60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
One Night Stand
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
Whispers of Gold
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Point & Click 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
「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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 12%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 8.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Detective 10.4%, Point & Click 10%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Investigation 10.1%, Text-Based 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 18.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Point & Click 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 9.5%
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 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Emotional 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 16.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Text-Based 10.8%, Investigation 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%
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 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Investigation 10.3%, Text-Based 10%, Point & Click 8.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Point & Click 11.4%, Detective 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 9.7%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Detective 10.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Detective 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Investigation 9.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 9.9%, Point & Click 9.2%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Point & Click 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich adventure about a demigod lawyer working in the Heavenly Office. You have exactly one week to investigate the sudden divorce of John and Lilith. Take on mortal petitions, level up your logic and flair to eventually uncover who sent you back to Heaven!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Detective 13%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Point & Click 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
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 17.5%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Point & Click 11.9%, Investigation 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Investigation 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 11%
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
The Pirate Princess must infiltrate a memorial to steal an orb with the power to control nature: Ecosphere. Will you manage to steal the precious loot?
Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Point & Click 12%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場！
Why similar: Point & Click 13.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 10.1%
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Why similar: Detective 15%, Investigation 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Emotional 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
First the King’s sheeps then the King himself! Everyone seems to be mysteriously disappearing lately. As the King’s intrepid daughter, and with the help of a strange talking porcupine, travel through the kingdom and interrogate your subjects to solve the mysterious disappearances.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 14.8%, Cartoon 11.5%, Detective 11%
A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Detective 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Detective 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Point & Click 10.9%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Investigation 8.7%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Point & Click 12.5%, Investigation 11.9%, Visual Novel 11%
A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Investigation 10.7%
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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Detective 11.4%
Play as man-made boy, Adam, in this emotional adventure. Explore the city at night in search of the fragments of his heart!
Why similar: Point & Click 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Emotional 14.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Welcome to the Kabaret - where monsters from Southeast Asian myths and folklores dwell. Perform tea ceremonies, play traditional games, and question your humanity.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Point & Click 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Investigation 11.1%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Point & Click 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%
A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Adventure 8.3%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Point & Click 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Detective 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Emotional 8.7%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Detective 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 8.6%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world. As a dragon detective, use your six senses to find evidence and hunt down the culprit.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10%
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 18.5%, Detective 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Multiple Endings 16%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 11.1%, Detective 11%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Skateboard into the bustling city of Shinjuku in this beautiful, hand drawn, adult visual novel. Follow the misadventures of Guy as he humorously pursues the affection of sexy ladies and discovers their heartfelt stories. Which girl will you choose?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%
