60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
You're entangled in a royal conspiracy. A deadly game where the pieces can become friends, foes, lovers, and of course… sacrifices.
Isle of Maligree
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Zugzwang
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Romance 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Dark Comedy 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Crime 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Lore-Rich 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Crime 9.9%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 11%, RPG 10.2%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Crime 16.1%, Investigation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Romance 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%
Project Dark is an episodic, narrative-driven audio game that uses binaural sound and "choose your own adventure" style storytelling to immerse players in its varied worlds. Close your eyes, and see.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 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: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Investigation 14.3%, Detective 13.5%, Romance 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Story Rich 7.2%
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: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Crime 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Investigation 11%
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: Detective 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 9.6%
A dark fantasy otome visual novel that follows a writer whose characters come to life. Join Eva as she fights against forces of Darkness, flirts with a fiery man, and wrestles with her inner darkness.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Romance 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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: Detective 17.8%, Dark Comedy 15.4%, Crime 13.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Find the Golden Pineapple and the crimes against the Mayans. In Pineapple Legend, solve investigations with amusing and humorous situations. Explore the city of Takitani: investigate, solve puzzles, collect cards, equip accessories, fish, garden, fight in the arena, and increase your affinity!!!
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 14%, Crime 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Detective 17.6%, Lore-Rich 14%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 9.1%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Crime 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Romance 10.6%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
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: Dark Comedy 22.3%, Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
Spell Candle is your grief coping mechanism in a 2D romance visual novel. Take on the role of a foreign correspondent turned investigator of magical crimes to uncover the culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of a sleeping God.
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Romance 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Investigation 8.6%
"Stella: into the Shadow" is a dark mystical story. When Stella's friend disappears, her life transforms into a detective mystery. Working at a nightclub, forging new connections, and uncovering the city's secrets will force her to reevaluate everything: from those around her to her very self.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 15.9%, Romance 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
Trapped: Forced to Kill is a psychological horror with multiple endings. Ciara Mori awakens in a strange Retreat under a cruel, cunning kidnapper’s control. To survive his deadly games, she must make difficult choices and face the unnerving tension that draws her closer to danger…and him.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 30.2%, Romance 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 9.9%
In our story rich game Gold Of Lotusland you play as Lead Engineer Daniel Quinn as he uncovers the dark truth about the robots he designed as well as the world he lives within. Could the machines be capable of murder? What is Lotusland? You as the player must make the choices to discover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Crime 13%, Investigation 11.3%, Romance 11.1%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23%, Detective 20.7%, Investigation 14.9%, Crime 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A choice-based visual novel where your decisions shape the story. Relive college life, interact with dozens of characters, uncover secrets, and decide who you want to be in your second chance at life.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22%, Detective 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Romance 11%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.2%, Detective 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
In this haunting visual novel, you become Salem - torn between forbidden love and regime loyalty. Make split-second decisions that transform his personality in a solarpunk dystopia. With multiple paths and endings, your choices define who Salem becomes in a world where being different is dangerous.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.9%, Romance 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Romance 10.7%, RPG 9.6%
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.1%, Detective 15.1%, Crime 13.6%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Investigation 15.5%, Crime 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 10%
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 8.9%
A troubling missing persons case soon snowballs into an investigation of a shadowy criminal enterprise and vast conspiracies that even affect your own family. Will you be able to solve the mystery while protecting those dear to you? Will your fledgling romance survive full knowledge of your past?
Why similar: Crime 19.2%, Romance 16.6%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
An EROTIC POINT & CLICK ADVENTURE inspired by the classic detective games of the 90s. Explore, investigate, and form intimate relationships as you uncover the truth behind a town's dark secret.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Romance 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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: Detective 18.3%, Crime 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Romance 11.9%, Investigation 11.8%
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Crime 18.1%, Detective 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, RPG 12.7%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 14.1%, Romance 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Welcome to Bear Ridge Summer Camp! Jenny Lewis is an awkward high school graduate working her first job as a camp counsellor. Help her navigate an exciting summer of making new friends, and finding her first love. But be wary! Not all is as it seems...
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Romance 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Investigation 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Crime 11.8%
Adult-Only Fantasy Murder Mystery Visual Novel filled with dark humor, countless deaths, despair, suspenseful twists, complex relationships, and multiple sex scenes in an exciting story!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.6%, Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Romance 12%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Hand-drawn 12%, Detective 11.8%
A queer horror narrative deckbuilder about the messy lives of teen monsters.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10%, Investigation 9.6%
A point-and-click visual novel. You’re thrust into a mysterious dungeon, where your mission is to traverse it and find love amongst its inhabitants. Explore, survive and interact with characters.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Dark Comedy 17.7%, Investigation 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Embark on a thrilling detective visual novel adventure, accompanied by your quirky assistant, Olivina. Navigate through a bizarre case with unique investigation gameplay, and meet a diverse cast of characters as you unravel the story.
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Romance 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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: Detective 22.5%, Crime 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Investigation 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Investigation 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Fantasy 7.8%
A horror visual novel where you take on the role of a spy delving into the memories of others to find dirt on a sinister biocorporation. Not for children or the easily disturbed.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 13.4%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Investigation 14.3%, Detective 14%, Crime 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
《春泥》是一款刑侦题材的悬疑解谜推理游戏。2018年中秋前夕，刑警程佑接到报案，动身前往泥塑匠林家处理一起家庭伤人案。随着调查深入，案件的疑点层层浮现，将她引向一连串尘封已久的谜团。往事的土壤正在松动，深埋的真相即将揭开......
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Crime 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Investigation 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 12%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Romance 14.4%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
A drama/comedy visual novel about how holding a relationship together and surviving a deadly blizzard may not be all that different.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Romance 8.3%
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: Dark Comedy 23%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Romance 11.4%
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Romance 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
