60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, 2D, Text-Based, Story Rich.
The Twisting Trail of Clues is a captivating and thrilling modern-day murder mystery. Set in a bustling city, the story follows detective Emma as she tries to solve a seemingly impossible case - the murder of a prominent businessman by a mysterious secret society.
The Beast in the Shadows
Experience the heart-pounding suspense of a modern-day werewolf horror story as you step into the shoes of Cassie, a brave woman determined to put an end to a terrifying curse plaguing her small town.
Hunting The Hunter
Lost in the woods. Alone in the dark. And hunted by a killer. Step into the shoes of one woman as she navigates a web of terror and deceit to uncover the truth behind a string of disappearances.
Experience the heart-pounding suspense of a modern-day werewolf horror story as you step into the shoes of Cassie, a brave woman determined to put an end to a terrifying curse plaguing her small town.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Cartoony 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10%, Stylized 7.7%
Lost in the woods. Alone in the dark. And hunted by a killer. Step into the shoes of one woman as she navigates a web of terror and deceit to uncover the truth behind a string of disappearances.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Cartoony 12.1%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Stylized 8.2%
Embark on an epic journey with a courageous band of adventurers as they brave perilous landscapes and face formidable foes in their pursuit of a long-lost relic of unimaginable power.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Action-Adventure 13.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Cartoony 12.2%, Casual 10.4%
In this thrilling audio book, we follow the story of Caleb, a young outlaw who finds himself on the run after a robbery. As he navigates the dangers of the Wild West, his gang of outlaws plan their get away.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Cartoony 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Stylized 8%
The stakes are high, and the danger is real in this thrilling cyberpunk adventure. Follow Lila's journey as she delves deeper into the shadows of Neo-Tokyo, utilizing her skills as a hacker to unravel the mysteries surrounding her job.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 15%, Cartoony 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Stylized 8.5%
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: Crime 20%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Detective 12.1%, Dark 7.5%, Drama 7.3%
「４日後に、俺の心臓を撃ちぬいて殺して欲しい」 リベンジ・ハートはワガママな殺し屋ケヴィンと、心臓を狙われた少年ルカが繰り広げる一本道ノベルADVです。 ――引き金が引かれるその時まで。復讐を願う少年とそれに加担した殺し屋の４日間が始まる。
Why similar: Crime 28.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Dark 10.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Adventure 8.8%
You come back to school at the beginning of second semester. A lot has changed during your absence. Are you able to solve the mystery which not many people know about?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Detective 12%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Stylized 8.8%
Plunge into the depths of sanity and Lovecraftian lore in this Eldritch Horror Dating Visual Novel. Will you find love or madness?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Detective 13%, Cartoony 12.6%, Stylized 9%, Drama 8%
The romantic noir visual novel The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf returns to Kabukicho in this unhinged simul-quel. Me, Azami, and the whole ragtag gang rampage through five all-new short stories!
Why similar: Crime 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Action-Adventure 10%, Dark 9.4%, Drama 8.6%
Shine of Fullmoon is a novel game where you interact with your friends in a peaceful Full Moon Village and continue your story by taking adventures thereafter. Let's choose what kind of stories you will continue with our unique friends and what kind of adventures you will take with them.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Drama 14.2%, Casual 13.8%, Cartoony 12.3%
Shunichi Sasaki, a young man who lost his past memories due to higher brain dysfunction, was criticized as a "murderer". Who was he really? Use memory notes to supplement his memories and explore his past.
Why similar: Crime 16.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 14.8%, Detective 12.2%, Drama 10.8%
他期待着事业的成果，她期待着追逐的爱情，她期待能给身边的人们带来笑容，他期待能成为故事的主角，他们生活的这座城市期待着海啸后的痊愈……可是，一场突如其来的爆炸扰乱了这一切。烟火暗淡，琉璃蒙尘，他们所期待的，能够实现吗？
Why similar: Crime 25.4%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Detective 20.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Drama 7%
"I Want to Be a Werewolf" is a text-based adventure where you can enjoy the detective elements of the Werewolf game and the stories of the characters.A strange room when you wake up. "werewolf game" that starts without knowing the purpose. Mystery & suspense that sees through deception.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Crime 16.1%, Detective 12.8%, Psychological 10.3%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 16.2%, Drama 10.8%, Dark 10%, Emotional 9.5%
I dreamed of a girl. From then on, I saw her every day in my dreams. I don't know why it happened. I can only keep telling myself that it is all false, all illusion. But on the other hand, I fell in love with it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Text-Based 24.7%, Drama 17.1%, Emotional 13.8%, Casual 8.5%
A group of university students is going to spend a week in the old hotel "Amnea". Within these seven days they have to find out what is hidden behind its facade and to unravel all the mysteries without losing their minds.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Detective 15.6%, Drama 9.5%, Psychological 8.3%
For 20 years, she lived with depression. Now, she's strong enough to name what happened: a social murder. This is a visual essay—not a game—with over 400 illustrations about grief, guilt, and survival in a collapsing meritocracy.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 21%, Emotional 11.2%, Psychological 10.7%, Dark 9.4%
Work is boring if you are the only employee in your department with no cases ever. But when work appears, life immediately rises upside down! Forever. Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming world of evidence-gathering, deduction and dramatic events on the reverse side of our world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, Cartoony 14.9%, Detective 13.6%, Stylized 10.1%
Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Crime 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Detective 11.5%, Cartoony 11.5%
Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.
Why similar: Crime 21.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Detective 15%, Colorful 7.8%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 16.8%, Adventure 10.1%, Casual 9.9%, Detective 9.8%
In this twisted love story of a visual novel by CLOCKUP, an insomniac must decide whether to protect his position as a yakuza bigwig’s pet killer or the mysterious woman who can put him to sleep.
Why similar: Crime 24.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Dark 10%, Drama 9.2%
A story-rich and character-centric visual novel about a world with an illness called Dysnamia. Join Bene as he handles his Dysnamia and his past, helping the festival in his town be successful despite the terror lurking in the background.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Cartoony 13.9%, Casual 10.5%, Drama 8.5%
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Detective 20.1%, Casual 13%, Psychological 10.2%
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Stylized 12.2%, Drama 10.5%, Dark 9.8%
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Why similar: Crime 18.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Cartoony 11.7%
A short atmospheric pixel-art story about the moment when a father, late at night, realizes his mistakes and remembers what truly matters. Inspired by a classic. Perfect for parents, sons, daughters, and anyone who knows the feeling of “what if…”.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.7%, Visual Novel 29.7%, Drama 11.8%, Emotional 9.9%, Atmospheric 9%
Misuzu no Kuni is a kinetic visual novel with no choices or branching paths.Set in a late 20th-century Japan, it tells a traditional-style fantasy school drama.In this world, a special autonomous territory known as the Land of the Tengu exists within Japan.Supported language: Japanese only.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Casual 11.5%, Drama 11.3%
Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Crime 20%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Cartoony 11%
Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 16.4%, Detective 13.6%, Dark 10.4%, Drama 8.5%
This is a story about Iris, a nobody who didn't have a Happy Ending and now suffers the consequences of their own (lack of) actions all alone in the most northern city in the world. A depressing story and a melancholic lesson teached in life's hard way awaits you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Drama 15.4%, Emotional 13%, Psychological 12.6%, Text-Based 12.5%
Gather evidence for a successful divorce! My Divorce Story, created by an experienced divorce lawyer and based on real-life counseling, now on the Steam!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Crime 18.9%, Cartoony 16.5%, Adventure 9.9%, Drama 9.7%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Crime 16.9%, Stylized 8.1%
Having lost the meaning of life, Shionagi meets Ayana, who suffers from a certain illness. “Kidnap me from this boring everyday life.” He wishes to die. A girl promised death. A bittersweet summer kidnapping drama where they confront each other's “lives.”
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Text-Based 28.4%, Emotional 16%, Adventure 15.6%, 2D 9.1%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Drama 13.8%, Psychological 10.4%, Emotional 9.6%
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Psychological 11.8%, Emotional 10.5%, Stylized 9.5%
Become a righteous hacker detective who solves people's problems... and hack the requested PC by solving riddles! Analyze the PC by hacking! And... solve the source of your client's problems in the PC! This game is a puzzle solving adventure. You can hack by solving riddles.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.4%
Investigate the evidence, expose the lies and bring the perpetrator to justice! In Crime Investigator, you take on the role of an experienced investigator who has to solve brutal murders and complex crimes.
Why similar: Crime 47%, Text-Based 19.8%, Dark 13.7%, Casual 12.3%, 2D 6.6%
Set in school life, “Who is the Criminal” is a text-based adventure game featuring comedian and inference elements. With inquiring suspects and debating with “evildoers”, he gathers pieces of puzzles and reveals what truly happens in every incident.
Why similar: Crime 23%, Detective 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Drama 6.7%
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...
Why similar: Detective 24%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Crime 23.7%, Drama 10.2%, Atmospheric 6%
When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.6%, Visual Novel 37.1%, Adventure 14.1%, 2D 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A thriller and mystery visual novel about broken trust and the search for truth, when a high-school student is accused of his parents’ brutal murder. Every choice might bring you closer to the truth... or end in tragedy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Crime 19.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Detective 9.7%, Psychological 8.8%
和纳西妲一起，回到「过去」的须弥。真正的花神诞祭、密室中发生的「不可能犯罪」、预示着世界将毁灭的地震……在「神」不在的须弥城，你能否揭开命案的真相，探寻提瓦特世界的终极秘密，然后…与「那个人」再次相见？ 和伙伴们一起，去见证《只属于「她与花」的往日》
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Text-Based 20.9%, Cartoony 16.5%, Drama 9.7%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Psychological 11.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Dark 9.6%
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 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Stylized 13.2%, Drama 9.9%, Detective 9%
Zlot rodzinny to dla Miłosza Dajskiego okazja, aby spotkać się z dawno niewidzianymi członkami rodziny. Przechadzając się po pałacu, w którym nie było go od lat napotyka człowieka, który zdaje się twierdzić, że jest jego kuzynem, ten jednak za nic nie potrafi go sobie przypomnieć.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Detective 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Stylized 9.1%, Emotional 7.4%
A direct sequel to 'Cold Verdict'. Another group of people wake up in a strange abandoned location, trying to find a way out and understand why they were put there. What is the killer's endgame in all this? A short interactive story with choices.
Why similar: Crime 26.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Detective 16.8%, Psychological 9.8%, Dark 8.2%
One-room cyberpunk VN about doubt, guilt and memory. Talk to a girl who claims to be your girlfriend, question reality, and unlock multiple endings in a short, replayable psychological story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Casual 12.8%, Dark 12.7%, Drama 12.1%, Emotional 10.3%
Reformatted to 200 custom handmade pages, this Harlem Renaissance story employs the reader's mind exploring personas of race, gender, and capitalism. When Angela is prompted by society, this story explores her choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.1%, Visual Novel 29.2%, Drama 15.1%, Adventure 10%, Narration 8.6%
Missing Stars is a visual novel that aims to depict mental disorders and the people who live with them in a realistic, but sensitive and respectful light.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.3%, Text-Based 21.6%, Casual 12.1%, Emotional 10.6%, Drama 10.5%
Humanity and the fae. This is a story of those who make kindling of their home to reach for the stars and the curses of those left behind.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Text-Based 17.4%, Emotional 13.5%, Dark 7.7%, Drama 6.6%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Drama 11.2%, Dark 11.2%, Emotional 9.1%
Detective Bloodphobia is a black-and-white noir visual novel with point-and-click investigations and deduction gameplay.
Why similar: Crime 33%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Text-Based 21.4%, Detective 10.6%, 2D 7.3%
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 20.1%, Crime 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Cartoony 10.1%
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
Why similar: Crime 25.5%, Detective 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Drama 7.4%, Colorful 6.5%
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: Visual Novel 20%, Detective 15.6%, Crime 12.8%, Stylized 10.4%, Drama 9.5%
A psychological murder mystery set in 90s Japan.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Crime 14.8%, Cartoony 12.4%, Psychological 9.7%
An interrogation adventure where you play as the lead detective. Exploit suspects’ weaknesses, shake their resolve, and force the truth out of them. Use the weaknesses of a cast of unique suspects to uncover the truth behind the case.
Why similar: Crime 26.2%, Detective 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Psychological 9.3%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Text-Based 17.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Casual 11.7%, Colorful 8.1%
