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
1,265 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Test
Psychological question game with eerie prompts and a personal result
97% positive
20K reviews
Hacknet
Terminal-based hacking simulation built around a dead hacker's instructions
94% positive
18K reviews
Demo Sanfu
2D mystery adventure tracing a strange television broadcast
83% positive
18K reviews
We Were Here Forever
Two-player escape-room adventure built around communication and asymmetric puzzles
90% positive
17K reviews
Demo Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
16K reviews
Demo Batman - The Telltale Series
Choice-driven episodic adventure balancing Bruce Wayne and Batman
87% positive
16K reviews
Shadows of Doubt
First-person detective sandbox in a procedurally generated noir city
83% positive
16K reviews
Demo Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
15K reviews
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
First-person shooter with hand-drawn cartoons and a noir crime story
94% positive
15K reviews
Demo Cyber Manhunt
Cyber detective puzzle game about uncovering secrets through online clues
92% positive
15K reviews
Max Payne
Noir third-person shooter with slow-motion gunfights and a framed cop
87% positive
14K reviews
Ghost Watchers
First-person horror about identifying, weakening, and capturing ghosts
86% positive
14K reviews
Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege
First-person escape room puzzles with co-op and a dark story
80% positive
Free
Cube Escape: Paradox
Surreal point-and-click escape-room mystery with increasingly difficult puzzles
97% positive
Free
The Room Three
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through mechanical trials on a remote island
95% positive
14K reviews
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Noir third-person shooter built around slow-motion gunfights in New York
93% positive
13K reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Third-person detective adventure mixing London mysteries with action sequences
80% positive
13K reviews
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Supernatural detective adventure about solving your own murder as a ghost
87% positive
13K reviews
Demo Shift At Midnight
Gas station horror where some customers are monsters in disguise
88% positive
12K reviews
Fear Surrounds
Horror social deduction with hidden killers, quests, and votes
85% positive
Free
Call of Cthulhu®
First-person detective horror investigating deaths on an isolated island
79% positive
11K reviews
Raging Loop
Branching psychological horror visual novel built around deadly social deduction
96% positive
11K reviews
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition
Creature-collecting JRPG with turn-based battles and digital mysteries
89% positive
11K reviews
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Text-based detective puzzle about reconstructing a missing girl's case
96% positive
11K reviews