
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, Investigation, Mystery, 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!

BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
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 14.1%, Noir 13.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Choices Matter 7%, Comic Book 6.8%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Noir 15.7%, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 13.3%, Noir 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Comic Book 8.4%
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 21.4%, Noir 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Noir 19.2%, Investigation 16.6%, Crime 9.9%, Mystery 7.7%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Investigation 15.4%, Noir 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Investigation 14.9%, Noir 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Mystery 7.5%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 16.2%, Noir 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Mystery 8.3%
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 14.1%, Noir 13.7%, Investigation 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%, Crime 7.2%
[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 25.6%, Investigation 19.7%, Crime 10%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Mystery 9.3%
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 19.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Noir 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Crime 8.4%
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 22.7%, Investigation 17.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%
What happens when a video game character is self-aware? Cadulium is a mystery science fiction adventure video game.
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Noir 14.5%, Investigation 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choices Matter 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 19.1%, Investigation 13.7%, Noir 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Noir 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Investigation 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
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 20.4%, Noir 18.8%, Investigation 12.1%, Crime 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
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 18.2%, Noir 15%, Investigation 13.4%, Comic Book 10.1%, Crime 8.7%
Noir gamebook. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Noir 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
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 16.4%, Noir 15.8%, Investigation 14.4%, Crime 7.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
A narrative game set in 1943 Belém, legends are vanishing, and the river’s secrets need a detective. Pink, if you will. As a shapeshifting river dolphin detective that turns into human (almost), uncover a noir mystery where folklore, memory, and conspiracy flow beneath the city.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Noir 19.8%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 9.4%, Crime 8.3%
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Investigation 21.6%, Mystery 9.6%, Noir 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 19.5%, Investigation 16%, Noir 15.8%, Mystery 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 8%
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 29.4%, Investigation 22.6%, Noir 14.7%, Mystery 10.1%, Story Rich 9.5%
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 25.8%, Investigation 19.2%, Noir 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Mystery 8.9%
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 20.3%, Noir 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Story Rich 7.5%
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Investigation 18.3%, Noir 15.7%, Mystery 8.5%, Point & Click 7.7%
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 27.8%, Investigation 19.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Crime 8.8%, Mystery 8.3%
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Comic Book 9.5%, Investigation 9.3%
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 20.5%, Investigation 14.4%, Noir 12.8%, Crime 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%
In New York, private detective Ikeda Sen happens upon the enigmatic Lila shortly before his client, Walton, hands him a strange device. And in Japan, Izumozaki Neneko stumbles upon a corpse by the canal on her way to school. Two unrelated stories unfold, intersecting in bizarre and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Investigation 14.2%, Comic Book 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 25.4%, Investigation 18%, Crime 11.2%, Noir 10.2%, Mystery 9.4%
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 18.1%, Detective 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%
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 17.7%, Detective 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Comic Book 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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 27.8%, Investigation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Point & Click 9.3%, Comic Book 9.1%
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 23.3%, Investigation 17.3%, Point & Click 9.1%, Story Rich 8.2%, Visual Novel 7.9%
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 17.4%, Noir 16.5%, Investigation 13.6%, Comic Book 9.8%, Crime 8.5%
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: Detective 17.8%, Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choices Matter 9%, Crime 8.7%
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 18.9%, Investigation 17.2%, Crime 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 17.7%, Investigation 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Mystery 10%, Visual Novel 9.7%
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Investigation 18%, Noir 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Mystery 11.1%
Become Nick Night, detective for hire, as he embarks on his toughest case yet in this noir, open world RPG.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Noir 13.9%, Investigation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Crime 9.2%
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 25.9%, Noir 22.6%, Investigation 18.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Visual Novel 7%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Noir 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Visual Novel 10%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
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 16.4%, Detective 16.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Comic Book 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional 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 25.3%, Investigation 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Mystery 9.8%
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 26.4%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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 20.6%, Noir 16.2%, Investigation 14%, Crime 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Investigation 15.6%, Noir 14.9%, Comic Book 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
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 21.5%, Noir 16.5%, Investigation 11.8%, Crime 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
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 22.5%, Noir 21.5%, Investigation 17.7%, Crime 9.2%, Comic Book 8.2%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Noir 15.3%, Investigation 15.1%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 17.4%, Noir 15.3%, Investigation 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
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 24.2%, Investigation 17.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Mystery 9.4%
Curtain Call in Flames is a single-player 2D courtroom mystery visual novel set in a traditional Chinese puppet troupe. As defense attorney Bian Bo, investigate a murder, question witnesses, examine evidence, and expose contradictions in court to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 28.3%, Investigation 19.1%, Crime 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Mystery 9.9%
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Comic Book 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 21.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
'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 18.5%, Noir 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Mystery 8%
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 20.8%, Noir 20.4%, Mystery 8.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%
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: Detective 26%, Investigation 19.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Crime 9.4%
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 15.4%, Investigation 15.2%, Mystery 9.8%, Crime 9.2%