
The Chrono Jotter
Trapped in a school where classmates keep dying, you rewind time after every murder to unmask the killer and reach the girlfriend who vanished years…
If Sunset High scratched a story-driven and mysterious itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
A cinematic visual novel about Fang's final year of high school, with the world about to end. Hand-drawn art, original songs you perform, and choices that shape who Fang becomes. A heartfelt, funny story about love, friendship and making things count while there is still time.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
A yuri visual novel where dying is a tool: rewind time with your clues intact, interrogate seven classmates, and unmask the killer in a school where murder has become routine. A love story wrapped in Lovecraftian dread, with endings worth replaying for.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
A man wakes in Rue Valley, a small town stuck in a time loop, and so do you. A story-rich point-and-click adventure about depression, secrets and second chances: build a personality, befriend a town full of people hiding their own, and dig into why the day keeps starting over.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
Max Caulfield can rewind time. She uses her first rewind to save her best friend Chloe, and from there Life is Strange becomes a story about choices: a missing student, a coastal town with a dark side, and a future that changes with every decision you make.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
A time loop adventure in a cursed Roman city where one person's sin kills everyone. Question its residents, wind back time, and untangle a mystery with multiple endings. The writing carries it, and your choices decide how the final days play out.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
A turn-based RPG about being stuck in a time loop only you remember. Siffrin and their found family fight to the evil king's door, tragedy strikes, and the same two days start over. Witty, hand-drawn and quietly devastating, it asks what hope costs when nobody else knows you are paying.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
A hand-painted puzzle adventure set on the last day of 1999. You are a sixth-grader in a small Chinese town, living December 31st over and over: uncovering classmates' secrets, fixing your family's regrets, racing Mini 4WD cars and trying to build one perfect day for everyone before the fireworks.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable

Trapped in a school where classmates keep dying, you rewind time after every murder to unmask the killer and reach the girlfriend who vanished years…

Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers.

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an…

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

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

Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop.

This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite…

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

College students are trapped in a collapsing building. Strange things begin to take place within its confines.

A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them.

It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words.

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

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

Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the…

Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.

Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love?

Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.

A cute, creepy storybook adventure. You play Luka, a young deer snooping into his small town's strange events, and also the reader of the book…

A punishment trip turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a haunted school and an endless time loop, you must uncover the truth and find the killer…

A man wakes in Rue Valley, a small town stuck in a time loop, and so do you.

Schedule Jenny's days, juggle grades, money and a crush, and steer a darkly funny high school year toward one of many endings.

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.

Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?

Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing.

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?