Detective for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Detective genre / Page 3

Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut - a game in the Detective genre

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 October 2021

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is a side-scrolling point and click adventure. Extended version of the plot: with a longer final part, hundreds of lines of additional...

The Gallery

Interactive movie, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Detective, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 August 2022

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 66/100

The Gallery is an interactive psychological thriller with elements of social drama. An art curator is being held hostage by a portrait artist who threatens to...

The Library of Babel

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Detective, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 April 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 70/100

The game takes place in a dystopian future where humanity has long since died out and the world is populated by high-tech robots. The main character investigates a...

The Rewinder

Indie, Adventure, Detective, Side view, Puzzle, Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 August 2023

Steam: 92/100

An adventure based on Chinese mythology. The main character's name is Yun, he is the last known "Rewinder" who can communicate with spirits and examine other...

Overboard!

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 June 2021

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Overboard! is an adventure puzzle game in the style of a visual novel. Blackmailing a spy. Love. Killing an opponent. Deceptions. Witness drugs. Lies, friendship...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Business / Management, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2020

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Interrogation: You will be Deceived is a thrilling noir detective story with role-playing elements, where you take control of a special police department tasked...

NUTS

First-person view, Adventure, Action, Simulation, Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 February 2021

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 67/100

NUTS is an indie action adventure game with simulation elements and a first-person view. Your mission briefing will give you a starting point, but it will be up to...

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

Adventure, Arcade, Visual novel, Simulation, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 July 2021

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a collection of unusual adventure arcade games with visual novel elements, where the gameplay revolves around verbal battles in...

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

Adventure, Visual novel, Detective, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 August 2024

Metacritic: 74/100

The hero investigates the murder of a student whose head was covered with a paper bag with a creepy laughing face. The mysterious case turns out to be connected to...

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Adventure, Puzzle, Detective, Visual novel, Point & Click

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Detectives Sonny and Marty from Chicken Police continue to do their job. During the investigation, the heroes end up in the Hive — a ghetto inhabited by insects...

Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh

Adventure, Detective, Action, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 October 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

New adventures of the famous Tintin and his faithful four-legged friend Snowball. Having met Professor Cyclone on board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, the...

Tron: Identity

Detective, Visual novel, Adventure, Science fiction, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 April 2023

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A detective visual novel set in the Tron sci-fi universe, where you can interrogate suspects, explore the environment, solve puzzles, and interact with various...

Detective Pikachu Returns

Adventure, Detective, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 October 2023

Metacritic: 66/100

Continuation of the detective quest Detective Pikachu. The main characters are once again young Tim Goodman and his talking Pokémon Pikachu. The heroes interact...

Tenebrea

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Detective

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

The game transports you to the walls of an old dormitory in Valencia, where night has long ceased to be a time of peace. A worker died here. Since then, the...

Lamplight City

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 June 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Lamplight City is a classic side-scrolling Point and Click adventure. The game takes place in the fictional town of Lamplight during the Victorian era with a hint...

Murder by Numbers

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 March 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Murder by Numbers is an exciting puzzle game with elements of a visual novel in the Japanese style. The game takes place in Los Angeles in 1996. You will try on the...

Pecaminosa - A Pixel Noir Game

Action, Indie, Role-playing game, Shooter, Top-down view, In real time, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 May 2021

Steam: 50/100

Pecaminosa — A Pixel Noir Game is a mystical indie action thriller with RPG elements in a noir-pixel style that will take you to the dark streets of the town...

Mutropolis

Adventure, Puzzle, Science fiction, Indie, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 February 2021

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A science fiction adventure set on the abandoned planet Earth in the year 5000. The protagonist and a team of archaeologists are exploring the ruins of an ancient...

Bahnsen Knights

Visual novel, Detective, Old school, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 December 2023

Steam: 97/100

The game takes place in 1986 in Tornado Alley, USA. The main character is an undercover agent who has infiltrated a religious cult known as the Knights of Banzen...

Lost and Hound

Casual game, Indie, Adventure, Third-person view, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 February 2025

Steam: 89/100

A detective adventure in which the protagonist uses his heightened sense of hearing and smell to find and rescue people in trouble, as well as to catch criminals...

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Best Games in the Detective genre for Nintendo Switch