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
318 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
We Were Here Forever
Two-player escape-room adventure built around communication and asymmetric puzzles
90% positive
19K reviews
Batman - The Telltale Series
Choice-driven episodic adventure balancing Bruce Wayne and Batman
88% positive
18K reviews
Sanfu
2D mystery adventure tracing a strange television broadcast
83% positive
18K reviews
Shadows of Doubt
First-person detective sandbox in a procedurally generated noir city
82% positive
18K reviews
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Supernatural detective adventure about solving your own murder as a ghost
86% positive
17K reviews
Ghost Watchers
First-person horror about identifying, weakening, and capturing ghosts
86% positive
16K reviews
Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
16K reviews
Max Payne
Noir third-person shooter with slow-motion gunfights and a framed cop
89% positive
16K reviews
Cyber Manhunt
Cyber detective puzzle game about uncovering secrets through online clues
92% positive
16K reviews
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Dystopian investigation game about deciding what security forces learn
90% positive
16K reviews
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Noir third-person shooter built around slow-motion gunfights in New York
94% positive
15K reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Third-person detective adventure mixing London mysteries with action sequences
80% positive
15K reviews
Call of Cthulhu®
First-person detective horror investigating deaths on an isolated island
79% positive
14K reviews
The Room Three
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through mechanical trials on a remote island
95% positive
13K reviews
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition
Creature-collecting JRPG with turn-based battles and digital mysteries
90% positive
13K reviews
Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege
First-person escape room puzzles with co-op and a dark story
81% positive
Free
Judgment
Third-person detective action with street fights and murder investigations
94% positive
12K reviews
Cube Escape: Paradox
Surreal point-and-click escape-room mystery with increasingly difficult puzzles
97% positive
Free
Pathologic 2
Story-driven survival RPG in a plague-stricken town with limited time
92% positive
12K reviews
Raging Loop
Branching psychological horror visual novel built around deadly social deduction
96% positive
11K reviews
This Is the Police
Police management strategy game about dispatching officers amid city corruption
82% positive
11K reviews
The Case of the Golden Idol
Point-and-click detective puzzles trace connected deaths and a mysterious idol
98% positive
11K reviews
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Third-person action thriller with light-based combat and arcade survival
74% positive
11K reviews
Fear Surrounds
Horror social deduction with hidden killers, quests, and votes
86% positive
Free