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Detective

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

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Text based

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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High Moon
This is a Mystery Text Adventure set right in the middle of a small town in the West.
gadse
Interactive Fiction
The Beach
A mystery unfolds by the sea
Mayura
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sergeant Guffy's Day
The Trials and Tribulations of a Time-Traveling Assistant Detective, an interactive parody
TheDefiant
Interactive Fiction
Сиреневый рассвет
korj_morj
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eldritch Detective: The Case of the Startled Salon
A text-based mystery game based on Alexis Hall's Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Eldritch Detective: The Game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Last Page
Simon Thomson
Adventure
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
The Unsettled Ground
Draw your own connections. Read like a detective.​
Thomas McMullan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Line-up
Line-up is a 2D point-and-click police investigation game.
DawnWorks
Puzzle
Play in browser
StormAstray
stormastray
Visual Novel
A Smoking Gun: Browser Version
1920s Detective Mystery
JFog
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Smoking Gun: A Charles Valentine Detective Story
1920s Detective Mystery
JFog
Visual Novel
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Interactive Fiction
Clean the Streets
ScribblesHD
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
He who gets mauled
A short IF mystery where you take on the role of Hastings and assist Hercule Poirot in solving a murder.
art&copy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Sole Joking Time | Demo
Where Circus Freaks wake up to devour their prey...
Loïc da Silva
Visual Novel
4 West Main
ecrowley4
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ten Little Murders
You are on an island with ten dead. But if you are the detective, who is the killer then?
DominikaHorvath
Puzzle
Remembrance
Rediscover Memories
Sir.Daniel
Interactive Fiction
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Adventure
P.I. - The Chartide Cases
A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
decaf
Interactive Fiction
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Murder at Corasol Manor
Can you solve the murder at Corasol Manor
MelStewart
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wardialler
A narrative hacking game. Interactive companion to the Wardialler album.
nervous_testpilot
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
At the Derby
Investigate a crime at the horse races
toadheart
Puzzle
Play in browser
CASE
Crime story with only one word at a time.
Please wait
Adventure
Domino of Evidence
You get one try to exonerate your friend.
toadheart
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Golden Agers: Return of the Iron Menace
The Iron Menace is back! Save the day and still be home in time for your early bird dinner...
Adam Hann-Byrd
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cyberpunk
The cyberpunk investigation twine game of your dreams. Maybe.
Sylven
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Empty Chamber - A Celia Swift Mystery
A locked room mystery.
Tom Sykes
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Magas McFly
Find the killer in a detective, top-down, action, adventure game!
Peyman
Adventure
Extreme Investigator
GameJam91 Text Adventure Game
Shelled Spectre
Interactive Fiction
Lies & Cigars
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
katherine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emma is Offline
Feather of wolf
Visual Novel
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