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

BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH - a game in the Detective genre

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Detective

Game released: PC → 25 April 2025

Steam: 82/100

Psychological horror from the Brokenlore series. Shinji - Hikikomori (young hermit), locked in his apartment in Tokyo. Debts are growing, the family does not...

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 character is Sam...

Panic Room: Ghosts of the Past

First-person view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Detective, Casual game, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 16 December 2025

Steam: 53/100

The main character finds themselves in a mysterious mansion, from which they must find a way out. The character is constantly haunted by the feeling that someone...

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 thief known as...

Radiolight

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

Game released: PC → 24 October 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...

Negative Atmosphere: Emergency Room

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game, Science fiction, Detective

Early Access: PC → 27 January 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 6.7/10

Realistic and eerie surgeon simulator, serving as a prequel to the horror Negative Atmosphere. Samuel Edwards is the chief medical officer of the TRH Rusanov...

On Your Tail

Adventure, Detective, Action, Exploration, Open world, God Simulator, Simulation

Game released: PC → 16 December 2024

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The game takes place in Borgo Marina, a picturesque coastal town where sunny days are filled with warmth and nights are filled with magic and tranquility. The main...

The Lost Ashford Ring

Puzzle, Point & Click, Casual game, Hidden Objects, Detective, Adventure

Game released: PC → 11 November 2023

An adventure set in Victorian England, the player takes on the role of a detective as he searches for hidden clues to solve the case of a valuable family heirloom...

Murders on the Yangtze River

Adventure, Puzzle, Detective

Game released: PC → 30 January 2024

Steam: 96/100

A detective game in the style of the Ace Attorney series, set in early 20th-century China. The protagonist's brother has been murdered, and the crime resembles a...

Grave Seasons

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Detective, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game

Game in development: PC → 9 March 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A narrative farming simulator where a peaceful life gradually turns into a troubling story. After escaping from prison, the hero finds refuge in the quiet town of...

Security 51

Simulation, Point & Click, Science fiction, Casual game, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 12 August 2026

Steam: 70/100

A document verification simulator from the studio, inspired by the games Papers, Please and Mind Scanners. The action takes place at a checkpoint of the secret...

Where Dolls Hang

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Survival, Open world, Detective, Survival horror

Game in development: PC → 2026

A psychological horror game from the first person perspective with elements of survival and investigation. Players will encounter a dark story inspired by the...

Sinking Island

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

Game released: PC → 2 September 2008

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...

Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

Adventure, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 September 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

Jenny LeClue — Detectivu is an episodic adventure in which you will play as a girl detective Jenny LeClue. The game takes place in the small town of...

Dark Nights with Poe and Munro

Detective, Point & Click, Horror

Game released: PC → 19 May 2020

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This episodic supernatural story follows Poe and Munro, hosts at a local radio station. The player guides the pair through six TV-style episodes, where strange...

Don't Forget Me

Indie, Detective, Adventure

Game released: PC → 20 April 2021

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 62/100

A jazz-punk adventure puzzle game about exploring patients’ memories and uncovering a conspiracy that threatens humanity. The player uses personal observations to...

Overboard!

Adventure, Puzzle, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 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...

DeTechtive 2112

Detective, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Adventure, Isometric, Exploration, Cooperative (co-op), Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 29 January 2025

Steam: 45/100

Action adventure in a cyberpunk setting with an isometric camera. The main action takes place in 2112, namely in the England of the future. The main character is...

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo

Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration, Detective

Game released: PC → 16 May 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 99/100

A vibrant adventure to explore Limbo, a Latin American underworld full of danger, intrigue and humor. You need to help the characters you meet solve various...

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

Adventure, Third-person view, Detective, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 26 April 2010

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This third-person detective adventure reimagines Agatha Christie’s classic Murder on the Orient Express in 2023. After a murder takes place aboard the train...

Under a Killing Moon

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

Game released: PC → 16 June 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...

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

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

Game released: PC → 27 September 2012

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 77/100

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...

Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone

Adventure, Indie, Detective, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game in development: PC → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A new adventure between the extravagant journalist Nico Collard and the fearless American George Stobbart. The heroes try to uncover a conspiracy involving Nazis...

The Lighthouse

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Detective

Early Access: PC → 31 October 2019; Game in development: PC → 2027

Steam: 64/100

The Lighthouse is a first-person horror adventure. Events begin on February 19, 1964. You'll take on the role of James Irwin, a former detective turned private...

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 occurred in July...

Crime O'Clock

Hidden Objects, Detective, Adventure

Game released: PC → 21 July 2023

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Crime O'Clock is an investigation and time-exploration game about a detective preventing crimes that threaten the continuity of time. Its story links multiple eras...

Chinatown Detective Agency

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Side view, Detective, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 April 2022

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Chinatown Detective Agency is an atmospheric adventure with a side view in a cyberpunk setting. It's midnight in Singapore. Your contact is a no-show, your client...

The Library of Babel

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

Game released: PC → 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...

REARVIEW MIRROR

Visual novel, Indie, Comics, Detective

Game released: PC → 23 October 2024; Early Access: PC → 25 January 2024

Steam: 88/100

A detective visual novel in which the player is constantly in a car and gives rides to various passengers, communicating with them and observing through the...

Dahlia View

Puzzle, Adventure, Detective, Exploration, Interactive movie

Game released: PC → 2 November 2021

Steam: 85/100

A game in which the gamer investigates the disappearance of a child in an apartment complex. A retired detective talks to neighbors and watches through the window...

Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness

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

Game released: PC → 23 March 2021

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Lovecraftian horror, inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The story unfolds around private detective Lown...

About Fishing

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

Game in development: PC → 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...

Contradiction: Spot The Liar

Detective, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 10 July 2015

Steam: 95/100

This detective adventure, presented entirely through live-action video, centers on a murder investigation and identifying liars. The player can move freely around...

Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion

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

Game released: PC → 15 November 2000

Steam: 85/100

This first-person detective adventure combines puzzles with point-and-click controls in a haunted Victorian mansion in San Francisco. Nancy Drew arrives at a...

Whispers of a Machine

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

Game released: PC → 17 April 2019

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Whispers of a Machine is an atmospheric "Point and Click" adventure in a retro style. You have to take control of Detective Vera and investigate a series of murders...

Mato Anomalies

Anime / Manga, Detective, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 10 March 2023

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Mato Anomalies is a turn-based RPG set in Mato, a fantasy neo-futuristic version of an ancient Oriental city. Players control two protagonists, Doe and Gram...

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE

Adventure, Detective, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 17 July 2024

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A detective game set in a rain-soaked city under the control of a megacorporation, where countless mysteries remain unsolved. Yuma, a trainee at a detective agency...

Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Grunnd

Visual novel, Side view, Detective, Walking Simulator, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 26 January 2023

Steam: 64/100

A detective adventure in which the character travels through a gloomy city. Here he meets strange people and uncovers secrets that change his journey. The main...

Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief

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

Game released: PC → 17 October 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...

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Best Games in the Detective genre for PC