Detective

Isometric, Fantasy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Turn-based, Exploration, Detective

March 4, 2024

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The action takes place in an alternative Russian Empire, namely in Warsaw in 1905. The world is populated by both ordinary people and mysterious otherworldly...

Under a Killing Moon

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Detective

June 16, 2009

Players: 1/10

Steam: 96/100

This detective adventure with elements of a comedy thriller unfolds in a futuristic world in December 2042. Private investigator Tex Murphy must stop evil forces...

Bear With Me

Adventure, Puzzle, , Hidden Objects, Detective

August 8, 2016

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Bear With Me is a noir point and click adventure that tells the story of a little girl, Amber. She has to find her missing brother Flint and turns to Ted E., a...

The Raven Remastered

Adventure, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective

March 13, 2018

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The Raven Remastered is a re-release of the adventure detective The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief. The game offers you completely redesigned animations, lighting...

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case

Hidden Objects, Detective, Visual novel

August 29, 2023

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 67/100

A detective adventure about the theft of a painting of Mary Magdalene in London. Hercule Poirot joins forces with Lloyd's of London to oversee the painting’s...

The Wild Case

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Point & Click, Detective

April 7, 2021

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

The Wild Case is an indie point and click adventure puzzle game with supernatural elements. In this game, players meet a variety of colorful characters, experience...

Radiolight

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Walking Simulator, Detective

October 24, 2025

Steam: 90/100

Radiolight is a mystical, atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The game will tell about the events in the small town of Ashwood Creek. Former police...

Prison Life

Detective, Online, Casual game, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics, Role-playing game, Indie, Free game

July 26, 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 77/100

Prison Life is a multi-player co-op detective game with RPG and tactical elements. You'll be able to play alongside 3-11 other players, with each player given a...

Detective Pikachu Returns

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

October 6, 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...

Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief

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

October 17, 2024

Steam: 69/100

Events take place in the enchanting and mysterious Paris of the early 20th century, where the player takes on the role of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. As you...

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

Adventure, Visual novel, Detective, Anime / Manga

August 29, 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...

The Children of Clay

Puzzle, Horror, Detective, Adventure

March 7, 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

A short archaeological game in which you need to study the ancient artifact in order to reveal its dark secret. There are different tools, for example, a magnifier...

Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Point & Click, Side view, Science fiction, Space, Detective

March 25, 2024

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A sci-fi detective adventure set aboard the Zephyr — the first interstellar ship sent by humanity to another star. The main character, security chief Stella, was...

About Fishing

Adventure, Horror, Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Third-person view, Old school, Detective, Exploration

2026

An unusual adventure that starts as a measured fishing simulator but gradually turns into a psychological thriller with the atmosphere of a surreal detective story...

Ghost Exorcism INC.

Action, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Detective, Online

July 16, 2021

Steam: 75/100

A cooperative horror game about hunting ghosts and exorcising supernatural entities. Exorcists go to castles, mansions, and abandoned houses, where they investigate...

Lucifer Within Us

Detective, Demons, Point & Click

October 15, 2020

Steam: 73/100

Set in the last human city, this detective adventure follows a digital exorcist investigating three murders in a world of daemons and soul-scanning technology...

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Tactics, Detective, Comedy

September 19, 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This episodic detective adventure follows David Young, a private investigator searching for his wife’s murderer. Two years earlier, an unknown assailant killed her...

Subsurface Circular

Arcade, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Detective, Text quest

August 17, 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Subsurface Circular is an unusual adventure with elements of a visual novel and a text game from the creator of Thomas Was Alone. You take on the role of a robot...

Mercury Abbey

Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Detective, Science fiction

November 22, 2024

Steam: 92/100

An atmospheric detective game that tells an intriguing story in a noir style with pixel graphics. Players follow the adventures of Harrod, a seasoned detective, and...

A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen

Third-person view, Detective, Adventure, Exploration

September 15, 2021

Players: 6/10

Steam: 77/100

The game takes place in the picturesque Bavarian village of Wolpertshofen, full of dark secrets, unexplained events and social tensions, in 1866. A detective comes...

Decapolice

Adventure, Third-person view, Science fiction, Japanese role-playing game, Detective

2027

Anticipation Rating: 7.5/10

Detective game with investigations in the virtual world. The main character, a rookie detective named Harvard, hunts down criminals in a huge crime-ridden city...

TEST TEST TEST

Puzzle, Top-down view, Detective

January 17, 2024

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 91/100

An overworked office worker solves cryptic puzzles in an alternate reality to escape a time loop. To do this you need to find clues and collect useful information...

Siberian Way

Visual novel, Adventure, Historical, Indie, Detective, Horror

March 4, 2025

Steam: 73/100

Detective visual short story with a gloomy history. The events of the game unfold at the end of the 19th century, and the plot tells about the detective Ilya...

Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing - Prolog

Puzzle, Detective, Open world, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Adventure, Exploration

March 11, 2025

Steam: 93/100

The game takes place on a steamer located in the North Sea in 1870. The captain of the ship suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances. It is necessary to...

Dodgy Deliveries

Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Horror, Indie, Adventure, Exploration, Detective, Casual game, Simulation

January 31, 2025

Steam: 70/100

In the game, you need to run your own delivery service with your friends, fulfilling orders all over the city to collect enough money to pay the rent. The city...

Thimbleweed Park 2

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Comedy, Old school, Detective, Puzzle

2028

An adventure quest that takes players back to the strange town of Thimbleweed Park, where yet another mysterious murder is just the beginning of a new dose of...

Return of the Phantom

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Detective

August 7, 2020

Steam: 97/100

Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure with a touch of puzzle from MicroProse Software, Inc.. The game is published by MicroProse Software, Inc...

Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief

Adventure, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective

July 23, 2013

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This point-and-click detective adventure is set in 1960s Europe, where an investigation into a theft becomes entangled with the legacy of a master thief known as...

$Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure$

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Interactive movie, Detective, Cyberpunk

May 8, 2014

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A cyberpunk detective adventure set in post-World War III San Francisco, where private investigator Tex Murphy tries to recover memories of the seven years erased...

The Occupation

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Detective, Stealth

March 5, 2019

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 67/100

The Occupation is an adventure game with a first-person perspective. The plot of the game will take you to Great Britain in the 1980s. The country suffered from...

Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut

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

October 26, 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...

Midnight Girl

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

October 6, 2023

Steam: 92/100

The game takes place in France in the sixties. The plot, mood and style are inspired by Paris, Belgian comics and heist films of the time. After a failed robbery...

Tokyo Debunker

Adventure, Detective, Anime / Manga, Mysticism / Supernatural, Top-down view, Exploration

April 18, 2024

Players: 7.8/10

The player uncovers supernatural cases in Tokyo along with devilishly beautiful ghouls and quirky cat familiars. Students of the prestigious Darkwick Academy sold...

TR-49

First-person view, Puzzle, Visual novel, Detective, Science fiction

January 21, 2026

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A World War II time machine, long hidden in the basement of a church, comes to life. Through a crackling speaker, a voice asks to find the stolen book. The player...

Broken Voyage

Horror, First-person view, Free game, Exploration, Detective

April 23, 2026

Steam: 83/100

A detective adventure with a Lovecraftian atmosphere, set in 1921 on the abandoned ship "Emma". After receiving a distress signal, the hero arrives on the vessel...

Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy

Adventure, Point & Click, Detective

November 1, 2008

Steam: 28/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A point-and-click detective adventure follows Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the death of Lord Montcalfe at the nobleman’s manor. After the lord’s death, his...

[Redacted] The Safehouse

Detective, Text quest, Walking Simulator

April 10, 2026

Steam: 99/100

This detective game, combining text-adventure and walking-simulator elements, follows an investigation into the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. The player...

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Remastered Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective

October 24, 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 74/100

This detective adventure with horror elements follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate strange disappearances seemingly connected to a secret sect...

Sinking Island

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Detective

October 4, 2007

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A detective adventure with puzzles unfolds on Sagorah Island, where American billionaire Walter Jones has died. His death may have been an accident or murder, and...

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

Adventure, Third-person view, Logic, Detective, Point & Click

September 20, 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Set in London in 1898, this detective adventure with logic puzzles follows Sherlock Holmes as he comes under suspicion in a case involving theft, fraud and...

Best Games in the Detective genre