Games like The Diary

Loved how mysterious and hand-drawn The Diary can get? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

No Case Should Remain Unsolved
A retired detective, a missing girl, and a case file that lives in her own memory. Sort 54 fragments of testimony, work out who said what and when, and accept that every witness lied. A short, sharp mystery that ends somewhere you will not expect.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
96% of 10,612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
UNMEMORY
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Mind Diver
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
95% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
A hand-drawn detective adventure about a sharp young sleuth whose mother is accused of murder. Explore the town of Arthurton, read suspects for tells, and make choices that bend the story the narrator is writing. Witty, atmospheric and surprisingly heartfelt, with a mystery that keeps pulling you forward.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
86% of 1,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
The Almost Gone
Trapped between life and death, you pick through the dioramas of your own life: a sitting room, a hospital, a police car in a tree. Rotate each small world, find what was left behind, and piece together a quiet, sad story about a family. Short, beautiful and haunting.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
80% of 1,025 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Case of the Golden Idol
Twelve strange deaths, fifty years apart, all connected. Examine each frozen scene, gather names and clues, then fill in the blanks to name the killer, the motive and the weapon. A pure deduction game with a dark, twisting story about a cursed family and the idol they would kill for.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
97% of 9,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$17.99
UNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
95% of 1,882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE
A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour. Can you solve the cases narrated in this beautiful pixel-art adventure?
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
77% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Tangle Tower
A murder, a mansion, and a suspect who is literally a painting. Explore Tangle Tower, question its oddball residents, and piece together clues in a fully voiced, hand-drawn detective story with genuinely funny writing and clever puzzles. Come for the banter and the beautiful rooms; the case itself is one you will want to crack.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 6,696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
The Chrono Jotter
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 · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Unheard - Voices of Crime
A detective game you play with your ears. Walk through a top-down blueprint of a crime scene, eavesdrop on every conversation as it happened, and match names to voices to work out who did what. Five cases hide a thread connecting them all, and only careful listening finds it.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
95% of 31,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$6.99
Red Line
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world. A thrilling adventure taking place across multiple timelines ensues.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
97% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than The Diary

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

A retired detective reopens a missing girl's case from memory alone, piecing together 54 fragments of testimony to find the truth.

$6.99

UNMEMORY

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

$6.99

The Almost Gone

Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.

$9.99

MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE

A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour.

$12.99

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…

$11.99

Unheard - Voices of Crime

Walk a blueprint of each crime scene, listen in on every conversation and match voices to names to uncover what happened.

$6.99

Evan's Remains

Solve your way across a strange island as Dysis and find out why Evan asked for you.

$6.99

Red Line

Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world.

$9.99

Utter a Name

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

$6.99

CaseCracker

Dig through case files, cross-reference every receipt and transcript, and follow the evidence through five connected mysteries.

$3.99

Her Story

A woman is interviewed seven times by police about her missing husband.

$9.99

√Letter - Root Letter -

When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared.

$1.99

Hidden gems like The Diary

The Death Game Report

Type names into an old terminal, piece together the students' final thoughts, and deduce who killed whom and why.

$3.99

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.

$24.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit

Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure!

$24.99

REWIND

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues.

Free

Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved

A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?

$19.99

Mind Diver

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations.

$17.99

Misty Judgment

You wake up as Qi Yi with no memory, and the killer is hiding among the people who call you by that name.

$8.99

Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game

Little Problems is a Cozy Detective game about solving minor inconveniences, everyday misunderstandings, and of course, little problems.

$9.99

The Incident at Galley House

Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.

$19.99

The Red Pearls Of Borneo

A colonial noir mystery in 1941 Borneo. As a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, you step into the psychic echoes of one fatal night on a…

Free

Yet Another Killing Game

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

$16.99

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