- #1 SOLEN
97% 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.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 16.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Detective 11%, Cyberpunk 10.9%, Dystopian 10.4%
- #2 Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
96% matchVery Positive93% of 5,660 reviews2025
Dev: Aluba Van+Pub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Hacking 20.7% ★, Investigation 16.4%, Dystopian 14.5%, Detective 13.3%, Point & Click 10.7%
- #3 Soul Tolerance: Prologue
96% matchMixed67% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: Chaosmonger Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a world where artificial intelligence is all that remains, be a robo-detective, and investigate a mind-bending case. Explore a futuristic Japan brought to life in detailed voxel art, and uncover a philosophical lore through tons of characters. Become AI and dive into the mystery of consciousness.
Why similar: Investigation 15.7%, Cyberpunk 13.8%, Dystopian 12%, Artificial Intelligence 11.8%, Noir 11.4%
- #4 NODE ZERO
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Static State
Windows
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.6%, Investigation 22.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Point & Click 8.7%, Mystery 5.5%
- #5 Monitor State
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artur Pukhavoi
Windows
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Dystopian 22%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Artificial Intelligence 13.2%, Investigation 12.1%, Point & Click 10.9%
- #6 Replica
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,527 reviews2016
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
Why similar: Hacking 32.3% ★, Political 26.5% ★, Dystopian 21.7%, Puzzle 5.2%, Mystery 4.6%
- #7 Soulscape: Shadows of The Past (Episode 1)
93% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Hexonine Games Inc.
Windows
A former agent. A past that won't stay buried. Your choices shape Blake Turner's mood and his mood reshapes the story, the world, and even the music itself. A psychological, choice-driven adventure of betrayal, identity, and redemption.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.2%, Point & Click 13.1%, Noir 12.7%, Detective 11.2%, Psychological 10.1%
- #8 OVERRIDE PROTOCOL
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Peyote Gaming
Windows
Hack hostile AI systems in a cyberpunk hacker sim. Build proxy routes, poison live context, breach secured nodes, steal the payload, and wipe the logs before your trace burns.
Why similar: Hacking 34.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 25.6%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Simulation 6%
- #9 Song of Farca
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,676 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.5%, Hacking 18% ★, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Detective 14.2%, Point & Click 11.4%
- #10 Flashpaper
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aaron Nelsen
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the unseen hand — the resistance's digital arm inside a regime that has begun burning books. Crack the Concord's networks from a green-phosphor terminal, cover every log you touch before the trace fills, and get paid off-grid. 24 missions. Three you are not meant to win.
Why similar: Hacking 34.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Dystopian 16%, Text-Based 8.7%, Simulation 6.4%
- #11 Yoko Redux: Dreams of a Blue Planet
90% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Missing Sentinel SoftwarePub: RedTigerPro
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Who is Yoko?" Unlock the mystery as you control Locke, Jeanne and Primus to discover the secrets of their existence in this point and click, cyberpunk noir adventure.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 17.7%, Cyberpunk 17%, Investigation 15.4%, Noir 14.4%, Detective 12.4%
- #12 Newbie Hacker
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: WateryMu
Windows
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.8%, Detective 18.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Investigation 13.6%, Point & Click 13.1%
- #13 DECRYPTO Project
89% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: slothJam
Windows
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
Why similar: Hacking 20.1% ★, Dystopian 19.4%, Point & Click 16.4%, Mystery 9%, Text-Based 9%
- #14 Let Bions Be Bygones
88% matchMixed70% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
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: Cyberpunk 16.9%, Noir 15.2%, Detective 13.3%, Dystopian 12.2%, Point & Click 11.8%
- #15 Human or Not
87% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Haguy EisPub: Eis Interactive
Windows
Aliens are infiltrating Earth disguised as humans! It's your job to expose these imposters. Can you tell who is human and who is not? Choose your own path while you keep the Earth safe.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.8%, Investigation 18%, Cyberpunk 14.7%, Detective 14.2%, Point & Click 13%
- #16 Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: RikerPub: ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
Windows · Mac
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Detective 20%, Point & Click 12.8%, Noir 12.8%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #17 Justice.exe
86% matchMixed69% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Dystopian 20.6%, Cyberpunk 15.7%, Detective 13.9%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #18 The Grant Grover Anthology
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bit Storm Games
Windows
In Neo Naarm in the 22nd century, augmentation technology has run amok. Combining deduction, visual novel and point and click gameplay, play as Grant Grover, private detective, one of the only remaining citizens without augmentations, as he solves crimes across the city.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.4%, Dystopian 16.2%, Noir 15.6%, Detective 13.7%, Investigation 13.2%
- #19 Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
84% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: AI Media Design
Windows
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: Investigation 18.6%, Detective 15.2%, Artificial Intelligence 11.4%, Point & Click 11.3%, Noir 10.7%
- #20 Nocturne for Cyl-Hestia
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spore and Sorcery
Windows · Mac
Play as a memorialist and investigate a dystopian city in this 3D adventure game. Collect memories, unlock visions, hack encrypted data, and expose the truth in the face of a regime that manipulates memory.
Why similar: Investigation 25.2%, Dystopian 24.9%, Point & Click 17.9%, Detective 9.5%, Mystery 8.1%
- #21 Next Patient
82% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Mad Turtle Studios
Windows · Mac
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
Why similar: Political 50.4% ★, Dystopian 17.2%, Point & Click 14%, Simulation 6.9%, Story Rich 3%
- #22 My Brother Hacker
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Citadel Protocol
Windows
Your brother is gone. He left behind a USB stick with an unknown system and an AI that teaches you to hack. Break into networks, uncover who he really was, and question everything you find. A terminal-based hacking thriller set in 2036.
Why similar: Hacking 31.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.6%, Cyberpunk 20.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
- #23 DOPROS
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Witches Circle
Windows · Mac · Linux
DOPROS is a dark, Orwellian interrogation experience. Will you break and give it all away, or will you try to get free? It's only up to you, but keep in mind, your every word may and will be used against you…
Why similar: Political 29.5% ★, Dystopian 17.5%, Noir 12%, Investigation 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #24 Cold Case
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BANJIHAGAMES
Windows · Mac
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Investigation 17.2%, Text-Based 16.2%, Point & Click 14.6%, Mystery 10.9%
- #25 PROTOCOL BOUND
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pixel Team RED
Windows
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Why similar: Investigation 18.9%, Detective 16%, Hacking 15.9% ★, Point & Click 10.7%, Psychological 9.3%
- #26 Civil Purgatory
80% matchMixed59% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: AIGroundPub: HeadArrow
Windows
Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.
Why similar: Political 50.5% ★, Point & Click 12.6%, Dystopian 11.9%, Choices Matter 5.7%, Puzzle 4.8%
- #27 Crosstalk
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Illumina Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A cyberpunk narrative adventure about protecting someone who doesn't trust you, in a city that wants her dead. Build trust, navigate hazard zones, make hard choices, and discover how deep the conspiracy goes. Every ending costs something.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.9%, Noir 17.3%, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 15.3%, Dystopian 13.4%
- #28 XANTAF3 Bogotá Cyberpunk
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Investigate impossible mysteries in a Latin American cyberpunk Bogotá. Explore atmospheric locations, talk to characters, collect clues, connect evidence, and formulate hypotheses in a narrative detective adventure.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.3%, Cyberpunk 23.5%, Detective 20.8%, Point & Click 12.9%, Noir 7.8%
- #29 Neon Noir
79% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Borzon Studios
Windows
Neon Noir is a cyberpunk visual novel with interactive mechanics. It is set in the megalopolis of New Devon in the year 2169, where large private corporations have more power than the government. The player follows the crimes investigated by Colden, a Snatcher.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.6%, Noir 17.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Dystopian 14.3%, Detective 13.8%
- #30 SOLDA
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullbyte Works
Windows
In AUREX, a city where every citizen's emotions are controlled, you are SOLDA, a rookie special investigator. Armed with an emotion scanner that reads what suspects try to hide, catch the tremor behind every lie, piece the clues together, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Investigation 22.3%, Detective 19.9%, Cyberpunk 14%, Noir 11.7%, Mystery 10.2%
- #31 GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: James BradleyPub: The Civitas Universe
Windows · Mac · Linux
A narrative-driven hacking simulator set in an alternate 1989. Enter a clandestine, hacker Bulletin Board System to crack games, control communities, and solve programming puzzles. Featuring retro-inspired mini-games, irl global leaderboards, and a story that will haunt you long after you log off.
Why similar: Hacking 23.9% ★, Cyberpunk 13.8%, Investigation 12.5%, Dystopian 11.2%, Detective 11.2%
- #32 Coldwake
76% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: MadLeap Games
Windows
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Hacking 21.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 21%, Investigation 15.7%, Detective 13.2%, Text-Based 11%
- #33 A Detective Story
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Methodox Technologies, Inc.
Windows
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: Artificial Intelligence 18.5%, Investigation 17.5%, Detective 16.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Point & Click 10.2%
- #34 Song of Farca: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive89% of 209 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You are Isabella Song – a hacker PI. Your job is to hack cameras, phones, and computers, as well as question suspects, analyze evidence and draw conclusions. But don't forget that in Farca city, even criminals can end up victims.
Why similar: Hacking 27.5% ★, Investigation 19%, Cyberpunk 18.3%, Detective 16.1%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #35 Signal Drift
74% match3 user reviews75% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Alcove Research LLC Pub: Alcove Research LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
Why similar: Hacking 24.8% ★, Detective 11.4%, Noir 11.2%, Cyberpunk 10.8%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #36 Enoch
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Pug Games
Windows
A murder investigation. Teenagers vanishing for years. On Enoch Space Station, detectives, suspects, and killers each follow their own path, only to uncover a conspiracy that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. A sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18%, Dystopian 15.3%, Noir 14.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Detective 12.4%
- #37 Beyond a Steel Sky
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,649 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Why similar: Hacking 22.1% ★, Cyberpunk 20.4%, Dystopian 19.2%, Point & Click 14.8%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #38 Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 648 reviews2022
Dev: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 18.1%, Cyberpunk 16.6%, Dystopian 14.1%, Point & Click 12%, Investigation 11.6%
- #39 Au Revoir
72% matchVery Positive95% of 125 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.7%, Noir 16.5%, Point & Click 13.8%, Investigation 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #40 The Eventide
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Reset Ltd.
Windows
A supernatural mystery where perspective informs reality. Guide agents from the Eventide Agency through paranormal investigations across a neon-soaked cityscape. Explore, collect clues, and interpret the evidence to uncover the facts of each case and expose a deeper truth.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Detective 17.1%, Noir 16.1%, Point & Click 15.2%, Mystery 8.5%
- #41 Tales of the Neon Sea
73% matchVery Positive85% of 5,073 reviews2019
Dev: YiTi GamesPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.1%, Investigation 18%, Dystopian 17.1%, Detective 12.5%, Noir 12%
- #42 Subsurface Circular
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,940 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Detective 14.8%, Text-Based 14%, Noir 13.4%, Cyberpunk 11.5%
- #43 Project: Z3R0 Chapter 1&2
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kitticat Games Ltd
Windows
The "Chip" was humanity’s evolution; Now, it’s a silent weapon. Navigate a web of conspiracy in Vesper City as Detective Richard Apocryphal, alongside your Android partner E.M.R.S, as your investigation outcomes ripple through a fractured society. Can you solve the case before it’s too late?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.1%, Detective 19%, Investigation 16%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Mystery 8.6%
- #44 Netshell
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beyond Logic Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 90s-themed hacking simulation with real shell commands and authentic techniques, set inside a UNIX-style operating system from 1997 with accurately recreated applications. Scan ports, exploit vulnerabilities, evade traces, join the underground, and live the Wild West era of the early internet.
Why similar: Hacking 31.9% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Noir 11.8%, Detective 7.8%
- #45 Project: AFTERSHOCK
69% matchPositive100% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Tuna Dundar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project: AFTERSHOCK is a fast-paced arcade hacking roguelite set in a dystopian future. Command a 20-year-old legacy terminal to breach enemy systems, siphon funds, and upgrade your hardware. Use your reflexes to survive the countdown and bring down the very system you created.
Why similar: Hacking 28.4% ★, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Dystopian 14.3%, Text-Based 10.7%, Point & Click 10.6%
- #46 I'M YOUR HOST
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Calligram Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.
Why similar: Investigation 31.2%, Detective 28.1%, Point & Click 16.6%, Mystery 10.6%, Puzzle 5.1%
- #47 Floor 13: Deep State
72% matchMostly Negative36% of 39 reviews2020
Dev: Oversight ProductionsPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Floor 13: Deep State is a dynamically generated dystopian thriller, inspired by the 90’s classic Floor 13 and created by its original team. In a free society, citizens make their own decisions, can challenge authority, and are able to speak their truth. Your job is to put a stop to that.
Why similar: Political 48.3% ★, Detective 17.5%, Point & Click 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 4.6%
- #48 A Study in Blue
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Detective 16.5%, Dystopian 15.8%, Noir 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #49 Radiotext
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alp Arslan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Why similar: Hacking 27% ★, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Dystopian 13.8%, Text-Based 9%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #50 Chinatown Detective Agency
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 159 reviews2022
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Detective 14.1%, Noir 13.9%, Dystopian 13.6%
- #51 The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JasperMarie
Windows
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Detective 14.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Point & Click 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
- #52 Ashes of Holloway Bay
67% match4 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Cold Case Inc
Windows
Immerse yourself in a chilling, interactive cold-case investigation. Review crime scene photos, decrypt restricted hard drives, compare evidence, and deliver your final report in Ashes of Holloway Bay, a dark, atmospheric detective experience where every detail matters.
Why similar: Investigation 23.4%, Detective 21.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Noir 9.5%, Mystery 9.1%
- #53 Gemini Rue
71% matchVery Positive88% of 1,884 reviews2011
Dev: Joshua NuernbergerPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.6%, Cyberpunk 23.4%, Noir 21.9%, Dystopian 13.8%, Detective 10.2%
- #54 Judge SIM 2 Precedent
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SunsixStudios
Windows
Take the night shift as a judge in Meridian. Examine evidence, manage pressure, issue reasoned rulings, and create precedents that reshape the cases—and consequences—still to come.
Why similar: Investigation 28.5%, Detective 18.5%, Text-Based 10%, Mystery 9.4%, Noir 8.7%
- #55 TOBOR
68% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.1%, Investigation 16.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Detective 13%, Psychological 8.7%
- #56 The Heist
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Munzesky Games StudioPub: Gamechuck
Windows
The Heist is a cyberpunk interactive comic with puzzle elements in which you can influence how the story unfolds and finishes. Featuring multiple possible endings, print out your own gameplay of the story and keep it as a hard copy.
Why similar: Hacking 18.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 16.8%, Cyberpunk 14.7%, Dystopian 13.8%, Noir 13.7%
- #57 The Roottrees are Dead
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,873 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Trout Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Investigation 22.4%, Point & Click 15%, Mystery 11.4%, Puzzle 6.7%
- #58 Ghostpunk
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: James Suret
Windows · Linux
Investigate paranormal cases using a 1990s CRT terminal. Analyze photos. Decode audio. Interrogate suspects and decide what’s real, what’s fake and who’s lying. But the deeper you go, the more the system starts watching you back.
Why similar: Hacking 16% ★, Investigation 15.2%, Cyberpunk 15%, Noir 12.7%, Detective 12.1%
- #59 Who Did It?
67% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: BeldrProductionsPub: BeldrProductions Games
Windows
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?
Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Detective 21.4%, Point & Click 15.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Mystery 9.9%
- #60 The Murder of Ava Monroe
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BUNKWORKS
Windows · Mac
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: Investigation 30.1%, Detective 25%, Noir 13.9%, Point & Click 10.1%, Mystery 10%