Games Like The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…

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428: Shibuya Scramble

95% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …make a choice for one character that instantly derails or rescues another elsewhere in Shibuya.
  • …hit a sudden lockout, jump to another character to find the missing trigger, then come back and reopen the blocked route.
  • …play through a live-action Shibuya thriller where still photos suddenly burst into full video when the situation escalates.
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Tokyo Dark

84% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Tokyo’s Secrets
  • …Question Case Witnesses
  • …Solve Light Puzzles
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Lucid9: Inciting Incident

90% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate School Murders
  • …Track Yama’s Memory Gaps
  • …Test Suspect Theories
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Raging Loop

96% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use a creative method to kill God, then follow it with intimate conversations that reframe everything you survived.
  • …get trapped in a village where every night someone dies and every day everyone votes to hang a suspect.
  • …unlock a mode that lets you read every character's inner thoughts and replay scenes from other perspectives to see the hidden motives.
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CHAOS;CHILD

93% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Shibuya Murders
  • …Map Murder Clues
  • …Choose Takuru's Delusions
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AI: The Somnium Files

92% 👍 OF 9.4K
About This Game

Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search Crime Scenes
  • …Enter Witnesses' Dreams
  • …Solve Timed Dream Puzzles
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

93% 👍 OF 7.3K
About This Game

Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pick numbered doors that branch the story, clear an entire escape room, then loop back to choose different doors for new endings.
  • …use a flowchart to jump between routes, grab key clues from different timelines, and piece them together into one real sequence of events.
  • …get split from the group by the rules, solve one room while other people do unknown things elsewhere, and deal with the fallout when someone vanishes.
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CORPSE FACTORY

80% 👍 OF 881
About This Game

Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Request a Death
  • …Choose Story Endings
  • …Unlock the Art Gallery
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi

97% 👍 OF 992
About This Game

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate a Kidnapping
  • …Explore Hinamizawa's Past
  • …Trace the Dam Dispute
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Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole

93% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Follow the Falling Toy
  • …Read Shifting Perspectives
  • …Unravel Linked Mysteries
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The Mildew Children: Chapter 1

86% 👍 OF 325
About This Game

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

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