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 584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Visual novels like Myrmica
If Myrmica scratched a mysterious and atmospheric itch for you, keep reading. These visual novels line up well for what comes next.
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Complex 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!
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Neoproxima
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
94% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$12.99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.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
94% of 33 Steam reviews are positiveFreeYour Future Self
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
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95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The 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 Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
93% of 584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Kill 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. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
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89% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99Rue Valley
Rue Valley traps you in a repeating evening in a small town, where you read, talk, and piece together the secrets of its residents and the loop itself. Your personality shapes dialogue, and each restart lets you try a different answer. Best for visual novel readers who like heavy dialogue and psychological mystery.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Overboard!
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven
90% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Mycopsychosys: Project Jupiter
Explore, investigate, and survive this new infection. Collect clues, meet and interact with people, and bond with the main cast. Solve the mysteries like a true detective and follow the non-linear narrative. Are you ready to face this new deadly infection? 👁
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
95% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Hidden gems like Myrmica
Asbury Pines
Asbury Pines tells a grisly small-town murder across 12 eras, from cavemen to temporal physicists, in 350+ short character stories.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.99
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 771 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
94% of 149 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Night Loops
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits.
90% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Operator
You are the FDI's newest Operator, stuck at a desk while field agents call you for help.
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$13.99
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 positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
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 362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Newest visual novels like Myrmica
Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror…
64% of 437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99
Mycopsychosys: Project Jupiter
Explore, investigate, and survive this new infection. Collect clues, meet and interact with people, and bond with the main cast.
95% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
EMIT:Embrace Beyond Time
In a near-future city ruled by AI system EDEN, you become a Memory Restorer, entering the past to fix events deemed wrong.
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Neve
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story.
98% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
93% of 584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Asbury Pines
Asbury Pines tells a grisly small-town murder across 12 eras, from cavemen to temporal physicists, in 350+ short character stories.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.99
Rue Valley
Rue Valley traps you in a repeating evening in a small town, where you read, talk, and piece together the secrets of its residents and the loop…
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
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
Decide 4 God
The final entry of the Abime Series. Six intruders and six captives share a high-tech prison where their moral dilemmas may lead them to a fate…
94% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Escape Everlit
A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery. Switch between four playable protagonists trapped in an island mansion to explore, investigate, piece together…
100% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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