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Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Games like Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

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A roughly 20-hour escape-room adventure about trapped strangers making deadly choices across branching, time-traveling storylines, with messy pacing but a strong story.

malViolence - Definitive Edition
A ~6-hour sci-fi visual novel with escape-room puzzles, multiple endings, and an emotional story.
2023-05-18
- Comedy

Science fiction

Puzzle

Indie

Mystery

Point-and-click

Drama

Visual Novel

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Yet Another Killing Game

A compact single-player adventure about a deadly house trap, with dialogue, exploration, and fatal choices driving a roughly six-hour mystery.

2025-01-30

First person
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Mystery
Point-and-click
Visual Novel
Auditory

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The Zodiac Trial

A single-player mystery visual novel about 12 zodiac-themed jurors in a deadly game, featuring branching routes and around 18 hours of story.

2021-01-21

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Raging Loop

A lengthy, choice-driven visual novel about a werewolf death game in a Japanese village, blending psychological horror and mythology with multiple endings.

2017-08-23

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Tested on Humans: Escape Room

A short, dark escape-room adventure set in a research center, mixing varied puzzles with occasional frustrating difficulty.

2021-02-24

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Mystery
Point-and-click

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ANONYMOUS;CODE

A single-player sci-fi adventure where hacking and time travel lead to a divine confrontation, with a plot-driven but character-shallow story lasting around 18 hours.

2023-09-08

Science fiction
Adventure
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

A two-game visual novel compilation blending escape-room puzzles, branching story with multiple endings, and psychological horror, with a median reviewer playtime of about 43 hours.

2017-03-24

First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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STEINS;GATE ELITE

A single-player anime visual novel where tech-savvy students use a modified microwave to email the past, with ~20 hours of story and full-motion cutscenes.

2019-02-19

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

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Eternal Threads

A single-player, first-person post-apocalyptic puzzle adventure about investigating disasters by manipulating timelines, with meaningful choices and a roughly 9-hour story.

2022-05-19

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Survival
Indie

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Fatal Twelve

An emotional ~16-hour visual novel about a high schooler drawn into a death game after a train explosion.

2018-03-30

Adventure
Indie
Visual Novel

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The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass

An intricate mystery visual novel set in a sealed tower, with nonlinear clue-gathering and a brain-burning time-loop story that takes roughly 22–26 hours to unravel.

2021-05-06

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Side view
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?

A free-to-play sci-fi mystery visual novel about nine strangers trapped in an underground facility, where you piece together the truth through logs in a roughly 5.5-hour story.

2024-02-21

Adventure
Indie
Mystery
Visual Novel