Games Like The Monster Inside

Follow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?

Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Crime 15.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Music 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar text-driven detective mystery experience filled with visual novel elements.

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

Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a tense thriller investigation with immersive horror themes and interactive storytelling.

A moody tale that combines the intrigue and atmosphere of a Raymond Chandler novel or Humphrey Bogart film with classic point-and-click adventure gameplay, Face Noir follows private eye Jack Del Nero as he’s falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his protection.

Why similar: Noir 49%, Point & Click 27.2%, Detective 18.5%, Mystery 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same gritty film noir detective aesthetic and classic point-and-click investigation mechanics.

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.8%, Psychological 17%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 15%, Mystery 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric point-and-click mystery that delivers an unnerving and eerie narrative punch.

A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot. Embark on the frightening adventure of a young priest entangled in a forbidden affair with a beautiful lady who meets a gruesome end. Lust, wrath, murder, despair.

Why similar: Noir 28.5%, Detective 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Visual Novel 11%, Mystery 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends a dark noir atmosphere with psychological horror and mystery investigations.

A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.

Why similar: Crime 21.4%, Detective 21.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Point & Click 10.5%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a dark, crime-focused narrative where players must investigate and manage the consequences of a murder.

A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

Why similar: Psychological 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Point & Click 13.1%, Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An emotionally heavy visual novel heavily rooted in psychological horror and dramatic storytelling.

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 24.8%, Crime 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Mystery 11.4%, Text-Based 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery visual novel centered around solving a deadly crime within a confined location.

A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Linear 12.3%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel that deals with deeply disturbing personal secrets and dark themes.

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 12.5%, Point & Click 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Mystery 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines digital investigation mechanics with a dark psychological horror story.

Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.

Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 12.5%, Text-Based 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel focused on dark narratives and unsettling discoveries.

The Missing Parts of Maria Gwozdek is a dark fantasy visual novel about fulfilling your aspirations by sacrificing parts of yourself. Literally.

Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich visual novel exploring dark psychological themes and haunting mysteries.

Detective Bloodphobia is a black-and-white noir visual novel with point-and-click investigations and deduction gameplay.

Why similar: Crime 23.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Noir 12%, Detective 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A linear visual novel that combines crime investigation with logical puzzle elements.

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Text-Based 22.7%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 14.8%, Dark 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that leans heavily into unsettling psychological horror and casual investigation.

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

Why similar: Casual 73.5%, Singleplayer 26.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a gritty detective investigation intertwined with deep psychological horror elements.

In 1921: a kidnapping, a revolution... Investigate and uncover the truth behind a dark, mysterious story.

Why similar: Detective 30.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Noir 12.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Story Rich 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric detective mystery that relies on careful observation and puzzle-solving.

Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.6%, Mystery 18.7%, Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy visual novel featuring a compelling mystery and dark undertones.

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: Detective 18.1%, Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Text-Based 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark visual novel deeply immersed in psychological horror and bleak atmospheric storytelling.

The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.7%, Psychological 22.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Story Rich 11%, Horror 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative point-and-click adventure centered around uncovering a dark, twisting mystery.

There is a monster living in your apartment.

Why similar: Noir 27.2%, Point & Click 15.1%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative point-and-click visual novel blending unusual character interactions with dark undertones.

Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.

Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Crime 18.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Point & Click 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty detective mystery set against a gloomy backdrop with horror elements.

Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.8%, Dark 24.9%, Casual 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: A moody, psychological horror puzzle experience focused on confinement and mystery.

Hearing Voices is a unique indie short horror experience where you will need to put your listening and deduction skills to the test to solve puzzles. Mistakes have consequences.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Horror 11.5%, Dark 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric investigative adventure steeped in psychological horror.

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Story Rich 30%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Mystery 16.9%, Point & Click 16.9%, Casual 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative exploration game centered around uncovering the truth behind a tragic past event.

A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Dark Fantasy 17%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12%, Dark 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A story-driven visual novel featuring dark fantasy elements and tense, branching narratives.

The Demon Within Me is a first-person psychological horror game featuring a dark, lonely, and atmospheric environment that offers an immersive and disturbing experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.4%, Horror 20.5%, Dark 15.3%, Linear 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural psychological horror game dealing with internal demons and dark discoveries.

A pixel art psychological horror game with a point-and-click system that takes the style of an interactive desktop environment.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.5%, Point & Click 29.1%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 19%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click horror visual novel featuring grim themes and unsettling discoveries.

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Dark 13.4%, Psychological 12.8%, Mystery 12%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, story-rich visual novel featuring intense emotional and moral choices.

A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Mystery 12.1%, Noir 11.3%, Linear 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized visual novel focused on text-based mystery and investigation.

Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Mystery 12.3%, Text-Based 9.6%

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological 15.8%, Horror 10.6%

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: Detective 34.1%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 15.8%, Dark 12.8%, Story Rich 11.4%

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: Visual Novel 17.7%, Detective 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Mystery 10.9%

A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Psychological 28.7%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Atmospheric 12%

Psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director based on dynamic scenario. The Dark Inside Me, is a very unique psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director Akçay Karaazmak, based on dynamic interactive scenario.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.3%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological 15.5%, Dark 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure that explores the darkest depths of human morality and crime.

Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.

Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Point & Click 16%, Horror 8.8%, Story Rich 8.3%

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 24.5%, Crime 19.7%, Point & Click 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 11%

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Crime 21.6%, Point & Click 12.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Why similar: Point & Click 21%, Psychological 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Dark 10.4%, Horror 10.2%

The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.4%, Psychological Horror 23%, Dark 15.9%, Horror 12.4%, Story Rich 10.6%

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.

Why similar: Noir 28.8%, Detective 22.5%, Crime 18.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Dark 7.1%

Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.

Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Point & Click 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 11.1%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.5%, Dark 21.2%, Story Rich 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Casual 5.9%

One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac. Who will be the victim and who will be the killer? Be attentive and courageous, and solve the riddles of One Eleven.

Why similar: Noir 25.3%, Detective 17.4%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 11.1%

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

Why similar: Noir 25.2%, Detective 23.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%

Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Point & Click 17.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Mystery 11.7%

Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Linear 15.1%, Psychological 14.2%, Story Rich 10.4%

Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Detective 19.3%, Point & Click 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Horror 9.8%

Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.

Why similar: Psychological 23.9%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 16.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Story Rich 11.1%

Psychological horror and mystery game about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city and investigate murders while trying to escape Death. This is a visual novel and point and click game.

Why similar: Detective 24%, Point & Click 15.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Mystery 11.1%

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Why similar: Noir 33.7%, Detective 24.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Mystery 9.8%, Dark 8.1%

Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.

Why similar: Detective 28%, Crime 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Mystery 10.3%

A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

Why similar: Noir 34%, Point & Click 20.7%, Mystery 12.4%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 9.3%

Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.

Why similar: Crime 24.2%, Point & Click 23.3%, Horror 16.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Story Rich 9.2%

Dark Memories is an episodic psychological horror game based on road thriller, slasher, and survival thriller genres. You are currently viewing the prologue episode of the Dark Memories anthology.

Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Crime 24%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Horror 11.5%

Deep Night Detective, the monochromatic mystery metroidvania! Created by Wilson Taylor with music by Lewmoth!

Why similar: Noir 43.5%, Point & Click 17%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Mystery 13%, Horror 9.8%

A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Noir 22.1%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Mystery 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Noir 20.5%, Detective 20.5%, Crime 14.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Mystery 9.5%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Horror 13.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dark 10.1%

Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.

Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Point & Click 12.1%, Psychological Horror 12%, Mystery 10.1%