Detective for PC — top best games in the Detective genre / Page 6

Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony - a game in the Detective genre

Adventure, Point & Click, Side view, Detective, Old school

Game released: PC → 6 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 77/100

A traditional quest where you need to search, combine, and use items to solve puzzles. The game's plot is based on one of the greatest mysteries in...

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game

Role-playing game, Adventure, Historical, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Early Access: PC → 18 October 2021; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 94/100

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game is an unusual turn-based role-playing game that will take you back to the ancient times of Caledonia. Events will...

The Peterson Case

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Detective

Game canceled: PC → 2020

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

The Peterson Case is a first-person horror adventure with puzzle elements. The events of the game take place after the Roswell Incident, which...

Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island

Comedy, Casual game, Detective

Game released: PC → 22 November 2018

Steam: 94/100

This 3D mystery exploration game follows a frog detective investigating a haunting on an island. A small sloth has been plagued by a mysterious ghost...

Rough Justice: '84

Strategy, Detective, Business / Management, Isometric, Old school, Board / Group Game, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 March 2023

Steam: 64/100

A strategy game inspired by board games. The gamer uses dice and cards to run a private security agency. It is necessary to hire new workers and send...

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...

Three Minutes to Eight

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Science fiction, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 23 October 2023

Steam: 63/100

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...

TEST TEST TEST

Puzzle, Top-down view, Detective

Game released: PC → 17 January 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...

The Soul

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

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An action adventure about the evil hunter Max Soul. The player will get the role not of the hero himself, but of his inner voice. Using a microphone...

Tangerine Antarctic

Role-playing game, Adventure, Third-person view, Isometric, Indie, Open world, Detective

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An adventure role-playing game from the creators of Disco Elysium. The action takes place in 2086 in Antarctica. The player takes on the role of...

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

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

Game released: PC → 22 May 2025

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

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

The Pines

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world, Detective, Survival horror, Exploration

Game in development: PC → 2027

Psychological role-playing horror, where the line between reality and madness becomes thinner with each new discovery. After a failed investigation...

Blood in the Ice

Adventure, Visual novel, Detective, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 30 May 2026

The game's plot unfolds aboard the fictional whaling ship Mercy of Hull in 1859. The main character is Dr. Elias Ward, whose first journey began with...

Pandora Directive

Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Detective, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 30 June 2009

Steam: 86/100

This first-person detective adventure takes place in April 2043, when private investigator Tex Murphy looks into rumors of a UFO crash in Roswell and...

Blues and Bullets

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

Game released: PC → 23 July 2015

Steam: 65/100

Blues and Bullets is a third-person, noir-style action-adventure episodic game. A long coat, booze, a gun, and talking to yourself are all part of...

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

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

Game released: PC → 13 March 2018

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is a continuation of the Japanese-style adventure visual novel Silver Case. The events of the game take place five...

Hypnospace Outlaw

Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Benchmark program, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 12 March 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Hypnospace Outlaw is an unusual 90s internet simulator with pixel graphics and text game elements. The player explores various websites, monitors...

She Sees Red

Interactive movie, Detective, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 11 July 2019

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

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

A Case of Distrust

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

Game released: PC → 8 February 2018

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 77/100

An interactive detective story set in San Francisco in 1924. The main character is detective Phyllis Cadence Malone. She investigates various...

Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing - Prolog

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

Game released: PC → 11 March 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...

The Shadow Syndicate

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Comics, Detective

Game in development: PC → Q1 2027

An adventure stealth action game set in an alternate universe with anthropomorphic animals. The story takes place in 1930s Brooklyn. The main...

Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Detective

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A narrative role-playing game set in the World of Darkness universe. Players will encounter a rich story, the development of which depends on certain...

Mycopsychosys: Project Jupiter

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

Early Access: PC → 5 October 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028

Steam: 97/100

A story-driven horror game about the work of the Department for Combating Epidemics, set in Spain amid the spread of a deadly infection. The main...

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Role-playing game, Detective

Game released: PC → 24 September 2009

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper — London, 1888. A wave of brutal murders keeps the entire city in terror. Polly, a young prostitute, was...

Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief

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

Game released: PC → 23 July 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...

The Last Case of John Morley

Adventure, Exploration, Detective

Game released: PC → 27 November 2025

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Set in the 1940s, this first-person narrative adventure follows detective John Morley as he investigates a long-unsolved murder. After months in...

Pecaminosa - A Pixel Noir Game

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Voodoo Detective

Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Detective, Comedy

Game released: PC → 25 May 2022

Steam: 95/100

Voodoo Detective is a point and click adventure puzzle game. New Guinen: A small island town steeped in rich voodoo culture, overrun with chain...

The Gallery

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

Game released: PC → 8 September 2022

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 71/100

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

Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories

Free game, Puzzle, Adventure, Detective, Logic, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Online

Game released: PC → 30 September 2022

Steam: 83/100

Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories is a free collection of puzzles for fans of real-life quests. There is a single mode and online for up to five people...

Midnight Girl

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

Game released: PC → 6 October 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...

Phantom Watcher

First-person view, Horror, Puzzle, Strategy, Detective

Game released: PC → 22 May 2024

Steam: 78/100

The player controls the power distribution inside the haunted hospital to explore different rooms, gather information and survive. There are 10...

The Darkest Files

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

Game released: PC → 25 March 2025

Steam: 95/100

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...

Case Closed (2026)

Isometric, Puzzle, Detective, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 7 February 2026

Steam: 54/100

An isometric adventure about the ambitious detective Gonzalez, investigating the strange murder of a famous Hollywood actor. You need to solve...

Among Us Story: On Guard

Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Point & Click, Casual game, Comedy, Space, Detective

Game in development: PC → 17 February 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A narrative adventure in the universe of Among Us, where life aboard a spaceship turns out to be much more dangerous than it seems at first glance...

Lamplight City

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 13 September 2018

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...

Rainswept

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 1 February 2019

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Rainswept is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with a variety of puzzles. Detective Michael Anderson is sent to the small town of Pineview to...

Backbone

Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Side view, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 8 June 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 65/100

Backbone is a noir detective role-playing game in the spirit of Wolf Among Us, where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The game tells...

Mask of the Rose

Visual novel, Interactive movie, Adventure, Detective, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 8 June 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Detective visual novel from the creators suns Sea: zubmariner edition and suns skies. The game is a background for all events in the Fallen London...

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...

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