Visual novels like 见习侦探

Want something that feels mysterious and story-driven the way 见习侦探 does? These visual novels could fill that gap nicely.

The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
A viral hearse video, a run of fatal falls, coffee in hand. A mystery-style visual novel with puzzles, reasoning, humor, and multiple endings.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
90% of 1,608 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Methods: The Detective Competition
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cute
91% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Roman's Christmas / 罗曼圣诞探案集
Wolf detective Roman just wants a quiet Christmas at a snowy tavern, but a storm traps 13 travelers inside with one murder after another. Read through 5 linked cases, question everyone, and pick your conclusions to reach different endings. Hand-drawn furries, dry jokes, and strong music carry it along.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
95% of 1,397 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
蓝宝石般的被害妄想少女/Damsel with persecutory delusion
A 17-year-old shut inside depression and delusion gets a strange letter about a robbery and murder in Qinshan Port City over a decade ago. You follow her through tangled cases, gather clues, reason out answers, and steer toward different endings. Long, twisty, and earnest about law and justice, it rewards visual novel readers who like their mysteries thorny.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
89% of 1,097 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
誰是犯案者 Who is the Criminal
Set in school life, “Who is the Criminal” is a text-based adventure game featuring comedian and inference elements. With inquiring suspects and debating with “evildoers”, he gathers pieces of puzzles and reveals what truly happens in every incident.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cute
93% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Misty Judgment
A live-action mystery where you play Qi Yi, an amnesiac mystery writer caught in four murder cases. Search scenes for evidence, poke holes in suspects' stories, and name the killer hiding among familiar faces. Good for visual novel readers who want their reading interrupted by an accusation.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
How Many Secrets Under Ceiling
The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here! A dentist dead in a double-locked room seems like a suicide, but unexplained contradictions connect different truths. Each investigation and puzzles are up to you. But wait, what's wrong with this suspicious "assistant" following?!
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cute
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
她杀 - The Suspected Murder
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
77% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
炸鸡块与天使
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story. The killer "Rooster" who killed six innocent girls has committed a new crime.Fortunately, at the scene of the seventh homicide, the police found important clues pointing to the murderer...
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Funny
92% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Grade 5B Case Files
A narrative AVG focused on everyday mysteries from the lives of elementary school students. The two protagonists encounter ordinary yet unusual incidents at school, and through investigation and deduction, players uncover the truth together with them.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Cute
90% of 150 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Case of the Golden Night Apartment
A bizarre murder breaks the peace of Jin Xiao Apartment. As the new night guard, your only tools are the surveillance cameras and the residents' passing words. Everyone here has a secret. The truth is hidden between your screens and your deduction notes.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven
43% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a detective in near-future Tokyo hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes. You question suspects, pick through crime scenes, and enter dreams for clues. The plot branches into routes and endings until the pieces lock together. Funny, dark, and twisty, it is an easy recommendation for visual novel readers who like mysteries.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99

Hidden gems like 见习侦探

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

Misty Judgment

A live-action mystery where you play Qi Yi, an amnesiac mystery writer caught in four murder cases.

$8.99

The Grade 5B Case Files

A narrative AVG focused on everyday mysteries from the lives of elementary school students.

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The Real Face of a VTuber

A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber…

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SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶

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Trials of Innocence

Rookie lawyer Luna Ray takes hopeless murder cases to a modern courtroom, and you read, question and argue your way to the truth.

$14.44

Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville

A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express.

$19.99

Cellveillance

"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for…

$15.99

Paper Perjury

It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed.

$19.99

LumineNight

LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure set in 1950s Summerset, where Detective Kelvin Foster and his daughter Selen chase a decade of…

$24.99

子归 - Blossom

Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village.

$7.99

Newest visual novels like 见习侦探

The Grade 5B Case Files

A narrative AVG focused on everyday mysteries from the lives of elementary school students.

Free

REWIND

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

Free

Detective INNA DUKE

Detective Inna Duke is a noir story-driven visual novel where you team up with lieutenant Inna Duke and her partner corporal Fernal to investigate…

$5.99

Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville

A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express.

$19.99

How Many Secrets Under Ceiling

The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here!

$2.99

The Real Face of a VTuber

A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber…

$10.19

SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved

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

$19.99

The Occult Detective

A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements.

$13.49

London: Echoes of the Past

A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces.

$6.99

Misty Judgment

A live-action mystery where you play Qi Yi, an amnesiac mystery writer caught in four murder cases.

$8.99

Dragon Detective: A Friend from the Shadows

A thrilling detective mystery adventure set in a historical fantasy world.

$9.99