- #1 X遊戲
97% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Oath
Windows
各懷目的的少年少女們,聚在一起挑戰神奇的「X遊戲」,沒有甚麼神奇的奇幻的魔法,更沒有外星人或鬼怪等事件,僅僅只是一個普通的狼人殺遊戲而已......嗎?找出真正的兇手,並且在那之前避免被票死,活到最後,擄獲美人心吧!
Why similar: Word Game 30%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Detective 14.4%, Puzzle 9.7%, Cartoony 9%
- #2 File Tricks
96% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Kid Games
Windows
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 31.7%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Logic 9.2%, RPG 7.8%
- #3 童谣无忌
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Youki Fung
Windows
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to the mountain village of Hongluo after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Slowly reveal the truth of the case from back then.
Why similar: Word Game 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Comic Book 13.1%, RPG 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #4 Visual Novel: Call of Toilet
95% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
In this game, you don't survive; you live for your own pleasure. Drag your friend into this crazy road movie, where every mutant is trying not to devour you, but to draw you into their everyday drama. Will you reach the coveted golden toilet or become a local legend?
Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Detective 11.5%, RPG 9.1%, Dark Humor 8.8%
- #5 Defective Detectives 2
94% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
A comedic detective visual novel in a noir style. Try on an old raincoat, arm yourself with a half-eaten éclair, and set out to find the Mayor's stolen wig! Read dialogue, make choices, and try not to lead the investigation down a dead end before the Sausage Baron takes over the city.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Comic Book 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Exploration 9.3%
- #6 FALSE SPIDER
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 有栖川暁夜
Windows
The web woven by spiders is only for waiting for prey to bite.
Why similar: Word Game 22.6%, Comic Book 16.2%, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #7 Coincidence
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Softcatstudio
Windows
《阴阳错》是一款发生在中国本土题材民俗恐怖悬疑解谜游戏。故事发生在香港,一位意外失去生命的民间道士与一位丢失配枪的女刑警成为搭档。破解红磡五人连环杀人案,并找到丢失的配枪和肉身,随着受害者数量增加,调查的深入,案件的真相却变得扑朔迷离……一个丢失配枪的女警、一个意外死亡的半仙,一个嫁为人妻的女子,一场有关成仙的阴谋,正慢慢浮出水面。
Why similar: Word Game 27%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Exploration 9.5%
- #8 Flying over the penguin's hollow
92% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
Meet Vinnie, aka "The Trickster." In his dreams, he's a criminal mastermind, the terror of banks and the ladies. In reality, he's the guy who tried to break into a gumball machine, mistaking it for a safe, got his hand stuck, and screamed at it until the cops arrived.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark Humor 10.7%, RPG 9.7%
- #9 死亡编码-Death Code
91% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Word Game 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 13.3%, RPG 8.8%
- #10 Visual Novel: Calendar Without Tomorrow
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
A visual novel about a person trapped in the same day. Explore the hospital, read others' charts, choose whom to trust, and decide whether to accept the cycle or seek out the one controlling it. Your choices lead to different endings.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Dark Humor 14.2%, RPG 11.5%, Funny 8.4%
- #11 Visual Novel: The Neighbor with My Face
90% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
A quiet, remote setting, fresh air, and a friendly old woman. It sounds like the perfect start to a new life—were it not for one detail: while you age and lose your memory, your neighbor grows younger. Immerse yourself in an intimate psychological horror experience.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Cute 7.9%, Funny 7.2%
- #12 Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows
89% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows
Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Detective 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #13 幻视之夜 Night of invisible:Moant
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Looping Manuscript Works.
Windows
A short, choice-based narrative game about solving mysteries through time loops. Death is not the end, but another beginning. This time, can I survive?
Why similar: Word Game 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Detective 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Exploration 5.7%
- #14 Dark Flowers: Tiny Starlight
87% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Dawnwing HousePub: RMking
Windows
New history, fractured future, regret-steeped past—brewing madness. Dark Flowers: Tiny Starlight tells a girl's tale. Sleeping in the present, waking from the past, she bears tomorrow toward history's choice.
Why similar: Word Game 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, RPG 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Puzzle 6.2%
- #15 No Crime
86% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: 豆包工作室Pub: 豆包工作室
Windows
The story takes place in South East Asia. Start from a drug case, follow private detective Sui Feng to discover a mysterious complexion full of conspiracy, overcome his intermittent amnesia, and avenge for his love…Can you find out the real culprit through fragments of memories?
Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Comic Book 13.6%, Detective 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #16 塑时者Derealization
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 一心社
Windows
"Derealization" is a visual novel that combines Japanese campus youth, suspenseful loops, and supernatural combat. The main characters in this work are voiced by professional Japanese actors. Inserting original animation clips into the climactic scenes greatly enhances the impact of the plot.
Why similar: Word Game 35.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, RPG 11.9%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #17 Paper Bride 7 Lethal Bond
84% matchVery Positive93% of 312 reviews2025
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Speak not of love untouched by passion's fire, as it's a torturous journey. If lovers would remain faithful evermore,On Peony Pavilion’s road they’ll meet for three lives more. Paper Bride 7: Lethal Bond is a Chinese horror puzzle game, and the 7th title of the Paper Bride series.
Why similar: Word Game 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 13%, RPG 9.1%, Detective 8.9%
- #18 我的一个多重人格朋友
85% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: 上海久游网络科技有限公司
Windows
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Word Game 21.9%, Detective 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Logic 7.9%
- #19 大侦探之勃艮第古堡
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 知行合一
Windows
欢迎来到温泉岛,我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗?那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落,那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说,那里是另一个世界,由贪婪,欲念构成的炼狱……最后,请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 30%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 8.4%
- #20 True Game
84% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows · Mac
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #21 思安α.1.0
82% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: 苏词呈安
Windows
游戏类型:日常休闲轻解谜
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Comic Book 14.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Exploration 8.7%
- #22 The Seafloor
81% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: zhishouge
Windows
"The Seafloor" is a narrative game about depression. Play as River for seven days. Your choices shape her emotions and story. Experience her inner world and daily life through interactions. An invitation to understand, not to cure.
Why similar: Word Game 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 17%, Comic Book 16.6%, RPG 6.9%
- #23 Fading Echoes
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YIZHEN LI
Windows
Welcome to a bizarre dialogue adventure! Discover a multi-ending text game with strange themes at every level. Solve NPCs' "verbal puzzles" by choosing the right responses to earn favor. Your choices shape the story with twists and surprises. Max out favor to unlock quirkier challenges. Let's go.
Why similar: Word Game 29.3%, Comic Book 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Cartoony 7.8%
- #24 海子 UMIKO
81% matchVery Positive99% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: 盾构机 Tunnel Boring Machine
Windows
"海子 UMIKO" is a psychological horror visual novel. Engage in conversations with Umiko, complete various mini-games, solve puzzles, and gradually piece together the dark truths she tries to hide about herself and her dimension from fragmented narratives. Preserve your fragile friendship for a week!
Why similar: Word Game 25%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Dark Humor 9.7%, Exploration 6.7%
- #25 Paper Bride 8 Tree of Myriadborn
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
In this eighth chapter of the Paper Bride series, we return with a handful of old friends to Zangling Village, tracing one sorrowful tale after another, each drawn from what came before. The ending may arrive as no surprise. Whether it sits within reason is harder still to say.
Why similar: Word Game 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 11.5%, RPG 8.7%, Puzzle 6.6%
- #26 TOUQI
78% matchVery Positive90% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: 橙光游戏Pub: Paleo
Windows
《頭七》(头七怪谈)是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员,你需要根据主编的要求,整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联,并在必要时与同伴实地探索,以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Detective 12.9%, Horror 8.3%
- #27 The Wind from the East
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xiaowa
Windows · Mac
A hand-drawn school visual novel. In 2004, five students handed in a blue-cloth folder; it came back with the last page cut out. Twenty-two years later you sift the archives - race sheets, carbon copies, loan dates - to find those five and decide whose ending gets put back. Nine endings.
Why similar: Word Game 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, RPG 13.6%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #28 空之歌:每当磁针再次振动,我便在此等待
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: AimesSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
这是一款剧情向视觉小说游戏。来自乡村的学生们的故事。 嗯?是我的青梅竹马?我该去做什么? 好好上学,走出大山?是么......我.....我知道了。是这样吗?
Why similar: Word Game 22.3%, Comic Book 15.8%, Detective 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #29 不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
79% match9 user reviews40% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Word Game 17.7%, Detective 16%, Visual Novel 15.7%, RPG 12.5%
- #30 Explory Story
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blue Pin StudioPub: Blue Pin Publishing
Windows · Linux
Run around on the surface of many different stories. You can interact with the text, and the text can interact with you! There are boss battles, collectibles, a song, puzzles, and much more!
Why similar: Word Game 24.9%, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Exploration 8%
- #31 ComicKingdom
76% matchVery Positive100% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: HippoCube
Windows
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Word Game 26.5%, Comic Book 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #32 Blackmail Directive
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 青梅不输天降工作室Pub: 糕薯科技
Windows
A gripping visual novel set in modern-day Japan, featuring cute anime-style heroines and branching storylines that lead to multiple endings. Every choice you make shapes the story—and determines Arisa's fate.
Why similar: Word Game 24.8%, Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Logic 7.4%
- #33 Dry Spring Monologue
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 疯情一种工作室
Windows · Mac
Dry Spring Monologue is a chapter-based visual novel game that follows Lu Zimo. The story includes adult themes such as overtime work, insomnia, and performance reviews, as well as terrifying elements like living spaghetti.
Why similar: Word Game 35%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Comic Book 21.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Story Rich 4.6%
- #34 我才不会被女孩子欺负呢
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lingdong
Windows
The game "I'm Not Being Bullied by Girls" is a role-playing romantic adventure game. In the game, players will experience the stories and interactions between several girls from the first person perspective of the male protagonist, promote the development of the plot, and explore the city map.
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Comic Book 13.7%, RPG 8.9%
- #35 Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
74% matchVery Positive93% of 1,007 reviews2022
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Word Game 24.6%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Exploration 6.9%
- #36 The Adventures Of Hooman
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Panda Blade Software
Windows
A sci-fi comedy graphic novel where you play Hooman, an android too conceited to be scared and too lucky to die. Your crew is going to die but they could have avoided an untimely death if they had only listened to you. You are not the problem.
Why similar: Comic Book 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Exploration 12.1%, Funny 9.3%
- #37 鬼轉身
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: TwoTwo Studio
Windows
In the nightmare, you keep cycling through In the nightmare, you keep cycling through loops, each one marking a new beginning. Every character has their own purpose, and your choices will affect their outcomes. Can you uncover the truth of the story and dig up the buried mysteries?
Why similar: Word Game 25.3%, Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Horror 10%
- #38 Ghost Hunting Journal
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 麻辣工作室 Spicy GamesPub: Okasan's Recipe
Windows
Ghost Hunting Journal is an anime-style narrative adventure game. The duo partners of self-proclaimed "Spirit Agent" accept various supernatural commissions, use a full set of ghost-hunting techniques to tackle urban myths caused by lingering ghosts in the city of Riverrun.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.2%, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #39 Gnawer No. 44 Observation Report
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hunger Evil
Windows
Due to "special" work requirements, you've been assigned by your superiors to live in a very remote and desolate villa. You thought your dull and monotonous life would just carry on as usual, but every midnight, strange sounds emanate from the pitch-black attic...What kind of beginning awaits you?
Why similar: Word Game 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #40 How Many Secrets Under Ceiling
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: 稻歌游戏工作室
Windows
The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here! A dentist dead in a double-locked room seems like a suicide, but unexplained contradictions connect different truths. Each investigation and puzzles are up to you. But wait, what's wrong with this suspicious "assistant" following?!
Why similar: Word Game 24.1%, Detective 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Puzzle 6.9%
- #41 黑山羊BlackGoat
70% matchMixed69% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: HUPIDAN
Windows
The game is a BL Cthulhu-style narrative romance game. It tells the story of the protagonist struggling to survive on a cruise ship filled with strange events after losing their memory. The game's setting is modern with a Cthulhu-inspired narrative.
Why similar: Word Game 26.9%, Detective 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 6.9%
- #42 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
70% matchVery Positive89% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: LingVision Games
Windows
1988年,日本泡沫经济破灭前夕,化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警,侦查青梅奇怪自杀案,牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密,穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头,在人心与生死的抉择中,搜查蛛丝马迹,找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 22.2%, Detective 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #43 Methods: The Canada Files
69% matchVery Positive96% of 408 reviews2026
Dev: LockedOn GamesPub: Erabit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
Why similar: Comic Book 16.6%, Detective 16.1%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #44 铲屎官兼侦探-Cat Detective
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
The plot is based on a main case linked to several unit cases. Fiona's a psychic. She spent over a decade hiding her identity. Living the daily life of a student and as a detective looking for the truth with pets.
Why similar: Word Game 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Comic Book 16.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Detective 10.5%
- #45 Visual novel: The One from the Dark
70% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
Visual novel set in a rural horror setting. Take on the role of a city real estate appraiser stranded in a remote village with no phone service, no cars, and no escape. Read dialogues, make choices, and try to maintain your sanity before the local Tree decides you're for dinner tonight.
Why similar: Comic Book 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Detective 13.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Logic 7.9%
- #46 花母·序
71% matchPositive93% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: e-sheep
Windows
你来到了一所郊外的“荒野高校“,你发现了这所学校,不仅仅是表面上残破不堪 ,而且每个角落都透露着诡异且压抑的气氛。随着时间的流逝以及事件的推进,被尘封已久的历史真相被一步步揭露。 我与寥寥几名的“全校同学”展开了对于学校的探索,已生命为代价换取来的真相,才是整个事件的冰山一角。
Why similar: Word Game 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 10.4%, Exploration 8.3%
- #47 流言侦探
71% matchVery Positive82% of 118 reviews2021
Dev: WoodenWolf
Windows
《流言侦探》是一款诡异,烧脑,悬疑推理剧情游戏,在游戏的体验中,玩家自主找出线索,并利用线索,和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法,玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者,玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相,找出隐藏的凶手。
Why similar: Word Game 38.5%, Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #48 Interquel幕間折
71% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: MuYou
Windows
【Story】 仙們叛徒夜既明為了逃避追捕,情急之下使用了傳說中能夠打破三千世界屏障的噎鳴遺骨。 當夜既明再度甦醒,極目所及除了全然陌生的異界風景外,似乎還有因緣相牽的熟悉面容……?
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Comic Book 15.8%, RPG 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%
- #49 透明罪 - Blue Tears
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 心林咖啡厅
Windows · Mac
A novel, a game, a judgment document, a self-confession letter. On an ordinary summer morning, the arrival of an unexpected visitor awakened the dormant memories of a small island. You will play the role of Lynn Chan, and face your "Invisible Sin" by searching for a "Non-existent friend".
Why similar: Word Game 24.9%, Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Comic Book 10.6%, RPG 9%
- #50 推理小说的关键一定会出现两次
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReDeer
Windows
《推理小说的关键一定会出现两次》是一部以日常推理为核心的视觉小说。日常混沌纷乱,而“侦探”独具慧眼。带上你的好奇心吧,去和推理协会一同调查、思考,最终解开一个个轻松却不失有趣的日常之谜。
Why similar: Word Game 23.9%, Detective 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Logic 6.4%
- #51 16叠谋杀之谜
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: 糯米团子工作室Pub: 剧谜科技
Windows
Sixteen Layers of Mini Murder" is a video adventure game of the detective puzzle genre, where level-based puzzles drive the story's progression through video narration. Players must complete the level puzzles and uncover the identities of the various participants in order to clear the game.
Why similar: Word Game 24.1%, Detective 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Cartoony 6.8%
- #52 Knell of St. Godhrkar
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,587 reviews2021
Dev: -二律背反-
Windows · Mac
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Comic Book 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%, RPG 8.4%
- #53 对我好点!异世界HelloNewWorld
68% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Enchanter
Windows
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Why similar: Word Game 36%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, RPG 8.7%, Exploration 7.7%
- #54 看事
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 勤奋的小德
Windows
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Detective 10.5%, RPG 7.6%
- #55 Visual Novel: ECHO
65% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
A narrative-driven visual novel with fully written dialogue and atmospheric narration. A journey through mystical stations—"Forgotten Hats," "The Library," "The Last Ticket," and other surreal locations.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Exploration 11.8%, Cute 9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #56 Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
68% matchVery Positive95% of 208 reviews2021
Dev: P.G.制作组Pub: 33ParadoX&igstore
Windows · Mac
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
Why similar: Word Game 27.7%, Comic Book 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 12%, RPG 7.8%
- #57 Vampires' Melody 2
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,030 reviews2023
Dev: AsicxArt
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Emerald seas! Blue skies! Sandy beaches! An island adventure in the ocean sounds like a trip to paradise. However, the place is a nightmare with no one to provide any blood for Raylan to feed on after he turned into a vampire by accident, especially since he has another hungry vampire at his side.
Why similar: Word Game 27.1%, Comic Book 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, RPG 6.4%
- #58 The Last 66 Days
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: 曦冉Pub: Next Playground
Windows · Mac
I'm Anna, met Qiqing in a video game, he bright light in my once dark world. But in 66 days, he'll be gone, every day precious. You, my friend, the only one can help me. Please review my story, nurture our relationship, find out why he's leaving!
Why similar: Word Game 32%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, RPG 7.6%