Games Like The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.

Why similar: FMV 57.5% ★, Detective 20.6%, Mystery 6.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%, Adventure 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural FMV mystery that requires you to interview suspects and use unique abilities to solve a murder.

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

Why similar: FMV 34.9% ★, Lovecraftian 20.4%, Detective 16.6%, Mystery 7.6%, Story Rich 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV mystery game that emphasizes detective work and puzzle-solving within a dark, atmospheric setting.

A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Why similar: FMV 39.5% ★, Detective 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10%, Story Rich 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Doctor Dekker, this game centers on a typing-based search mechanic to uncover the truth through fragmented video clips.

Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

Why similar: FMV 35.6% ★, Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features supernatural FMV storytelling with branching choices that influence the dark, eerie narrative.

Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

Why similar: FMV 41% ★, Detective 22.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This FMV detective game focuses heavily on interrogation and catching suspects in lies, mirroring the investigative feel of the seed game.

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: FMV 25.5% ★, Detective 14.5%, Psychological 7.7%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Horror 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a found-phone interface to conduct an investigation, capturing the same voyeuristic and investigative tension as Doctor Dekker.

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

Why similar: FMV 36.8% ★, Detective 18.6%, Mystery 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%, Drama 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a similar database-searching mechanic to piece together a complex narrative through recorded video footage.

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Dark 16.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Psychological 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological thriller that involves exploring the memories of the deceased, echoing the clinical and surreal nature of the seed game.

Jessika committed suicide, and it’s up to you to find out why she did what she did by prying into her digital past. What at first seems to be a job like any other quickly develops into a dark drama with twists and turns.

Why similar: FMV 39.4% ★, Detective 15.4%, Mystery 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Drama 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV-based investigation game where you search through a digital archive to uncover the truth behind a tragic death.

Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

Why similar: FMV 59.9% ★, Choices Matter 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Story Rich 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic FMV experience where your choices dictate the outcome of a high-stakes crime thriller.

Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.

Why similar: FMV 41.8% ★, Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Multiple Endings 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality FMV interactive thriller that focuses on choice-driven narrative and psychological tension.

Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring a cast from GoT, The Witcher, and more. Every decision counts as you gather clues and question guests. Can you unearth the ominous secrets at The Isle Tide Hotel before it's too late to save your missing daughter?

Why similar: FMV 41.2% ★, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Mystery 9.1%, Choices Matter 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV mystery that relies on branching paths and deep lore, perfect for fans of interactive storytelling.

An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.

Why similar: FMV 40.2% ★, Detective 12.5%, Mystery 8.1%, Drama 6.4%, Multiple Endings 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV mystery that requires you to interview family members to solve a murder, much like the patient sessions in Doctor Dekker.

After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.

Why similar: FMV 30.5% ★, Psychological 12.3%, Dark 7.9%, Psychological Horror 7.8%, Mystery 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological FMV thriller that uses a branching narrative to explore dark themes and personal trauma.

At Dead Of Night is part horror film, part horror game and part ghost hunt. It blends live-action and graphics to create a unique immersive horror experience like no other.

Why similar: FMV 50.3% ★, Horror 14.5%, Mystery 13.6%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Story Rich 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines FMV horror with stealth and investigation, forcing you to interact with ghosts to solve a mystery.

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 55.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Story Rich 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Visual Novel 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that blends Lovecraftian horror with choice-based investigation.

Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.6%, Detective 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 11.9%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic Lovecraftian detective game that captures the dark, investigative atmosphere of the seed game.

Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.3%, Detective 14.5%, Psychological 9.7%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Dark 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure that leans heavily into Lovecraftian themes and detective work.

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: Detective 23.3%, Psychological 18.2%, Dark 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mechanics of interrogation and psychological manipulation to solve crimes.

Search through the interrogation footage of suspects of a bizarre and horrific crime. Decide who committed the crime and see them get arrested and have their day in court. The latest interactive video experience.

Why similar: FMV 29.2% ★, Detective 12.7%, Psychological 8.7%, Mystery 6.4%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV-based detective game that focuses on uncovering secrets through investigation and dialogue.

Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.7%, Mystery 10.3%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medical-themed game that incorporates Lovecraftian horror and difficult choice-based management.

Inner Voices is a dark, non-linear adventure game with a pinch of horror, inspired by works of H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Find your way through a procedurally generated maze of rooms and solve the mystery of your past.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.1%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Dark 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Horror 7%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal psychological horror game that explores the mind, fitting the clinical and dark tone of the seed game.

The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.

Why similar: FMV 52.7% ★, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Horror 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A live-action psychological horror game that focuses on isolation and uncovering dark secrets.

In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 15.6%, Dark 14.4%, Drama 11%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that explores mental instability through an investigative lens.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: FMV 45% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 7.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV-heavy game that requires constant interaction and decision-making to manage a chaotic narrative.

After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.

Why similar: FMV 57.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Adventure 5.1%, Story Rich 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi FMV thriller that emphasizes dialogue-driven choices and character relationships.

Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.

Why similar: FMV 52.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Visual Novel 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An FMV game that focuses on interpersonal interaction and dialogue choices, similar to the patient interviews in Doctor Dekker.

Have you ever wanted to be a psychiatrist? Now you can! Be a shrink for 14 days. Meet 14 patients with unique story of their lives. Diagnosis, treatment, chosen dialogues have impact on history of patients. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Psychological 25.9%, Dark 18.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Story Rich 10.8%, Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the role of a psychiatrist treating patients, focusing on dialogue and psychological assessment.

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Dark 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medical-themed interactive story that focuses on the moral weight of decisions in a high-pressure environment.

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.4%, Detective 18.9%, Dark 10.3%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Drama 7.5%

Guess the rules, divide shapes, solve puzzles. 49 variants with consistent rulessets.

Why similar: Indie 44.8%, Casual 30.1%, Singleplayer 25.1%

Why You'll Like It: A thriller that blends detective work with Lovecraftian elements and psychological horror.

A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.

Why similar: FMV 36.3% ★, Detective 20.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Horror 8%, Multiple Endings 6.3%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.6%, Detective 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Horror 10%

The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.

Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Psychological 17%, Dark 11.4%, Mystery 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

Introductory demonstration version. An interactive movie that combines a psychiatrist simulator, a detective story and unique fight sequences. Take on the role of a psychiatrist, encounter various psychiatric diagnoses, and investigate disappearances of various people.

Why similar: FMV 42.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Horror 7.2%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.5%, Dark 12.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Horror 9.2%

Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.

Why similar: FMV 35.7% ★, Dark 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Mystery 7.6%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Psychological 15.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Mystery 9.3%

This is a suspense reasoning interactive work with real people. You will play the protagonist "Qi Yi", find evidence in a series of murders, piece together the truth, and find the ultimate murderer, all of which will lead you to an unpredictable future.

Why similar: FMV 36.3% ★, Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Mystery 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.

Why similar: Detective 35.3%, Mystery 18.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 7.8%, Story Rich 6.3%

1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.4%, Detective 16.3%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 7.5%, Mystery 6.3%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

Why similar: Detective 32.5%, Mystery 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Story Rich 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Story Rich 15.8%, Simulation 9.6%

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Mystery 17.6%, Dark 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Story Rich 8.7%

A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?

Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Psychological 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dark 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Dark 9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Atmospheric 8%

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: Detective 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Mystery 15.5%, Drama 12%, Visual Novel 10%

Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.

Why similar: Psychological 18.6%, Detective 18.5%, Dark 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 7.5%

She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.

Why similar: FMV 50% ★, Choices Matter 11.1%, Detective 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8%, Story Rich 5.7%

"Mutes" is a live-action mystery game. From a third-person perspective, you will make critical choices, engage in deductive reasoning to communicate for the protagonist, and perform quick-time reactions to survive a murder mystery.

Why similar: FMV 46% ★, Detective 18.6%, Mystery 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 6%, Drama 5.1%

Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths

Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.2%, Detective 14.8%, Dark 12%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Drama 8.6%

Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

Why similar: FMV 58.1% ★, Detective 12.8%, Mystery 10.9%, Story Rich 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.2%

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Story Rich 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Atmospheric 10.4%

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

Why similar: FMV 31.9% ★, Lovecraftian 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Horror 7.3%

Infiltrate, rule and rescue the mind of the father of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, in this surreal and obscure adventure. Take control of his inner voice, choose his destiny, solve clinical cases, save or condemn your patients, all whilst trying to save Freud from himself.

Why similar: Detective 31.4%, Psychological 20.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Drama 12.4%, Story Rich 9.9%

When a murdered family is discovered in 17th Century Salem, at the height of a witch hysteria, people start to suspect something supernatural to blame. An atmospheric murder mystery. Connect the evidence and see if you can deduce the secrets behind the mystery.

Why similar: Detective 23%, Mystery 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Story Rich 7.8%

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 35.4%, Mystery 17.8%, Story Rich 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Story Rich 8.2%

You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark 12%, Simulation 11.5%