Detective 2022 for PC — 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: PC → 19 May 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 64/100

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...

Ghost Watchers

Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Demons, Detective

Early Access: PC → 28 July 2022; Game released: PC → 24 July 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 82/100

Ghost Watchers is a co-op survival horror game with puzzles and demons. Many abandoned houses are haunted. These could be the souls of suicides or demons. This...

Strange Horticulture

Puzzle, Exploration, Detective, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 21 January 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Welcome to Andermir — a quiet town surrounded by dense forests inhabited by witches and impenetrable mountains. The player plays the role of a florist who...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eternal Threads

Logic, Puzzle, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Detective

Game released: PC → 19 May 2022

Players: 9/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 73/100

is an adventure puzzle game where the whole point is tied to time manipulation. The story follows Forty-Three, a man from the future, sent to save six residents of...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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

Game released: PC → 28 September 2022

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Atmospheric pixel art point-and-click quest set in Victorian England, which has become one of the most unexpected hits in the indie genre. The main character is a...

Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony

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 the history of...

Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Detective

Game released: PC → 4 August 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 76/100

Visual novel from the creators of Endless Summer. The main character is the son of a Soviet diplomat, who has lived in Japan since childhood. After his parents...

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. In each story...

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...

Freud's Bones - The Game

Point & Click, Detective, Adventure

Game released: PC → 25 May 2022

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This adventure game pays tribute to the origins of psychoanalysis and its founder, Sigmund Freud. The player unravels a mystery involving unsettling Egyptian...

City Legends: Trapped In Mirror

Hidden Objects, Puzzle, Detective, Horror

Game released: PC → 30 August 2022

Steam: 86/100

To write a book about Bloody Mary, the main character goes to the Pennsylvania Museum, where there is a unique exhibit — a mirror. But the legend turns out to...

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery

Comedy, Detective, Adventure, Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 27 October 2022

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery is a humorous detective adventure with cartoon graphics. In the game you will try on the role of a frog Detective who is...

West Hunt

Online, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth, Detective, Tactics, Casual game, Indie, Action, Role-playing game, Hidden Objects

Early Access: PC → 15 June 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 85/100

West Hunt is a multi-player cooperative stealth role-playing game in the detective genre. Playing as a criminal, you have to complete all missions and not get...

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 stores and teeming...

BROK the InvestiGator

Adventure, Side view, Arcade, Detective, Post-apocalyptic, Point & Click, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 26 August 2022

Steam: 97/100

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...

Word of the Law: Death Mask

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Visual novel, Logic, Casual game, Exploration, Hidden Objects, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 11 January 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 78/100

Word of the Law: Death Mask is a visual novel in the genre of exploratory horror with elements of puzzles and adventure. You are a detective investigating serious...

Lost and Hound

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

Game released: PC → 17 August 2022

Steam: 89/100

A detective adventure in which the protagonist uses his heightened sense of hearing and smell to find and rescue people in trouble, as well as to catch criminals...

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Best Games in the Detective genre of 2022 for PC