The 22 Best Games Like Zero Escape, Ranked

Your Turn to Die: Death Game by Majority is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Your decisions directly affect the story and final outcome.

This follows Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Hajime Hinata, a new 'Ultimate' student at Hope's Peak Academy, attends a field trip to Jabberwock island with his classmates. Usami, their rabbit teacher, tells them to bond and find Hope Fragments. Monokuma appears, starting a new Killing Game. Anyone leaving must commit murder and escape.

Play as detective Kaname Date in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery. You investigate an elusive serial killer.

The House in Fata Morgana is a gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. This full-length visual novel spans nearly a millennium, dealing with tragedy, human nature, and insanity.

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days is a Japanese visual novel game by Regista. Players influence the story's outcome through choices in this branching narrative. The game shows two linked storylines about a nuclear catastrophe.

Chaos;Child is the fourth game in the Science Adventure series, set six years after Chaos;Head. It functions as a "Delusional Science Adventure".

This horror-adventure game explores how far you would go to bring someone back from the dead. Set in Honjo, Tokyo's Sumida ward during the Showa period (1926-89), it tells the unsettling tale of those who can curse, based on real-world urban legends: "The Seven Mysteries of Honjo." The cursed seven face a three-day supernatural ordeal to reach their hopes and dreams.

Steins;Gate. 5pb. and Nitroplus developed this Japanese visual novel. They released it for the Xbox 360 on October 15, 2009. This game is the second title in the 5pb. and Nitroplus' Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head. Robotics;Notes succeeded it. The team called it a "hypothetical science ADV". Gameplay in Steins;Gate uses non-linear plot lines.

Umineko: When They Cry is a Japanese murder mystery soft visual novel series from 07th Expansion. Legend of the Golden Witch, the first game, debuted at Comiket 72 on August 17, 2007 for PC. People sold out in thirty minutes. The story puts eighteen people on a secluded island for two days. Mysterious murders strike most of them. The game asks you to find out if the killer is human or supernatural. Umineko is the third title in the When They Cry series.

Control an interactive mystery novel and find Hotel Dusk's secrets. Who is Kyle Hyde? What actually happened in Room 215? Use your stylus to move through lies, betrayal, and murder to get the answers.

A strange rumor spreads through Tokyo's H City shadows. A mysterious disfigurement, like a birthmark, appears on some bodies. Anyone with the Mark dies fast from horrible, unknown causes. You wake up without memories in a mansion meant to protect Mark bearers. Doors open, and the death countdown starts now.

Exit/Corners is an episodic adventure. It mixes visual novel story segments and riddle puzzles. Five strangers get stuck in an abandoned hotel set to collapse in 24 hours. To survive, they must solve the captor's riddles and figure out their abduction.

In this 1-bit first-person mystery game, a merchant ship named the Obra Dinn shows up at a London harbor. The ship was declared lost at sea years ago. As an insurance adjuster, you must check the ship for clues.

The British Institute of Archaeology, London, 1908: An Egyptologist vanishes, prompting a police investigation into the unknown. Explore strange spots, check odd gadgets, and find an otherworldly discovery blurring reality and illusion. Built for VR, players inhabit The Room's spine-tingling world and interact with its odd gear in this new chapter.

Find the truth in this 2D sidescrolling adventure. It features stunning art and environments. Then, fight kaiju in fast, top-down combat. Customize the Sentinels with mechsuit weapons and fight to save humanity!

Protagonist WuShi and his friends ride a high-speed rail train. The train goes through the sea. They don't know the train is actually a time travel vehicle.

Four people are trapped in a building fire. They need your help to escape.

Parascientific Escape～Gear Detective～ follows Parascientific Escape～Cruise in the distant seas～. Players must find clues and solve puzzles to escape situations using PSI abilities.

Raging Loop is a psychological horror visual novel set in the secluded Japanese village of Yasumizu. Heavy fog traps everyone. Ancient Gods hunt the villagers. The Feast starts; can you escape the village alive?

Unheard is a narrative detective game. Put on headphones and go back to the past. Use sounds to return to crime scenes. Track down people and solve cases. The game makes you a time-traveling detective using only sound. The story is non-linear; players build timelines from overheard conversations.

The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass is a mystery thriller visual novel with line search and jump functions. Smoke floods a gem exhibition in Yushibana. Emergency shutters trap eight people inside. They must find the truth about their imprisonment and deal with strange events.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released as Gyakuten Saiban Yomigaeru Gyakuten in Japan, is a visual novel/adventure legal drama game. Capcom developed it for Japan, North America, and Europe. Nintendo published it in Australia. It first appeared as Gyakuten Saiban on the Game Boy Advance in 2001. A 2005 remake for the Nintendo DS added touchscreen, microphone, and extra content. This version launched in Japan, then North America, Europe, and Australia.