- #1 視靈
97% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 巧娃工坊
Windows
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 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Point & Click 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #2 Poisoned Path
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Inspiration Overload Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #3 Murder in Crayontopia
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Purple Basil Games
Windows · Linux
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 13.5%, Investigation 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Emotional 9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #4 summer story
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #5 No Case Should Remain Unsolved
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,767 reviews2024
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 13.5%, Investigation 11%, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Detective 10.3%
- #6 Whispers of Gold
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Falling Raven
Windows
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 12.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
- #7 小学生はませている。
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: NOLAS project
Windows
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Detective 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Drama 9.8%
- #8 Ezrebeth
91% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 15.3%, Point & Click 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Drama 11%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #9 BEAST CRIMES
92% matchMixed63% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: LINK
Windows
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #10 Kamilia
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RQ play
Windows · Mac
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 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Emotional 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #11 Big Ear Detective
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fabula Improviso
Windows · Mac
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 16.3%, Point & Click 12.5%, Text-Based 11%, Investigation 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
- #12 The Spirit Weaver
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StarBullet StudioPub: GameChanger Studio
Windows
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 15.9%, Point & Click 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Detective 9.5%
- #13 ナカノ人格移植研究所
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「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 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #14 Misadventures of Laura Silver
88% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Attic Salt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 11.7%, Detective 10.4%, Point & Click 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #15 Into the Waves
87% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Point & Click 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #16 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
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 18.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #17 You're a dad
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Point & Click 10.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #18 囚われホテル
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: akamilabPub: none
Mac
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 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Investigation 10.2%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #19 Inflorescences
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FloriProductions
Windows · Mac
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 17.5%, Text-Based 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #20 The Second Reality Room: Unspoken Truths
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shadow GlovePub: FINE Co., Ltd.
Windows
You can't understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality.” Talk. Mind Read. Translate. An empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Detective 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Drama 8.5%
- #21 Isle of Maligree
83% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Gilded Rune Games
Windows · Mac
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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #22 Rumor Reporter
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greyhaven Craft
Windows
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 17.4%, Investigation 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #23 Camille and Laura
80% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: BonjourBorzoi
Windows
Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 16%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Drama 8%
- #24 Suhoshin
81% matchVery Positive91% of 166 reviews2022
Dev: No More 500
Windows
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%, Text-Based 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Detective 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #25 Travelling Light
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio IDUNPub: Yotsuba Interactive
Windows · Mac
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
- #26 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows
79% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Sungazer Software LLC
Windows
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 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
- #27 Death off the Cuff
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
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 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 9.7%
- #28 Addy
79% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Sofia Gyger
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 11.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #29 The Girl Who Wasn't There
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1564 Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #30 The Dreamwalkers
77% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Nightbloomer Studio
Windows
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 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
- #31 Defragmenting
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #32 回ル!ハッカー探偵
75% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: 総合コンテンツ制作サークル
Windows
Become a righteous hacker detective who solves people's problems... and hack the requested PC by solving riddles! Analyze the PC by hacking! And... solve the source of your client's problems in the PC! This game is a puzzle solving adventure. You can hack by solving riddles.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 11.8%, Mystery 9.9%, Drama 9.2%
- #33 Arderico's Journey
76% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #34 One Night Stand
78% matchVery Positive90% of 762 reviews2016
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Point & Click 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #35 Saltsea Chronicles
76% matchVery Positive97% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Die Gute Fabrik
Windows · Mac
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Cartoon 9%, Point & Click 9%, Investigation 8.7%
- #36 Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: coly Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 17%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #37 Riddle Me Bunny: Nonogram
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Midnight Cupcakes
Windows
"Riddle Me Bunny: Nonogram" is a charming Nonogram puzzle-adventure game . When Nono, a watchmaker's daughter, finds a mysterious headband called "Riddle Me Bunny," she meets Gram, a magical blue rabbit. Together they solve picture-logic puzzles to restore their village's vanishing scenery!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Emotional 10%
- #38 All (Too) Good Things
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #39 Ecosphere - Prologue
74% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Talestrike
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 14.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
- #40 Angelic Agency: Soul Salvation Unit
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YOKUNIKU
Windows
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 21.3%, Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.1%
- #41 Still Joking
72% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Brick Games
Windows · Mac
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Investigation 8.9%
- #42 Watashi Suzume
73% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Shamrock Creations LLC.
Windows
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 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 10.7%
- #43 The Princess and the Porcupine
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Small is Beautiful Studio inc.
Windows
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 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 14.7%, Cartoon 11.4%, Detective 11%
- #44 DELETE AFTER READING
72% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
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 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Point & Click 10.8%
- #45 Spill the Beans
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skeletal Games
Windows
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 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
- #46 妖睨之境The Sight of Darkness
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 豹肝工作室 SEALIVER STUDIO
Windows
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Drama 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Point & Click 11%
- #47 Scribe
69% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 10%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #48 Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 913 reviews2025
Dev: TYPE-MOONPub: Aniplex Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Relive the four days of destiny...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Drama 9%
- #49 Guilt Free
70% matchVery Positive86% of 288 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
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: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #50 Matsuro Palette
70% matchVery Positive99% of 319 reviews2020
Dev: SleepingMuseumPub: KEMCO
Windows
Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?
Why similar: Point & Click 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Emotional 10.2%, Drama 9.8%
- #51 Change the World
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Tea Leaf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #52 Good Bones
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Point & Click 12%, Investigation 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #53 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
66% matchVery Positive86% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #54 Open Spaces SE
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Emotional 8.6%
- #55 雪凤山 Secret Opera
67% matchVery Positive80% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: GOCORE
Windows
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Drama 11.6%, Detective 10.2%
- #56 Serania - Path of the Scion
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
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 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #57 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #58 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
66% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #59 My Dear Frankenstein -English Edition-
68% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: NUMBER7Pub: Moonchime Studios
Windows · Mac
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 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Emotional 14.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #60 Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut
66% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Screen Savor Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Detective 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%