Detective Grimoire
Detective Grimoire is called to a marsh tourist trap where the owner was apparently killed by the local swamp monster.
96% of 2,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$6.99
Visual novels like Echoes
If Echoes left you wanting something mysterious and hand-drawn, you have options. These visual novels line up well for what comes next.
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
Jenny LeClue is a hand-drawn mystery where a young detective tries to clear her mother of murder while her own author rewrites the story around her. You question suspects, spot visible clues mid-conversation, and make choices that bend both Jenny's case and the narrator's draft. Warm, funny, and full of secrets to poke at.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
86% of 1,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Tokyo Dark
Detective Ito's partner has vanished into the dark beneath Tokyo, and finding him means keeping her own mind intact. Tokyo Dark mixes visual-novel reading with point-and-click searching across the city, where every choice shifts her sanity and the story bends toward 11 different endings.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
85% of 1,041 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Dry Drowning
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
81% of 400 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
87% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Detective Grimoire
Detective Grimoire is called to a marsh tourist trap where the owner was apparently killed by the local swamp monster. You question suspects, gather clues, and piece together what happened. Short, funny, and dialogue-heavy, it suits visual novel readers who like mysteries carried by character talk.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
96% of 2,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$6.99Tangle Tower
A murder at the top of a strange tower, and the only suspect is a painting holding a knife. You question its odd residents, turn up clues, and piece together what happened. Fully voiced, hand-painted, and funny, it is worth playing for the interrogations and the slow unravelling of the house itself.
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94% of 6,695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99Yet 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? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Scarlet Hollow
Your aunt is dead, your cousin resents you, and the town of Scarlet Hollow is coming apart with ghosts, creatures, and old mine secrets. You read, choose, and live with it across one strange week where you cannot save everyone. The branching is enormous, so each run shows only a fraction.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
97% of 4,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 108$29.99Detective Hunt - Crownston City PD
You are Damien Hunt, a junior detective of the Crownston City Police Department. Together with your partner, you are to investigate criminal activities around the city.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
63% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Song of Farca
You are Isabella Song, a hacker-detective solving crimes from home with drones, cameras and a sharp tongue. You read chats, hack feeds, pin evidence together and pick who to believe, and the story remembers. Dark, funny and procedural, with romance and multiple endings for visual novel readers who like their reading with a case file.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
78% of 1,406 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Return to Shironagasu Island
A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start. You read, question suspects and pick choices that decide who lives. A compact mystery visual novel worth playing for its tight island case and sharp turn into horror and sci-fi.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
93% of 4,177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Cheaper than Echoes
Detective Hunt - Crownston City PD
You are Damien Hunt, a junior detective of the Crownston City Police Department.
63% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Return to Shironagasu Island
A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start.
93% of 4,177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
GRUNND
You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
65% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
One Eleven
One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac.
77% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
SIMULACRA 2
A young influencer is dead and the case is closed too fast. A detective hands you her phone, and you dig through messages, videos, and social media…
87% of 1,385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a detective in near-future Tokyo hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes.
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99
Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure.
77% of 221 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Good Bones
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative…
75% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$6.74
Blackout: The Darkest Night
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days.
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Sunlight Scream
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one...
83% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Chakana
Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like Echoes
Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker
Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets.
88% of 466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
The Incident at Galley House
In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody.
93% of 4,961 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157$19.99
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
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney.
87% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Red Line
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world.
97% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Beacon Pines
Beacon Pines is a cute-creepy story told inside a mysterious book, where you are both the reader and Luka, a kid poking around strange happenings at…
97% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
A horror visual novel about seven cursed ghost stories in late-20th-century Tokyo, and the people willing to kill to bring someone back.
95% of 6,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
Two washed-up rooster detectives, one mysterious dame, and a city of predators and prey.
94% of 1,636 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
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.
90% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Scarlet Hollow
Your aunt is dead, your cousin resents you, and the town of Scarlet Hollow is coming apart with ghosts, creatures, and old mine secrets.
97% of 4,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 108$29.99
Newest visual novels like Echoes
Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker
Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets.
88% of 466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
RUNT
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
80% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Incident at Galley House
In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody.
93% of 4,961 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157$19.99
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney.
87% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Chakana
Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Mobile Murder Mystery
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
97% of 77 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
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 147 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
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
Care
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences.
93% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99