Best Detective games on PC
Detective games center on investigating crimes, disappearances, or other mysteries by finding clues, questioning characters, and drawing conclusions from evidence.
- Clue gathering and investigation
- Mysteries solved through deduction
- Story-focused cases and suspects
Related: Mystery, Story Rich, Puzzle, Crime
1,180 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Cat city
A hidden-object game about finding cats and uncovering city secrets
70% positive
94 reviews
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
First-person point-and-click mystery linking modern life with ancient Welsh legends
72% positive
93 reviews
Demo Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!
A VR comedy adventure about training with two unconventional detectives
42% positive
93 reviews
Deadly Quiet
Co-op horror in a forest where noise attracts a supernatural predator
55% positive
93 reviews
Demo Blueblood Arena
A 2D fighting game with simple controls and freeform combos
97% positive
93 reviews
Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device
Point-and-click detective adventure about a suspicious death in a research lab
90% positive
92 reviews
EXS2～EthnologySister2：Structuralism of kinship system
A mystery visual novel combining detective fiction with philosophical themes
95% positive
Free
No Questions Asked
Noir point-and-click mystery with choices shaped by passing time
93% positive
Free
Demo Trading Card Inspector
A card-inspection job simulator with arithmetic and increasingly strange rules
98% positive
92 reviews
Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
A supernatural detective adventure tracing a kidnapping through historical secrets
58% positive
91 reviews
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III Prologue
First-person puzzle adventure set on an alien tourist planet
81% positive
Free
Rabbit Hole Chapter 1
Third-person survival horror with creatures that hunt by sight and sound
80% positive
Free
Bloody Chronicles - New Cycle of Death Visual Novel
A mystery visual novel with dialogue choices and character relationships
74% positive
90 reviews
Interrogation Files: Port Landsend
FMV detective game built around searching cold-case interrogation footage
84% positive
90 reviews
Jester / King
Dark fantasy visual novel with a mystery spanning time loops
92% positive
90 reviews
Escape from Mutation Station
A surreal escape room where reality occasionally glitches
97% positive
90 reviews
Demo House of Empty Names
First-person horror about escaping a house while a kidnapper hunts
88% positive
90 reviews
Agent of Strange: Arrival
Choice-driven RPG prologue about an exile joining a conspiracy
90% positive
Free
The Case of the Serialized Killer
A murder mystery visual novel where your accusation determines the ending
89% positive
Free
Parasomnia
First-person horror where escape depends on choosing where to turn
69% positive
88 reviews
Demo Ghostland Yard
A precision platformer with deadly traps and nearly instant retries
98% positive
88 reviews
Reversion - The Return (Last Chapter)
A hand-drawn point-and-click finale set in a ruined Buenos Aires
86% positive
87 reviews
Demo This is the Zodiac Speaking
First-person detective thriller following the trail of the Zodiac killer
56% positive
87 reviews
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots
Noir point-and-click adventure about a detective bear and missing robots
87% positive
87 reviews