Visual novels like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Loved how mysterious and story-driven Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective can get? These visual novels line up well for what comes next.

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, Funny
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$3.99
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 Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
77% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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. You read, investigate, pick dialogue, and time deadly curses across several intertwined lives. Sharp, eerie, and clever with its twists.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
95% of 6,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
Tangle 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.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Funny
94% of 6,696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Yuma, an amnesiac detective-in-training, and Shinigami, the spirit haunting him, solve impossible cases in a rain-soaked city run by a megacorporation. You gather clues on the streets, then take them into the surreal Mystery Labyrinth to corner the truth. Worth playing for the cases and the cast.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
80% of 2,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99
The Incident at Galley House
In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody. Years later, with a strange machine that replays echoes of the past, you piece together what happened. You feed it a who, where and when, and if you are right, you get to listen in. Illustrated scenes, full voice acting and an eerie soundtrack carry a grim, twisty mystery worth untangling.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 4,961 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155$19.99
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. 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, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 4,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99
Detective 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, Story-driven, Funny
96% of 2,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$6.99
LumineNight
LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure set in 1950s Summerset, where Detective Kelvin Foster and his daughter Selen chase a decade of unsolved murders. Expect long illustrated dialogue, crime-scene searches, interrogations, codes and stealth detours, carried by hand-drawn anime art and a dark, neon-lit mood.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
87% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
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? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Funny
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Death Trick: Double Blind
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Funny
84% of 225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Twelve years after a girl vanished from a playground, retired detective Jeon Gyeong reopens the case. You sort her scattered memories — who said what, and in what order — until the lies fall apart. A short, sad, clever mystery worth one careful evening.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
96% of 10,613 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99

Cheaper than Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

AI: The Somnium Files

You are Kaname Date, a detective in near-future Tokyo hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes.

$3.99

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

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.

$19.99

Tangle Tower

A murder at the top of a strange tower, and the only suspect is a painting holding a knife.

$19.99

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus

Yuma, an amnesiac detective-in-training, and Shinigami, the spirit haunting him, solve impossible cases in a rain-soaked city run by a…

$14.99

The Incident at Galley House

In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody.

$19.99

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.

$4.99

Detective Grimoire

Detective Grimoire is called to a marsh tourist trap where the owner was apparently killed by the local swamp monster.

$6.99

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

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

Death Trick: Double Blind

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on!

$15.99

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

Twelve years after a girl vanished from a playground, retired detective Jeon Gyeong reopens the case.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Demons' Timeline

Cyber detective L never leaves the room. You solve supernatural murders called Paradoxes by reading timelines on Parrotter, linking public accounts…

$10.99

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.

$24.99

The Mermaid Mask

A locked-room murder aboard a strange submarine, with a dead captain, an ancient cauldron, and a crew of odd suspects.

$15.99

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.

$19.99

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?

$13.99

The Incident at Galley House

In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody.

$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?

$16.99

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

Kanna Maze

In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.

$3.99

SHUTEN ORDER

You wake up murdered with four days to live, and your killer is one of five ministers.

$24.99

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami Fukurai, new hire with glasses that show leftover thoughts, working under a wheelchair-using psychic…

$12.59

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