60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Detective.
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.
Vulnerable
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.
Reflections in Amber
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
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: Political 15.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Detective 11.5%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Assassins 11.7% ★, Detective 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%
"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 18.4%, Detective 15.5%, Noir 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Why similar: Political 26.5% ★, Noir 18.6%, Detective 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Visual Novel 8.1%
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 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Detective 11.2%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Political 25.5% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Detective 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Uncover Sabotage, Conspiracy and Counter-Revolution in this cyberpunk detective mystery. Using a mind-probing interface, you explore and act within memories, collect facts, meet agents of change and enormous corporations. Build your case against a person torn between idealism and turmoil.
Why similar: Political 23.5% ★, Investigation 18.2%, Noir 14.5%, Detective 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 9.9%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Investigation 15.8%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Detective 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%
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: Noir 14.9%, Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Investigation 11.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Political 32.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Text-Based 11.1%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Political 13.2% ★, Detective 12.4%
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 19.5%, Investigation 19.2%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Investigation 17.5%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 21.1%, Detective 20.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Logic 7.9%
'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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Detective 10.4%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Investigation 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
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 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Detective 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Midline ‘85 is an interactive thriller about the tough work of an emergency service operator. Face panic, horror and human cruelty, break rules and observe the consequences. Save Midline — or let the city burn.
Why similar: Noir 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Detective 10.4%
A Street Story is an interactive story in which you play a gangster in the suburbs from Paris, France. Discover a troubled world mixing gangsters, cops and terrorists. Choose your own path among those shady characters and try to survive!
Why similar: Political 20.8% ★, Assassins 14.2% ★, Noir 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
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 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Investigation 21.3%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 8.2%
DOPROS is a narrative-driven Orwell-inspired interrogation experience. Will you break and give it all away, or will you try to get free? It's only up to you, but keep in mind, your every word may and will be used against you…
Why similar: Political 28.1% ★, Noir 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Investigation 9.8%
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 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Detective 12.4%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
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 21.6%, Detective 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
Welcome to Forward Green, Dave, we hope you're excited. Project Lagoon Breeze is a great opportunity to make connections, oversee construction, and manage community relations on an international scale. This role requires resilience, but we know you're up for it. Are you ready to make a difference?
Why similar: Political 39.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Capitalism 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Investigation 14%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Detective 12.1%
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 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Noir 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 7.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Investigation 17.5%, Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
A courtroom-inspired visual novel set in the boardroom. Interrogate executives, uncover financial cover-ups, and audit your way to the truth alongside a team of investigators.
Why similar: Investigation 24.5%, Detective 21.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
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 18.8%, Noir 18.3%, Detective 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%
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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Detective 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%
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 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Text-Based 9.8%
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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Investigation 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11%
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: Political 21.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 14.3%, Text-Based 10.4%
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 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13.1%, Detective 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
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 25.7%, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Investigation 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
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 19.9%, Detective 17.3%, Noir 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 16.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A short psychological horror game where you continually choose whether to keep spinning the slot machine or quit. The controls are simple, but each spin changes the visuals and feel, with your choices branching the experience and ending.
Why similar: Gambling 59.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%, 2D 2%
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Why similar: Political 30.2% ★, Noir 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Political Sim 9.7% ★
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 22.2%, Investigation 17.8%, Detective 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Detective 15.6%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
Why similar: Noir 16.2%, Investigation 15.5%, Detective 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
Set in a student-run academy, Shirou Asami of the newspaper club infiltrates the student council election. Gather information, conduct interviews, and publish articles to influence the outcome. A stylish school politics adventure in beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Political 28.7% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Investigation 12.7%, Political Sim 12.1% ★
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: Noir 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%
A political sim RPG space opera with 4X elements, inspired by Suzerain and Stellaris. Become the first president of a fallen empire, choose any ideology, and expand into the stars. Your decisions shape the nation and the galaxy. Follow any ideology, be the leader you want in Pax Astra!
Why similar: Political 34.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Political Sim 10.1% ★
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Investigation 18.4%, Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Noir 16.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Investigation 11.7%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Detective 16%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Investigation 10.3%
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: Noir 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Investigation 11.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Detective 10.6%
A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Political 25% ★, Noir 17.2%, Detective 15.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%
Floor 13: Deep State is a dynamically generated dystopian thriller, inspired by the 90’s classic Floor 13 and created by its original team. In a free society, citizens make their own decisions, can challenge authority, and are able to speak their truth. Your job is to put a stop to that.
Why similar: Political 48.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Detective 19.7%, Story Rich 6.1%, Choices Matter 3.8%
