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Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026-08-27
Developer: Spicy Bread Productions LLC
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchVery Positive89% of 771 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 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Point & Click 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

  2. #2 Whispers of Gold
    96% 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 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Hand-drawn 10.5%

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    96% 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 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

  4. #4 ナカノ人格移植研究所
    95% matchNo user reviews2027
    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 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Detective 12%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 8.5%

  5. #5 Misadventures of Laura Silver
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio Attic Salt
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 9.1%

  6. #6 囚われホテル
    94% 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 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Investigation 10.1%, Text-Based 9.8%

  7. #7 Kamilia
    93% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
    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 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Emotional 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%

  8. #8 Big Ear Detective
    92% 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.

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  9. #9 No Case Should Remain Unsolved
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,281 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 14.3%, Investigation 11.8%, Point & Click 11.4%, Detective 11.2%, Text-Based 11%

  10. #10 summer story
    91% 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 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

  11. #11 Death off the Cuff
    90% match8 user reviews88% of 8 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: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Detective 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 9.7%

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    88% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2026
    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 16.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Detective 10.2%

  13. #13 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
    89% matchVery Positive84% of 360 reviews2019
    Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%

    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 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Point & Click 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

  14. #14 SOLEN
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Inkdrift
    Windows

    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.

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  15. #15 Holy Deadline
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sunday Morning Meet-up Studio
    Windows

    Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich visual novel where you play as a demigod lawyer. You have one week to investigate the divine divorce of Adam and Eve! Flirt, drink, raise your stats and make bold choices in minigames and Heaven's drama.

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    86% 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?

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    86% 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.

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    85% 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 17.5%, Investigation 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

  19. #19 Among Us Story: On Guard
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Innersloth
    Windows · Mac

    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.

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    83% matchPositive90% of 30 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.

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    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Telltale
    Windows

    A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.

    Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

  22. #22 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
    82% 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 19.8%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%

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    81% matchMostly Positive72% of 183 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...

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  24. #24 CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~ REMASTERED
    81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
    Dev: ROSEVERTE MYSTERYPub: ROSEVERTE
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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?

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    79% matchVery Positive87% of 83 reviews2024
    Dev: SEEC Inc.
    Windows · Mac

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    80% 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%, Point & Click 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%

  27. #27 All (Too) Good Things
    79% 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 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%

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    78% 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 14.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

  29. #29 Angelic Agency: Soul Salvation Unit
    78% 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 21.4%, Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.1%

  30. #30 Inflorescences
    77% 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 18.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11%, Story Rich 10.6%

  31. #31 Suhoshin
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 172 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.

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  32. #32 The Princess and the Porcupine
    76% 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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 14.7%, Cartoon 11.5%, Detective 11%

  33. #33 DELETE AFTER READING
    75% 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 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Point & Click 10.9%

  34. #34 Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel
    76% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2021
    Dev: Quill Yuri
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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%

  35. #35 Spill the Beans
    74% 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 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.8%

  36. #36 Addy
    73% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: Sofia Gyger
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 10.9%

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    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 1888 Studio
    Windows

    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 10.1%, Investigation 8.7%

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    75% 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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Investigation 10.7%

  39. #39 My Dear Frankenstein -English Edition-
    73% 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 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Emotional 14.5%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%

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    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FableTree Productions
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%

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    72% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2023
    Dev: Persona Theory Games
    Windows

    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 13.5%, Point & Click 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Investigation 11.1%

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    71% matchPositive100% of 19 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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Detective 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%

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    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Studio 7e
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 17.1%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

  44. #44 BEAST CRIMES
    73% matchMixed64% of 64 reviews2022
    Dev: LINK
    Windows

    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 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%

  45. #45 Exploring Friscott
    70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%

  46. #46 The Protagonish
    70% matchMixed56% of 32 reviews2024
    Dev: College Fun Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 8.2%

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    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Shadow GlovePub: FINE Co., Ltd.
    Windows

    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 11.2%, Detective 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Investigation 8.7%

  48. #48 Mass of Consumption
    68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
    Windows

    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 13.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

  49. #49 The Girl Who Wasn't There
    69% 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...

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  50. #50 Sarawak
    71% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2021
    Dev: Cowleyfornia StudiosPub: Cowleyfornia Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

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  51. #51 The Caffeine Chronicles
    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Pegasus136GamesPub: Pegasus136games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions

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    67% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
    Dev: S&J Games
    Windows · Mac

    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?

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  53. #53 Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows
    66% matchPositive98% of 47 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.

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    70% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 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.

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  55. #55 The Island of Crossed Destinies
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Paper Tigers
    Windows

    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.

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  56. #56 Heart of mobius
    68% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
    Dev: gunsturn Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!

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  57. #57 Blue Bird's Song
    67% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Mac

    Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.

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  58. #58 Into the Waves
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 91 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!

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  59. #59 Herald of the Mists
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FromNiki
    Windows

    A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Detective 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%

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