- #1 of the Devil
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 2,569 reviews2025
Dev: nth Circle Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Why similar: Transhumanism 23.7% ★, Noir 18.5%, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Detective 12.6%, Dystopian 9%
- #2 Neon Noir
96% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Borzon Studios
Windows
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Why similar: Noir 23.5%, Cyberpunk 18.8%, Detective 14.3%, Dystopian 10.2%, Investigation 8.7%
- #3 Nobody Wants to Die
96% matchVery Positive83% of 7,373 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Transhumanism 23.3% ★, Noir 17%, Cyberpunk 13%, Detective 12.1%, Dystopian 11.2%
- #4 Let Bions Be Bygones
95% matchMixed70% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Detective 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Dystopian 9.3%
- #5 XANTAF3 Bogotá Cyberpunk
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Investigate impossible mysteries in a Latin American cyberpunk Bogotá. Explore atmospheric locations, talk to characters, collect clues, connect evidence, and formulate hypotheses in a narrative detective adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.2%, Detective 22.2%, Dystopian 18%, Noir 10.9%, Point & Click 8.3%
- #6 REPROCESS
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dea Machina
Windows
The suspect claims to be human. The system says otherwise. Interrogate suspects, play evidence cards, expose contradictions, apply emotional pressure, use apparatus data, build case maps, adapt your protocol stack, and decide whether the machine uncovered the truth — or produced a false positive.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.9%, Detective 19.7%, Noir 15.9%, Dystopian 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #7 SOLDA
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullbyte Works
Windows
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Noir 16.7%, Cyberpunk 14.1%, Investigation 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #8 Last Night Last Call
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Detective 15.7%, Investigation 10.3%, Narrative 8.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%
- #9 Gemini Rue
92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,884 reviews2011
Dev: Joshua NuernbergerPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Why similar: Noir 30.9%, Cyberpunk 23.2%, Point & Click 15.2%, Detective 11%, Dystopian 10.3%
- #10 Crosstalk
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Illumina Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Detective 18.8%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Dystopian 10.4%, Investigation 9%
- #11 Synapse
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SB Games
Windows · Mac
A cyberpunk point-and-click thriller where your emotional score determines everything. Explore a city under constant surveillance, hack its systems, build dangerous connections, and make choices that decide your access - and whether you survive the night.
Why similar: Transhumanism 25.7% ★, Cyberpunk 21.3%, Dystopian 15.8%, Point & Click 8.7%, Visual Novel 6.7%
- #12 Precinct 2099
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThinkingLiteSoft
Windows
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 22.8%, Cyberpunk 21.3%, Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #13 DIVINATION
89% matchVery Positive89% of 206 reviews2019
Dev: Mojiken
Windows · Mac
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Transhumanism 20.9% ★, Noir 19.5%, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Dystopian 10.7%, Point & Click 6.9%
- #14 Chinatown Detective Agency
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 159 reviews2022
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Why similar: Noir 19.8%, Detective 15.3%, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Dystopian 10.2%, Investigation 10.1%
- #15 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
87% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.7%, Detective 13%, Investigation 12.3%, Dystopian 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
- #16 The Wolf Among Us Remastered
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Telltale
Windows
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Detective 20.6%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #17 Soulscape: Shadows of The Past (Episode 1)
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Hexonine Games Inc.
Windows
A former agent. A past that won't stay buried. Your choices shape Blake Turner's mood and his mood reshapes the story, the world, and even the music itself. A psychological, choice-driven adventure of betrayal, identity, and redemption.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Cyberpunk 20%, Detective 14.1%, Point & Click 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
- #18 Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wil Alvarez
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this narrative-driven, sci-fi point and click adventure, unravel the secrets of a stolen spaceship and your enigmatic crew. A new future away from corporate tyranny awaits. As captain, your choices matter and forging your crew's connections, even more so. Flying free has a cost. Will you pay it?
Why similar: Transhumanism 27.7% ★, Cyberpunk 15.2%, Dystopian 13%, Narrative 8.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
- #19 Solace State: Emotional Cyberpunk Stories
84% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Vivid Foundry Corp.
Windows
Can you retain your humanity while fighting against a corporate biotech conspiracy? Play as the young hacker Chloe who confronts political plots as she fights for her friends and her neighbors. Your choices in building up relationships and communities can revolutionize into hope or hostility.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.8% ★, Cyberpunk 20.9%, Dystopian 15.2%, Visual Novel 7.6%, Point & Click 7.5%
- #20 Acrônimo Tupiniquim
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cigarras & Cigarros
Windows
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 30.6%, Detective 24%, Investigation 13.9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Visual Novel 6.6%
- #21 Subsurface Circular
84% matchVery Positive94% of 1,940 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Noir 20%, Detective 16.8%, Cyberpunk 12.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8%
- #22 A Study in Blue
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Detective 18.8%, Dystopian 12.5%, Investigation 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #23 Yoko Redux: Dreams of a Blue Planet
82% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Missing Sentinel SoftwarePub: RedTigerPro
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Who is Yoko?" Unlock the mystery as you control Locke, Jeanne and Primus to discover the secrets of their existence in this point and click, cyberpunk noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Cyberpunk 19.7%, Detective 15.6%, Investigation 10.1%, Point & Click 8.6%
- #24 Echoes of Ash
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ash Studio
Windows
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Transhumanism 19.6% ★, Investigation 15.1%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Noir 9.2%
- #25 THE 13th Digit
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uesho Co., Ltd.
Windows
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 22.9%, Cyberpunk 20.6%, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 8.7%
- #26 Enoch
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Pug Games
Windows
A murder investigation. Teenagers vanishing for years. On Enoch Space Station, detectives, suspects, and killers each follow their own path, only to uncover a conspiracy that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. A sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22%, Cyberpunk 19.6%, Detective 14.6%, Dystopian 12.5%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #27 The Heist
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Munzesky Games StudioPub: Gamechuck
Windows
The Heist is a cyberpunk interactive comic with puzzle elements in which you can influence how the story unfolds and finishes. Featuring multiple possible endings, print out your own gameplay of the story and keep it as a hard copy.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.9% ★, Noir 20.5%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Dystopian 11%, Point & Click 7.4%
- #28 The Murder of Ava Monroe
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BUNKWORKS
Windows · Mac
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Noir 20.8%, Investigation 18%, Story Rich 7.7%, Point & Click 6.9%
- #29 Call of the Forgotten
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artfactory Jalokivi
Windows · Mac · Linux
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure featuring a detective noir story set in a cyberpunk world, infused with cosmic horror.
Why similar: Noir 26.6%, Cyberpunk 22.4%, Detective 21.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Investigation 9.7%
- #30 Tails Noir
78% matchMixed67% of 3,467 reviews2021
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Detective 15.4%, Dystopian 12.5%, Investigation 9.6%, Narrative 8.6% ★
- #31 Curvid Nurntine and the Black Vaccine
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JigglyPig Games
Windows · Linux
Curvid Nurntine and the Black Vaccine is a gritty cyber-noir point and click adventure. A degenerate private investigator, a missing girl and a suspiciously mandatory vaccine all coalesce in this unfathomably horrific conspiracy.
Why similar: Noir 24.1%, Cyberpunk 17.7%, Detective 14.9%, Point & Click 11.9%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #32 Graywood: Noir Detective
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bobby & Jeni
Windows
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Detective 20.6%, Investigation 10%, Narrative 9.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #33 SOLEN
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
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: Detective 17.2%, Cyberpunk 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dystopian 11.2%, Investigation 11%
- #34 Lacuna: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 172 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 28%, Detective 19.8%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Investigation 8.3%
- #35 Grégoire Lefèbvre Investigations : The Vow of Hate
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TcherryPub: Viridis Cosmos Games
Windows
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Point & Click 10.7%, Investigation 9%
- #36 Grimm of the Dome
75% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: S.L.
Windows
In this last city of mankind, an isolated paradise in the ocean, your choices and dices will lead it to Utopia or Distopia. You will help the magistrate AI to investigate the AI-worship religious group, illicit drugs, those who were resurrected, and those who are neither android nor mankind…
Why similar: Transhumanism 36.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Dystopian 7.9%, Visual Novel 7.3%
- #37 Black File
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Simurg Software and Games
Windows
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Noir 22.7%, Investigation 14.8%, Point & Click 9.5%, Dialogue Heavy 6.5%
- #38 Tron: Identity
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
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: Detective 23%, Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Investigation 7.5%
- #39 Detective Boto: Belle Memoir
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ludus Studio
Windows
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Noir 29.3%, Detective 25.9%, Investigation 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 6.9%, Mystery 6.4%
- #40 Murder On Space Station 52
73% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Made From StringsPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped on a space station with the Keychain Killer you must unravel this mystery, or it will be your last. Collect evidence, interrogate suspects and solve puzzles to stand a chance.
Why similar: Noir 27.4%, Cyberpunk 20%, Detective 18.8%, Point & Click 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
- #41 Thorns: Police never sleeps
72% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: BRNLG
Windows
Thorns. Police never sleeps is a kinetic visual novel about an alternative future. After global warming, cities were separated by a giant ocean. Our story begins in one of these cities.
Why similar: Transhumanism 29.2% ★, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Dystopian 18.2%, Narrative 10.7% ★, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #42 Dry Drowning
73% matchVery Positive81% of 517 reviews2019
Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Noir 23.6%, Cyberpunk 16.3%, Detective 14%, Investigation 11%, Futuristic 8.9%
- #43 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
72% matchVery Positive92% of 2,943 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Cyberpunk 18%, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.2%
- #44 Mistmoon Falls
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: portmantoga
Windows · Mac
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Detective 20.1%, Investigation 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Point & Click 8.3%
- #45 Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Cyberpunk 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Point & Click 7.7%, Visual Novel 7%
- #46 Neofeud 2
68% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Silver Spook Games
Windows
A cyberpunk sci-fi adventure of epic scope. A galactic empire enriches CEO-Kings, yet leaves Les Misérables hungry. An ex-robo-marine turned dancer, goth alien hacktivist, and billion-year-old mentor struggle to free e-minds, organize resistance, & overturn the cosmic Neofeudal chessboard for good.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.3% ★, Noir 19.6%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Dystopian 12.5%, Point & Click 7%
- #47 Tales of the Neon Sea
70% matchVery Positive85% of 5,073 reviews2019
Dev: YiTi GamesPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.7%, Noir 19.5%, Detective 15.5%, Dystopian 14.6%, Investigation 11.6%
- #48 Nolean: The Space Bartender
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eduard Corral
Windows
In a future where control rules everything, being free is an act of rebellion. Play as Nolean, an intergalactic bartender traveling across the galaxy, serving clandestine drinks, dodging patrols, hacking systems, and defying the Shioncala Empire. Ready to mix, run, and fight?
Why similar: Transhumanism 31.3% ★, Cyberpunk 22.5%, Dystopian 16.9%, Visual Novel 8%, Point & Click 7.9%
- #49 Runway 66
68% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: NEBULA NOVA GAMES
Windows
A weaponless psychological thriller. Become trapped in the dark simulation within Gabriel’s mind after surviving a deadly plane crash. Run, hide, and piece together your memories to wake from this dystopian nightmare before Protocol 66 is activated.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.3% ★, Cyberpunk 19.7%, Detective 18.1%, Dystopian 15.2%, Investigation 11.6%
- #50 Whispers of a Machine
70% matchVery Positive93% of 2,011 reviews2019
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Noir 18.6%, Point & Click 13.9%, Adventure 4.4%
- #51 Song of Farca
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Dystopian 18.2%, Point & Click 9.2%, Visual Novel 7.4%
- #52 Crimepunk Detective
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CyberPsychosPub: GameHunters
Windows
Step into the shoes of an old-school detective in a neon-lit Victorian city, where ornate buildings conceal dark secrets and the depths of human depravity. Connect the dots and unravel the mystery. Is there any truth to the legends of notorious technovampires? Trust no one. Question everything.
Why similar: Noir 26.1%, Cyberpunk 22.3%, Detective 18.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Futuristic 6.9%
- #53 Good Morning Cruel City
69% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Ethel Chamomile
Windows
Anime Cyberpunk Visual Novel You have a job, it's up to you how to finish it. Become a Fixer and help your client for the day navigate the underground crime world.
Why similar: Transhumanism 33% ★, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Detective 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 7.8%
- #54 Synther
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeofuturismPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Synther is an FPP simulation game with adventure-like, detective elements set in a futuristic, open world. The game is innovative and reminiscent of early 3D games and DOS applications.
Why similar: Noir 34.7%, Cyberpunk 31.9%, Detective 24.8%, Story Rich 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #55 Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 105 reviews2014
Dev: Access SoftwarePub: Nightdive Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. As you begin your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community.
Why similar: Noir 29.2%, Detective 25.3%, Cyberpunk 20.5%, Dystopian 10.6%, Adventure 5.3%
- #56 ECHO RAILWAY
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tramdrey
Windows
Step into the role of a tram conductor robot in a future where humanity is preparing to leave Earth. Are you suited for something greater than being scrapped?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.7%, Detective 17.8%, Narrative 13.8% ★, Dystopian 12%, Point & Click 9.8%
- #57 Biocybernetic Trap
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
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 19.9%, Cyberpunk 18.8%, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #58 Accident Investigator Simulator: Black Box
66% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Cottondream Studio
Windows
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: Detective 23%, Noir 22.1%, Investigation 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.7%
- #59 Human or Not
67% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Haguy EisPub: Eis Interactive
Windows
Aliens are infiltrating Earth disguised as humans! It's your job to expose these imposters. Can you tell who is human and who is not? Choose your own path while you keep the Earth safe.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Dystopian 18.4%, Cyberpunk 18.2%, Investigation 12.7%, Point & Click 10.4%
- #60 Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
65% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel Paradise
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25%, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 12%, Point & Click 9%, Visual Novel 7.1%