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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Not Another Weekend
A point-and-click comedy about emptying a hotel over one weekend
95% positive
101 reviews
The Mystery of Caketropolis
A mystery adventure about a dragon investigating a cafe fire
94% positive
101 reviews
Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
A choice-driven visual novel about deciding a troubled alchemist's fate
98% positive
101 reviews
Demo 东方裁判梦~Rookie Attorney Legendry
A courtroom visual novel set amid a rivalry between shrines
63% positive
101 reviews
Demo Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery
A noir detective puzzler starring a cat in a suit
92% positive
101 reviews
Police Quest™ Collection
Detective adventure collection following police officers through murder investigations
82% positive
100 reviews
PROZE: Enlightenment
VR puzzle adventure tracing disappearances across two connected timelines
70% positive
100 reviews
Time Machine - Find Objects. Hidden Pictures Game
Hidden object puzzles with time travel and a scientist's investigation
82% positive
100 reviews
The List
Nonlinear detective mystery built around keyword searches through police interviews
81% positive
100 reviews
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The Silver Crow
Point-and-click murder mystery starring an executioner in Renaissance Germany
94% positive
100 reviews
Demo Intruder In Antiquonia
Point-and-click mystery linking a woman's lost memories to a conspiracy
89% positive
99 reviews
Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together
Two-player escape room puzzles built around sharing clues by voice
66% positive
99 reviews
Demo The Bird of the North
A deduction game about reconstructing conversations across visions of the past
96% positive
99 reviews
Demo Hauma - A Detective Noir Story
Noir detective visual novel about a conspiracy in Munich
62% positive
98 reviews
Detective Story
Top-down detective adventure combining murder investigations with trap-filled mazes
64% positive
98 reviews
The Rainman
A slasher adventure where a killer hunts whenever it rains
97% positive
98 reviews
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Detective adventure with live-action scenes and a branching Roswell mystery
87% positive
97 reviews
MeiQi 2022
First-person detective adventure set in China during the 1990s
78% positive
97 reviews
Just Ignore Them: Brea's Story Tape 1
A mystery adventure about a journalist drawn into a strange town
88% positive
97 reviews
Zippy Detective: Cats Hidden
A first-person hidden-object game with cats to send into space
87% positive
97 reviews
Carmen Sandiego
Globe-trotting detective adventure where a thief hunts VILE operatives
70% positive
97 reviews
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Single-player survival horror where fighting isn't always the safest choice
70% positive
96 reviews
Acolyte: Prologue
A detective adventure where you type messages to an AI
80% positive
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LONGEYED PROJ
Horror deduction game about telling victims apart from disguised creatures
60% positive
96 reviews