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.
The Silver Case
First-person crime adventure investigating serial murders in Tokyo's 24 Wards
89% positive
1,206 reviews
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition
Point-and-click murder mystery linking New Orleans killings to family secrets
91% positive
1,177 reviews
蓝宝石般的被害妄想少女/Damsel with persecutory delusion
Detective visual novel about solving cases through clues and deduction
89% positive
1,174 reviews
Adventure Escape Mysteries
Story-driven escape-room collection with mysteries, hidden objects, and puzzles
87% positive
Free
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files
VR detective adventure with hands-on crime scene investigation
48% positive
1,167 reviews
Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
Chinese folklore horror puzzle game set in a haunted village
91% positive
1,148 reviews
Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem
3D detective adventure investigating arson and hauntings in Salem
55% positive
1,143 reviews
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
First-person live-action mystery with time travel and branching endings
87% positive
1,127 reviews
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Point-and-click comedy adventure tracking a runaway carnival bigfoot across America
95% positive
1,079 reviews
Lucid9: Inciting Incident
Choice-driven mystery visual novel about murders at a school
90% positive
Free
Scene Investigators
Detective puzzles about examining crime scenes and filling evidence gaps
75% positive
1,036 reviews
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1
Open-world stealth horror with puzzles and an adaptive pursuer
85% positive
Free
Blackwell Epiphany
Supernatural point-and-click mystery about a force destroying souls
98% positive
1,005 reviews
Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
Chinese horror puzzle adventure shaped by Zangling Village’s marriage warning
93% positive
1,004 reviews
Turlock Holmes
Single-player mystery puzzles solved by asking questions and testing keywords
80% positive
996 reviews
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.
First-person ghost-hunting simulation built around patient, repeat investigations
93% positive
987 reviews
1bitHeart
Side-scrolling mystery adventure about investigating a town and making friends
91% positive
926 reviews
Project Unknown
First-person co-op horror about finding cursed objects and exorcising ghosts
83% positive
925 reviews
Eternal Threads
First-person puzzle game changing past choices to save housemates
86% positive
909 reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Detective adventure investigating disappearances tied to Lovecraftian horror
74% positive
907 reviews
Lamplight City
Point-and-click detective adventure where wrong conclusions change later cases
89% positive
877 reviews
FAKEBOOK
Point-and-click mystery investigating secrets across a virtual social network
91% positive
863 reviews
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2
Point-and-click horror mystery with puzzles inside an asylum at night
93% positive
842 reviews
CaseCracker2
Text-based detective puzzles link clues across separate cases
91% positive
828 reviews