The Chrono Jotter
Ran Ibuki wakes up in a rotting forest school where classmates keep turning up murdered, and her missing girlfriend Ann Sakura is the reason she…
94% of 1,976 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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The Chrono Jotter
Ran Ibuki wakes up in a rotting forest school where classmates keep turning up murdered, and her missing girlfriend Ann Sakura is the reason she keeps going. You die, rewind time with your clues intact, and try to stop the next murder. A yuri horror mystery about forbidden love that refuses to stay dead.
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94% of 1,976 Steam reviews are positive$2.99时忆 Memory of Time
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated events and discovering mysterious truths hidden behind them, Please survive, and walk with your head held high towards the 'perfect ending' you expect.
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94% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFreeRail of Möbius
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. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
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93% of 360 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.54The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
A live-action murder mystery spanning a century. Watch four killings unfold in 1922, 1972 and 2022, gather the clues hidden in the footage, build your hypotheses and face the culprit. Playing as mystery novelist Haruka Kagami, you pit your reasoning against the Shijima family's deadly secret.
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79% of 1,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$49.99Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
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88% of 373 Steam reviews are positive$3.19Game 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! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
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88% of 997 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.49Complex Loop
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
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91% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$9.99AI: The Somnium Files
Detective Kaname Date hunts a serial killer through near-future Tokyo, and through other people's dreams. A murder mystery with sharp twists, a talking AI partner and dream puzzles on a six-minute clock. Dark, funny and stranger than it has any right to be.
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91% of 8,939 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$19.99start;again
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
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95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$5.99マーダーミステリーパラドクス このひと夏の十五年
"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game. Enter the remote and sparsely populated island of Shikinejima and attempt to solve the strangely recurring mystery found there.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
84% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$8.99BUSTAFELLOWS
A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!
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86% of 973 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99The Posthumous Investigation
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 581 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Cheaper than 初颜 - The Prototype
Rail of Möbius
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.
93% of 360 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.54
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!
88% of 997 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.49
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 373 Steam reviews are positive$3.19
Complex Loop
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future.
91% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
start;again
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
マーダーミステリーパラドクス このひと夏の十五年
"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game.
84% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
旧手表 - Old Watch
This is an Visual Novel game. It's a story about time leap.
83% of 569 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$6.29
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.
96% of 10,587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6.99
7 Years From Now
A slice of life story-driven adventure game with a distinctive 3D pixel art.
97% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$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.
78% of 554 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hidden gems like 初颜 - The Prototype
The Posthumous Investigation
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes.
93% of 581 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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.
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$6.29
The Incident at Galley House
Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.
93% of 4,897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157$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…
95% of 4,856 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97Free
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?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
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!
88% of 997 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.49
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 373 Steam reviews are positive$3.19
SHUTEN ORDER
Hunt your own killer across five suspects and five very different routes before time runs out.
79% of 758 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$49.99
Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity
To the promise we once made and the place we must return
83% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99
London: Echoes of the Past
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces.
79% of 211 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
A dead detective with one night to unravel the mystery of his own death, one possessed object at a time.
97% of 6,578 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$29.99
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HIRUGAO
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through many eyes, including the woman, the man, and the…
69% of 26 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.49
The Incident at Galley House
Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.
93% of 4,897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157$19.99
The Posthumous Investigation
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes.
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Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.
92% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
52Hertz
An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac…
83% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$12.74
London: Echoes of the Past
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces.
79% of 211 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$6.29
SHUTEN ORDER
Hunt your own killer across five suspects and five very different routes before time runs out.
79% of 758 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$49.99
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?
65% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing.
89% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Never 7 - The End of Infinity
Save me from this cage of infinity
66% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity
To the promise we once made and the place we must return
83% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99