Games Like The Roottrees are Dead

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Detective 29.7%, Investigation 18.3%, Mystery 15.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Roottrees are Dead, this game excels at deduction-based puzzles where you piece together names, motives, and events from a snapshot of clues.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Detective 48.8%, Mystery 22.6%, Puzzle 11.4%, Story Rich 6%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same methodical, deduction-heavy gameplay loop where you must identify crew members and piece together their fates using a logbook and visual clues.

The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.

Why similar: Detective 32.7%, Investigation 21.3%, Mystery 17.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Point & Click 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Building on the brilliant deduction mechanics of the original, it offers more intricate crime scenes and logical puzzle-solving for aspiring detectives.

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Why similar: Detective 37.3%, Point & Click 15.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Puzzle 9.2%, Investigation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Featuring witty writing and clever point-and-click investigation, it challenges you to interview suspects and solve a complex murder mystery.

Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.

Why similar: Detective 33.5%, Investigation 20.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Point & Click 9.9%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It places you behind a simulated computer terminal to investigate digital evidence, database records, and clues just like the early internet sleuthing in the seed game.

Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.

Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Investigation 24.2%, Point & Click 15.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist investigative puzzle game requires you to reconstruct a cold case by piecing together fragmented dialogue and memory clues.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Detective 29.2%, Investigation 17.8%, Mystery 15.8%, Point & Click 13.1%, Puzzle 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the atmospheric, desk-bound investigative feel of pouring over occult references, maps, and botanical clues to solve local mysteries.

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 30.7%, Mystery 15.6%, Investigation 15.2%, Point & Click 10.7%, Puzzle 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: You must listen to audio reenactments of a crime scene to map out identities and events, appealing to the same deduction-heavy mindset.

Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.

Why similar: Detective 36.8%, Investigation 18.9%, Mystery 11.7%, Point & Click 9.5%, Noir 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted deduction game where you gather clues and fill in the blanks of a mystery using a built-in logic deduction system.

Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.4%, Point & Click 30.3%, Mystery 15.5%, Story Rich 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on family trees, generation-spanning secrets, and surreal puzzle mechanics that complement the genealogical themes of the seed game.

Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.

Why similar: Detective 36.9%, Point & Click 17.4%, Mystery 16.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Story Rich 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming point-and-click adventure that leans into supernatural investigations and clever puzzle design.

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Why similar: Detective 32.5%, Mystery 25.5%, Puzzle 22.6%, Investigation 7.5%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses social engineering and digital investigation tools to uncover secrets, mimicking the deep internet sleuthing of The Roottrees are Dead.

A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Why similar: Detective 34.6%, Investigation 24%, Point & Click 14.2%, Puzzle 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An iconic database-search investigation game where you scour video clips using keywords to uncover the truth behind a cold case.

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: Detective 26.8%, Mystery 21.1%, Investigation 19.9%, LGBTQ+ 7.2%, Noir 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative mystery game where you snoop through hotel rooms to uncover the personal secrets of guests.

Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!

Why similar: Detective 27%, Investigation 18.7%, Mystery 10.3%, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines visual novel investigation with nonogram puzzles to uncover clues and solve crimes.

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

Why similar: Detective 29.1%, Investigation 16.9%, Mystery 15.4%, Point & Click 11.4%, Puzzle 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like its predecessor Her Story, it tasks you with digging through stolen surveillance footage databases to piece together a complex narrative puzzle.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Detective 26.2%, 1990's 19.8%, Point & Click 17.5%, Mystery 9%, Puzzle 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself in a fictional 1990s internet browsing experience, hunting down rulebreakers and digging through old web pages.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Investigation 75.7%, Detective 10.1%, Mystery 5.1%, Point & Click 2.6%, Story Rich 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the role of a digital investigator combing through private communications and online profiles to piece together a conspiracy.

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.5%, Detective 26.3%, Point & Click 18.1%, Mystery 8.1%, Atmospheric 5%

Why You'll Like It: While centered on language translation rather than genealogy, it shares the same deeply satisfying intellectual puzzle progression of deciphering unknown systems.

Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

Why similar: Detective 46.4%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 15%, Puzzle 6.7%, Point & Click 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes active deduction, gathering physical and documentary evidence, and building your own conclusions to solve intricate cases.

Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, seemingly killed by the mythical creature his attraction is based around... Explore the area, inspect the crime scene, grill suspects, solve puzzles, hunt for clues & uncover the secret of the swamp!

Why similar: Detective 34.6%, Point & Click 16.4%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 12.8%, Puzzle 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A whimsical point-and-click adventure game centered around interrogating quirky suspects and connecting clues in a notebook.

Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.

Why similar: Detective 35.2%, Point & Click 16.5%, Puzzle 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Noir 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive cinematic puzzle where you match clips across decades to uncover the fate of a missing actress.

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Detective 65.9%, Noir 12.4%, Puzzle 12.2%, Atmospheric 4.1%, Adventure 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated detective sandbox where you must investigate crimes by breaking into apartments, checking computer databases, and cross-referencing clues.

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Why similar: Detective 44.6%, Investigation 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Noir 10.4%, Story Rich 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi noir detective adventure that relies heavily on dialogue choices, deduction, and piecing together clues to solve a political murder.

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.

Why similar: Detective 35.5%, Mystery 24.5%, Puzzle 13.3%, Logic 9.1%, Story Rich 6.3%

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Investigation 16.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Mystery 12.4%, 1990's 10.3%

Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.

Why similar: Detective 50.1%, Mystery 19.3%, Point & Click 10.2%, Puzzle 7.8%, Story Rich 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Classic courtroom and investigation gameplay focused on examining evidence, cross-examining testimony, and spotting contradictions.

Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?

Why similar: Detective 34.4%, Investigation 24.1%, Mystery 18.8%, Puzzle 9.6%, Story Rich 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-investigation mystery game that drops you into an abandoned town with a camera and a notebook, trusting you to find the killer entirely on your own.

Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

Why similar: Detective 48.9%, Mystery 25.5%, Story Rich 9.6%, Point & Click 5.1%, Puzzle 5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep mystery detective story featuring investigation segments and surreal puzzle-solving dream dives.

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Why similar: Detective 41.6%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 13.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Logic 7.4%

Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.

Why similar: Detective 33.7%, Investigation 19.8%, Mystery 19%, Puzzle 7.6%, 1990's 6.4%

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.

Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 15.6%, Puzzle 10.2%, Noir 6.7%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Detective 48.9%, Mystery 25.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Puzzle 6.4%, Story Rich 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric mystery game where you reconstruct tragic events using supernatural detective skills and environmental observation.

A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.

Why similar: Detective 35.8%, Investigation 21.3%, Mystery 14.7%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 4.9%

Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.

Why similar: Detective 31%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 15.3%, Point & Click 13.6%, Puzzle 9.8%

You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!

Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 12.6%, Point & Click 9.8%, Noir 6.1%

A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?

Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Investigation 15.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 11%, Puzzle 7.9%

LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.

Why similar: Detective 33%, Mystery 15.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Point & Click 10.7%, Puzzle 6.6%

A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.

Why similar: Detective 31.7%, Investigation 18.5%, Mystery 14.1%, Point & Click 11.7%, Puzzle 8.8%

Uncover high drama in this whodunnit set in a small-town community theater. Gather clues by investigating the sets, casts and backstage crews of 10 theatrical productions, and piece together the story of each deadly crime.

Why similar: Detective 26.7%, Point & Click 16.1%, Mystery 16%, Investigation 15%, Puzzle 11.3%

Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!

Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Investigation 18%, Mystery 15.2%, Point & Click 13.2%, Puzzle 9.6%

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: Investigation 24.6%, Mystery 19.2%, Point & Click 19%, 1990's 12.9%, Story Rich 7.8%

A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.

Why similar: Detective 32.3%, Mystery 17%, Point & Click 14.6%, 1990's 10.1%, Puzzle 10%

In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Point & Click 10.9%, 1990's 8%

Connected Clue is a quarter-view detective adventure game inspired by the atmosphere of 19th-century mystery novels. Gather clues, see through lies, and uncover the identity of the culprit shrouded in secrecy!

Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Point & Click 11.8%, 1990's 10.3%

Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.

Why similar: Mystery 34.5%, Puzzle 19.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 4.5%

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: Detective 27.3%, Investigation 16.8%, Mystery 14.2%, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 8.1%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Mystery 25.3%, Investigation 24.3%, Puzzle 15%, Detective 8.6%, Story Rich 8.6%

Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Why similar: Detective 29.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Point & Click 13.6%, Investigation 13.4%, Puzzle 8.5%

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.

Why similar: Detective 39.4%, Mystery 22.7%, Puzzle 16%, Point & Click 8.1%, Story Rich 8.1%

Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.

Why similar: Detective 31.3%, Mystery 14.8%, Investigation 14.7%, Point & Click 9.7%, Logic 8.9%

A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.

Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 16.1%, Point & Click 13.5%, Puzzle 9.1%, 1990's 8.1%

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.

Why similar: Mystery 24.8%, Point & Click 23.9%, Puzzle 18.1%, Investigation 12.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.

Why similar: Detective 36.8%, Investigation 21.5%, Point & Click 19.6%, Story Rich 5.1%, 1990's 4.7%

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

Why similar: Detective 32.6%, Mystery 15.4%, Investigation 14.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Story Rich 5.5%

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?

Why similar: Detective 33.3%, Mystery 16.7%, Point & Click 11.8%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 6.6%

A deceptively difficult deduction game about one very unfortunate family. Revisit their worst moments, form your own conclusions, and solve this silly yet challenging mystery.

Why similar: Detective 31.2%, Investigation 19.1%, Mystery 15.2%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 9.2%

An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.

Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Investigation 15.7%, Mystery 13%, Point & Click 13%, Puzzle 9.1%

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

Why similar: Mystery 24.8%, Point & Click 18.8%, Investigation 18.4%, Detective 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.

Why similar: Detective 37.8%, Investigation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, 1990's 8.3%, Mystery 7.9%