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Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 400 years of secrets. An epic non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the history of a community cursed by generations of supernatural forces.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Puzzle
Test your sixth sense. Will you eat a wild rabbit, or tie someone to the train tracks? Every choice is yours to make. May you find a reason to laugh inside your nightmares.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Puzzle
Sleepytime Village is the story of a workaholic father who makes one wrong choice too many and becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality, haunted by the residents, its formless narrator and visions of his childhood. What is the Village and what does it want from him?
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Puzzle
A point & click visual novel where every season has a story to tell.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Puzzle
Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Puzzle
Passionate murders. Ripped out hearts. And something crawling within the walls. Find clues, gather the evidence and connect the dots in this point and click detective thriller game. Solve each murder and uncover the horror linking them all..
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
Help Jess to organize, repair and restore retro objects - cassettes, cartridges, cameras - while you solve riddles and puzzles hidden in an attic full of memories. A cozy story with hints of mystery where you'll unveil who Matt really was and who Destiny was.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
Dark Trip is a gothic horror escape room where you use wicked biomachinery, strange art and your own hallucinations to solve the mystery of an eerie crime. Explore strange rooms, inspect occult locations and laboratory machines, reveal hidden clues through altered visions. Play flat or in VR.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
You take on the role of Alice, who wanders through a dark forest in search of a way out. On her journey she meets many figures — each one a reflection of her own personality, an echo of her fears, and a manifestation of her subconscious.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
PondThing is a micro-horror narrative puzzle game. It mainly tells the story of the narcissistic youth Shen Qingheng who, after being drawn into a sacrificial ritual, gradually becomes numb and collapses mentally, only to be ultimately saved by his family’s “love.”
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
1990s: Windswept mining town Linshan, dependent on fading coal mines, worshipped a mountain god’s stele. After it cracked and oozed brown liquid, a strange illness spread. Lin Tianqing returned for his sick father, uneasy as the eerie town neared, having overheard whispers.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A detective game where players unravel hidden mysteries by connecting clues to expose a secret organization. Every piece of evidence brings you closer to the dark truth lurking in the shadows.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A thrilling death game visual novel set in 2030. Play as Zayn, a high school student thrown into sinister survival games known as "TEST." Fight for your life, uncover shocking truths, and face intense moral dilemmas in this mature, thought-provoking experience.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
🐱 Discover 500 hidden cats across 5 artistic hand-drawn scenes 🖌️. Relax with color-by-numbers 🎨 and add life to every detail. Play solo or in cozy co-op 👯♂️, while Meow FM 🎶 sets the perfect creative mood.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A branching narrative thriller about love, obsession and an AI partner who understands you too well.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A dark fantasy tactical universe. Fight in hex-grid combat, collect cards, raise creatures, read the novel, and watch the webtoon — all free, all connected. Built over 23 years by a solo developer. Free to play. Season 1 is live now.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Pixel art
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
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