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24 alternatives to Dark Stories: Detective
Solve tricky lateral thinking mysteries with your crew
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2025 · detective-stories.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
2025 · detective.wiki · its alternatives →
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Dark and scary riddles to play with friends
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A humorous micro-adventure game investigating the occult
2015 · spookydoorway.com · its alternatives →
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I built SQL Noir, an interactive detective game that challenges you to solve mysteries using real SQL queries. It’s fully open source, designed to give you a practical and immersive way to learn SQL while engaging with a narrative-driven mystery.
2025 · sqlnoir.com · its alternatives →
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Your mission is to uncover the full truth.
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Solve logical mystery riddles by asking AI yes/no questions
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive mystery and unannounced monthly deliveries
2017 · huntakiller.com · its alternatives →
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Mysteries.ai▲93A game where you play detective and solve a mystery
2023 · mysteries.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this really fun project I put together. I originally built this project 2-3 years ago, AI was already booming at the time, however voice AI agents were still very early. I loved my proof of concept at the time, but wasn't quite happy with it. I recently had the desire to check out the tech again, and know many of you will be interested. Interviews are speech to speech with OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 over WebRTC. This model is... expensive, and because of that, I have to add some amount of restrictions, conversations are tied to a authenticated Clerk user id. I…
Aug 2026 · whodunnitai.com · its alternatives →
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Cinematic puzzle games and cross-media experiences
2023 · onemystery.club · its alternatives →
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Think Literal To Solve 150+ Free Puzzles With Friends
2024 · black-stories.com · its alternatives →
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_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next. Think: escape room in the form of a novel. A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too! My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Have fun with your friends while solving detective stories
2025 · its alternatives →
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I built this educational game to help people identify and understand dark patterns in digital products. It features 10 interactive scenarios based on real-world examples. The game includes: • Interactive pattern recognition scenarios • Explanations of psychological principles • Simulated real-world examples with guided feedback Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind. I'd especially appreciate feedback on the educational approach and scenario design.
2025 · games.productartistry.com · its alternatives →
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Unlock bizarre boxes by solving intriguing enigmas
2022 · xsgames.co · its alternatives →
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This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…
2024 · huewords.snellman.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun! We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just…
2023 · gron.games · its alternatives →
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Play Sleuth▲54A series of open-ended, detective role playing games
2015 · playsleuth.com · its alternatives →
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Tough puzzles, riddles and trivia for your brain
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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