Games Like The Red Pearls Of Borneo

The Red Pearls Of Borneo

A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.

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Touhou: Fading Illusion

90% 👍 OF 247
About This Game

A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!

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Wax Heads

97% 👍 OF 613
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Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Match Customers to Records
  • …Read Music Clues
  • …Browse Fictional Albums
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Ceiba

95% 👍 OF 271
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Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.

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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

94% 👍 OF 9.5K
About This Game

Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fix a famous detective's deductions by swapping in the right observations until his logic holds together.
  • …turn a trial into a debate against six jurors, pitting their arguments against each other to break a guilty consensus.
  • …untangle overlapping testimony from multiple witnesses at once, chasing contradictions as their stories collide.
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Ukraine War Stories

89% 👍 OF 234
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Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Survive as a Civilian
  • …Keep Loved Ones Safe
  • …Escape Occupied Towns
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The Room

98% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use a strange eyepiece to reveal hidden markings, invisible clues, and a second layer of reality behind the shadows.
  • …open a cast-iron safe that keeps revealing another locked layer underneath, until the whole game is peeling back one impossible box.
  • …watch a normal-looking object unfold into a larger contraption, then warp into shapes that feel physically impossible yet still solvable.
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Pikuniku

96% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stumble into a whole toast world and fight giant toast as an actual boss encounter.
  • …go to a frog temple for a golden tooth, water a villager's plants to grow a beanstalk, then trade the tooth to a mountain wizard to get arms.
  • …uncover a "free money" conspiracy and end up pushing back against Mr. Sunshine's corporation as the story gets darker.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

80% 👍 OF 14K
About This Game

Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Deduction Chains
  • …Profile Suspects
  • …Track as Toby
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The Room Three

95% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …step into a keyhole-sized mechanism, rearrange it from the inside, then pop back out to watch the real lock open.
  • …reach an ending, then learn it was a trap and get thrown back in for a harder route to the real escape.
  • …finish the main story, then "change your fate" by hunting down hidden artifacts across previously visited rooms to open alternate endings.
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Spirit of the North

84% 👍 OF 6.6K
About This Game

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore as a Red Fox
  • …Charge Magical Flowers
  • …Activate Runestones
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Return to Monkey Island

91% 👍 OF 9.1K
About This Game

Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …hunt down a specific trivia card, answer it right, dive to a marked spot, and surface into a secret underwater island shaped like a full map.
  • …reach an ending that branches into 10 different epilogues plus a secret one.
  • …sail the sea map yourself later on, roaming to new places once the game finally turns you loose.