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

The Mermaid Mask - a game in the Detective genre

Adventure, Point & Click, Mysticism / Supernatural, Casual game, Comedy, Detective

Game released: PC → 16 July 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 99/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A colorful quest from the creators of Tangle Tower and Crow Country, where a mysterious murder in a locked room turns into an investigation full of oddities...

Sockpuppet Noir

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Comedy, Detective, Text quest

Game released: PC → 25 September 2026

Steam: 90/100

An absurd detective quest about private investigator Frank Sokowski, a woolen sock, who investigates crimes in a city mired in corruption and vice. The dark streets...

Cube Escape

Puzzle, Horror, Adventure, Detective, Online, Free game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 9 June 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

A detective named Dale Vandermeer finds himself in a strange room and cannot remember how he got here. He must solve all the puzzles to get free and get his...

The End of the Sun

Adventure, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Open world, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 January 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 97/100

An adventure game inspired by Slavic mythology and ancient culture. By exploring the world during major festivals that change with the seasons, you can immerse...

The Case of the Golden Idol

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

Game released: PC → 13 October 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 98/100

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...

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. In the game you will find five cases that Sherlock Holmes and his famous...

Virginia

Adventure, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Detective

Game released: PC → 22 September 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Virginia is a first-person adventure thriller inspired by Twin Peaks and True Detective. The game takes place in 1992 in the small town of Kingdom in Virginia...

Council

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Role-playing game, Detective

Game released: PC → 13 March 2018

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Council is an interactive adventure where you have to make difficult decisions and directly influence the plot. The game takes you to 1793. You will play as a...

Jessika

Interactive movie, First-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Simulation, Benchmark program, Indie, Detective

Game released: PC → 25 August 2020

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 67/100

Jessika is an interactive adventure game in the spirit of Her Story and Telling Lies. The player investigates the digital traces of a deceased girl named...

The Isle Tide Hotel

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

Game released: PC → 12 September 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 64/100

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 Deed: Dynasty

Adventure, Top-down view, Visual novel, Indie, Detective, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 10 May 2016

Steam: 85/100

A standalone story expansion for the game The Deed, developing its main concept. The player will still have to commit a murder, carefully plan their actions, plant...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 9 April 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is an anime visual novel. This episode takes place in a courtroom. You'll experience the thrill of protecting clients in the...

Twin Mirror

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

Game released: PC → 1 December 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Twin Mirror is a psychological thriller with a third-person view from the creators of Vampyr and Life is Strange. The main character is a young man named Sam...

Neon Blood

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

Game released: PC → 26 November 2024

Steam: 59/100

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...

Equinox: Homecoming

Role-playing game, Adventure, MMO, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world, Detective

Early Access: PC → 8 May 2025; Game released: PC → 5 March 2026

Steam: 80/100

The main character explores Alderwood Island and tries to find her missing mother. You can ride a horse and race with other players. You also need to take care of...

Sublustrum Remake

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration, Detective, Remake, Walking Simulator

Game in development: PC → Q1 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A remake of the psychological adventure game Sublustrum from 2008. The plot centers around a writer investigating the disappearance of his scientist brother and...

Ghost in the SQL Data

Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Text quest, Detective, Strategy, Simulation

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A detective game where players will investigate crimes using the SQL programming language. Instead of the usual search for clues in locations, players need to work...

Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy

Adventure, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 1 November 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...

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 26 September 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is an adventure visual novel set in the Danganronpa universe. Welcome to the new world of Danganronpa. The most ambitious and...

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Action, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 September 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. You take control of a detective searching for a missing boy...

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

Interactive movie, Adventure, Historical, Detective

Game released: PC → 12 May 2022

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 72/100

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a Japanese-style interactive adventure where you investigate a series of mysterious murders that span a century. The four...

DOOMED Detective Game

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

Game released: PC → 25 March 2025

Steam: 46/100

A detective game in which all NPC is controlled by artificial intelligence, and the investigation is conducted through live communication through a microphone...

Going my way?

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Trains, Indie, Detective

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A dark narrative game where you become the conductor of a train traveling through a world consumed by madness. Among the ordinary passengers, there are the...

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective

Game released: PC → 30 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

Katana-Ra: Shinobi Rising

Stealth, Cyberpunk, Adventure, Action, Open world, Futurism (Future), Detective, Isometric

Game released: PC → 25 April 2023

Steam: 25/100

The events of the game take place in an alternative Japan around a young shinobi who is trying to find the person responsible for the death of a certain heiress. As...

Prison Life

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

Game released: PC → 23 September 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...

This Bed We Made

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

Game released: PC → 1 November 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

TR-49

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

Game released: PC → 21 January 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...

Who's Lila?

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

Game released: PC → 24 February 2022

Steam: 95/100

William's classmate Tanya Kennedy has disappeared, and he is the last person who saw her before her disappearance. During conversations, the player does not choose...

Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

Point & Click, Adventure, Detective

Game released: PC → 19 September 2013

Steam: 83/100

This point-and-click detective adventure follows FBI agent Erica Reed, who can see the past and piece together how crimes unfolded. Three years after the murder of...

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

Adventure, Detective, Indie, Point & Click, Historical

Game released: PC → 19 September 2024

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A remaster of the original 1996 adventure Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. The game received improved graphics and support for 4K resolution. The main...

Pneumata

Horror, First-person view, Survival, Detective, Action, Survival horror, Exploration

Game released: PC → 19 September 2024

Players: 1.5/10

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 52/100

In the role of a detective, the player explores a gloomy mansion and crime scenes to find the reason for the disappearances. We need to piece together the evidence...

At Dead of Night

Strategy, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Point & Click, Detective, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 19 November 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

The main heroine Maya finds herself trapped in a remote hotel run by the psychopath Jimmy Hall. Her friends are tied up and inside the building, while Jimmy patrols...

Her Story

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

Game released: PC → 24 June 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Her Story is a mystical indie adventure with a first-person view. In this game, you sit in front of a mothballed desktop computer that is registered in a police...

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Text quest, Indie, Casual game, Detective

Game released: PC → 21 September 2017

Steam: 91/100

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story is an unusual adventure for mobile platforms. The game is based on the gameplay where all the events take place on someone's phone...

Chicken Police

Adventure, Indie, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 5 November 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Chicken Police is a noir adventure of two feathered cops, Sonny Featherland and Marty MacChicken, in a black-and-white detective novel full of satire and cynical...

The Gallery

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

Game released: PC → 8 September 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...

Kill The Shadow

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Side view, Exploration, Old school, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 5 August 2026

Steam: 86/100

A role-playing adventure detective game in which the player investigates a series of strange murders that occurred in different areas of the city. To uncover the...

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

Adventure, Detective, Visual novel, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 6 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 83/100

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

Agni: Village of Calamity

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Zombies, Detective, Survival horror, Exploration, Puzzle

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The game's plot tells the story of Agni, a female investigator from a secret Indonesian police unit. She travels to a mysterious village to uncover its dark secrets...

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Best Games in the Detective genre for PC