Games Like UNMEMORY

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

Why similar: Noir 13.4%, Thriller 11.8%, Detective 11.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Text-Based 8.9%

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Mystery 17.5%, Investigation 16%, Point & Click 10.2%, Puzzle 7.6%

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.

Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Detective 14.5%, Investigation 14.5%, Thriller 13.6%, Mystery 12.2%

The mysterious cat offer help to guide you. The room with puzzle awaits you and when you solve it, you will regain your memory. To reclaim your identity, you choose to follow mysterious cat and solve all puzzle in the rooms of question.

Why similar: Escape Room 39.1% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Mystery 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%, LGBTQ+ 8.5%

Detective Ridelle is a cozy murder mystery game featuring escape room style puzzles. Find clues, interrogate suspects, solve the mystery - before it's too late.

Why similar: Escape Room 31% ★, Detective 15.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Mystery 11.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.6%

Blankspace is an escape room visual novel with point-and-click elements. Investigate your surroundings, solve puzzles, make meaningful choices, and figure out the the mystery behind Chris and Beryl's predicament.

Why similar: Adventure 30.6%, Indie 20%, Mystery 19.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Puzzle 9.1%

A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.

Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Detective 18.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Noir 7.6%

Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Why similar: Detective 20%, Investigation 19%, Mystery 17.5%, Narration 14.4%, Point & Click 14.2%

An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.

Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Mystery 19.8%, Investigation 18.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Investigation 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Narration 14.7%, Point & Click 11.8%

Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.

Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Point & Click 12%, Investigation 10.9%, Detective 10.3%

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Investigation 15.9%, Detective 15.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, Mystery 11.3%

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 22.3%, Noir 19.7%, Point & Click 12.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Visual Novel 8.3%

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Why similar: Noir 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%

Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.

Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Thriller 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 11.6%

You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Why similar: Escape Room 36.3% ★, Investigation 16.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Point & Click 10.7%, Detective 6.8%

Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!

Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Detective 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Mystery 10.6%

Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.

Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Narration 9.7%, Investigation 9.4%

Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!

Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 18%, Mystery 16.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%

A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.

Why similar: Investigation 30.2%, Narration 24.8%, Detective 17.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Minimalist 6.1%

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Mystery 16.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%

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 22.2%, Mystery 17.8%, Point & Click 13.2%, Text-Based 13%, Investigation 10.7%

Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.

Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 17.4%, Thriller 11.9%, Text-Based 10.5%

LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.

Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Detective 19.4%, Mystery 15.3%, Investigation 11%, Visual Novel 8.8%

It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.

Why similar: Detective 24%, Mystery 17.8%, Point & Click 12%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 11.6%

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Mystery 18%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Story Rich 13.4%

Join the District Crime Agency in this isometric, modern noir deduction thriller. Explore crime scenes in complex dioramas, organize your evidence effectively, and blur the lines between right and wrong to present your case. Do you have what it takes to be a real detective?

Why similar: Noir 29.6%, Detective 24%, Mystery 14.5%, Point & Click 12.2%, Puzzle 7.5%

The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Detective 26.3%, Mystery 12.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Minimalist 11.5%

Experience the reversed escape room game. Solve many different types of puzzles and venture deeper and deeper into the mansion's heart. Investigate what lies behind the mysterious letter from your dearest friend.

Why similar: Escape Room 39.9% ★, Detective 17.8%, Narration 16.4%, Mystery 12.3%, Puzzle 6.5%

A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Mystery 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Noir 10%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Mystery 30.8%, Investigation 29.7%, Puzzle 12.6%, Story Rich 12%, Detective 6.4%

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 24.6%, Mystery 16.9%, Noir 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Investigation 10%

Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.

Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Mystery 17.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Narration 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%

As a private detective, you’ll crack word clues left by a mysterious informant, gather evidence, and uncover the truth hidden in the shadows.

Why similar: Noir 41%, Detective 24.7%, Puzzle 15.9%, Realistic 14%, Indie 3.1%

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

Why similar: Mystery 34.7%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Story Rich 17.4%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 7.1%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Mystery 21%, Text-Based 19.2%, Detective 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Point & Click 9.2%

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: Noir 21.4%, Detective 21.4%, Mystery 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 10.4%

The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.

Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Text-Based 13.1%, Narration 11.3%, Thriller 11.1%, Investigation 10.7%

Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Mystery 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Thriller 11.7%

A short non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.

Why similar: Detective 25.9%, Investigation 24.5%, Mystery 18.6%, Point & Click 13%, Puzzle 7.8%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Story Rich 11.1%, Indie 6.2%

unWorded is an innovative Narrative Puzzle Game where everything is built from letters. Use your imagination to create objects by assembling letters together and discover the story of a writer hospitalized after a serious accident...

Why similar: Adventure 59.9%, Indie 40.1%

The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.

Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Detective 13.2%, Thriller 13.1%, Narration 12%, Mystery 11.3%

You play as a postman, sorting mail for the five intriguing residents of a remote island. Pick up on their peculiar habits, discover their secrets without opening the envelopes, and try to save this peaceful haven from its fate!

Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Narration 15%, Text-Based 14.3%, Detective 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%

Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?

Why similar: Mystery 25.2%, Point & Click 23.6%, Realistic 13.3%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 10.7%

Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.

Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Detective 18.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%

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 20.8%, Mystery 15.6%, Investigation 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Detective 12.3%

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

Why similar: Mystery 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 17.6%, Detective 17%, Story Rich 9.6%

Connected Clue is a quarter-view detective adventure game inspired by the atmosphere of 19th-century mystery novels. Gather clues, see through lies, and uncover the identity of the culprit shrouded in secrecy!

Why similar: Detective 18%, Noir 17.8%, Investigation 16.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Mystery 12.5%

Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.

Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Thriller 15.5%, Mystery 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Investigation 18.5%, Thriller 14.9%, Mystery 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%

Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.

Why similar: Detective 34.1%, Thriller 27.6%, Investigation 22%, Minimalist 10.1%, Adventure 4.4%

Oniria Crimes is an interactive noir novel with point & click mechanics. Explore crime scenes in a dreamlike world where objects are the only witnesses. Six cases, a hidden conspiracy. Only you can uncover the truth behind the crimes of Oniria.

Why similar: Noir 26.9%, Narration 17.4%, Mystery 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 11.4%

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Why similar: Noir 26.3%, Detective 18.3%, Mystery 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Realistic 8.5%

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Why similar: Investigation 21.2%, Mystery 20.9%, Narration 20.2%, Point & Click 11.1%, Puzzle 10.1%

Are you ready to investigate a mysterious occurrence at a remote lighthouse? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game.

Why similar: Escape Room 37.1% ★, Point & Click 17.7%, Mystery 13.3%, Puzzle 11.5%, Adventure 8.4%

Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Mystery 24.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Point & Click 12.2%, Story Rich 10.2%