的“隐世”，为了能见到隐世中的仙人完成心愿，开始了一场与”汉字”紧密结合的冒险。通过对“汉字”的理解，重新拆解组合，变化出能破解谜题的“关键字”，重新感悟每个汉字背后所寄宿的故事。
A forensic challenge - help private eye solve cases for their clients using OSINT and digital forensics techniques.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Text-Based 22.9%, Detective 20.5%, Minimalist 12.4%, Puzzle 11.9%
《梦蝶》是一款水墨画风，以汉字拆解重组为解谜核心的游戏。辽沐跟随着一只蝴蝶，来到了儿时母亲提起的“隐世”，为了能见到隐世中的仙人完成心愿，开始了一场与”汉字”紧密结合的冒险。通过对“汉字”的理解，重新拆解组合，变化出能破解谜题的“关键字”，重新感悟每个汉字背后所寄宿的故事。
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Detective 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Abstract 11.3%, Puzzle 10%
Logic Grid Puzzle is a multilingual story-driven logical deduction game in which you have to discover the whole story by using partially given facts.A pleasant yet challenging recreation for lovers of logical games and mystery-solving games.Are you ready for the challenge?
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Text-Based 19.7%, Abstract 11.8%, Logic 10.9%, Puzzle 10%
A text adventure mystery with a modern parser.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Text-Based 28.9%, Detective 19.5%, Crime 11.5%, Comedy 7.5%
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Surreal 16.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Funny 9.4%
Join Dr. What and Detective Son on an exhilarating journey through mind-bending puzzles and perplexing mysteries in this immersive logic game! With multiple levels to conquer, sharpen your deductive skills and unravel intricate cases.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Detective 26.2%, Puzzle 15.3%, Logic 12.8%, Casual 5.8%
Çimen Adventures: Story Teller!, A Journey Full of Your Imagination! Create hilarious stories with Cem and Fazlı, solve imaginative puzzles, and explore adventures filled with pranks and clever challenges!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Puzzle 17.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Stylized 9.5%, Casual 8%
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: Text-Based 23.7%, Detective 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, Funny 7.7%
A point and click puzzle adventure game set across multiple time periods. Discover and enjoy this strange and surreal story about a mysterious letter, a missing professor and a confusing mansion. With more than a hundred items, locations and objects to investigate, can you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Surreal 15.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, Funny 9.2%
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.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 19%, Puzzle 9.3%, Stylized 5.3%
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Puzzle 11.5%, Minimalist 8.2%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, Stylized 4.5%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Puzzle 12.5%, 2D 6%
"Who is the Defendant" is a mystery genre visual novel. Players take on the role of a prosecutor, investigating a case involving "a game with rudimentary art published on STEAM."
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Funny 12.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Abstract 9.4%
Yuntai is a story-driven horror game, where Veris travels to Yuntai City for the Qiqiao Festival after a friend's invitation, but ends up uncover a sinister cult and a series of eerie supernatural events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Text-Based 19.5%, Detective 19%, Puzzle 14.2%, Stylized 6.5%
Very funny, very short and very sweet text adventure game about Chub, Color, 23 and You.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Surreal 18.9%, Funny 14.4%, Abstract 12.9%, Puzzle 10.8%
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 16.5%, Puzzle 10%, Logic 9.4%
When a murder is committed under mysterious and supernatural circumstances, the Inspector arrives on the scene, ready to interrogate witnesses, decipher riddles, and fend off attackers seeking their next victim. Ready your spyglass and sword as you take on these two murder mystery RPGs.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Minimalist 8.6%, Puzzle 8%
A brain-opening, brain-burning puzzle game, control rabbits to escape from this mysterious world by moving plots!
Why similar: Abstract 23.3%, Puzzle 20.1%, Minimalist 12.4%, Surreal 12.3%, Casual 9.9%
Puzzle Mino is a minimalist puzzle game. As a puzzle solver, you need to use the blocks to fill in the empty parts of the puzzle panel. With this core gameplay, I has designed about 10 unique mechanisms and a total of about 100 hand-crafted puzzles.
Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Abstract 26%, Minimalist 16.1%, Puzzle 15.9%, Logic 12.1%
duamo is a deceptively simple minimalistic vibrant neon puzzle game where you have to fit shapes into a square.
Why similar: Abstract 30.7%, Puzzle 20.9%, Minimalist 13%, Casual 9.7%, 2D 9.6%
Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 19.6%, Detective 16.5%, Puzzle 9.6%, Crime 7.7%
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: Detective 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Puzzle 15.5%, Surreal 9.6%, Casual 5.1%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Crime 11.5%, Puzzle 10.5%
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 26.9%, Text-Based 20.5%, Detective 18.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Funny 7.2%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 20.3%, Surreal 17.2%, Abstract 14.8%, Minimalist 8.3%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 16.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, Crime 7.1%
An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Text-Based 24.3%, Abstract 15.4%, Minimalist 9.8%, Puzzle 9.2%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Detective 21.1%, Surreal 15.2%, Abstract 12.8%, Puzzle 10%
A casual puzzle game. Go to the toilet, one must also strategize.
Why similar: Detective 35.8%, Puzzle 16.7%, Surreal 16.6%, Funny 10.1%, Logic 6.1%
A logic deduction game. Read the grid. Deduce, don't guess. Bust the case.
Why similar: Detective 33.3%, Text-Based 19.8%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Colorful 7%
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 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 19.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Investigation 6.2%
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Detective 23.6%, Text-Based 23%, Minimalist 13.3%, Crime 10%
FILENDS is a dark multiplayer riddle-solving game for 2-7 players. Work together to solve levels filled with murder mysteries and tragic tales. Use environmental clues and real-time chat to uncover the truth. Will you solve the riddles or become a part of them?
Why similar: Detective 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Puzzle 14.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, Logic 11.4%
“The Door in The Skybox” is a third-person puzzle game about manipulating door frames to connect fragmented spaces. Featuring a surreal, dreamlike style inspired by 19th–20th century art, the game spans fifteen levels, each with a distinct visual identity.
Why similar: Surreal 22.1%, Abstract 20%, Puzzle 16.2%, Logic 14.7%, Funny 14.2%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 20.7%, Detective 20.6%, Surreal 13.9%, Puzzle 10%
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: Detective 22.5%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Puzzle 9.5%, Funny 9.2%
🔮The Wizard Party🔮 is a short and whimsical puzzle adventure game where all items are physics objects that interact with each other!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Surreal 20.6%, Abstract 15.1%, Puzzle 11.3%, Funny 9.8%
This is a puzzle game like a mathematical book, based on logic and deduction. In this game, you don't need to beat the level, but need to prove it is beatable. Your goal is not to win, but to prove you can win.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.1%, Puzzle 21%, Logic 19.5%, Minimalist 17.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A noir narrative puzzle adventure where you manipulate time to investigate a space filled with physically identical characters. Pause, rewind, and fast-forward individual lives, connect fragmented pasts and futures, and uncover the single truth needed to avert impending tragedy.
Why similar: Detective 30.2%, Abstract 21%, Surreal 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Crime 7.3%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 32%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Text-Based 23.9%, Casual 5.5%, Investigation 4.4%
NINA AQUILA is back for her brightest, boldest, most magical adventure yet!
Why similar: Detective 27%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Crime 11.3%, Funny 9%, Logic 8.3%
Assign, undo, deduce! Solve a series of minimalist number puzzles. Use constraints to assign numbers to the correct stips. Navigate the interconnected puzzles to uncover secrets. Please ignore any odd Stip behavior.
Why similar: Abstract 18.2%, Surreal 18%, Puzzle 17.2%, Minimalist 15.4%, Logic 12.6%
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 25.5%, Text-Based 22.2%, Detective 20.6%, Puzzle 11.3%, Crime 10.3%
A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.
Why similar: Abstract 37.9%, Surreal 28.8%, Puzzle 12.1%, 2D 10.7%, Colorful 10%
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 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 22.7%, Puzzle 12.5%, Crime 6.2%
Move objects to their goals using cycles linked into intricate clockwork. Take a stab at dozens of official puzzles spanning many difficulty levels from simple ones all the way to mathematical challenges.
Why similar: Abstract 31.6%, Puzzle 21.2%, Logic 18.9%, Minimalist 13.2%, 2D 7.5%
Guess the rules, divide shapes, solve puzzles. 49 variants with consistent rulessets.
Why similar: Abstract 34.3%, Minimalist 18.2%, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, 2D 7.1%
Find the Golden Pineapple and the crimes against the Mayans. In Pineapple Legend, solve investigations with amusing and humorous situations. Explore the city of Takitani: investigate, solve puzzles, collect cards, equip accessories, fish, garden, fight in the arena, and increase your affinity!!!
Why similar: Detective 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, Crime 9.7%, Funny 9.3%
Minimalistic puzzle game. Connect the opposite sides of the same color by rotating the tiles. Each level is randomly generated, but guaranteed to be solvable!
Why similar: Abstract 25%, Puzzle 24.1%, Logic 20.9%, Minimalist 13.7%, 2D 8.8%
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: Detective 27%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Puzzle 9.7%, Funny 7.7%
A sliding puzzle game! Your goal is to move all the colored blocks to their designated tiles, by moving everything in the same direction at the same time. Think ahead and plan your moves carefully to solve each level.
Why similar: Abstract 24.5%, Puzzle 23.4%, Logic 22%, Minimalist 11.6%, Casual 7.8%
It's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and there's been a MAGICAL CRIME! Investigate the crime scene, question suspects, and defend the accused through unique cross-examination puzzles in this "Phoenix Wright" inspired mystery comedy.
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 18%, Funny 10.9%, Puzzle 10.5%
Eliminate squares while preventing the numbers from reaching 0. You play on a 4x4 grid. Each time you press a square, the numbers on squares of the same row or column are raised by 1 while the others decrease by 1. When a square reaches 7, it's eliminated. When you eliminate all squares, you win.
Why similar: Abstract 34.5%, Puzzle 21.6%, Minimalist 18%, Logic 14.3%, Casual 11.1%
Minimalistic puzzle game where you build formal logical proofs.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Puzzle 18.3%, Abstract 16.7%, Logic 16.5%, Minimalist 12.2%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Abstract 29.3%, Puzzle 20.7%, Minimalist 12.3%, Logic 11.2%, Casual 9.8%
Live your Capybara Detective dream in Animal Mystery Crew! Crack every quirky case through peculiar problems and absurdist intrigue. Use evidence and interrogation to solve the different mysteries in the park!
Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Funny 12.7%, Surreal 11.6%, Investigation 7.2%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Crime 9.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
