Games like CRYPTEX

Did CRYPTEX leave you in a cinematic and tense frame of mind? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Late Shift
A live-action crime thriller where you call the shots. Matt, a student working a night shift at a London parking garage, gets dragged into an auction house heist, and the film never stops rolling while you decide: over 180 decision points, seven endings, seconds to choose. One evening, one story, your consequences.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
86% of 7,817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$3.59
Erica
A live-action thriller where the film bends around your choices. Erica's father was murdered when she was a child; now grisly clues drag it all back. Play through a branching mystery with multiple endings, in about a film's length per run.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
78% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Hacked: The Streamer
You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this thrilling interactive movie. The fate of PinkyPie, a fan-favorite streamer, is in your hands.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
72% of 271 Steam reviews are positive$8.49
Agarta
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
71% of 499 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Joker's Game
"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes. Outwit rivals, uncover truths, or perish? Every move decides survival... or the deadly prize.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
81% of 486 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
逆光迷途 Lost in Darklight
Themed on urban suspense, Lost in Darklight is a live action interactive game. A retired ace soldier, four girls, a hidden chamber at home, genetic cloning tech... Experience interactive VR panoramic evidence searching with this game and decide your own ending. Every choice you make is crucial!
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
51% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Hello Stranger
An FMV psychological horror-thriller. A man gets trapped in his home by a hacker who forces him to play three games to survive. You must play these games and make choices that determine his fate.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
81% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
MADE : Interactive Movie – 01. Run away!
One day, JURI gets kidnapped and wakes up in dark basement. Desperately seeking her way to escape, JURI runs into a random guy who is indeed another hostage. And someone is chasing them! Who kidnapped them and why? Would they be able to survive?
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
63% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$13.99
The Isle Tide Hotel
Explore a mysterious hotel and infiltrate a cult in this FMV detective game, featuring a cast from GoT, The Witcher, and more. Every decision counts as you gather clues and question guests. Can you unearth the ominous secrets at The Isle Tide Hotel before it's too late to save your missing daughter?
Cinematic, Tense, Story-driven
64% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
First Date : Late To Date
FIRSTDATE: LATE TO DATE is a romantic-comedy interactive cinematic (FMV) game in which the audience determines the progress of the movie with the options that appear every minute.
Cinematic, Story-driven, Replayable
80% of 843 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Homicipher
Lost in another world, you decode the language of its non-human residents: one word at a time, from gestures, expressions and the things they point at. A hand-drawn horror adventure about learning to talk to monsters, with branching paths, many endings and a soft spot for the creatures you probably should not trust.
Tense, Story-driven, Replayable
96% of 7,924 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$13.99

Cheaper than CRYPTEX

A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut

A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).

$0.99

Please close the doors

"Please close the doors" is a quest with elements of the detective and thriller in which the player should find out who of seven people, which got…

$0.99

Vessels

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…

$0.99

Wright Brothers' Mysteries

Wright Brothers' Mysteries - A fun interactive multipath full motion visual novel

$0.99

寇莎梅特：困世迷情 Consummate:Missing World

Escape a strange man's house as an amnesiac girl, one puzzle and one ending at a time.

$0.99

The Last Express Gold Edition

Step aboard the 1914 Orient Express in this award-winning mystery adventure from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner.

$1.39

Crypt Robbery

A survival-horror FPS set in a creepy, atmospheric world. Explore a haunted cemetery, descend into a cursed crypt, and face the horrors that lurk…

$0.79

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure

A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a…

$0.99

GREXOVKA VILLAGE

You've come to the village to "recharge." An hour later, you're looking for something you've lost, sniffing incense in a barn, and arguing with…

$0.99

Active Opposition

An intelligence agent has been kidnapped. Since the operation is not official, the state cannot intervene in the situation.

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

Mirrored - Chapter 1

3D Point-and-click adventure puzzle game wrapped in cinematic 2D cut-scenes.

$0.99

Hidden gems like CRYPTEX

Dead Reset

A surgeon, a parasite and an underwater facility: make the right calls in a horror film where every death loops you back to the operating table.

$14.99

Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns

An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case.

$16.79

The Run

An FMV horror-thriller. A famous fitness influencer must fight for survival when she's hunted by killers.

$9.99

Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time

Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!

$10.99

The Joker's Game

"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes.

$11.99

Homicipher

Decode an alien language from gestures and pointed fingers, and choose your words carefully: every conversation can lead somewhere very different.

$13.99

The Operator

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

$13.99

Hacked: The Streamer

You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this…

$8.49

Overboard!

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

$14.99

First Date : Late To Date

FIRSTDATE: LATE TO DATE is a romantic-comedy interactive cinematic (FMV) game in which the audience determines the progress of the movie with the…

$2.99

反转21克

A filmed thriller where a retired soldier hunts the truth behind an assassination, and every timed choice steers the story.

$8.99

Gamedec - Definitive Edition

A detective RPG without combat, set in 22nd century Warsaw where people live inside virtual worlds.

$29.99

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