60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Noir, Visual Novel, Crime, Adventure.
Unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Druhyus' favorite celebrity playboy, Walker Kahmenos. Join investigative journalist Verity Lux, in this interactive fiction title and follow leads, conduct interviews, and submit your findings as you seek out the truth - before it's too late.
Omertà: Mafia Novel
Noir visual novel set in 1950s New York. Infiltrate a prison, build a smuggling network, and shape fates through tough choices across branching paths.
Red Spider: Vengeance Remastered donation ver.
A cinematic crime noir. A former assassin seeks vengeance in this hardboiled VN, scored by Yasunori Shiono (Lufia series). (Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Noir visual novel set in 1950s New York. Infiltrate a prison, build a smuggling network, and shape fates through tough choices across branching paths.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Cinematic 13.7%, Conspiracy 13.4% ★, Visual Novel 12%, Crime 10.4%
A cinematic crime noir. A former assassin seeks vengeance in this hardboiled VN, scored by Yasunori Shiono (Lufia series). (Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Crime 20.6%, Noir 18.8%, Conspiracy 15.5% ★, Cinematic 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%
N1NE: The Splintered Mind is a Cyberpunk narrative-driven game, designed for VR. In the year 2099 you play a resourceful detective as you explore, interact, investigate and interrogate your way to the bottom of a suspicious murder that will take you through the real world as well as Nu.Real.
Why similar: Noir 16.3%, Crime 16%, Conspiracy 14.2% ★, Cyberpunk 10.8%, Detective 9.7%
A cinematic Hong Kong Noir visual novel. In 2007, an assassin defies orders to kill her savior and becomes a fugitive. Explore her fate through 1,000+ visual cuts and 6 branching routes.(Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Crime 22.3%, Noir 20.2%, Conspiracy 13.5% ★, Cinematic 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Alternate History 12.5%, Crime 12.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
Why similar: Crime 19.4%, Noir 17.5%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
*A remastered version of this game with enhanced graphics has been released. * "Red Spider" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 105,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Crime 20.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Cinematic 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
Elara is a dark, narrative-driven visual novel where players investigate a corporate death, navigate manipulation and power dynamics, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.8% ★, Noir 15.1%, Cinematic 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
"Red Spider2" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 200,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 20.7%, Crime 19.1%, Conspiracy 13% ★, Cinematic 13%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Crime 22.9%, Noir 21.3%, Detective 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Cyberpunk 11.7%
Murdered sisters, mind altering drugs and flying cities, to a case that goes way further than the banks of this one detective's little neighbourhood in this Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure set in a post-post-apocalyptical future.
Why similar: Crime 20%, Noir 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Cyberpunk 10.5%, Detective 9.4%
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Detective 10.5%
Red Spider 3: A Heroine Never Dies is a Kong Noir style Visual Novel.ボイス総収録時間12.9時間！同人ゲームオブ・ザ・イヤーにて【主演女優部門】【熱部門】【泣き部門】【作曲部門】の4部門にノミネート！
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Crime 22.6%, Cinematic 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Crime 19.9%, Noir 18.3%, Conspiracy 16.7% ★, Detective 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Crime 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Cinematic 12.6%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Crime 25.7%, Noir 23.4%, Detective 14.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Crime 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Dystopian 12.6%
The latest in the “Red Spider” series of Hong Kong noir visual novel with full japanese voice acting, “Red Spider Anecdote: The Longest Nite” is now available with all-new graphics. The hard-boiled story of two female protagonists is set in Thailand in 2009. Play time: 2-4 hours
Why similar: Crime 23.3%, Noir 20.7%, Conspiracy 16% ★, Cinematic 12.8%, Visual Novel 10%
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 20%, Crime 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
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: Noir 19.9%, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Conspiracy 19.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Detective 14.1%, Cyberpunk 13.6%
A murder investigation. Teenagers vanishing for years. On Enoch Space Station, detectives, suspects, and killers each follow their own path, only to uncover a conspiracy that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. A sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Noir 18.2%, Crime 14.7%, Cyberpunk 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Detective 10.1%
Play as Lloyd Arch, the young private detective known for being total dick, and unravel the mystery of the Black Scar Serial Killer in this visual novel adventure, but remember that the truth tends to hurt the most.
Why similar: Crime 23.9%, Noir 16.1%, Conspiracy 14.5% ★, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Crime 18.8%, Cinematic 11.9%, Detective 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
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: Noir 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%
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: Dark Humor 15.8%, Noir 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%
A dead Santa Claus right before Christmas is never a good sign. Interrogate the North Pole suspects to solve the murder and figure out how to save the festive season in this short dark comedy visual novel whodunnit.
Why similar: Crime 20.1%, Conspiracy 16.3% ★, Dark Humor 15.4%, Detective 11%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Become a bounty hunter in a cyberpunk city of the future. Explore neon streets, talk to people, hack into corporations. Use all your skills to survive and become a hero.
Why similar: Crime 19.7%, Cyberpunk 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Detective 10.2%
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: Noir 21.2%, Crime 14.2%, Cyberpunk 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
The Copperfield Department is a text-based puzzle game where players take over the role of a social media detective. As tasked by Big Business Inc., a company controlling the country, your job is to hunt for social media accounts that could prove harmful to their image.
Why similar: Noir 16.9%, Crime 15.9%, Conspiracy 13.7% ★, Alternate History 12.9%, Dark Humor 12%
You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Alternate History 13.2%, Conspiracy 12.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
A cinematic sci-fi horror visual novel, with multiple endings and a shocking mature story where your decisions will impact your psichology and the events of the story.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Cinematic 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%
A short visual novel about an endless shift at a garment factory. Wonder what gets you liquidated faster: corruption, naivety, or immorality? Industrial melancholy, where nothing goes unpunished.
Why similar: Cinematic 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Dystopian 12.8%, Noir 11.5%, Dark 8.7%
Investigate the grisly murder of Philip Cartel in this dazzling sci-fi post-apocalyptic visual novel. You play an android detective piecing together their past while meeting strange and exotic characters, traveling a brutal world and unraveling the many mysteries it holds.
Why similar: Crime 21.6%, Noir 18.4%, Cyberpunk 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Crime 19.6%, Noir 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Cyberpunk 12.3%, Detective 10.5%
Drive the night shift through a cursed city where every passenger hides a secret—and some of them died long ago. Uncover the truth behind each fare, make irreversible choices, and decide who deserves to be saved before your final shift ends.
Why similar: Crime 20.8%, Noir 18.8%, Cinematic 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%
Truth Beneath the Shadows – A detective game where players unravel hidden mysteries by connecting clues to expose a secret organization. Every piece of evidence brings you closer to the dark truth lurking in the shadows.
Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Conspiracy 20.6% ★, Crime 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Detective 11.7%
Manage our AI girlfriend product as the newest engagement lead at Bigger Tech Corp. Make the tough choices for Alice as she slowly drives her user insane. A satirical choose-your-own-adventure with beautiful pixel art and widely branching narrative.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Conspiracy 14% ★, Dark Humor 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%
Three reptile friends. One animal testing facility. Countless choices. Can you escape before it's too late?
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Crime 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Why similar: Crime 22.6%, Noir 21.3%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Crime 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Detective 14.5%, Noir 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%
The REJECTION SIM returns! Explore a slice of chaotic life in late 2000's American high school as you assume the role of Nicole once again. A 100% fully voiced VN presenting as the most culturally accurate period piece in the history of gaming.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Noir 12.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Crime 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.
Why similar: Crime 17.3%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Conspiracy 14.9% ★, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Crime 18.6%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Detective 12.1%
Investigate impossible mysteries in a Latin American cyberpunk Bogotá. Explore atmospheric locations, talk to characters, collect clues, connect evidence, and formulate hypotheses in a narrative detective adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.6%, Detective 18.1%, Crime 15.9%, Dystopian 15.7%, Noir 10.6%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Detective 11.7%, Hand-drawn 11%
Marlon's Mystery will test your skills as an investigator. Join Abby Marlon to solve the riddles in this captivating mystery and hidden object game. Embark on an enigmatic adventure and discover the darkest secrets of the Taylor family.
Why similar: Crime 21.9%, Noir 17.1%, Conspiracy 16.5% ★, Detective 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!
Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Crime 13.9%
The city is on fire, and the Devil is to blame - or is it? Two women must solve an occult-themed mystery set in an alternate 1980s while unraveling the secrets of their past. Hunt for clues and interrogate suspects in this interactive yuri visual novel.
Why similar: Crime 20.3%, Noir 19%, Conspiracy 15.1% ★, Visual Novel 12.3%, Detective 12%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Detective 16%, Crime 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Unravel a conspiracy starting with a single murder in a modern point-and-click adventure, playing as a meme-able duo with questionable methods.
Why similar: Crime 25.5%, Noir 20.2%, Conspiracy 19.5% ★, Detective 10%, Cyberpunk 8.6%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Crime 22.7%, Noir 20.2%, Cinematic 14.1%, Detective 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Crime 23.5%, Noir 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Noir 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Cinematic 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
Ring of Fire: Prologue is the first case in a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London. Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth.
Why similar: Crime 19.7%, Noir 17.6%, Cinematic 11.2%, Detective 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
A murder mystery interrogation game - where you can ask the suspects literally ANYTHING! Dive into a macabre conspiracy of burgers and billionaires, getting up-close and personal with an eccentric cast of cold-blooded killers - using voice or keyboard.
Why similar: Crime 24.1%, Noir 20.6%, Detective 12.2%, Conspiracy 12% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Crime 20.3%, Noir 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Detective 13.2%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Crime 22.5%, Noir 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Detective 11%, Visual Novel 10%
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Why similar: Crime 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dystopian 13.2%, Dark Humor 11.8%
