60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Detective, Investigation, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction.
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Dead Man's Pass
Inspect travel passes and question the strangers who reach your mountain gate after dark. In this yokai inspection game, compare every face, paper, and answer, then let them pass, turn them away, or draw your sword. Your family and the village bear the cost.
Welcome to Victorville
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Inspect travel passes and question the strangers who reach your mountain gate after dark. In this yokai inspection game, compare every face, paper, and answer, then let them pass, turn them away, or draw your sword. Your family and the village bear the cost.
Why similar: Time Management 21.5%, Detective 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Investigation 14.8%, Point & Click 9.2%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Investigation 8.2%
[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Detective 13.8%, Lore-Rich 9%, Investigation 8.9%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Detective 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Point & Click 9.7%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Investigation 17.4%, Time Management 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Point & Click 8%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Time Management 17%, Investigation 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 12.1%, Investigation 9.7%, Point & Click 9.1%
Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Detective 13.1%, Point & Click 10%, Exploration 8.6%
Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
Why similar: Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Detective 14.4%, Point & Click 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Time Management 16.8%, Detective 16%, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Lore-Rich 9.7%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 12.5%, Point & Click 11.1%, Detective 10.3%
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Time Management 21.9%, Investigation 17.2%, Point & Click 12.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Why similar: Detective 14.8%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
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 22.4%, Investigation 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
You wake on the last train at an unfamiliar terminus. Only one app opens on your phone: Orange Wiki, a guide to this place, its entities, and your escape. Explore, compare clues with wiki entries, and find a way out in this first-person horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Investigation 12.9%, Puzzle 9.4%, Lore-Rich 9.3%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Detective 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Point & Click 9.6%
Book-style murder investigation game set in Victorian London. Logic, Deduction and Attention to Details - use this to solve game mysteries. Unfold story chapters, investigate clues, visit London historical locations - and help to get murder into jail.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Detective 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Investigation 11.2%, Puzzle 8.9%
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 22.1%, Investigation 17.6%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Point & Click 9.3%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Detective 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 10.1%
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 24.4%, Investigation 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Point & Click 10.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Time Management 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Point & Click 15.3%, Puzzle 8.5%
A retro office mystery about tech support, deadlines, and a floor that doesn't exist. It's 2001, and you're the L1 helpdesk tech at a corporation running on an OS from another era. Close tickets against the clock. Mind your tone. Don't ask about Floor 7.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 17%, Detective 16.6%, Time Management 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Investigation 10.1%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Investigation 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Lore-Rich 7.8%
Investigate the country of Vera Cruz in this journalistic first-person adventure! Solve puzzles, take photos of clues and report news exposing the horrific truths behind General Galba and his bizarre government!
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Investigation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Point & Click 9.9%, Exploration 6.2%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13.1%, Point & Click 10.5%, Lore-Rich 10%
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 25.6%, Investigation 15%, Point & Click 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 10.6%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Point & Click 9.4%
Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
Why similar: Time Management 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Investigation 14.3%, Text-Based 10%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 18.3%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is a first-person point-and-click adventure inspired by Welsh mythology, focused on investigation, puzzles, and a dark, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 17.4%, Point & Click 12.1%, Investigation 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Point & Click 10.9%, Investigation 10.6%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Point & Click 13.9%, Exploration 10.3%, Puzzle 9.2%
Immerse yourself in a fantastic adventure in the snowy Italian Alps. Solve puzzles to find your way out of the tunnels of the Lair of the Beast. You will discover that monsters exist, but they are not the only ones with claws.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Point & Click 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10%, Investigation 9.3%
Detective Sammy Jukes is the man on the job when an anti-oil activist is reported missing in a small town on the new oil pipeline route. Talk to witnesses, shovel through evidence, wrestle with the wolves and chase after chickens to find the truth in this first-person open-world adventure game.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Investigation 11.8%, Point & Click 10.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Detective 18.5%, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Time Management 13.1%, Point & Click 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Point & Click 13.4%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. 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.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Lore-Rich 11%
Let's escape the room before the countdown ends, or☆……?
Why similar: Time Management 25%, Point & Click 16.3%, Investigation 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Text-Based 10.2%
Unravel the lies and uncover the hidden truth within the repeating seven days. A Loop × Mystery × Exploration ADV
Why similar: Time Management 21.1%, Detective 19.5%, Investigation 16.8%, Time Manipulation 11% ★, Text-Based 8.2%
Uncover the secrets of Arkham in a dark cosmic horror adventure. Solve puzzles, cross hidden dimensions, and use the Eye of Kadath to reveal the impossible. Knowledge comes at a price... are you willing to pay it?
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Investigation 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Point & Click 10%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Investigation 17.4%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Point & Click 11.4%
Mindjack is a plot-progression Visual novels and investigation game about social violence. Hijack instructors' vision terminals, eavesdrop on conspiracies, and capture violent acts. You must uncover dark secrets, and decide whether to save your friends trapped within the time limit.
Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Investigation 18.9%, Point & Click 10.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Time Manipulation 9.1% ★
Enter a small town filled with mysteries to help Andrew Connor solve one of his own. Work your way through the past and help put it, and the people involved, to rest for good. Just remember to be careful, danger could be hidden around any corner.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Point & Click 16.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Investigation 8.8%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 7.9%
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Point & Click 11.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 12.8%, Exploration 8.6%
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 20.5%, Investigation 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Lore-Rich 8.8%
A horror visual novel with farming mechanics. Investigate, farm and woo the villagers while trying not to die at the hands of the mysterious dogs that roam the lands at night. A complete game that is free.
Why similar: Time Management 18.3%, Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Point & Click 9.8%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Point & Click 18.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Exploration 9.4%
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Investigation 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Point & Click 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.1%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Investigation 16.8%, Text-Based 11.4%
