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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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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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Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Visual Novel
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - An Affair of the Heart
Customisable MC romance detective game! 🖤
Doriana Gray
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
Solve a case with your time-travelling kid self
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Serial Adventures of Dick Jack BB!
Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
angelboydiscoman
Visual Novel
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
Play in browser
SoraKagi (ソラカギ) - Eden Escape 1.1.7
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Fujitsuki
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
Wardialler
A narrative hacking game. Interactive companion to the Wardialler album.
nervous_testpilot
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
The Daily Murder
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
phaddius
Puzzle
Play in browser
Encounter HD (Oric)
$9.99
A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
DefenceForce
Visual Novel
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
Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Temporal Invasion (ARG)
$6.99
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
The Devil's Game -Demo-
Storytold Comics
Visual Novel
Philip Marlowe Doesn't Understand the Mystery
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Interactive Fiction
An Elmwood Trail
Solve the strange case of a missing girl in this interactive mystery story game!
Techyonic
Adventure
burning alexandria
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
javid hornet
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Who Stole My Sausages?
Interview your housemates, challenge their lies, and catch the resident sausage thief.
estif
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Interactive Fiction
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
GIF
Cyberpunk
The cyberpunk investigation twine game of your dreams. Maybe.
Sylven
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cronela's Mansion GBC - Demo
A point n' click, adventure-like, homage to LucasArts Maniac Mansion
Elvies
Adventure
Play in browser
Ardilous
Uncover international spies in this investigative text puzzle game inspired by the classic Carmen San Diego.
Alexander Sheep
Puzzle
Aventuriere Interimaire le Jeu
$4.99
Aventuriers Intérimaires
Interactive Fiction
Frank's Noir Story: A Rat's Nest
A text adventure about Frank's time infiltrating the Mafia
Extra Nice
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trial and Error
Text based true crime
Dinara Abdullina
Монарх
Меланхолійна історія з елементами детективу і трьома кінцівками.
ChiiAka
Visual Novel
Play in browser
From Champagne To Murder
an experimental detective game, using a new form of dialog system
Vin Botthin
Puzzle
Play in browser
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