
You're broke, in debt, and one month from the street. And to top it off, you pawned your father's watch. So get to work: the "thrilling" job of running a godforsaken pawnshop is all yours.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Investigation, Detective, Choices Matter, Crime.

You're broke, in debt, and one month from the street. And to top it off, you pawned your father's watch. So get to work: the "thrilling" job of running a godforsaken pawnshop is all yours.

The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
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.

Abscission
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
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: Investigation 17.4%, Detective 14.6%, Crime 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Point & Click 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Crime 13%, Investigation 12.7%
A fast, AI-driven courtroom thriller where you collect evidence, question suspects in live trials, and deliver a verdict—then see the world react to your decision.
Why similar: Hidden Object 16.6%, Point & Click 16%, Crime 15.7%, Detective 14.4%, Simulation 14.3%
Run a co-op night shift at a roadside gas station. Fuel cars, run the register, repair vehicles, stop thieves, and investigate suspicious customers before the night gets out of control.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.1% ★, Life Sim 16.6%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Crime 10%
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Crime 17.9%, Point & Click 14%, Choices Matter 12%, Investigation 10.3%
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Investigation 16.6%, Detective 14.6%, Crime 14%, Point & Click 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
Follow the trail of a mysterious amulet, expose deep-rooted corruption, and confront powerful adversaries who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets!
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Hidden Object 16.2%, Point & Click 14.3%, Investigation 13.2%, Crime 12.8%
Become a Crime Scene Investigator, gather evidence, and connect not obvious facts which will lead you to solve the crime and find the guilty! Don't let criminals get more innocent victims!
Why similar: Crime 18.2%, Investigation 17.7%, Detective 17.6%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Life Sim 13%
Open a little magic stand in a peaceful village! 'The Potion Stand' is a cozy tycoon where you serve cute sprites. Deduce their metaphorical orders, brew perfect drinks, and collect gold. Upgrade your stand and complete the heartwarming stories of regular sprites who visit every night.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.6% ★, Life Sim 16.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Simulation 12%, Detective 9.5%
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: Investigation 19.2%, Detective 17.2%, Point & Click 13.7%, Hidden Object 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.
Why similar: Investigation 25.7%, Crime 21.8%, Detective 13.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11.9%
People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37% ★, Detective 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Simulation 10%, Point & Click 7.3%
A psychological horror job simulator. Serve coffee at a lonely drive-thru. But when a mysterious email arrives, your shift changes. Watch the cars. Check the plates. Someone in line is hiding a dark secret, and something else is watching you from the dark.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 23% ★, Investigation 17.3%, Detective 15.3%, Crime 14.9%, Life Sim 11.7%
Suneil starts his new night job at a gas station on the outskirts of Highwayton, Colorado. The customers keep coming but few of them leave. Something in the dark keeps asking for them.
Why similar: Crime 21.3%, Investigation 21.2%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Life Sim 15.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
[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 24.2%, Investigation 23.7%, Crime 17.3%, Point & Click 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure. Search for clues, question suspects, and piece together evidence on your deduction board to solve four gripping murder cases.
Why similar: Detective 18.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Crime 16%, Point & Click 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Revive an abandoned airport in 2000s Colombia. Verify documents, stop smuggling with X-ray scans, and upgrade your terminal. Will you stay a loyal officer or collaborate with the cartels to rot the system from within? Every stamp and every bribe leads you either to justice or to a dark fortune.
Why similar: Investigation 18.4%, Crime 18.4%, Detective 16.9%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
You are a real estate agent whose job is to determine which elderly woman is an ordinary seller and which one is a scammer granny.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Investigation 21.3%, Hidden Object 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Point & Click 9.6%
Step into the shoes of Indigo, the owner of a small magic shop. Help your customers with a wide variety of problems!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 18.9% ★, Dark Humor 15.4%, Life Sim 12.9%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%
In a Detective's Mind is an investigation game that seeks to put you in the role of a detective, who needs to solve cases and deal with obscure problems from his past.
Why similar: Detective 30.6%, Investigation 26.2%, Crime 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Top-Down 9.2%
A 2D point-and-click mystery set in the wild 1990s of Slovakia and Czechia. As two young reporters, follow a dead straw man, missing files, locked doors, and paper trails into a case that was never meant to be opened.
Why similar: Investigation 19.9%, Detective 19.4%, Point & Click 14.9%, Crime 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
Become Nick Night, detective for hire, as he embarks on his toughest case yet in this noir, open world RPG.
Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Crime 15.2%, Detective 14.8%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Crime 16.4%, Investigation 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Simulation 9.3%
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 18.3%, Investigation 15.8%, Crime 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Point & Click 10.8%
팀 관포지교가 선보이는 가장 유쾌한 피카레스크! 진실보다는 현실을 좇는 변호사가 되어 반성의 여지 없는 의뢰인을 변호하는 게임입니다. 사건의 단서를 모아 '입맛대로' 진상을 재구성하고, 누가 봐도 죄가 깊은 의뢰인을 무죄로 만들어줍시다.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Crime 18.8%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
Reality Rivals is the reality show you can play. Compete in challenges, form alliances, and survive the vote in this social strategy game. Every choice shapes the drama. Will you avoid Exile, and beat your Rivals?
Why similar: Capitalism 20.9%, Immersive Sim 19.2%, Life Sim 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Choices Matter 8%
Hiddenverse: Ominous Opus is hidden object, match-3 storytelling adventure game about Avenlee - a young aspiring writer, who finds her friend buried in the sewers. The tragic accident is quickly revealed to be a cover-up for a murder, and it’s up to you to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Investigation 19.2%, Hidden Object 16.4%, Detective 15%, Point & Click 14%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Spirits and Secrets is a Bartender Simulator Murder Mystery game set in a medieval fantasy world. Talk to patrons, make their orders, and solve their mysteries by piecing together clues.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.3% ★, Detective 22.3%, Simulation 13.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Life Sim 8.1%
Shake It: Lycoris is a bartender simulator where cozy vibes, smooth jazz, and a wide variety of cocktails blend into one unique atmosphere.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Point & Click 14.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Simulation 9.7%
London, 1889. Step into the shoes of a young detective in this hand-drawn, point-and-click mystery. Explore the dark halls of Seraphim House, illuminate the shadows, and interrogate suspects to solve a complex locked-room murder. Will you accuse the right person?
Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Point & Click 15.9%, Detective 14.2%, Hidden Object 13.1%, Crime 8.9%
Build a business from the ground up. Choose your industry, manage money, equipment, employees, customers, debt, and unexpected disasters. Every decision shapes your reputation, growth, and whether your company becomes an empire—or collapses under its own ambition.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.7% ★, Life Sim 17.7%, Immersive Sim 15%, Simulation 13.3%, Capitalism 12.2%
You lost your coal mine job, now you're a cashier at Poland's landmark convenience store. Scan groceries, verify IDs, grill hot dogs, and try to feed your family on what's left. A dark comedy about surviving late stage capitalism, one receipt at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.8% ★, Life Sim 18.2%, Point & Click 14.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Dark Humor 11.3%
Step into the tense, high-stakes world of airport security. Inspect luggage, interrogate passengers, and make choices that affect your reputation, income, and the safety of your airport. Rise through the ranks, earn trust, and unlock bigger airports, every decision shapes your career.
Why similar: Investigation 26%, Simulation 15.9%, Life Sim 14.6%, Hidden Object 13.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
Newly released from prison, you've been sent to a distant space station to manage a general store. This is your last chance at redemption and the authorities are watching. Can you keep your nose clean and still earn a profit in this trading simulator?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Crime 12.6%, Capitalism 11.5%, Immersive Sim 10%, Life Sim 9%
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Crime 16.1%, Investigation 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 11%
A first-person horror investigation game set against a wartime backdrop. Explore an abandoned asylum, use psychometric abilities to uncover a criminal case from the past, solve puzzles, and collect evidence before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 24.7%, Crime 19.9%, Detective 18.7%, Dark Humor 13.4%, Hidden Object 8.4%
I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
Hang up your degree and take over your grandfather's corner shop. Step into a deep narrative simulation where your choices shape the neighborhood, your reputation defines your path, and every interaction crafts a unique story.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.4% ★, Capitalism 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Life Sim 12.1%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
Make your choices. Find your path.
Why similar: Hidden Object 20%, Detective 19.4%, Point & Click 19.3%, Investigation 19.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 25%, Detective 16.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Point & Click 6.8%
An evidence-based detective game set in rural India. Investigate your friend's disappearance by searching crime scenes, interrogating suspects, and presenting proof to break through lies. Race against time to expose a conspiracy before the 9:45 PM train leaves.
Why similar: Investigation 19.6%, Detective 19.4%, Crime 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Welcome to Anssoloin's new postman! After years of hard work, you've finally been able to buy your own post office by the sea. Learn more about the village and its residents through your work. Will you be able to fit in your new community? Sort the mail, discover new things, chat, and relax.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.5% ★, Point & Click 13.7%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%
Death has taken a well-deserved vacation in Cancun and left George in charge! He'll have to learn to deal with Destiny and decide who should continue their journey in the land of the living. But beware, wrong choices lead to undesirable consequences!
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.3%, Point & Click 19.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Immersive Sim 10%
In this pixelated adventure from Sock Films, you'll have to help Matt Murphy and his faithful friend Trey to catch, look, talk and search the underworld of Naperville.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.1%, Immersive Sim 21.1%, Detective 18%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.
Why similar: Crime 24.1%, Detective 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Investigation 14.3%, Dark Humor 11.4%
You are the hotel doorman and a demon hunter. Check each guest, and if you find an anomaly, exorcise it without hesitation. After guarding the hotel for 10 days, you will face him on the final day.
Why similar: Investigation 20.5%, Detective 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Immersive Sim 12.4%
DETECTIVE Minerva Case is a crime deduction and solving game, with an adult and original story. Visit the crime scene, look for all the evidence and understand what happened.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Investigation 16.8%, Crime 16.7%, Hidden Object 13.6%, Immersive Sim 13%
Assume the role of a modern detective and solve fascinating cases using lots of gadgets and your own skills. Let a sophisticated narrative help you uncover clues and secrets that might not be apparent right away and become a star detective.
Why similar: Detective 32.2%, Investigation 21.3%, Crime 17%, Simulation 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Detective Dana is a 2D story-rich game about an Arabic police officer investigating murder cases. Investigate the crime scene, interrogate the witnesses, solve the mysteries and uncover the secrets until you catch the criminal!
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Point & Click 15.2%, Hidden Object 15.1%, Crime 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%
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: Investigation 25.1%, Detective 24.4%, Point & Click 12.9%, Hidden Object 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Good drinks, better conversation...
Why similar: Detective 22%, Hidden Object 18.5%, Point & Click 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Investigation 10.9%
A narrative 2D single-player game about working in an underground tobacco shop, funding a collapsing film project, taking on tasks, exploring a dangerous city, and watching reality gradually break apart.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Point & Click 11.5%, Hidden Object 10.1%
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 36.1%, Investigation 20.1%, Crime 18.2%, Point & Click 8.1%, Choices Matter 6%
Uncover hidden secrets in a haunted medieval park! Solve puzzles, find clues, and escape a ghostly knight in this thrilling hidden object adventure.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Hidden Object 18.7%, Point & Click 16.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Crime 14.1%
After a crime has occurred within the walls of a university, the main character finds himself in the very epicenter of events. So be patient and put on your knight's armor. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of student life and other people's secrets.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Investigation 17.7%, Point & Click 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9%
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 18%, Crime 16.6%, Hidden Object 14.6%, Point & Click 11.9%
A deep US police precinct management simulation. You are the Captain. Hire officers, manage your fleet, respond to a living city, and carry responsibility for every officer under your command. The job has a cost. So does ignoring it.
Why similar: Crime 21.2%, Detective 19.6%, Investigation 19.2%, Immersive Sim 18.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve cases that are too tough for the local police to crack.
Why similar: Detective 29.6%, Investigation 27.5%, Point & Click 14.4%, Crime 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%
Every RPG has someone handing out quests. In Questmonger, that someone is you. Run a crumbling adventurer’s guild, match heroes to dangerous jobs, lend them gear, and live with the outcome. Heroes die. Rent comes due. The royal inspector remembers every failure.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Point & Click 16.3%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
Investigate your way in a branching noir horror detective game inspired by Lovecraftian horror and ancient Minoan myth. Analyze evidence, connect clues, and uncover dark secrets through genre-bending deduction mechanics. Face a sinister plot—and an ultimate choice.
Why similar: Crime 16.4%, Investigation 14.5%, Detective 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Point & Click 10.5%