Games Like Who Killed Mr. White?

Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.

Why similar: Noir 16.1%, Detective 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Conversation 9.3%, Crime 8.6%

A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Point & Click 8.8%

A point and click noir mystery, set in a grim and corrupt Wonderland. Alice is Dead: Hearts and Diamonds is a complete remake of the classic Flash game trilogy, including all new art, added puzzles, expanded lore, and plenty of secrets for old and new fans alike.

Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Detective 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%

You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.

Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Detective 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Conversation 9.7%, Narration 9.1%

In the not-so-distant future, a robot witnesses a shocking event and stores the last image it sees in an encrypted memory bank. The player assigned to this robot must scroll through its memories to piece together a visual story and solve the mystery of what happened.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Noir 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 14.8%, Detective 10.7%

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Noir 17.8%, Point & Click 13.5%, Conversation 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.

Why similar: Noir 18.9%, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Crime 8.8%, Visual Novel 8.6%

A gripping detective noir mystery that blends investigation and deduction with a rich, character-driven story. The Murder of Ava Monroe is cozy, twisty, and oozing with atmosphere.

Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Point & Click 16.9%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Puzzle 8.7%

Detective Dana is a 2D story-rich game about an Arabic police officer investigating murder cases. Investigate the crime scene, interrogate the witnesses, solve the mysteries and uncover the secrets until you catch the criminal!

Why similar: Detective 17.8%, Noir 17.6%, Point & Click 12.6%, Conversation 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%

1년 전, 여중생 한 명이 흔적도 없이 사라진다. 그녀의 흔적을 찾기 위해 사건의 담당 형사는 여중생의 동급생이었던 6명의 학생을 심문하게 되는데...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Point & Click 13%, Conversation 11.7%

A noir detective game where you can bribe or intimidate suspects for extra clues.

Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Detective 18.2%, Crime 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%

Investigate serial crimes and city government secrets! You're the only one who can get on the trail and break the chain of murders. Are you up for the challenge?

Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Detective 14.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Narration 10.4%, Crime 8.9%

Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.

Why similar: Noir 18.2%, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Point & Click 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.

Why similar: Noir 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%

Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.

Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Noir 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Conversation 11.7%, Point & Click 10.6%

Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.

Why similar: Noir 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Detective 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Conversation 11.5%

You're a journalist investigating a suspicious case during the Harlem riots. Take pictures of evidence, gather information by interrogating people, and put it all together in an article to show people the truth.

Why similar: Noir 19.2%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Crime 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

An absurdist mystery for only the most hard-boiled interim junior detectives.

Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 11%, Conversation 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%

A comedy adventure game featuring classic inventory based puzzles. Arthur is a skeptic who dedicated his life to denying the paranormal. Murray is the electric Imp he accidentally summoned. Now Arthur must solve mysteries while bound to the very evidence of the supernatural itself.

Why similar: Noir 16.1%, Point & Click 13.1%, Conversation 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Detective 10.7%

They got locked up in a prison for a reason. Try to get the answers in this point and click adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Point & Click 14%, Detective 13.8%, Conversation 10.6%

A noir narrative puzzle adventure where you manipulate time to investigate a space filled with physically identical characters. Pause, rewind, and fast-forward individual lives, connect fragmented pasts and futures, and uncover the single truth needed to avert impending tragedy.

Why similar: Noir 25.4%, Detective 19.4%, Abstract 12.4%, Surreal 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%

A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?

Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Point & Click 10.2%

Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.

Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Narration 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.5%

San Francisco is shaken by a chain of horrible murders. You are the only one that can bring to justice a masked arsonist calling himself the Plague Doctor. Are you strong enough to face the challenge?

Why similar: Noir 20%, Detective 15.1%, Narration 10.8%, Crime 10.6%, Point & Click 10.4%

Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.

Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Conversation 10%, Crime 9.9%

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.

Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Conversation 12%, Point & Click 10.9%

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 16.2%, Detective 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Conversation 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%

Seven murders in motion by a killer calling himself the Messiah. Interrogate witnesses, spot contradictions in their testimonies, and build a criminal profile piece by piece in this detective thriller where every word is evidence.

Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Detective 15%, Point & Click 12.3%, Puzzle 7.2%

A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.

Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Logic 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%

Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.

Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Conversation 14.2%, Detective 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%

Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.

Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Detective 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Point & Click 11%

Amsterdam, 1988. A dead body in the Red Light District, the Dutch capital of sex and drugs, is a washed-up detective’s one shot at redemption. Explore the seedy underbelly of Europe’s most notorious city, solve complex puzzles, and crack the case while experiencing Amsterdam at its worst.

Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 8.5%, Crime 8.1%

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

Why similar: Noir 17.8%, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Narration 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

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 20.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Narration 9.8%

Your journalist friend went missing while investigating weird happenings in a mysterious hotel. You are the only one who can save her and uncover the truth before it’s too late. Are you up for the challenge?

Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Detective 13.4%, Narration 10.4%, Point & Click 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%

A noir adventure beyond time and space. The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities - one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.

Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Detective 15.4%, Psychedelic 11.2%, Point & Click 10.7%, Crime 9.4%

Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband

Why similar: Noir 20%, Point & Click 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Investigation 7.9%

Play as a detective and solve multiple cases by interrogating individuals tied to the case through voice-based conversations. Powered by generative AI, every individual responds with unique, context-driven replies, helping you piece together the evidence to crack the case.

Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Conversation 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Point & Click 12%

Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.

Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Conversation 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%

Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.

Why similar: Noir 20.3%, Detective 17.5%, Conversation 13.7%, Point & Click 10.5%, Crime 10.1%

The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.

Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Crime 7.8%

A luxury cruise takes an unexpected turn when a passenger is gruesomely turned into fillet - and it's up to Detective Bass to deliver some justice in this short narrative-driven detective game!

Why similar: Noir 22.7%, Detective 20.9%, Crime 11.2%, Conversation 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%

Mind Scraper is a story-driven graphic adventure. Play as Robert and dive into dying minds—built from unresolved regrets—to explore memories and learn why those choices were made.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Narration 12.9%, Detective 10.5%

A noir graphic adventure where your mind is your greatest enemy. Investigate crimes, interrogate suspects, and survive in this point-and-click remake, rebuilt from the ground up. Solve the mystery before your demons consume you. Play the free demo and wishlist now!

Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Detective 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Point & Click 11%, Visual Novel 9%

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 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Narration 11.8%, Point & Click 11.6%

Molitva – a brutal, nonlinear visual novel about sins committed and the final chance for redemption. Are you worthy of forgiveness?

Why similar: Noir 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Point & Click 14.9%, Surreal 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%

Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.

Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Noir 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Crime 10.5%

Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!

Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychedelic 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%

It's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and there's been a MAGICAL CRIME! Investigate the crime scene, question suspects, and defend the accused through unique cross-examination puzzles in this "Phoenix Wright" inspired mystery comedy.

Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Detective 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%

A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.

Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Narration 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 8.5%

Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.

Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Surreal 12.3%, Psychedelic 11.3%

A detective wakes up beside a corpse, and with no memories. The evidence points to him. Everyone thinks he’s the killer. Unravel the truth before time runs out in this hand-drawn detective mystery adventure set in 1990s Thailand, where every memory hides a lie.

Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Noir 16.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Narration 11%, Crime 10.7%

Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.

Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%

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 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Surreal 12.2%, Detective 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%

Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Surreal 10.6%

M.S. Salmon is an interactive 2D story adventure. Help Ben Hearnden and Ranieri solve a murder on a luxury liner. As they gather more evidence, they uncover not only the truth about the murder but also their own dark past.

Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Point & Click 14.9%, Detective 14%, Puzzle 7.6%

A narrative adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements. Play as a young FBI agent in New Orleans, investigate crime scenes, profile suspects, and make choices that shape a branching story mixing offbeat humor with a gripping crime thriller.

Why similar: Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Conversation 12.2%, Narration 11.5%, Point & Click 10.4%

To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.

Why similar: Noir 26%, Detective 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Point & Click 11.1%, Narration 8.8%

Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.

Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Narration 11.9%

Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Noir 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Conversation 10.3%