60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction.
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Beware of the Cartographer!
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Death off the Cuff
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.
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
Why similar: Investigation 15.6%, Historical 13.4%, Conversation 11.3%, Detective 10.4%, Hand-drawn 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 14.1%, Conversation 13.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Detective 11.3%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Historical 14.5%, Conversation 13.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Detective 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Historical 18.2%, Investigation 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Detective 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Historical 12.9%, Narration 11.3%, Detective 11.1%, Conversation 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Investigation 17.5%, Conversation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Historical 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
In this narrative game, you play as Paula Cole, a food safety officer for a multinational corporation, who gradually takes on the role of whistleblower. The whole scenario is based on a journalistic work, coordinated with the online newspaper Mediapart.
Why similar: Conversation 19%, Narration 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 11.9%, Text-Based 9.3%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Historical 13.8%, Conversation 9.7%, Text-Based 9%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 15.3%, Conversation 12.6%, Narration 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Text-Based 10.4%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Conversation 11.5%, Investigation 10.4%, Narration 10.3%, Text-Based 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 16.6%, Conversation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Historical 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Narration 12.5%, Investigation 10.2%
After yet another night of brooding over his wife's murder, Detective Edgar receives a mysterious letter. A music star asks to investigate her own murder. Interrogate the suspects, search for clues and find out what happened. Will you be able to unravel the truth from the lies?
Why similar: Narration 22.2%, Conversation 20.1%, Investigation 17.9%, Detective 16.1%, Story Rich 7.1%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Conversation 15.4%, Investigation 14.9%, Narration 13.9%, Detective 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Investigation 12.7%, Conversation 12.1%, Detective 10.3%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Detective 16.5%, Narration 12.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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: Investigation 15.4%, Narration 14%, Detective 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.1%, Conversation 11.4%, Text-Based 9.3%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Conversation 15.6%, Historical 14.4%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Hand-drawn 10%
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Why similar: Conversation 16.8%, Historical 14%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Detective 9.4%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Historical 18.5%, Narration 15.2%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 20.9%, Detective 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Narration 7.9%
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Historical 19%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Character Customization 11.5%
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Why similar: Investigation 16%, Historical 15.1%, Conversation 13.1%, Detective 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
An oriental narrative mystery. The story branches upon your choices. The dice lies.
Why similar: Historical 17.3%, Detective 13.9%, Conversation 12.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 15.5%, Narration 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 10.2%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Historical 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Conversation 13.9%, Narration 11.7%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Conversation 18.4%, Investigation 16.6%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Investigation 11.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, Detective 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 16.7%, Conversation 16.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
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: Conversation 12.9%, Investigation 12.5%, Detective 11.5%, Narration 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Historical 15.9%, Conversation 15.7%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Conversation 15.6%, Investigation 15.1%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Story Rich 9.2%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Historical 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Exploration 8.2%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Investigation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Detective 13.2%, Hand-drawn 13%, Text-Based 10.1%
Follow the story of Blanca Silverurn—a strix entangled in a murder mystery. Explore the Grimstrand campus and learn about its unique magic. Delve into the secrets of students and faculty members. Affect their relationships, including a spicy romance between Blanca and her enigmatic mentor.
Why similar: Investigation 20.3%, Conversation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Narration 9.3%, Detective 8.4%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Conversation 19%, Narration 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Text-Based 10.2%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Investigation 14.3%, Conversation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Narration 11.4%
1799. Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre in this historical murder mystery based on the novel by Catherine Lheureux. A classic Point & Click adventure featuring an all-star French voice cast (Martial Le Minoux, Patrick Borg…) with english subtitles.
Why similar: Narration 19.7%, Investigation 19.6%, Historical 15.9%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Narration 15.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Detective 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Arthur thinks he’s a smart guy. He isn’t. Help him solve puzzles, investigate the town, and uncover the mystery of his friends disappearance in this quirky adventure game inspired by classic cartoons.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 14.8%, Conversation 14%, Narration 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
You play as pharaoh Horem during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. You have to balance your work and home life as the living embodiment of a god, how hard could it be? What is right and wrong? Can there be an allowance for a lapse in judgment? Can you forge a path to getting to sleep peacefully each night?
Why similar: Historical 26.7%, Investigation 23.5%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%
A puzzle game where you are the newest recruit to a government agency dedicated to stopping cyber crimes. You must prove yourself and level up in the system by solving puzzles, at the same time there is a mystery to uncover at the agency. Who can you trust?
Why similar: Investigation 27.6%, Detective 18.7%, Text-Based 17.2%, Conversation 15.1%, Narration 12.4%
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Why similar: Narration 17.9%, Conversation 17.1%, Investigation 14.8%, Detective 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
Every story ever written has an alternate world that coexists with ours. When a large number of parallel universes are suddenly destroyed, Billie Beetleneck sets off on his hardest case yet in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Investigation 20.4%, Narration 16.6%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 12.4%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Narration 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Conversation 8%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Historical 20.3%, Investigation 19.2%, Detective 15.9%, Conversation 11.2%, Narration 9.1%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Narration 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.5%, Conversation 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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: Investigation 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Historical 21.1%, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Narration 9.1%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Historical 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 6.1%
Brás Cubas is dead, and he wants you to find out why. Explore a noir-drenched 1937 Rio de Janeiro in this time-loop murder mystery. Relive the same day, manipulate characters, and uncover secrets in a game where death is the client and time is your only weapon.
Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Historical 15.5%, Conversation 14.8%, Detective 13.6%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
Forces beyond human comprehension draw a macabre veil over the icy NY of 1927. A child has disappeared and you, a reporter with an unhappy past as an artist, become entangled in the drama. In this story, inspired by true events, you will investigate between reality, dreams and Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Conversation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
Have you ever wanted to make choices that matter and you like cyberpunk? Delete the memories of humans in "Nice to NO you" - a dystopian dialogue game where you decide the fate of individuals and the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Conversation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Narration 15.3%
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: Investigation 15.9%, Historical 15.3%, Narration 13.1%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
A detective visual novel set in Victorian London. Play as a veteran detective and his young daughter, investigate scenes through point-and-click gameplay, question suspects, and make tough choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Historical 27%, Detective 18.3%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Investigation 11.1%, Mystery 7.6%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Conversation 15.4%, Investigation 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Narration 11.5%, Text-Based 9.7%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Conversation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Narration 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%
