- #1 The Walking Dead
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 80,693 reviews2012
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Why similar: Episodic 44.1% ★, Point & Click 11.8%, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Telltale's landmark episodic drama uses the same dialogue-driven choices, relationship stakes, exploration, and devastating moral decisions.
- #2 Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
96% matchVery Positive92% of 10,741 reviews2017
Dev: Telltale
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
Why similar: Episodic 26.5% ★, Choices Matter 14.2%, Detective 10.8%, Story Rich 10.4%, Point & Click 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This polished Telltale follow-up offers especially strong character relationships, investigations, and branches that substantially reshape key alliances.
- #3 Batman - The Telltale Series
96% matchVery Positive88% of 18,280 reviews2016
Dev: Telltale
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
Why similar: Episodic 33% ★, Choices Matter 11%, Detective 7.6%, Story Rich 7.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It closely matches Bigby's investigative role through a comic-book noir story built around interrogations, crime scenes, and consequential conversations.
- #4 The Walking Dead: Season Two
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,037 reviews2013
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
Why similar: Episodic 43% ★, Point & Click 10.6%, Story Rich 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Comic Book 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This direct continuation retains Telltale's choice-heavy adventure format while making its decisions feel even more fraught and personal.
- #5 The Walking Dead: The Final Season
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,546 reviews2018
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Why similar: Episodic 27.2% ★, Choices Matter 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Story Rich 13.7%, Comic Book 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic presentation, dialogue choices, exploration, and emotionally weighty branching relationships make it a natural fit for Telltale fans.
- #6 The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
93% matchVery Positive83% of 18,615 reviews2016
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
Why similar: Episodic 41.2% ★, Choices Matter 14.4%, Story Rich 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Point & Click 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This season delivers the same quick-time-event drama and morally murky choices, centered on a family caught in violent political conflict.
- #7 Tales from the Borderlands
91% matchVery Positive94% of 19,598 reviews2021
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Why similar: Episodic 40% ★, Choices Matter 11.9%, Point & Click 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Story Rich 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Telltale's choice-and-consequence structure and comic-book presentation, though with a much more comedic science-fiction tone.
- #8 The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries
92% matchVery Positive81% of 8,257 reviews2016
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman's best-selling comic books.
Why similar: Episodic 36% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Point & Click 10.5%, Story Rich 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A compact, grim Telltale mystery with a damaged protagonist, brutal confrontations, and choices that define character relationships.
- #9 Blacksad: Under the Skin
91% matchVery Positive83% of 6,984 reviews2019
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Microids
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Why similar: Noir 18.7%, Detective 18%, Comic Book 12%, Point & Click 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A noir detective story based on a comic series, it pairs a stylized anthropomorphic world with crime-scene investigation and tough deductions.
- #10 Heavy Rain
89% matchVery Positive86% of 31,694 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, Cinematic 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A rain-soaked serial-killer mystery driven by investigations, quick-time scenes, and major branching consequences for each protagonist.
- #11 Blues and Bullets
90% matchMixed62% of 1,375 reviews2015
Dev: A Crowd of Monsters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
Why similar: Episodic 26.5% ★, Noir 15.8%, Detective 15.7%, Choices Matter 5.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its monochrome noir presentation, episodic murder mystery, dialogue choices, and supernatural menace strongly echo The Wolf Among Us's mood.
- #12 The Expanse: A Telltale Series
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,930 reviews2023
Dev: Deck NinePub: Telltale
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, Choices Matter 23.5%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This modern Telltale series combines exploration, dialogue decisions, crew relationships, and tense episodic storytelling in a grounded sci-fi setting.
- #13 As Dusk Falls
87% matchVery Positive90% of 4,479 reviews2022
Dev: INTERIOR/NIGHTPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Cinematic 12.8%, Story Rich 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive crime drama where dialogue decisions and relationships persist across generations, creating highly divergent outcomes.
- #14 Detroit: Become Human
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 263,955 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.5%, Multiple Endings 26.9%, Story Rich 17.9%, Cinematic 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic interactive drama greatly expands the branching-choice formula, with investigations and decisions that can radically alter its narrative.
- #15 The Council
86% matchVery Positive84% of 5,731 reviews2018
Dev: Big Bad WolfPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Episodic 23.5% ★, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 8.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This choice-driven historical mystery makes dialogue, alliances, skills, and deductions mechanically important to uncovering a supernatural conspiracy.
- #16 Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
85% matchVery Positive89% of 8,060 reviews2014
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 54.2%, Mystery 9.3%, Point & Click 9%, Adventure 7.9%, Story Rich 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers excellent crime-scene investigation and deduction, including the ability to accuse the wrong suspect and live with the result.
- #17 Murdered: Soul Suspect
84% matchVery Positive86% of 17,433 reviews2014
Dev: Airtight GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
Why similar: Detective 52.4%, Noir 15.1%, Mystery 7.8%, Adventure 6.6%, Story Rich 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: You investigate a serial murder as a ghost in a gloomy supernatural noir setting, making it especially suitable for Bigby-style detective fans.
- #18 The Quarry
83% matchVery Positive82% of 25,301 reviews2022
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: 2K Games
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 35.8%, Multiple Endings 27.9%, Cinematic 15%, Story Rich 10%, Quick-Time Events 7.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: Its ensemble horror mystery is built around cinematic dialogue choices and split-second decisions that determine who survives.
- #19 Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
84% matchMixed63% of 756 reviews2023
Dev: Big Bad WolfPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.9%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Story Rich 16.8%, Detective 13.5%, Adventure 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dark urban-fantasy conspiracy game focused on interrogations, deduction, social manipulation, and branching outcomes between supernatural factions.
- #20 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
82% matchVery Positive93% of 131,540 reviews2019
Dev: ZA/UM
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Noir 16%, Story Rich 12.7%, Point & Click 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A brilliantly written noir detective RPG with deep interrogations, damaged characters, political intrigue, and unusual approaches to solving a case.
- #21 Life is Strange Remastered
81% matchVery Positive92% of 11,246 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 28.9%, Multiple Endings 24.9%, Story Rich 18.5%, Cinematic 8.7%, Mystery 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its episodic supernatural mystery emphasizes intimate character choices, investigation, and emotionally consequential attempts to change events.
- #22 The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
82% matchMixed55% of 6,297 reviews2022
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes ‘Murder Castle’. But on arrival they soon discover they’re being watched, and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings…
Why similar: Multiple Endings 27%, Choices Matter 25.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, Cinematic 9.1%, Mystery 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This branching horror investigation combines exploration, dialogue choices, evidence gathering, and lethal consequences in an episodic-feeling thriller.
- #23 Twin Mirror
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,737 reviews2021
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Why similar: Detective 30%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Cinematic 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This grounded psychological thriller centers on returning to a troubled hometown, investigating a friend's death, and navigating consequential social choices.
- #24 The Forgotten City
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,737 reviews2021
Dev: Modern StorytellerPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Multiple Endings 21.5%, Story Rich 15.5%, Mystery 14%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its time-loop mystery rewards conversation, careful investigation, moral judgment, and multiple paths to uncovering a hidden supernatural truth.
- #25 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 47,413 reviews2020
Dev: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.5%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Comic Book 13.5%, Story Rich 12.4%
- #26 D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die -Season One-
80% matchVery Positive80% of 1,978 reviews2015
Dev: Access GamesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This is the story of a man with a very strange fate. His name is David Young. Two years ago, his wife was murdered by an unknown assailant, and Young suffered a blow to the head that cost him his memory. His wife's final words: “Look for D.”
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Episodic 16.3% ★, Quick-Time Events 8.8% ★, Point & Click 8.2%, Comic Book 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its surreal detective mystery combines evidence gathering, dialogue scenes, quick-time events, and a bizarre supernatural murder plot.
- #27 Night Call
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 752 reviews2019
Dev: Monkey MoonPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.
Why similar: Noir 38.6%, Detective 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Story Rich 12%, Mystery 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A rain-drenched taxi-driver detective story where questioning passengers, managing leads, and choosing whom to trust drive the murder investigation.
- #28 Late Shift
78% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: {CRYTIME}
Windows
Late Shift is a first-person horror game. Immerse yourself in a realistic thriller and try to escape the death that follows your life as a night shift worker at a gas station.
Why similar: Story Rich 30%, Multiple Endings 28.2%, Adventure 17.4%, Mystery 11.2%, Action 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A tightly paced interactive crime film where frequent decisions steer a young man through a dangerous London underworld conspiracy.
- #29 The Shapeshifting Detective
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,715 reviews2018
Dev: D'Avekki Studios LtdPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.
Why similar: Detective 51.4%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Mystery 8.3%, Story Rich 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This supernatural FMV whodunit lets you assume identities to interrogate suspects, blending noir investigation with shapeshifter intrigue.
- #30 Tell Me Why
77% matchVery Positive82% of 16,128 reviews2020
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Why similar: Episodic 42.9% ★, Choices Matter 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Story Rich 8.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #31 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
76% matchVery Positive93% of 37,928 reviews2017
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Why similar: Episodic 38.1% ★, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
- #32 Dispatch
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 184,614 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Episodic 33.1% ★, Choices Matter 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Cinematic 5.9%
- #33 Blake: The Visual Novel
75% matchVery Positive91% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
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 20.9%, Detective 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Comic Book 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #34 The Deed
75% matchVery Positive90% of 3,781 reviews2015
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Detective 27%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Point & Click 10.6%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #35 YOUR HOUSE
72% matchVery Positive84% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 24.4%, Noir 18.9%, Comic Book 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #36 Sam & Max Save the World
72% matchVery Positive94% of 2,085 reviews2020
Dev: Skunkape Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Why similar: Episodic 35.7% ★, Point & Click 17.9%, Detective 17.1%, Comic Book 13.5%, Adventure 7.5%
- #37 New Tales from the Borderlands
76% matchMostly Negative31% of 2,158 reviews2022
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: 2K
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Why similar: Episodic 35% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #38 Puzzle Agent
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,844 reviews2010
Dev: Telltale
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
Why similar: Detective 43%, Point & Click 23.7%, Mystery 10.9%, Story Rich 9%, Adventure 7.4%
- #39 L.A. Noire
73% matchVery Positive86% of 36,979 reviews2011
Dev: Team BondiPub: Rockstar Games
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Why similar: Detective 42.7%, Noir 28.4%, Story Rich 7.8%, Cinematic 5.7%, Mystery 5.2%
- #40 AI: The Somnium Files
71% matchVery Positive91% of 9,439 reviews2019
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 32.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Mystery 8.9%
- #41 Life is Strange - Episode 1
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 176,179 reviews2015
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Why similar: Episodic 40.4% ★, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Great Soundtrack 6%
- #42 The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 816 reviews
Dev: KING ArtPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
'The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief' is a thrilling crime adventure in three chapters from the creators of 'The Book of Unwritten Tales'. Full of twists and turns, it immerses you in both sides of the story, combining thrill-of-the-chase whodunit with the risk and reward of a heist story. Paris, 1960.
Why similar: Detective 31.8%, Point & Click 26.5%, Noir 12.6%, Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 8.4%
- #43 The Detail
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 682 reviews2014
Dev: Rival Games Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
Why similar: Point & Click 37.5%, Adventure 14.3%, Detective 11.7%, Story Rich 10.8%, Noir 10.7%
- #44 Tails Noir: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,115 reviews2019
Dev: EggNutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Detective 26.2%, Adventure 12.7%, Point & Click 9.1%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #45 Darkway: Murder of King Mere
68% matchVery Positive97% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: IM/MORTAL Studios
Windows · Mac
The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow. You are the Apprentice, sent by the Master Detective to the City of Ink, to uncover who really murdered the King at the edge of the world.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Detective 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #46 Tangle Tower
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,826 reviews2019
Dev: SFB Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.3%, Noir 19.1%, Point & Click 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #47 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
69% matchVery Positive80% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Story Rich 12.4%
- #48 Noir Chronicles: City of Crime
73% matchMixed60% of 237 reviews2018
Dev: Brave Giant LTDPub: Artifex Mundi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Step into the shoes of Alfred Fox, a private eye with a knack for getting into trouble, and confront the danger looming over your old flame, Barbara Le Purr. Using your own intuition and wide investigation techniques you will follow the intrigue and face many, sometimes deadly, consequences.
Why similar: Noir 27.4%, Detective 27.2%, Point & Click 14.6%, Adventure 7%, Mystery 6.2%
- #49 Roadwarden
67% matchVery Positive94% of 5,205 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Story Rich 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Detective 10.5%
- #50 Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 14,521 reviews2016
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Why similar: Detective 38.8%, Point & Click 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 11.1%, Mystery 8.8%
- #51 Break Wolf
66% matchVery Positive99% of 178 reviews2025
Dev: RE Atelier
Windows
"Have we all been acting waywardly?" An Adventure RPG that deals with the life and death of wayward humans, striving to escape a syndicate that creates monsters.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 28.5%, Choices Matter 25.8%, Story Rich 19.7%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Dark 7.9%
- #52 Seers Isle
70% matchVery Positive91% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #53 Until Dawn™
65% matchVery Positive83% of 5,319 reviews2024
Dev: Ballistic MoonPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Story Rich 8.8%, Cinematic 7.3%
- #54 Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 173 reviews2019
Dev: Salix Games Ltd
Windows
London, 1888: The people of Whitechapel live under the ghastly shadow of Jack the Ripper, tempting Arthurian legends - Du Lac & Fey - back to English shores to intervene. Will they stop Jack before more blood is spilt on the cobbled streets? Victorian London awaits you...
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Point & Click 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Cinematic 10.1%
- #55 Late Shift
67% matchVery Positive86% of 9,275 reviews2017
Dev: CtrlMoviePub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Choices Matter 30.5%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 4.7%
- #56 Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,634 reviews2014
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.
Why similar: Story Rich 30.7%, Atmospheric 20.9%, Adventure 18.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Comic Book 11.3%
- #57 Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 691 reviews2014
Dev: Lostwood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Point & Click 19.2%, Story Rich 15%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Adventure 8.9%
- #58 Tails Noir
67% matchMixed67% of 3,488 reviews2021
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Noir 21.6%, Point & Click 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
