
"Who is the Defendant" is a mystery genre visual novel. Players take on the role of a prosecutor, investigating a case involving "a game with rudimentary art published on STEAM."
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"Who is the Defendant" is a mystery genre visual novel. Players take on the role of a prosecutor, investigating a case involving "a game with rudimentary art published on STEAM."

True Game
"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.

你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
"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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Logic 9.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Detective 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, RPG 13.2%, Strategy 8.3%
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, RPG 13.2%, Strategy 8.8%
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
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《迷渡桥》是一款水墨风格的国风悬疑推理游戏,你将扮演牵涉谋逆的罪臣后人宁不移,背负着家族十年的冤屈,在弥留之际踏上迷渡桥,换一个查明真相的机会。调查一桩桩离奇命案,窥见朝堂内的暗流涌动。当迷雾散尽,揭开深埋于王朝的骇人秘密......
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Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, RPG 9%, Mystery 8.5%
An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.
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Why similar: RPG 19.3%, Strategy 17.9%, Detective 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Adventure 10.3%
NINA AQUILA is back for her brightest, boldest, most magical adventure yet!
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brief introductionNicotine vs. Furong Wangyuan "is a brain pumping game that takes place in a fantasy world called" Litang County ". Players will play as" Ding Zhen ", defeat Furong Wangyuan, and gradually uncover the truth about their ability to manipulate the level of Sharp Cut 5
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Comedy 16.5%, Abstract 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, RPG 10.6%
This is a secret room to escape burning brain puzzle work, which is divided into five chapters, puzzle level interesting design, complicated and confusing story, criticism and comment on the real society, is full of exquisite everywhere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Logic 10.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%
Very funny, very short and very sweet text adventure game about Chub, Color, 23 and You.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Comedy 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Funny 16.5%, Puzzle 8.3%
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Why similar: Detective 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Strategy 12.8%, RPG 12.6%, Anime 9.7%
Step into the hilariously twisted world of Wildwood Down, a side-splitting comedy thriller. Featuring a protagonist with Down Syndrome. (Inspired by and voice acted by the Dev's childhood friend!) Perfect for fans of the P-n-C adventure genre and new comers looking for a wild heartfelt ride!
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Comedy 16.9%, Funny 12.7%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
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?!
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Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Funny 11.8%, Comedy 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Hand-drawn 12%, Strategy 11.7%, Anime 9.3%
Memory Tides is an adventure game set in a near-future metropolis. Haunted by false memories and buried trauma, you're trapped in an endless loop: sink into illusion or face reality? Step into the shoes of Lin Xiaoyu, use "slacking off" as your cover, and uncover the hidden truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.4%, RPG 14.1%, Puzzle 8.8%
Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, RPG 19%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Comedy 12.8%, Funny 8.5%
本游戏主旨绿色健康阳光积极向上充满正能量,无不良导向。
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Welcome to our wild neon flashing graphic adventure! Play as Tofu 🐹 a little hamster with a big attitude and experience his misadventures through a frantic college night in a city brimming with parties and mystery. Packed with humor, terrible jokes and tons of dru— I mean, SUGAR!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Detective 15.2%, Comedy 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11%
A puzzle-adventure game blended with visual novel storytelling. A mysterious girl and butterflies appear each time you solve a puzzle inside the room. Who are they? What do they want? Unravel each puzzle one by one — and the truth draws ever closer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, RPG 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9%
Death Inn Ⅱ- The Immortal Is Coming is a horror puzzle. The film crew is in a castle to finish, What is the mystery behind the mysterious death of a leading actress in a castle? Was it a homicide or was there more to it? It's a foggy castle, but none of the truth is buried forever.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Visual Novel 20.8%, RPG 18.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Mystery 10.3%
On rainy nights, the serial murderer is on a killing spree. This scares everyone but one girl, the journalist who keeps digging for a promotion. Dauntless, she gets involved deep and wide, hoping to discover the real identify of the rainy night butcher.
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Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Comedy 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Funny 12.6%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
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Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Detective 19%, Visual Novel 13%, Comedy 10.4%, Funny 9.1%
A short narrative deduction game set in the overly litigious bowels of Hell. A simple text-based investigative game about asking the right questions of the right people. When surrounded by pathological liars always remember, the detail's in the devils. A simple text-based investigative game.
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A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Comedy 15.2%, Funny 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Logic 9.3%
The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.
Why similar: Detective 30.7%, Visual Novel 23%, Comedy 17.4%, Mystery 9.2%, Adventure 6%
一位总是能露出温柔笑容的金发修女,将众人联系。白发女子总是无言。[想 知 道 你 父 母 的 下 落 吗 ?准 备 好 ]浅冰背后,为何会有寒意深藏?战斗,悬疑,治愈,推理,剧情持续反转,不断的匿名威胁,绑架,真相到底是……
Why similar: Detective 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
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In this surreal afterlife deduction game by CnD Games, play as Zhuge Liang—the East's legendary mastermind. Face off against Sherlock Holmes in the Underworld Olympics and unravel a deadly closed-circle mystery trapped within a snowed-in mountain lodge!
Why similar: Detective 31.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, RPG 15.5%, Anime 9.2%, Puzzle 5.7%
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Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, RPG 11.6%, Mystery 8.2%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Comedy 12.4%, Funny 10%
《澄心大学》是一款校园题材剧情向视觉小说。在鲜活而平静的大学日常中,走近四位拥有不同故事的女主角,并通过选择与分支推动人物关系,走向属于你的青春结局。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Detective 11.7%, RPG 9.6%, Comedy 9.2%
Set in school life, “Who is the Criminal” is a text-based adventure game featuring comedian and inference elements. With inquiring suspects and debating with “evildoers”, he gathers pieces of puzzles and reveals what truly happens in every incident.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Comedy 13.4%, Funny 11.2%, Anime 8.2%
Explore a post-apocalyptic world and solve puzzles using that big brain of yours. Discover the secrets of the universe! Be awesome!
Why similar: Comedy 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Funny 11.4%, Abstract 11%
An 80s-style pixel art detective simulator where you interrogate suspects using natural language. Characters respond dynamically as you uncover clues and solve the crime.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Comedy 11.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
Join nine absurd Victorian characters invited to a mysterious and remote mansion. Solve devious puzzles, explore the mansion and try to keep everyone alive. Friends or Foes: it's up to all of you to discover Professor Moriarty's secrets and defy his murderous game.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Funny 16.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, Stylized 8%
March 2012, Nagano. The brave and clever high school girl, Chio Aozora, is facing a major crisis: she doesn’t have enough money to buy a croquette! Navigate through the streets and alleys of Nagano, interact with a variety of characters, solve complex puzzles, collect 380 yen, and buy a croquette!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 13.5%, Funny 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Mystery 9.1%
Izumi Sensei, the school’s most feared teacher, loves to torment students. In Anime Scary Teacher 3D, it’s your turn to get revenge! Plan and pull off pranks without getting caught, explore the school for the perfect setup, and show Izumi that she’s met her match in this anime-style adventure!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Strategy 19.1%, Comedy 15.6%, Funny 11.2%, Adventure 10.7%
Fonsermónique's Culinary Diary is a short, linear narrative game where cooking becomes a bridge to the soul. As you prepare recipes, you receive feedback that accompanies Fonsermónique on her personal journey while exploring the temple for ingredients and the dragon, uncovering their unusual bond.
Why similar: Comedy 18.1%, RPG 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Adventure 8.6%
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 21.7%, Detective 16%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Comedy 13.4%, Hand-drawn 12%
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 20%, Detective 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, RPG 10.8%
The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie hit comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features! Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Funny 12%, Comedy 11%
Challenge four hot beauties and save the world from the attacks of sexy bosses in the new EmyLiveShow game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Detective 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, RPG 12.3%, Anime 8.9%
This is a highest death rate game of survival, combined with masculinity, survival, thriller, suspense reasoning and other elements. There are two main lines you can choose from the story - the male line and the female line. Meanwhile, you can also choose different talents as you like.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, RPG 13%, Strategy 11.1%, Mystery 8.6%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Comedy 14.9%, Funny 10.9%, RPG 7.8%
A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Comedy 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Funny 8.9%
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: Detective 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 9.6%, Mystery 8.9%
Detective novelist MEL Gideon, whose career is facing difficulties, receives a strange letter claiming someone is in trouble and needs her help. Intrigued, she decides to investigate. As she digs deeper, she starts to realize that her past is far more complicated than she ever imagined...
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Hand-drawn 12%, Mystery 8.8%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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Why similar: Comedy 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Funny 11%
A horror-meets-cute puzzle game with a twist-filled Yuri romance story.
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Anime 9.6%
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Why similar: Detective 28.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, Anime 7.7%