
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Mystery, Investigation, Story Rich.

A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.

Gloomy Clues: The Broken Mirror
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!

Misadventures of Laura Silver
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes from the slums of Saltmire to the heights of Greyledge. Interrogate suspects and manage your clues in this 1980s cinematic remake. Play the free demo and wishlist now!
Why similar: Detective 13.7%, Noir 13.3%, Investigation 11.5%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Comic Book 6.8%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Detective 13%, Noir 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Comic Book 8.5%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Noir 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Noir 19.1%, Investigation 16.7%, Crime 10.2%, Mystery 7.9%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Investigation 14.9%, Noir 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Mystery 7.6%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 15.5%, Noir 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Crime 8.5%
[DEMO available now!] Erased memories, scattered clues. What will you uncover, and what will you leave buried?As an amnesiac detective, investigate crime scenes with limited focus. You can't analyze everything. Strategically choose your leads to shape the case and reclaim your lost past.
Why similar: Detective 25%, Investigation 19.8%, Crime 10.2%, Mystery 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Investigation 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Mystery 10.1%
What happens when a video game character is self-aware? Cadulium is a mystery science fiction adventure video game.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Noir 14.4%, Investigation 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Investigation 13.8%, Noir 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%
GRAYWOOD is a 1950s crime comic-inspired graphic adventure. Investigate crime scenes, craft your own lines of questioning, and organize your findings on your corkboard all while navigating a morally-testing narrative. Respect the law, follow your conscience, or abuse your power to save your family.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Noir 18.7%, Investigation 12.2%, Crime 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Noir 14.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Comic Book 10.2%, Crime 8.9%
Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Investigation 16.1%, Noir 15.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
Ring of Fire: Prologue is the first case in a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London. Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth.
Why similar: Detective 13.7%, Noir 13.6%, Investigation 11.7%, Crime 7.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Noir 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 7.6%
A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.
Why similar: Detective 28.8%, Investigation 22.8%, Noir 14.7%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 9.6%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 19.3%, Noir 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Mystery 9.1%
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
Why similar: Detective 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Comic Book 9.6%, Investigation 9.3%
The sequel to “Return to Shironagasu Island.” Two stories unfold simultaneously, occasionally intersecting. Advance both stories to avert a major crisis!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Investigation 14.2%, Comic Book 13%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Noir 15.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Crime 7.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 19.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Crime 9%, Mystery 8.4%
A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 14.5%, Noir 12.8%, Crime 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.2%
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 17.6%, Detective 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Comic Book 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Investigation 17.4%, Point & Click 9%, Story Rich 8.3%, Visual Novel 8%
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Investigation 18%, Crime 11.4%, Noir 10.2%, Mystery 9.6%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 18%, Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Investigation 17.2%, Crime 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Can you think like a killer? In this short murder mystery find details in evidence, interpret criminal behaviors and prove your worth to the FBI as new detective Desmond.
Why similar: Detective 27.1%, Investigation 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Point & Click 9.2%, Comic Book 9.2%
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: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Noir 16.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Comic Book 9.8%, Crime 8.7%
The greatest detective in São Paolo is dead, and you are the prime suspect in his death. Investigate the detective's past cases, unravel the web of mysteries that binds the great city, and prove your innocence. Enigmatic letters, hidden secrets, and one certainty: Every story has two sides.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Noir 22.5%, Investigation 18.4%, Story Rich 9%, Visual Novel 7.1%
Step into a small town in 90s China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Investigation 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Mystery 10%
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 16.3%, Detective 15.7%, Investigation 12.4%, Comic Book 9.7%, Crime 8.5%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Investigation 15.6%, Noir 14.8%, Comic Book 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Noir 16.2%, Investigation 14.1%, Crime 9.1%, Mystery 8.2%
You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Noir 16.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Crime 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Noir 15.2%, Investigation 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A noir first-person murder mystery set in a gloomy 1947 Pacific Northwest city. Play as the renowned Detective D.W. Dagger to help solve his latest case. A violent murder, a possible suicide, and a handful of suspects. Can you deduce what happened?
Why similar: Detective 22%, Noir 21.4%, Investigation 17.8%, Crime 9.4%, Comic Book 8.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Noir 15.2%, Investigation 15.1%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Noir 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 8.1%
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 23.6%, Investigation 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Mystery 9.6%
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: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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: Detective 25.2%, Investigation 19%, Visual Novel 13%, Crime 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Joe Kowalski Chronicles: Murder in a flat is a dark neo noir point and click adventure game where you start as a police detective Joe Kowalski and try to solve a murder that happened in Joe's neighborhood.
Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Detective 18.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Crime 9.9%, Point & Click 8.4%
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: Noir 17.3%, Detective 15%, Investigation 14.9%, Mystery 9.9%, Crime 9.4%
A monster-themed deduction game focused on solving brutal murders. Investigate crime scenes by uncovering hidden evidence, analyzing fingerprints, and testing blood samples. Identify the killer, determine the creature responsible, and solve seven thrilling cases
Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Noir 22.5%, Investigation 20%, Mystery 10.9%, Crime 10.6%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Investigation 15.1%, Detective 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 9%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 25.9%, Investigation 21%, Noir 20.4%, Mystery 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Comic Book 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
Why similar: Detective 21.3%, Investigation 17.3%, Noir 14.6%, Comic Book 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Detective 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Noir 13.5%, Investigation 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Noir 20.6%, Investigation 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Crime 10.8%
Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Detective 22%, Crime 12.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Investigation 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Mystery 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
Emma Riley: Dream Detective is a detective game where you must unravel an occult conspiracy spanning the real and dream worlds. Use keen observation to gather clues, carefully interrogate suspects for information, and use your logic and deduction skills to unravel the mystery!
Why similar: Detective 26.2%, Investigation 21.9%, Mystery 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 32%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Noir 11%, Investigation 10.9%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Mystery 9.1%