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Use skills of observation and intelligence to figure out clues to a bigger picture or mystery.

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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Tessa Blackwood's Crime Time
Help Tessa solve Bell Farm's mystery while you complete your first true crime podcast!
thistlestudios
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
L'héritage de Tatie Lucette
ErwannS
Interactive Fiction
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Number Not Available
A game made for Nokia 3310 Jam 7
Lyco_wolf
Adventure
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Pacific Dominion
14 Friends Trapped in a Murder Mystery Death Game
jorannn
Visual Novel
Paper Crimes
Un crimen particular requiere un detective particular…
MateoTorija
Simulation
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - An Affair of the Heart
Customisable MC romance detective game! 🖤
Doriana Gray
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Corrupt Grapevine
Find the corrupt cop at Grapevine Police Dep.
Noah Penrat
Visual Novel
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Cronela's Mansion GBC - Demo
A point n' click, adventure-like, homage to LucasArts Maniac Mansion
Elvies
Adventure
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Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Visual Novel
The Moth: Part One
Ulp Std
Visual Novel
Crimebot 2: Unsolved Cold Case
$4.99
Become a detective and investigate mystery murders in this thriller story!
RoboBot Studio
Puzzle
Grim Notebook
The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
icecraig
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Daegan Fox Manns in: Hang to Dry or Tumble on Low
yunglemon01
Interactive Fiction
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Monarch
A melancholic story with detective elements and three endings.
ChiiAka
Visual Novel
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Монарх
Меланхолійна історія з елементами детективу і трьома кінцівками.
ChiiAka
Visual Novel
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Reapertiree: When Time Flies
Lowke
Interactive Fiction
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A Short Chat Investigation
Investigate a group chat on a victim's phone, find clues, fill a report - and try to save someone!
Lesha Lukash
Puzzle
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Victorimania Chapter 5: Mad as a March Hare
Chapter 5 of my oddball Victorian detective IF.
Jack of Quills
Interactive Fiction
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Victorimania Chapter 4: Black and white and Bed(room) all over
Chapter 4 of my oddball Victorian detective IF.
Jack of Quills
Interactive Fiction
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Victorimania
The first chapter of a short, strange, humorous detective story set in Victorian London
Jack of Quills
Interactive Fiction
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Victorimania Chapter 3: All things shall be well and all Manor of things shall be well
Chapter 3 of my oddball Victorian detective IF.
Jack of Quills
Interactive Fiction
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Victorimania Chapter 2: Certain Irregularities
Chapter 2 of my oddball Victorian detective IF.
Jack of Quills
Interactive Fiction
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GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Villienville. Echoes of Deception
$1.99
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary. Investigate appearance of “ghosts” and help residents.
jad_labs
Adventure
Projeto: ENIGMA
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
StellarFox Studio
Puzzle
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
You Are Rorschach
A text adventure set in the world of Watchmen (unofficial)
ChocolateOcelot
Interactive Fiction
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SoraKagi (ソラカギ) - Eden Escape 1.1.7
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Fujitsuki
SCP - The Mystery Man (ARG)
$8.99
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
Play in browser
Invunche
Un bebé desaparecido, un misterio por resolver en el sur del mundo con brujas y criaturas sobrenaturales en el siglo XX
hechelion
Interactive Fiction
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Encounter HD (Oric)
$9.99
A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
DefenceForce
Visual Novel
Fairy Tale Felonies: The Case of The Fallen Egg
Investigate the cause of Humpty Dumpty's Fall.
Amy Davidson
Interactive Fiction
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Who Stole My Sausages?
Interview your housemates, challenge their lies, and catch the resident sausage thief.
estif
Interactive Fiction
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Le chaudron d'Anaritium
Menez l'enquête dans un village gaulois assoupi sous la neige.. Jouez Isara, une barde au courant d'un terrible secret
Open Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Cold Case
a Nokia 3310 Jam game
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
Interactive Fiction
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An Elmwood Trail
Solve the strange case of a missing girl in this interactive mystery story game!
Techyonic
Adventure
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