60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Investigation.
The Divine Deception awaits you in Panthea. Will you be able to find the truth? Deduce, brainstorm, fight, and hack your ways through obstacles. But remember: Panthea's story is a game to be bet on. Nothing more.
Judge SIM
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
The Wolf Among Us Remastered
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Investigation 16.3%, Detective 14.8%, Noir 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Detective 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
A seemingly routine case takes detective Redbreast to a secluded village, where she investigates a sudden death while facing her own inner darkness. Uncover hidden details with an old instant camera, question the villagers, and shape the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Assassins 11.9% ★, Detective 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Detective 15.5%, Noir 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Detective 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Noir 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Investigation 13.4%, Detective 11.8%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Noir 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Detective 11.2%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Noir 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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: Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Detective 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Detective 12.3%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 18.1%, Investigation 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 8.1%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 9.8%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Investigation 21.3%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Noir 18.2%, Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Investigation 17.3%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%
'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: Noir 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Investigation 19.1%, Detective 17%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Investigation 13.5%
The greatest detective in São Paolo is dead, and you are the prime suspect in his death. Investigate the detective's past cases, unravel the web of mysteries that binds the great city, and prove your innocence. Enigmatic letters, hidden secrets, and one certainty: Every story has two sides.
Why similar: Noir 28%, Investigation 20.8%, Detective 20.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Logic 7.9%
Snowbound for decades, a Trans-Siberian train holds its passengers exactly as they died. Talk to the frozen dead. Uncover the identity of a legendary thief. Decide how far you're willing to go for the truth.
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Investigation 15.5%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
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: Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Detective 10.4%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Detective 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Investigation 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%
On July 14, 1985, a Calamity will occur in the town of Midline. You, the Operator, have exactly five days to prevent it using the E.D.A.T. terminal. Take emergency calls, save lives on the other side of the screen—or let the inevitable happen.
Why similar: Noir 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Investigation 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Detective 10.4%
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: Investigation 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Investigation 21.1%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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: Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Detective 12.8%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Story Rich 8.3%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Investigation 21.3%, Detective 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Female Protagonist 11.7%
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Detective 13.4%, Investigation 11.7%
As an independent police consultant, you're pulled into the hunt for a serial killer leaving cryptographic ciphers. Play as a detective, analyze crime scenes, and master real decryption methods. Your choices determine if you catch the killer and how many lives are saved.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Investigation 18.7%, Noir 16.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Assassins 12.3% ★
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Investigation 13.9%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Detective 12.1%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Investigation 23.6%, Detective 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Logic 9.4%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Investigation 17.2%, Detective 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
When a famous Human Rights Lawyer dies under mysterious circumstances in her Sevenoaks mansion, Detective Inspector Rosie Morgan and her team of indefatigable investigators are called on the scene to find out who murdered the barrister and why.
Why similar: Noir 16.1%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 10.5%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Noir 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Investigation 17.3%, Detective 15.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Anime courtroom murder mystery, set in the corporate world. Cross-examine executives, collect evidence, and correct misstatements one contradiction at a time.
Why similar: Investigation 24.3%, Detective 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Story Rich 8%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Investigation 9.7%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Investigation 15.1%, Detective 14.4%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Detective 12%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Noir 18.4%, Detective 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13%
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: Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%
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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Investigation 14.9%, Female Protagonist 11.2%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Noir 14.3%, Investigation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Investigation 13.6%, Detective 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Noir 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
This is a game where you work as a spy, looking through sexy surveillance photos to identify Red Hat agents. Get close to your boss, get her to send you lewd selfies, & uncover a sexy spy mystery.
Why similar: Noir 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Investigation 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Text-Based 9.7%
Pravda is a narrative stealth-puzzle about journalism under a totalitarian regime. You play Saga, a state-branded “Liar” working for the Resistance to bring down the Party. Your task is clear: Collect information. Craft the truth. Change the world. But in Abil-Gudit, every truth has a cost.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Detective 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Investigation 19.7%, Detective 17.4%, Noir 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 25.8%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Investigation 12.6%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Detective 19.1%, Investigation 13.5%, Text-Based 9.7%
Embark on a mystical quest that blends Slavic folklore with arcane witchcraft, uncover hidden secrets, and rescue a village lost to the shadows in this magical detective visual novel. Oh, and never forget your cat - he might save you!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 16.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Detective 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 13.7%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Investigation 17.6%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 11%
