60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Detective, Adventure, Story Rich.
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
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...
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A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 17.3%, Investigation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Investigation 9.6%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 12.6%, Text-Based 11.9%
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Espionage 27.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Detective 10.1%, Investigation 7.8%
Noir gamebook. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Noir 10.5%, Investigation 10.1%
「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 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Adventure 10.8%
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 29.3% ★, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Investigation 12.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Mystery 12%
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: Detective 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Investigation 16%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 10.1%
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 28.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Mystery 10.5%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Mystery 15.5%, Text-Based 14.4%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 18.8%, Espionage 18.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Mystery 12%
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 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Detective 20.4%, Investigation 8.3%, Text-Based 8.2%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Mystery 10%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Why similar: Detective 23.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Investigation 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Adventure 9.4%
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 21.3%, Investigation 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 9.7%
To save your life, an underground resistance group fused you with a hostile entity. Now as 'partners', you need to work as investigators to pay off your debt… and find out what truly happened to you.
Why similar: Espionage 26.9% ★, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Investigation 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.2%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Detective 12.8%, Adventure 12.5%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Investigation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 10.2%
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: Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Investigation 10.8%, Text-Based 10.4%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Detective 14.5%, Noir 12.6%, Mystery 10%
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Investigation 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Mystery 11.8%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 22%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Noir 12.7%, Visual Novel 10%
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Investigation 9.3%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Investigation 20.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Mystery 10%, Text-Based 9.3%
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: Detective 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Noir 10.7%
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: Detective 25.7%, Investigation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Mystery 9.7%
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Mystery 11%
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Detective 12.1%, Noir 10.8%, Investigation 8.7%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Detective 15.6%, Investigation 11.7%, Noir 10.8%
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 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Espionage 47.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Adventure 6.7%
A murder-mystery visual novel about a young man who inherits a charming English hotel. Some would say he’s fortunate, but with a growing list of unexplained disasters and murder, has his luck finally run out?
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Mystery 11%
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 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Investigation 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Adventure 8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Noir 10.3%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Espionage 30% ★, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Noir 8.1%
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 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Investigation 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%
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: Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Investigation 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 8.9%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Detective 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Investigation 8%
Mysterious Mystery is a fully voiced mystery visual novel centered around the detective duo, Justin and Dakota. Solve multiple cases using Dakota's evidence gathering abilities and Justin's expert interrogation. Discover outlandish cases, meet unique characters, and become world class detectives.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Investigation 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 17.2%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.4%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Investigation 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Adventure 13.4%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Investigation 10.8%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Investigation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Noir 10.7%
Search Detective Patetaro is a free mystery adventure set in a shopping street in 2050. Trace patents, designs, and trademarks with young detective Patetaro, compare testimony and clues, and eliminate impossible answers one by one. All 5 episodes free. Your search query becomes your deduction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Detective 16.7%, Adventure 14.3%, Investigation 11.3%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Detective 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Adventure 8.8%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Noir 10.2%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 30.5%, Investigation 22.5%, Mystery 11.4%, Noir 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.4%
Think fast and lie faster! When you go undercover to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon, can you pull off the mission and escape with your life?
Why similar: Espionage 50.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Text-Based 9.3%, Adventure 6.7%
