60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Investigation, Detective.
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 Trick: Double Blind
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.
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 15.9%, Historical 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Detective 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
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%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Investigation 11.1%, Detective 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Investigation 11.9%, Historical 11.8%, Detective 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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%, Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Detective 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
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 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Historical 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
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%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Historical 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Detective 12.4%
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: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Historical 13.5%, Detective 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 23%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Text-Based 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Story Rich 8.3%
A gripping point-and-click adventure – inspired by the real treasure hunt on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Unravel a web of murder, myth, and forgotten history. Some secrets are better left buried.
Why similar: Investigation 20.1%, Detective 13.2%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Mystery 7.3%
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Historical 22.7%, Investigation 15.9%, Detective 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 11.6%, Text-Based 11.3%
Snowbound for decades, a Trans-Siberian train holds its passengers exactly as they died. Talk to the frozen dead. Uncover the identity of a legendary thief. Decide how far you're willing to go for the truth.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Investigation 14.2%, Detective 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Investigation 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Detective 10.3%
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 15.1%, Historical 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Detective 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Detective 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 10.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Historical 14%, Investigation 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Detective 9.4%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 11%, Detective 11%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 14.7%, Detective 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Text-Based 10.4%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 9.9%, Text-Based 9.2%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Investigation 15.7%, Detective 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
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 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Detective 11.1%, Text-Based 10.9%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Historical 17.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Text-Based 9%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Text-Based 9.1%
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: Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Investigation 15.3%, Detective 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%
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 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Historical 15.3%, Detective 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Investigation 11.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Detective 9.7%
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 24.8%, Detective 16.7%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Investigation 10%, Point & Click 7.1%
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.
Why similar: Historical 18.4%, Detective 13.8%, Investigation 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Text-Based 10.2%
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 19.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Character Customization 11.4%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Investigation 16.9%, Detective 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Adventure 8.5%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Investigation 17%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 10.8%
The Mona Lisa is missing! Sleuth through a sprawling space museum, read the past through psychic abilities and unravel an interstellar art caper in this cosy, gas‑lamp mystery.
Why similar: Historical 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 11.9%, Investigation 8.9%
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 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
A genealogy deduction game set in Republican-era China. Play as a lawyer, search newspapers, case files, letters, and old photos, and follow clues to identify people and uncover family ties. Reconstruct the Chen family tree and uncover the secrets behind your commission.
Why similar: Investigation 25.5%, Detective 22.7%, Historical 12.9%, Text-Based 11.6%, Story Rich 7.6%
A classic point-and-click adventure game full of puzzles and humor!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Detective 13.5%, Pirates 12.8% ★, Hand-drawn 8.5%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Historical 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Investigation 12.6%
Your statement is already on record. Search messages, social media, and your calendar for evidence. Defend your story, explain contradictions, or shift the blame. What you submit will change the investigation and the story.
Why similar: Investigation 22.6%, Detective 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13.5%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Investigation 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Detective 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Historical 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Exploration 8.2%
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Why similar: Historical 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Investigation 15.8%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
Why similar: Historical 17%, Investigation 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Detective 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Detective 18.4%, Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Story Rich 8%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Tang-dynasty mystery visual novel from NSTUDIO. You play the adopted son of general Duan Xiushi (fictional), pulled off a simple errand into a death trap that decides an empire's fate. Observe, reason, choose — break the plot, get out alive, earn your own ending.
Why similar: Historical 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Detective 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
Can you solve a murder with only your wits, cocktail shaker, and silver tongue? Last Night Last Call is a narrative detective game where you mix cocktails, interrogate suspects, gather clues, and shape relationships to solve five murders. Every customer has something to hide.
Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Historical 13.1%, Text-Based 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 26.4%, Story Rich 12%, Mystery 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%
The classic award winning adventure returns in glorious 4K with fully remastered audio. Step into the shoes of intrepid tourist George Stobbart and sharp-witted journalist Nico Collard as they unravel a deadly Mayan conspiracy steeped in ancient artifacts and dark magic.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Historical 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Detective 11.4%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Investigation 21.9%, Detective 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
London, 1889. Step into the shoes of a young detective in this hand-drawn, point-and-click mystery. Explore the dark halls of Seraphim House, illuminate the shadows, and interrogate suspects to solve a complex locked-room murder. Will you accuse the right person?
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Historical 14.7%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Detective 11.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Investigation 15.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Investigate a murder at Grimwick’s harvest festival in this hand-drawn point-and-click mystery. Question suspicious locals, collect clues, use items, and uncover the truth behind a town that insists there was no murder.
Why similar: Investigation 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Detective 15.6%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Mystery 7.1%
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: Historical 18.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Detective 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
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 20.2%, Detective 17.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Story Rich 8.1%
