60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Dialogue Heavy, Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer.
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?
A Detective Story
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
Heal Hitler
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Artificial Intelligence 17.4%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 6.4%
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, Detective 22.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.6%, Psychological 11%, Visual Novel 10.4%
An AI-driven murder mystery where you play as the killer. Deceive NPCs, shift suspicion, and outsmart the AIs to survive. Strategize late-night kills and morning conversations in a tense game of trickery and deception.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.9%, Dialogue Heavy 22.8%, Text-Based 21%, Detective 17.5%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.9%, Detective 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Typing 7.4% ★
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 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Psychological 13%
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.9%, Detective 21.1%, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
A short emotional journey through memory, grief, and healing. Help Íris piece together her fragmented memories and uncover hidden truths. A portion of the sales is donated to AbleGamers Brazil. 🧡🖤
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.5%, Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 12%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Couch Detective is a text-based deduction game hosted by AI. Ask questions to uncover bizarre yet logical truths. You can also feed the AI your ideas to generate new puzzles and share them with friends.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.3%, Detective 19.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Typing 11.5% ★
Think you're clever? Prove it with an enigmatic AI, the ultimate master of riddles beyond imagination.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 31.6%, Dialogue Heavy 25.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, Typing 9.9% ★, Puzzle 5.5%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.9%, Detective 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Psychological 7.4%
Within a universe dominated by Artificial Intelligences, you step into the shoes of an AI detective to solve the mystery hidden within the Proxy Bar, a jazz club. You can ask the suspects ANYTHING, but will you ask the right questions?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.6%, Detective 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Mystery 4.4%
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26%, Typing 17.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Typing 14.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 11.6%
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.5%, Text-Based 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Typing 10.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
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: Text-Based 24.7%, Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Detective 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 7.6%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Artificial Intelligence 20.8%, Detective 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Typing 10.8% ★
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: Artificial Intelligence 24.2%, Detective 19.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 7.5%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 8.3%, Multiple Endings 8%
An AI-driven narrative adventure where rival dairy and snail-slime gangs battle for control of Brine City. Engage in high-stakes debates where every word counts—argue, persuade, and outsmart unpredictable characters who think and react in real time.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.2%, Text-Based 22.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Psychological 7.9%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Puzzle 8.4%
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Typing 10.1% ★
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Text-Based 13.1%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 33.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 6.4%
A narrative adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements. Play as a young FBI agent in New Orleans, investigate crime scenes, profile suspects, and make choices that shape a branching story mixing offbeat humor with a gripping crime thriller.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Detective 19.1%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.5%, Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Detective 22.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Text-Based 12.6%, Point & Click 9.6%
An AI-driven narrative RPG that grows alongside your focus sessions. Set a real-life task, start a 25-minute Pomodoro, and return to a fresh chapter written while you worked. Choose a fantasy cooking journey or a sci-fi survival mystery. Free AI built in.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 32.4%, Text-Based 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, RPG 4.9%
Stories Terminal is a detective text adventure inspired by classic parser games. Type your own commands, explore pixel-art locations, collect evidence, and solve a murder case on a midnight university campus.
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Artificial Intelligence 23.1%, Detective 14.2%, Typing 14% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Detective 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Point & Click 7.6%
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.4%, Artificial Intelligence 26%, Text-Based 23.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Casual 3.9%
CLICK THE BUTTON. click the button. cLiCk ThE bUtToN. The unofficial sequel, of the unofficial sequel, of click to ten. Explore the intriguing story of how you go from 0 to 1. 1 to 2. 2 to 3. and you know the rest.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.4%, Artificial Intelligence 29.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Casual 8.2%
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 31.9%, Text-Based 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Psychological 6.9%, RPG 3.3%
It's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and there's been a MAGICAL CRIME! Investigate the crime scene, question suspects, and defend the accused through unique cross-examination puzzles in this "Phoenix Wright" inspired mystery comedy.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 8.7%
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 33.7%, Text-Based 24.7%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 9.4%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.9%, Dialogue Heavy 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 31.2%, Text-Based 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Puzzle 8.3%, Mystery 4.3%
"A detective’s intuition alone cannot solve a case. Examine the scene carefully." Sanitecty is a 2D detective adventure set across various locations, from high-speed trains to hotels. Carefully investigate scenes and connect evidence to reveal the truth.
Why similar: Detective 38%, Dialogue Heavy 23.1%, Point & Click 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.1%, Puzzle 8%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Detective 17.5%, Visual Novel 7.7%
《虚拟证言》是一款AI剧本杀游戏。在游戏中，您将扮演一位侦探，前往六号公寓调查一起谋杀案件，案件的嫌疑人是5位AI-NPC。侦探需要搜集房间中的线索，联想案件经过，盘问嫌疑人获取案件的相关信息，复盘出完整的案发过程，找出真凶！
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.4%, Detective 21%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 7.2%
Bring your favorite characters to life on your desktop! CMChar offers interactive mascots with unique AI-powered personalities that talk, react, and evolve with you. Build affinity, level up, and boost your productivity with built-in tools.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 30%, Text-Based 21.3%, Typing 17.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Detective 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological 10%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.6%, Detective 18.8%, Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Puzzle 7.3%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 15.1%, Psychological 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.2%, Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Visual Novel 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: Dialogue Heavy 25.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Salvation or Damnation? Measure the worth of human souls in this psychological anime & FMV visual novel about moral dilemma! Will you allow your prejudices to call the shots? Or can you remain unbiased?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological 13.1%
Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets. Break them with words or evidence — or realize too late that you were only a pawn in their game. A detective game built around truly lifelike NPCs.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.6%, Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Detective 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 7%
Are you smart enough to figure out where he went, when the municipality worker disappeared without leaving a single trace? Inspired by popular lawyer game and primate based adventure game, the combination of interrogation and investigation gameplay pushes you to your mental limits!
Why similar: Detective 27.5%, Text-Based 25%, Dialogue Heavy 24.6%, Puzzle 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26%, Detective 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Psychological 8.4%, Visual Novel 6.6%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.9%, Dialogue Heavy 27.8%, Text-Based 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
《AI Detective Collection》 combines the AI large language model to create a detective deciphering game. Players will be integrated into the deduction story, using AI assistants to deeply investigate clues, examine evidence, and uncover the truth behind the case through logical thinking and deduction.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.8%, Detective 22.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 6.5%
A story about the Noctarian, a race whose nightmares become reality. Small choices made by Neml, a girl staying home alone, shape the fate of the world. The player does only one thing: rewrite the letter sent to Neml. An AI interprets the letter, changing Neml’s actions and the story’s outcome.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 36.2%, Text-Based 26.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Emotional 6.6%
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber agency, doing their best to uncover the identity of both the killer and VTuber's real face.
Why similar: Detective 28.1%, Dialogue Heavy 26.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Point & Click 5.8%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Detective 18.7%, Artificial Intelligence 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
