60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Adventure, Mystery, Story Rich.
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
A Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure where you play as the landlord of an apartment and try to uncover the Yokai hiding among your residents. Not just a mystery adventure, this is a heart-warming tale of character growth.
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
A Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure where you play as the landlord of an apartment and try to uncover the Yokai hiding among your residents. Not just a mystery adventure, this is a heart-warming tale of character growth.
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Detective 10.7%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Detective 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 12.3%, Investigation 11.3%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 28%, Mystery 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Surreal 10.7%, Hand-drawn 8%
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 21.7%, Mystery 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Detective 11.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 17%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Mystery 9.5%, Emotional 9.5%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Investigation 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Anime 11.6%, Point & Click 7.8%
Linework is a story about a broken grieving detective set in 1990s Gui Dou, a town full of mysteries. Solve each murder with clues they left behind, and discover the truth behind your wife’s death
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Investigation 15.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Psychological 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Surreal 10.7%, Investigation 10.2%
Game of Fitna Vol. 1: A thrilling death game visual novel set in 2030. Play as Zayn, a high school student thrown into sinister survival games known as "TEST." Fight for your life, uncover shocking truths, and face intense moral dilemmas in this mature, thought-provoking experience.
Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Mystery 12.8%, Anime 11.6%
On his first visit to his father's rural hometown in seven years, Hotaru reunites with his first love—only to learn that she died three years ago. Explore Yokomizo, uncover the truth behind a family tragedy, and escape supernatural otherworlds in this Japanese horror mystery adventure.
Why similar: Psychological 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Mystery 13%, Emotional 11.1%
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: Detective 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Mystery 13.6%, Investigation 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
In this visual novel, Maggie Crane and 15 others are invited to partake in the Isolated Society Study, where they must forge a peaceful society while attempting to outsmart each other in complex challenges. Just as the study is about to conclude, the Golding Foundation introduces a sinister twist.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Detective 15.1%, Mystery 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Anime 10.4%
《井底》是一款2024年3月立项的文字类galgame，题材是“超能力悬疑推理故事”，画风是日系校园风格的 故事主要讲述了游戏女主王语韴作为一个业余“侦探”，遇到各种疑难问题，并在侦探事务所所长天翔及其妹妹天音的帮助下，解决案件的故事。 游戏主要使用鼠标点击来推进剧情
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 11.7%, Emotional 11.1%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.2%, Detective 11.6%, Mystery 11%, Investigation 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 11.8%, Detective 10.9%, Investigation 9.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 13.9%, Detective 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Detective 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Emotional 8.7%
Mind Scraper is a story-driven graphic adventure. Play as Robert and dive into dying minds—built from unresolved regrets—to explore memories and learn why those choices were made.
Why similar: Psychological 16%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Point & Click 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
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: Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Detective 12.1%, Investigation 11.8%, Emotional 11.8%
Takumi, a high school student, gains the power to make others experience hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. What begins as a tool for revenge soon changes his fate forever. A psychological suspense visual novel where your choices shape the ending.
Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Investigation 11.2%
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 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 13.3%, Mystery 11.5%, Surreal 10.1%
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: Visual Novel 18.6%, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 15.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 12%, Surreal 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Psychological 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Investigation 11.1%, Detective 11%
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 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Detective 11.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Investigation 9.9%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
A high school detective story where an unlikely duo tackles mysterious incidents on campus. Solve strange cases with logic and courage in this suspenseful visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Detective 18.1%, Mystery 17.2%, Psychological 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Detective 8.8%
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
Why similar: Surreal 16.3%, Psychological 16.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Emotional 10.3%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Psychological 14.2%, Investigation 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Detective 11.6%
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Psychological 19.3%, Mystery 10.5%, Story Rich 9.8%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 10.7%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological 18.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Emotional 10%
The Apple Tree is an interactive story in the genre of a visual novel. Investigate a series of murders together with police Captain Christian Tyler and try not to fall into the trap of criminals!
Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Detective 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Investigation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 12.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Investigation 13.4%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Mystery 8.4%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Detective 10.3%, Psychological 8.1%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Point & Click 9.2%
Welcome to Trauma, a free-to-play short visual novel full of mysteries. Will you ever be able to smile again?
Why similar: Psychological 22%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Detective 12.2%, Investigation 11.3%
Step into the world of Nyx, a VTuber whose online persona begins to blur with something far more unsettling. After the Stream Went Dark is a short psychological horror visual novel exploring identity, self-perception, and the fragile boundary between performance and reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Psychological 16%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Anime 11.6%, Emotional 11.3%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Surreal 12.2%, Detective 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Anime 10.6%
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Emotional 17.2%, Investigation 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.
Why similar: Mystery 15.5%, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological 10.3%
Protagonist Shen Mo is trapped in a bizarre reality: the girlfriend who verbally destroys him at dawn becomes impossibly tender by night... Is it really that simple? A story of hallucinations, memory, consciousness, thought, action, madness, dissociation, and survival begins...
Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Detective 12.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Emotional 9.3%
A Japanese mystery adventure where any of the four could be the killer. Holding the dead man's will, you stay in his estate until the seventh-day memorial. Question the household across 13 locations, but you get only ten moves. Motive, opportunity and proof decide what your accusation is worth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Detective 16.4%, Mystery 15.5%, Psychological 14.1%
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 16.7%, Investigation 15.2%, Mystery 13.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%
This game is a deduction game where you collect evidence from a murder scene to find the murderer. Eight boys and girls are admitted to the school. At the school, there is a crazy ghost named "Milla" who haunts and kills people.
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Detective 16.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 12.9%, Mystery 12.8%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 13.3%, Psychological 12.8%, Investigation 12.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 14.7%, Detective 12.8%, Psychological 12%, Mystery 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%
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 18.7%, Mystery 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Investigation 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
An occult-mystery-adventure game set in Kyoto—detectives investigate to solve bizarre and complex cases. What did Kamotan detectives finally uncover on their way to the truth of these cryptic incidents?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Detective 13.9%, Anime 12.2%
A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Detective 15.2%, Emotional 12.4%, Anime 11.2%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Surreal 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Emotional 10.4%
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 14.5%, Anime 12.3%
A quiet room. A window. Thirty one days spent watching strangers and inventing their lives. October is a minimalist, atmospheric story about isolation, building slowly toward the day you finally step outside.
Why similar: Psychological 20.1%, Emotional 14.5%, Surreal 11.4%, Story Rich 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Mystery 15.4%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Psychological 26%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
