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Disco Elysium
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⚡−91 %Dialogue and role-playing
A detective RPG without combat, but with brilliant dialogue and a deeply conflicted protagonist.
A detective RPG without combat, but with brilliant dialogue and a deeply conflicted protagonist.
Disco Elysium
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A moody noir murder mystery where you play Bigby Wolf, the reformed Big Bad Wolf turned sheriff, investigating killings among fairy-tale exiles in grimy New York. Your dialogue choices decide whether you're feared or trusted, all wrapped in a striking neon comic-book style.
A moody noir murder mystery where you play Bigby Wolf, the reformed Big Bad Wolf turned sheriff, investigating killings among fairy-tale exiles in grimy New York. Your dialogue choices decide whether you're feared or trusted, all wrapped in a striking neon comic-book style.
The Wolf Among Us
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Emotional impact
A grim, cinematic thriller about the Origami Killer where you guide four characters, and every choice or failed quick-time sequence can decide who lives and how the story ends.
A grim, cinematic thriller about the Origami Killer where you guide four characters, and every choice or failed quick-time sequence can decide who lives and how the story ends.
Heavy Rain
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Historical setting
As an LAPD detective in 1947 Los Angeles, you comb crime scenes for clues and read suspects' motion-captured faces during interrogations. It's an atmospheric noir crime drama where deduction matters more than gunplay.
As an LAPD detective in 1947 Los Angeles, you comb crime scenes for clues and read suspects' motion-captured faces during interrogations. It's an atmospheric noir crime drama where deduction matters more than gunplay.
L.A. Noire
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Puzzles and brain teasers
As an insurance investigator, you use a magical pocket watch to relive the final moments of a ghost ship's crew and deduce the identity and fate of every sailor. Its striking 1-bit visuals and brilliant deduction design make it a one-of-a-kind detective game.
As an insurance investigator, you use a magical pocket watch to relive the final moments of a ghost ship's crew and deduce the identity and fate of every sailor. Its striking 1-bit visuals and brilliant deduction design make it a one-of-a-kind detective game.
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Strong, story-driven narrative
Quantic Dream's cinematic thriller has you play both an accidental murderer and the detectives hunting him, shaping the story through decisions and reflex-based QTE sequences. Its supernatural mystery starts gripping and atmospheric before veering into wild territory.
Quantic Dream's cinematic thriller has you play both an accidental murderer and the detectives hunting him, shaping the story through decisions and reflex-based QTE sequences. Its supernatural mystery starts gripping and atmospheric before veering into wild territory.
Indigo Prophecy
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Choices with consequences
An episodic narrative adventure where you make tough calls both as Bruce Wayne and as Batman. A dark revelation about the Wayne family recasts familiar characters like the Penguin and the Joker in a new light.
An episodic narrative adventure where you make tough calls both as Bruce Wayne and as Batman. A dark revelation about the Wayne family recasts familiar characters like the Penguin and the Joker in a new light.
Batman: The Telltale Series
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Lavish presentation
An atmospheric first-person mystery where you play an occult detective reconstructing grim crime scenes in a gorgeous yet eerie valley. Its photorealistic scenery and poignant final twist are the highlights.
8 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
An atmospheric first-person mystery where you play an occult detective reconstructing grim crime scenes in a gorgeous yet eerie valley. Its photorealistic scenery and poignant final twist are the highlights.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A twisted murder-mystery visual novel where trapped students are goaded into killing each other by a sadistic bear. Frantic class trials have you literally shoot down lies with evidence, all wrapped in pop-art style and pitch-black humor.
9 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
A twisted murder-mystery visual novel where trapped students are goaded into killing each other by a sadistic bear. Frantic class trials have you literally shoot down lies with evidence, all wrapped in pop-art style and pitch-black humor.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
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Dark, serious atmosphere
As a murdered detective, you roam a gloomy Salem as a ghost, possessing the living and piecing together clues to solve your own killing. An atmospheric, story-driven investigation adventure with light stealth encounters against demons.
As a murdered detective, you roam a gloomy Salem as a ghost, possessing the living and piecing together clues to solve your own killing. An atmospheric, story-driven investigation adventure with light stealth encounters against demons.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
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Dread and tension
As a 1920s private eye in the half-drowned town of Oakmont, you solve eerie cases by reconstructing crime scenes and drawing your own conclusions, with little hand-holding, in a Lovecraftian nightmare. Thick atmosphere and morally grey decisions carry the game, while the combat is serviceable rather than great.
As a 1920s private eye in the half-drowned town of Oakmont, you solve eerie cases by reconstructing crime scenes and drawing your own conclusions, with little hand-holding, in a Lovecraftian nightmare. Thick atmosphere and morally grey decisions carry the game, while the combat is serviceable rather than great.
The Sinking City
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Sci-fi setting
A short, gorgeous noir detective adventure set in a retro-futuristic New York where consciousness can be transferred into new bodies. You rewind time at crime scenes to piece together clues, and your dialogue choices steer the ending.
A short, gorgeous noir detective adventure set in a retro-futuristic New York where consciousness can be transferred into new bodies. You rewind time at crime scenes to piece together clues, and your dialogue choices steer the ending.
Nobody Wants to Die
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Strong, story-driven narrative
You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.
13 Her Story
You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.
Her Story
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Dread and tension
As shell-shocked private eye Edward Pierce you investigate a mysterious death on a grim whaling island and slide steadily into Lovecraftian madness. Investigation, dialogue skills and your fraying sanity shape how the story ends.
As shell-shocked private eye Edward Pierce you investigate a mysterious death on a grim whaling island and slide steadily into Lovecraftian madness. Investigation, dialogue skills and your fraying sanity shape how the story ends.
Call of Cthulhu
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A tropical island getaway turns into a killing game: this offbeat visual novel mystery has you investigating murders among your classmates and exposing culprits in frantic class trials. Dark humor, wild twists and a striking pop-art style make it stand out.
15 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
A tropical island getaway turns into a killing game: this offbeat visual novel mystery has you investigating murders among your classmates and exposing culprits in frantic class trials. Dark humor, wild twists and a striking pop-art style make it stand out.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
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Co-op or multiplayer
You and your friends play ghost hunters, using EMF readers, spirit boxes and cameras to work out which kind of ghost haunts a location. Voice recognition and sudden hunts make for genuine panic and plenty of hilarious co-op moments.
16 Phasmophobia
You and your friends play ghost hunters, using EMF readers, spirit boxes and cameras to work out which kind of ghost haunts a location. Voice recognition and sudden hunts make for genuine panic and plenty of hilarious co-op moments.
Phasmophobia
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A garishly stylish murder-mystery visual novel where you investigate killings and expose lies in frantic class trials full of mini-games. Pitch-black humor, shocking twists and a finale that questions the entire series make it unforgettable.
17 Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
A garishly stylish murder-mystery visual novel where you investigate killings and expose lies in frantic class trials full of mini-games. Pitch-black humor, shocking twists and a finale that questions the entire series make it unforgettable.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
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Dialogue and role-playing
A story-driven espionage RPG from the Disco Elysium studio: you play a tormented operative rebuilding a shattered spy network and unravelling a bloody conspiracy. Dialogue, choices and inner conflict take centre stage rather than combat.
18 Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
A story-driven espionage RPG from the Disco Elysium studio: you play a tormented operative rebuilding a shattered spy network and unravelling a bloody conspiracy. Dialogue, choices and inner conflict take centre stage rather than combat.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
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Historical setting
As Sherlock Holmes you work through six varied criminal cases, gathering clues and deducing the truth, then make a moral call on whether to punish or spare the culprit.
19 Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
As Sherlock Holmes you work through six varied criminal cases, gathering clues and deducing the truth, then make a moral call on whether to punish or spare the culprit.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A classic point-and-click adventure (known as Broken Sword) in which American tourist George Stobbart gets caught up in a Paris bombing and uncovers a Knights Templar conspiracy. Clever inventory puzzles, dry humor and a gripping conspiracy plot define the experience.
A classic point-and-click adventure (known as Broken Sword) in which American tourist George Stobbart gets caught up in a Paris bombing and uncovers a Knights Templar conspiracy. Clever inventory puzzles, dry humor and a gripping conspiracy plot define the experience.
Circle of Blood
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Choices with consequences
A Telltale narrative adventure where you play Bruce Wayne and Batman, making tough decisions that shape alliances and the Joker's rise. The focus is on dialogue, investigation and quick-time action scenes.
A Telltale narrative adventure where you play Bruce Wayne and Batman, making tough decisions that shape alliances and the Joker's rise. The focus is on dialogue, investigation and quick-time action scenes.
Batman: The Enemy Within
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Emotional impact
A narrative psychological thriller from the Life is Strange developers. You play Sam, returning to your hometown to piece together a friend's death by reconstructing events in a mind palace, guided by an imaginary alter ego.
22 Twin Mirror
A narrative psychological thriller from the Life is Strange developers. You play Sam, returning to your hometown to piece together a friend's death by reconstructing events in a mind palace, guided by an imaginary alter ego.
Twin Mirror
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Sci-fi setting
You play a neural detective who hacks into the memories and minds of others while prowling a decaying, dystopian future Poland. Disturbing hallucinations, thick atmosphere and a paranoid crime story make it a bleak cyberpunk nightmare.
23 Observer
You play a neural detective who hacks into the memories and minds of others while prowling a decaying, dystopian future Poland. Disturbing hallucinations, thick atmosphere and a paranoid crime story make it a bleak cyberpunk nightmare.
Observer
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A classic point-and-click adventure in which George Stobbart and Nicole Collard chase a conspiracy tied to Aztec mythology. Clever inventory puzzles, dry humor and a thriller-style adventure plot define the experience.
24 Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror
A classic point-and-click adventure in which George Stobbart and Nicole Collard chase a conspiracy tied to Aztec mythology. Clever inventory puzzles, dry humor and a thriller-style adventure plot define the experience.
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror
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Dark, serious atmosphere
You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.
25 Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
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Pixel art
A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.
A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.
Thimbleweed Park
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Dark, serious atmosphere
As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.
As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.
This Is the Police
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Dread and tension
As an occult investigator, you explore a silent deep-sea mining station in the Pacific while your sanity frays. It leans on Lovecraftian dread and mystery rather than action.
As an occult investigator, you explore a silent deep-sea mining station in the Pacific while your sanity frays. It leans on Lovecraftian dread and mystery rather than action.
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
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Sci-fi setting
A visual novel mystery by Kotaro Uchikoshi where you play detective Kaname Date hunting a serial killer by diving into suspects' dreams (Somnium). Branching story paths, quirky humor and sharp twists drive a gripping narrative.
A visual novel mystery by Kotaro Uchikoshi where you play detective Kaname Date hunting a serial killer by diving into suspects' dreams (Somnium). Branching story paths, quirky humor and sharp twists drive a gripping narrative.
AI: The Somnium Files
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A grim Victorian detective adventure where Holmes himself becomes the prime suspect, and you investigate as him, Watson and even Toby the dog, gathering clues, solving logic puzzles and piecing together deductions.
30 The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
A grim Victorian detective adventure where Holmes himself becomes the prime suspect, and you investigate as him, Watson and even Toby the dog, gathering clues, solving logic puzzles and piecing together deductions.
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
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Historical setting
You play Sherlock Holmes in Victorian London, examining crime scenes, connecting clues and making judgments that shape how cases unfold. The focus is on investigation and puzzles, spiced with short action and chase sequences.
31 Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
You play Sherlock Holmes in Victorian London, examining crime scenes, connecting clues and making judgments that shape how cases unfold. The focus is on investigation and puzzles, spiced with short action and chase sequences.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
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Sneaking and hiding
A stealth puzzler where you play a spy who rewires buildings with the Crosslink to outwit guards. A short, wry noir story with dry humor ties the heists together.
32 Gunpoint
A stealth puzzler where you play a spy who rewires buildings with the Crosslink to outwit guards. A short, wry noir story with dry humor ties the heists together.
Gunpoint
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A narrative murder-mystery set in 16th-century Bavaria, styled like an illuminated manuscript. Your conversations and choices reshape the fate of a village and its abbey over 25 years.
33 Pentiment
A narrative murder-mystery set in 16th-century Bavaria, styled like an illuminated manuscript. Your conversations and choices reshape the fate of a village and its abbey over 25 years.
Pentiment
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Strong soundtrack
Virginia is a dialogue-free, cinematically edited first-person story game where a rookie FBI agent investigates a disappearance. Hard film-style cuts, a strong orchestral score and surreal dream sequences make it a short, unusual experience.
34 Virginia
Virginia is a dialogue-free, cinematically edited first-person story game where a rookie FBI agent investigates a disappearance. Hard film-style cuts, a strong orchestral score and surreal dream sequences make it a short, unusual experience.
Virginia
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Distinctive, stylised art style
A noir detective adventure starring cat private eye John Blacksad, who is pulled into a murder case around a boxing club. It focuses on investigation, dialogue and choices in a comic-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals.
A noir detective adventure starring cat private eye John Blacksad, who is pulled into a murder case around a boxing club. It focuses on investigation, dialogue and choices in a comic-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
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Pixel art
You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.
36 The Case of the Golden Idol
You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.
The Case of the Golden Idol
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A classic point-and-click adventure where George and Nico chase a conspiracy tied to a stolen painting and ancient secrets. Witty dialogue, inventory puzzles and a globe-trotting mystery drive the experience.
37 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
A classic point-and-click adventure where George and Nico chase a conspiracy tied to a stolen painting and ancient secrets. Witty dialogue, inventory puzzles and a globe-trotting mystery drive the experience.
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
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Sci-fi setting
An atmospheric neo-noir pixel-art point-and-click adventure where you alternate between an assassin hunting for his brother and an amnesiac patient in a sinister facility. Its bleak sci-fi mystery and twists drive the whole experience.
38 Gemini Rue
An atmospheric neo-noir pixel-art point-and-click adventure where you alternate between an assassin hunting for his brother and an amnesiac patient in a sinister facility. Its bleak sci-fi mystery and twists drive the whole experience.
Gemini Rue
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Dark, serious atmosphere
A grim point-and-click crime thriller where you play FBI agent Victoria and her grandfather Gustav, investigating two eerily similar murder sprees set 75 years apart. Clue-hunting and puzzles drive the experience.
39 Still Life
A grim point-and-click crime thriller where you play FBI agent Victoria and her grandfather Gustav, investigating two eerily similar murder sprees set 75 years apart. Clue-hunting and puzzles drive the experience.
Still Life
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Strong, story-driven narrative
An interactive live-action thriller where you play Erica, uncovering the truth behind her father's death. You examine clues with touch and gestures, and your choices steer the story toward different endings.
40 Erica
An interactive live-action thriller where you play Erica, uncovering the truth behind her father's death. You examine clues with touch and gestures, and your choices steer the story toward different endings.
Erica
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Sci-fi setting
A detective adventure set in neon-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, where you play a Blade Runner questioning suspects, collecting clues and hunting replicants. Your choices reshape the story and lead to one of six different endings.
41 Blade Runner
A detective adventure set in neon-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, where you play a Blade Runner questioning suspects, collecting clues and hunting replicants. Your choices reshape the story and lead to one of six different endings.
Blade Runner
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Strong soundtrack
A cinematic interactive thriller about a supernatural murder, where you alternate between the culprit and the investigators. Branching dialogue, quick-time action scenes and an Angelo Badalamenti score create a tense atmosphere.
42 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
A cinematic interactive thriller about a supernatural murder, where you alternate between the culprit and the investigators. Branching dialogue, quick-time action scenes and an Angelo Badalamenti score create a tense atmosphere.
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
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Historical setting
An episodic narrative adventure set at a secretive 1793 estate, where dialogue duels, intrigue and a skill system shape how the conspiracy and murder mystery unfold. Choices carry lasting consequences and conversations play out like tense battles of wits.
43 The Council
An episodic narrative adventure set at a secretive 1793 estate, where dialogue duels, intrigue and a skill system shape how the conspiracy and murder mystery unfold. Choices carry lasting consequences and conversations play out like tense battles of wits.
The Council
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Dark, serious atmosphere
A gloomy gothic point-and-click adventure in which you play Samuel Gordon, exploring a sinister family estate to uncover the truth behind your grandfather's death and an ancient family curse.
A gloomy gothic point-and-click adventure in which you play Samuel Gordon, exploring a sinister family estate to uncover the truth behind your grandfather's death and an ancient family curse.
The Black Mirror
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Pixel art
The Drifter is a classic-style point-and-click adventure that prioritizes story and an investigative feel over obtuse puzzles. Its pacing is lean and the grounded puzzles keep the plot moving briskly.
45 The Drifter
The Drifter is a classic-style point-and-click adventure that prioritizes story and an investigative feel over obtuse puzzles. Its pacing is lean and the grounded puzzles keep the plot moving briskly.
The Drifter
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Strong, story-driven narrative
A classic point-and-click adventure in which writer Gabriel Knight investigates voodoo murders in New Orleans and learns he is heir to the Schattenjäger line. Strong writing, a gothic mood and tricky inventory puzzles define it.
46 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
A classic point-and-click adventure in which writer Gabriel Knight investigates voodoo murders in New Orleans and learns he is heir to the Schattenjäger line. Strong writing, a gothic mood and tricky inventory puzzles define it.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
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Lots of humour
A humorous murder-mystery visual novel with point-and-click elements: at Amy's birthday murder party on a train, Sonic becomes the victim, and the investigation takes an unexpectedly sinister turn. It thrives on fan service, parody and whodunit guessing.
47 The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
A humorous murder-mystery visual novel with point-and-click elements: at Amy's birthday murder party on a train, Sonic becomes the victim, and the investigation takes an unexpectedly sinister turn. It thrives on fan service, parody and whodunit guessing.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Pixel art
A story-driven point-and-click adventure in modern New York where Rosa learns she is a medium and teams up with the sardonic ghost Joey to solve supernatural cases. Light puzzles, dialogue and a melancholic mystery mood take center stage.
A story-driven point-and-click adventure in modern New York where Rosa learns she is a medium and teams up with the sardonic ghost Joey to solve supernatural cases. Light puzzles, dialogue and a melancholic mystery mood take center stage.
The Blackwell Legacy
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Historical setting
A detective adventure built around Agatha Christie's famous case, where you play Hercule Poirot and new investigator Jane Royce unraveling two linked murders. The focus is on interrogations, clue gathering and deduction puzzles.
49 Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile
A detective adventure built around Agatha Christie's famous case, where you play Hercule Poirot and new investigator Jane Royce unraveling two linked murders. The focus is on interrogations, clue gathering and deduction puzzles.
Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile
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Sci-fi setting
An isometric cyberpunk detective RPG where you play a gamedec solving crimes inside virtual worlds. Your dialogue, investigations and decisions shape each case and your character, with no traditional combat.
50 Gamedec
An isometric cyberpunk detective RPG where you play a gamedec solving crimes inside virtual worlds. Your dialogue, investigations and decisions shape each case and your character, with no traditional combat.
Gamedec
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Turn-based combat
A JRPG where you play a cyber detective solving cases across the real world and a digital realm. You collect, evolve and train hundreds of Digimon in turn-based battles reminiscent of Pokémon.
51 Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
A JRPG where you play a cyber detective solving cases across the real world and a digital realm. You collect, evolve and train hundreds of Digimon in turn-based battles reminiscent of Pokémon.
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
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Lots to discover
As private detective Carl Flaubert, you investigate strange events at a remote lake in snowbound 1970s Quebec. Thick winter atmosphere, a narrator's commentary and slow clue-hunting drive this quiet, eerie adventure.
52 Kona
As private detective Carl Flaubert, you investigate strange events at a remote lake in snowbound 1970s Quebec. Thick winter atmosphere, a narrator's commentary and slow clue-hunting drive this quiet, eerie adventure.
Kona
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Lots to discover
As investigator Lady Love Dies you roam a neon-soaked, surreal island, grill eccentric suspects and gather evidence in a murder case. You choose who to accuse at trial, all wrapped in bold style, dark humor and a driving synthwave soundtrack.
As investigator Lady Love Dies you roam a neon-soaked, surreal island, grill eccentric suspects and gather evidence in a murder case. You choose who to accuse at trial, all wrapped in bold style, dark humor and a driving synthwave soundtrack.
Paradise Killer
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Strong, story-driven narrative
You dig through a database of secretly recorded video calls, using keyword searches to piece together the story of four people and their lies. A live-action, combat-free narrative driven by strong performances and your own detective work.
54 Telling Lies
You dig through a database of secretly recorded video calls, using keyword searches to piece together the story of four people and their lies. A live-action, combat-free narrative driven by strong performances and your own detective work.
Telling Lies
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Pixel art
A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.
55 Kathy Rain
A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.
Kathy Rain
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Sci-fi setting
A story-driven detective adventure where Kaname Date and his AI-ball partner Aiba combine investigations, dream-world Somnium sequences and escape-room puzzles to crack a deadly escape-game case. Thriller twists, quirky humor and clever puzzles carry the experience.
56 No Sleep for Kaname Date: From AI - The Somnium Files
A story-driven detective adventure where Kaname Date and his AI-ball partner Aiba combine investigations, dream-world Somnium sequences and escape-room puzzles to crack a deadly escape-game case. Thriller twists, quirky humor and clever puzzles carry the experience.
No Sleep for Kaname Date: From AI - The Somnium Files
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A deduction-driven detective puzzler where you solve 20 bizarre crime scenes in 1970s America by gathering clues, identifying people and piecing together events yourself. There is no hand-holding, only your own logic and observation.
57 The Rise of the Golden Idol
A deduction-driven detective puzzler where you solve 20 bizarre crime scenes in 1970s America by gathering clues, identifying people and piecing together events yourself. There is no hand-holding, only your own logic and observation.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
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Puzzles and brain teasers
A mystery puzzle adventure about a submarine captain found dead in a locked room, where you investigate an eccentric crew and a mysterious stone cauldron. It blends puzzle solving with a locked-room whodunit in a quirky setting.
A mystery puzzle adventure about a submarine captain found dead in a locked room, where you investigate an eccentric crew and a mysterious stone cauldron. It blends puzzle solving with a locked-room whodunit in a quirky setting.
The Mermaid Mask
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Pixel art
An occult mystery adventure where you team up with the psychic Director of the Center to investigate cursed relics, shady rental homes and dimensional anomalies. It blends visual-novel storytelling, puzzle solving and an eerie yet slightly quirky mood.
59 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
An occult mystery adventure where you team up with the psychic Director of the Center to investigate cursed relics, shady rental homes and dimensional anomalies. It blends visual-novel storytelling, puzzle solving and an eerie yet slightly quirky mood.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
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Historical setting
You play a border inspector in a communist country of the 1980s, checking vehicles and documents to uncover smuggling, forgery and corruption. It blends inspection simulation, investigative work and occasional shootouts.
You play a border inspector in a communist country of the 1980s, checking vehicles and documents to uncover smuggling, forgery and corruption. It blends inspection simulation, investigative work and occasional shootouts.
Contraband Police
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Detective games on PC come in two main flavors. Some hand you the evidence and let you piece it together yourself, while others lean on story and dialogue and let you play the detective through choices. Knowing which one you want is the best way to narrow down the list.
If you want real deduction, Return of the Obra Dinn is the standout: it is tagged as a puzzle game, and you work out the story from what you find. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter mixes mystery with exploration and puzzles, so it suits a slower, atmospheric pace. For talking to people and building a character, Disco Elysium is a dialogue-heavy CRPG where your choices matter. L.A. Noire adds an open world and a historical setting if you like classic crime stories.
If you prefer cinematic storytelling, The Wolf Among Us and Batman: The Telltale Series are both story-rich games built around choices, and they are easy to pick up. Horror fans can look at The Sinking City, which pairs detective work with an open world and a psychological tone. Check the tags before you buy: puzzle and exploration games ask for patience, while choice-driven ones are more about decisions than solving.
Disco Elysium tops this list for its dialogue-heavy, story-rich take on investigation. If you would rather deduce things yourself, Return of the Obra Dinn is a great alternative.
Return of the Obra Dinn is tagged as a puzzle game and centers on figuring out events yourself. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter also combines exploration and puzzles in a mystery.
Yes. L.A. Noire is an open-world detective game with a historical setting, and The Sinking City combines an open world with horror and mystery.
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