

Imagine yourself playing minigames tangentially related to solving mysteries.

Simulator / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
The game is based around the daily life of a character doing odd jobs for people throughout the town to earn money and pay back a huge debt. The game is played on the bottom screen using the Nintendo DS stylus to control the characters and finish the mini-game style jobs. The top screen shows the character portrait and dialogue of the people you talk to.

Simulator / Adventure / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Romance
Evergreen Avenue is a Visual Novel released on PlayStation in 2001. Choosing either a male (Catan) or female (Ira) character, you must help each of the seven spirits learn the ways of human life by scheduling sessions with them each week and playing mini-games to determine your effectiveness. Events will pop up from time to time, where you have personal conversations with the various spirits or with your rival. At the end of each month, you are graded in comparison with your rival, and you must sufficiently educate the spirits by the time six months have passed.

Simulator / Sport / Strategy / Action / Horror
Created specifically for the PSP system, WTF is a crazy collection of fun and addictive mini-games that drive the player to perform sometimes trivial, sometimes mind-bending, but always fun jobs in pursuit of the almighty dollar. The latest in a long line of unique Japanese games that have gained popularity in the United States, WTF delivers gamers compelling, bite-sized morsels of frenzied arcade-style action unlike anything ever seen on the PSP system.

Simulator / Quiz/Trivia / Adventure / Erotic / Romance
One of Kōei's first video games, Night Life (1982) was the first Japanese commercial erotic game to hit the market, featuring a series of sexually explicit images, and marketed as a tool to help couples enhance their sex life. An intercourse simulator and part of Kōei's Strawberry Porno series, Night Life is considered to be a precursor for the Bishōjo game genre. In-game, the player has a limited set of options, including determining the date of a woman's period, a choice of sex positions and the option of how much time to allocate to each one. The intercourse is then displayed on the screen through the 'Let's Fuck' option, and is non-interactive.

Point-and-click / Simulator / Strategy / Stealth
An adventure game, assuming the identity of Matt Stuvysant, a burglar who is looking beyond just the clothes on his back and a hotel room on Holland Street, the player is tasked with finding accomplices, scouting potential targets, and plotting plans of burglary, down to the finest detail. Featuring the archetypal point-and-click interface during investigations, engaging in planning a job would alter the controls to include keyboard, using it to control the planned movements of the personnel.

Role-playing (RPG) / Simulator / Strategy / Sandbox
Ever wanted to live life on a farm, with nothing but the sun, the fresh scent of your crops, the muddy fields underneath, and cows and chickens to keep you company? Well, you're in luck, because you have just inherited your grandfather's ranch, but it's in a terrible state of disrepair! What ever can you do?

Role-playing (RPG) / Simulator / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
It's an adventure that will transform you! The people of Sharance and their horned Univir neighbors are embroiled in a bitter conflict. An age-old hatred between humans and monsters divides them. You are an adventurer with an unusual secret: you're half human and half monster.

Point-and-click / Puzzle / Simulator / Comedy / Mystery
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is a 2009 adventure video game developed and published by Capcom. It was originally released for the Nintendo DS in Japan in 2009, and internationally in 2010, and later for iOS and Android in 2017. It is the fifth game in the Ace Attorney series, and is set between the events of the third and fourth games, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations and Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.