
Explore the Peacock House, find the mystic eyes, and unlock the Sanctum Sanctorum in this short narrative experience blending elements of classic text adventures, visual novels, and point-and-click games.
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Explore the Peacock House, find the mystic eyes, and unlock the Sanctum Sanctorum in this short narrative experience blending elements of classic text adventures, visual novels, and point-and-click games.

The Mask of Agnosia
The Mask of Agnosia is a surreal 3D narrative RPG. Navigate and map a shifting network of waterways to recover a boat keeper’s memories. Solve matching puzzles to reveal a fallen kingdom, confront specters of time, and collect sacred masks to rebuild an ancient tower before the light fades.

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一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場!
The Mask of Agnosia is a surreal 3D narrative RPG. Navigate and map a shifting network of waterways to recover a boat keeper’s memories. Solve matching puzzles to reveal a fallen kingdom, confront specters of time, and collect sacred masks to rebuild an ancient tower before the light fades.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 13.8%, Adventure 8.9%, Stylized 6.2%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場!
Why similar: Point & Click 21%, Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Retro 11.9%, Mystery 8.3%
Play as an unnamed man who suspects his wife of something, and dive deep into his memories of the day when he was about to propose to her. Your choices can influence the story. Genre: thriller.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.4%, Surreal 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Story Rich 10.5%, Psychological 6.6%
Timequest is a classic graphical text-based adventure game of breathtaking scope and astonishing depth. Travel to 80 locations to see the effects of your actions unfold over 3 millennia.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.9%, Point & Click 25.9%, Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Retro 12.7%
一通の手紙をきっかけに故郷の地、函館へと戻る主人公。 少年時代を一緒に過ごした幼馴染の女性と故郷を巡り、かつての記憶を少しずつ取り戻していく主人公。 そして旅の終着点で主人公を待っていたものとは…… ストリートビューで函館の街を巡る、新しい形のトラベルコミュニケーションゲームです。
Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Surreal 19.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 7.6%
【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...
Why similar: Text-Based 36.2%, Visual Novel 33.2%, Story Rich 14.1%, Adventure 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Explore the island of Formentera and uncover its stories and ancient legends.
Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Text-Based 28.7%, Retro 15.6%, Adventure 9%, 1990's 7.5%
A short story visual novel-like game with a gently interactive narrative and some puzzling mysteries to unlock. Discover how your father got tarred and feathered. Get lost in the memory with ever-corrupting visuals and an immersive soundscape as you make your way to the emu farm.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Point & Click 17.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Story Rich 10%, Retro 8%
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 24.8%, Text-Based 23.9%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Story Rich 6.5%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.2%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Surreal 14%, Story Rich 8%, Psychological 7.3%
A point-and-click visual novel updating the classic "hero vs. demon king" fantasy into a cynical modern world where you can’t win by force alone. What defines a hero now? Will they be paid, or get any compensation at all?
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Point & Click 26.5%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Story Rich 7.5%, Adventure 5.8%
A visual novel and point-and-click puzzle adventure game with challenging puzzles, a touching story, and multiple endings. In a world that deviates from reality, it's up to you to discover the truth and Ailsa's forgotten memory. Her fate is in your hands!
Why similar: Point & Click 21.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Story Rich 8.8%
Conquering of the Royal Keep is a choice-driven visual novel where a squire braves deadly trials, unravels dark mysteries, and endures each fatal loop until the secrets of the keep are finally conquered.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.2%, Visual Novel 26.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Adventure 8.8%
“你醒啦?快起来,一起迎接新世纪!” 显示屏上闪烁的异常痕迹,突然出现在桌面又突然变异死亡的“小虫子”,主动弹出的错误日志,梦回千禧年的网站,探求千年虫的真相……
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Surreal 14.3%, Point & Click 10.5%, 1990's 9.6%
You, With Me is set mainly in Singapore of an expat couple who had the perfect plan, a perfect getaway for the holidays. However, everything is turned into dust as news come out of the main character's illness. Truly, will pretending that everything is normal give you a sense of normalcy?
Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Point & Click 9.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Emotional 9%
Death on the Nile is an adventure-detective game, offering a fresh twist on Agatha Christie’s famous story. Set in the lively 1970s, play as Hercule Poirot and detective Jane Royce as they solve two connected mysteries. Dive into a journey filled with intrigue, deception, and unexpected revelations.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Point & Click 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Story Rich 8%, Mystery 6.9%
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.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.2%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Adventure 10.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
Frog Telephone (蛙电话 / 蛙電話) is a folklore mystery adventure game rooted in computer science concepts. You play as an amnesiac phone operator at a Tokyo travel agency, reconstructing shattered reality through the spin of a dial, exploring the terrifying truth hidden behind Gero City's mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Point & Click 24.3%, Text-Based 20.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Adventure 8.5%
When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.
Why similar: Text-Based 46.8%, Visual Novel 36.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%, 2D 2.1%
A vacuum cleaner, tied to his daily cleaning routine, passively experiences the events that affect the family that owns it.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.7%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Mystery 14.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, Exploration 7.2%
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 24.3%, Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Stylized 7.8%, Mystery 6.6%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Text-Based 22.5%, Point & Click 14.7%, Mystery 13.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
Next of Kin is an emotional story about Thomas's endeavors to find his lost wife, Martha. Solve puzzles, find clues, and uncover the truth of Martha's disappearance.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Retro 14%, Story Rich 10.4%, Emotional 8.9%
Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 34%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Point & Click 19.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%
After a brief wander, at the end of a corridor, you encounter a girl curled up by a door, you can tell that her style is far from ordinary. Perhaps she knows more than you do… Or maybe she’s the reason you’re here. Will she help you? Or maybe you will help her?
Why similar: Point & Click 28.3%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Text-Based 9.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Mystery 7.2%
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Text-Based 22%, Mystery 15.4%, Funny 4.6%
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: Point & Click 22.2%, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Mystery 11.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
A little robot becomes a pilgrim and crosses a wild post-apocalyptic world to find the meaning of life.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.7%, Retro 14.5%, Stylized 12.5%, 1990's 10.8%, Story Rich 9.5%
鳴神学園初等部六年六組は、選ばれた者たちが集う特殊なクラス。 そこに一人の転校生がやってきた。 何やら曰くがありそうなその転校生に、クラスメイト達は学園にまつわる怪談を語り始める。 そして六年六組は巨大な怪異に飲み込まれていく…
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Mystery 13.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Psychological 7.2%
Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Point & Click 26.4%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Mystery 6.5%, Exploration 6.1%
Your very own apartment, even if it's a 20-year mortgage – what could be better? Maybe the fact that Lena isn’t the only one living in this apartment? Or maybe they're not exactly people...
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Point & Click 30.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Enter a world filled with drunk monsters and their offbeat shenanigans: Birdman's arm got stolen as part of a performance art. Lettuce wants you to eat him. Doctor Scientist rents his body out to a Wound Parasite, and the Talking Lamp is... well, a talking lamp. Wait- WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Point & Click 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Retro 10%, Story Rich 9.1%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Point & Click 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Mystery 17.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Story Rich 12.1%
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.4%, Surreal 18.6%, Mystery 11.3%, Story Rich 10.1%, Stylized 9.3%
「We prove our void――」
Why similar: Visual Novel 41%, Text-Based 24.7%, Mystery 16.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 6.1%
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Point & Click 25.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Exploration 6.1%
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Why similar: Retro 17.6%, Mystery 17.1%, Point & Click 16.7%, Text-Based 14%, 1990's 13%
Rimu has lost her memory and become trapped in a looping phenomenon. Moreover, only a tiny fraction of her memories carry over between loops. Within each five-minute cycle, she must retain only the crucial “memories” while setting the necessary flags. Will Rimu ever regain her memories?
Why similar: Retro 15.9%, Mystery 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 12%, Point & Click 11.8%
魔法の薬とそれにまつわる人々、そして『魔女』が織り成す50の物語。
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Text-Based 26.4%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 10.4%, Retro 7.5%
Snow Cone Serenade is a short and sweet liminal adventure. Choose your mood and roll the dice to succeed or fail in spicy situations. Enter a cursed snow world to save your sick dog, Jedediah. Unravel a mind-bending mystery to face your innermost fears.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Surreal 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.6%, Point & Click 18.8%, Adventure 12%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
A visual short novel about a girl who wakes up in an empty apartment and tries to figure out what happened. In front of her are four boxes filled with different items from her past. Touching them, she recalls pieces of memories, but one of the items is cursed.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Text-Based 23.5%, Story Rich 8%, Stylized 5.7%
A mystery visual novel set in a cursed castle. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the castle's dark past.
Why similar: Point & Click 32.5%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Mystery 9.1%, Retro 8.7%
Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 32%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Surreal 9.8%, Adventure 6.9%, Story Rich 6.5%
《下九泉》是一款国产剧情向解谜游戏。主角孟存真死后魂归地府,成为行走于九泉的实习判官。孟存真从一个因受诅咒而不能入轮回的亡魂展开调查,追寻亡者被诅咒的真相。游戏围绕人性中“贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑”展开5个截然不同的单元故事。不到最后一刻,你永远想不到事件背后令人细思极恐的真相…
Why similar: Surreal 17.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.7%, Mystery 14.7%, Story Rich 11.4%
幽霊のために、何ができるの
Why similar: Text-Based 45.2%, Visual Novel 34.3%, Adventure 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.9%
Flower For A Farewell is a visual novel, Scroller-Adventure, that takes you on a journey with a turtle named Toby, who is going through grief. Meet characters who are dealing with a similar painful experience.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.1%, Point & Click 26.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Adventure 5.1%, Exploration 3.5%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Surreal 14%, Story Rich 8.5%, Emotional 6.3%
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Typing 14.4% ★, Retro 10.7%, Surreal 8.7%
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: Point & Click 22.6%, Text-Based 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Surreal 10.5%, Stylized 9.2%
The Grim Nightmare of Nibras is a story with the search for objects in gloomy locations.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.8%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Adventure 11.6%, Stylized 8.2%, Story Rich 7.2%
A novel in the genre of searching for objects, in which you will plunge into the memories of a lonely astronaut stuck in orbit. Overcome the endless expanses of space, time and memory together with the hero and try to return home.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.1%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Stylized 8%, Exploration 7.5%
"of pawns & kings" is a slightly modernized, visually stunning, point&click adventure in the spirit of Monkey Island, Riven and Labyrinth. (the Jim Henson movie) Solve puzzles, combine items, talk to fascinating characters and advance in the rich story. Can you reveal all the secrets to make a stand
Why similar: Point & Click 33.9%, Mystery 16.2%, Surreal 14.5%, Adventure 10.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
A mystery adventure - uncover the truth behind a series of deaths by collecting clues hidden across internet. news articles, and wikipedias—creating an immersive experience that feels like real. Information is visually organized into a mind map, gradually open as the investigation progresses.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Text-Based 29.4%, Mystery 19.1%, Adventure 13.9%, 2D 2.4%
#!/bin/bash is a typing adventure game using linux terminal commands as controls. Yum some cake, touch some loot and bash those enemies!
Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Text-Based 31.4%, Retro 11.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 7.5%
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.8%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Text-Based 20.7%, Adventure 10.7%, Story Rich 5.4%
A retro point-and-click adventure set in a 1980s high school, where a wisecracking teen investigates a missing friend, dodges bullies, and uncovers a bizarre conspiracy lurking in the halls.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 10.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 7.7%
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Mystery 13.9%, Typing 11.2% ★, Adventure 4.9%
Uncover the secrets of a mysterious cult in The Secret of Hutton Church of England Grammar School: VGA Edition!
Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Retro 20%, Adventure 18.9%, Mystery 18.9%, Indie 2.1%