Detective 2023 for PC — top best games in the Detective genre

Back to the Dawn - a game in the Detective genre

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Side view, Detective

Game released: PC → 18 July 2025; Early Access: PC → 3 November 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

An atmospheric adventure that takes you into the harsh reality of a maximum-security prison colony inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. Every day is a survival...

Shadows of Doubt

First-person view, Indie, Detective, Adventure, Sandbox, Stealth, Action, Open world, Cyberpunk, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 24 April 2023; Game released: PC → 26 September 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

The game takes place in an alternative 1980s, where it is not the police who solve crimes, but private corporations and mercenaries. Players take on the role of a...

Vaudeville

Adventure, Detective, Procedural generation, Text quest, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: PC → 30 June 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 47/100

An unusual detective adventure, the main feature of which is that dialogues with NPCs in it are generated in real time using artificial intelligence. The game takes...

Demonologist

Action, Horror, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Detective

Early Access: PC → 27 March 2023; Game released: PC → 25 September 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

A cooperative game in which up to 4 people explore cursed locations and try to identify the type of evil spirit in order to exorcise it. For this you can use...

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case

Hidden Objects, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 29 August 2023

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 67/100

A detective adventure about the theft of a painting of Mary Magdalene in London. Hercule Poirot joins forces with Lloyd's of London to oversee the painting’s...

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...

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...

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...

Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh

Adventure, Detective, Action, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 7 November 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

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...

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 cheat death and...

Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

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

Game released: PC → 11 April 2023

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 81/100

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...

Kona 2: Brume

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

Game released: PC → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

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...

Delete After Reading

Puzzle, Detective, Adventure, Visual novel, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 14 March 2023

Steam: 89/100

An interactive adventure in which the player solves puzzles in a tycoon's mansion and interacts with cartoon characters. The main character is trying to save the...

Scene Investigators

Hidden Objects, Detective, Simulation, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC → 24 October 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 74/100

A detective game set in the future. The main character must unravel complex cases in order to pass the exam and become a real investigator. You need to explore the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Treason

First-person view, Shooter, Detective, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Action, Battle Royale

Game released: PC → 1 February 2023

Steam: 89/100

A multiplayer social game in which gamers try to identify killers. At the beginning of the round, some random characters become traitors, their goal is to kill...

Whispers in the West - Co-op Murder Mystery

Cooperative (co-op), Online, Detective, Side view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 25 July 2023

Steam: 68/100

A detective game for playing together with friends. The game takes place in the far reaches of the Old West. A series of crimes shook the Wild West, the mystery of...

Inworld Origins

Adventure, Free game, Interactive movie, Detective, Science fiction, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 27 July 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 70/100

A free interactive film where the characters are based on artificial intelligence technology. The main action takes place in a futuristic city with people and...

Anonymous Hacker Simulator: Prologue

Simulation, First-person view, Cyberpunk, Sandbox, Detective

Game released: PC → 28 August 2023

Steam: 90/100

Free prologue to the game Anonymous Hacker Simulator, representing the opening chapter of the full version. The gamer, in the role of an anonymous hacker, uses...

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 failed robbery...

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 them to...

Bahnsen Knights

Visual novel, Detective, Old school, Adventure

Game released: PC → 14 December 2023

Steam: 97/100

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...

A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen

Third-person view, Detective, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 2 February 2023; Early Access: PC → 15 September 2021

Players: 6/10

Steam: 77/100

The game takes place in the picturesque Bavarian village of Wolpertshofen, full of dark secrets, unexplained events and social tensions, in 1866. A detective comes...

Predefined

Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Detective, Puzzle, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 1 August 2023

Steam: 87/100

The events of the game take place in the near dystopian future, teetering on the edge of cyberpunk. This is a world where advanced technology coexists with archaic...

White Day 2: The Flower That Tells Lies

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

Game released: PC → 16 February 2023

Steam: 45/100

On the night of March 14, 2001, exactly the day after the accident at Yongdu High School, four boys return there to solve haunting mysteries. All people are talking...

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 universe. Its...

Nut City Blues

Visual novel, Side view, Detective, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 23 November 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

A comedy game about Captain Fox, a raccoon detective and the dangers of pineapple pizza. The heroes will have to team up to explore the neon streets of Nut City...

Terminal Madness: Awakening

Puzzle, Casual game, Comedy, Adventure, Detective

Game released: PC → 1 December 2023

Players: 3.2/10

The main character named Krypto is trying to become a hacker. He wants the Supreme Master to help him become the greatest expert in this field. But soon the hero...

Tron: Identity

Detective, Visual novel, Adventure, Science fiction, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 April 2023

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A detective visual novel set in the Tron sci-fi universe, where you can interrogate suspects, explore the environment, solve puzzles, and interact with various...

Night Escape

Free game, Online, Third-person view, Survival horror, Exploration, Detective, Horror

Game released: PC → 5 December 2023

Steam: 62/100

A free multiplayer horror game set in a gloomy mansion. One part of gamers acts as survivors, while the other player is a killer hunting for...

Town of Salem 2

Online, Side view, Fantasy, Survival, Detective, Puzzle, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: PC → 25 August 2023

Players: 1/10

Steam: 68/100

Multiplayer deduction game. 15 gamers explore the city and complete various tasks to identify and eliminate opponents. Each role has its own tasks and...

Detective

Best Games in the Detective genre of 2023 for PC