Games like Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel
If Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel is your kind of game, the closest matches are NETGHOST, Almanac: Detective Agency and Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel: You are Juno, a teenage girl getting evidence to clear her brother's name. Choose who helps you solve the mystery. With multiple endings, some scenes are flashbacks to the past. Your actions there may even change who committed the crime, with what, and where!
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NETGHOST
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Top pick for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggle to protect the company he works for and aid his ailing sister.
Almanac: Detective Agency
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Second-strongest match for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
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Third-strongest match for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
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Ranked #4 for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
BURIED STARS
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Ranked #5 for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Ranked #6 for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
The Operator
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Ranked #7 for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
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Ranked #8 for Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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BURIED STARS
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel.
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Frequently asked about Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel
- What games are most similar to Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel are NETGHOST, Almanac: Detective Agency, Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure.
- Who developed Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel?
- Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel was developed by Bit Quirky, LLC.
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