Detective for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Detective genre

Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong - a game in the Detective genre

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Adventure, Detective, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 May 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Adventure role-playing game, which takes place in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe in accordance with the rules of the fifth edition of the board game. Vampires...

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

Adventure, Puzzle, Action, Third-person view, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 April 2022

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 74/100

An adventure detective story about the legendary Sherlock Holmes from the creators of The Sinking City. The game tells the story of the famous detective's earlier...

BLACKSAD: Under the Skin

Adventure, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 December 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 64/100

BLACKSAD: Under the Skin is a fanatical point and click adventure based on the comic book of the same name about cat detective John Blacksad. In the 1950s in New...

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

Detective, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Action, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 April 2023

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Remake of the 2007 adventure of the same name, in which the famous London detective confronts a mysterious cult worshiping Cthulhu. A young Sherlock investigates a...

DEATH NOTE Killer Within

Online, Detective, Casual game, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 November 2024

Players: 10/10

Detective thriller based on the cult manga and anime Death Note. The player is immersed in a world where every mistake can be fatal, and every step is part of a...

The Case of the Golden Idol

Adventure, Side view, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 July 2024

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Side view detective adventure game. The game takes place in an alternate 18th century England, where players will have to unravel 12 of the strangest and most...

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

The main character is Sissel, the spirit of a deceased man, capable of inhabiting objects and controlling them. The goal of the game is to find out the cause of the...

The Darkest Files

Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 March 2025

Metacritic: 80/100

The game unfolds in 1956 in Germany. In the role of a young prosecutor, it is necessary to investigate the crimes of the times of Nazism and look for the...

Edge of Sanity

Survival horror, Exploration, Action, Crafting, Detective, Adventure, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 September 2024

Players: 10/10

A hand-drawn 2D psychological survival horror game set in the ruthless wilds of Alaska with the intense atmosphere of the Cthulhu Mythos. The main character is a...

Kona 2: Brume

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Exploration, Detective, Walking Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

The game takes place in Canada in 1970. A certain haze cut off a small mining village from the whole world. Private detective Karl Faber is trying to understand its...

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

Adventure, Detective, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 83/100

The collection combines two exciting games, offering a unique perspective on crime investigation. Instead of the courtroom, protagonist Miles Edgeworth, a...

She Sees Red

Interactive movie, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 August 2020

Players: 7.7/10

An interactive detective story with live actors about a mysterious murder in a nightclub. The main character tries to figure out what happened, but the owner of the...

BROK the InvestiGator

Adventure, Side view, Arcade, Detective, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 March 2023

The game takes place in a futuristic world inhabited by humanoid animals. The rich live under a dome that protects them from environmental pollution. The main...

Neon Blood

Cyberpunk, Role-playing game, Side view, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Detective, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 November 2024

An adventure role-playing game set in the cyberpunk future of 2053. The main character is former police detective Axel McCoin, who must uncover a terrible...

This Bed We Made

Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 December 2023

Players: 9/10

An adventure detective story in which the main character is a hotel maid. The main action takes place in the 1950s. The heroine spies on hotel guests to reveal...

Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh

Adventure, Detective, Action, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 November 2023

Players: 10/10

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...

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy

Collection, Adventure, Visual novel, Detective, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 January 2024

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Detective visual novel in the Ace Attorney series, where players take on the role of a lawyer and investigate various cases. The action takes place several years...

Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief

Adventure, Visual novel, Exploration, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 17 October 2024

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...

Lacuna — A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

Adventure, Detective, Side view, Science fiction, Cyberpunk

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 December 2021

A fascinating journey into the world of science fiction, cyberpunk and noir, where, in the role of detective Neil Conrad, the player faces complex moral choices...

Three Minutes to Eight

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 December 2023

A pixel game set in the near future. The main character should die at exactly 19:57, but the gamer still tries to save him. We need to find ways to cheat death and...

The Isle Tide Hotel

Detective, Visual novel, Replayability

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 September 2023

Players: 7/10

The game takes place in the Tidal Island Hotel, where a religious cult plans to perform a ritual with a girl. The main character must infiltrate the mansion to save...

The Library of Babel

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 April 2023

Players: 5.5/10

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...

Bahnsen Knights

Visual novel, Detective, Old school

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 January 2024

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...

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Adventure, Puzzle, Detective

Game in development: PlayStation 4 → 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 76/100

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...

Decapolice

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

Game in development: PlayStation 4 → 2026

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...

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Comedy, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 May 2025

Metacritic: 82/100

A bright adventure about a duck detective, set in a campsite where ghosts may have appeared. You need to examine evidence, question suspects, and analyze the data...

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Best Games in the Detective genre for PlayStation 4