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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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A mystery unfolds by the sea
Interactive Fiction
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A full-length Detective Visual Novel with an LGBT-inclusive cast.
Visual Novel
Solve a randomly generated murder mystery!
Strategy
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A locked room mystery.
Interactive Fiction
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Origins, is a narrative mystery game, where you play as an old police detective, trying to solve a murder.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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Jogo de investigação interativa, você se coloca no papel de um detetive com o objetivo de resolver um caso
Visual Novel
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An escape room-whodunnit mystery
Interactive Fiction
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Join a scientific study, compete in games, and avoid the manipulation of others before things take a turn for the worse.
Visual Novel
Detective Jack Steel's office. Watersburg City. Rain dripping down the window. Choose between truth and deception.
Interactive Fiction
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a cyberpunk murder mystery
Interactive Fiction
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A game about a boy trapped in a time-loop.
Puzzle
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Adventure
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A melancholic story with detective elements and three endings.
Visual Novel
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A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
Interactive Fiction
Where Circus Freaks wake up to devour their prey...
Visual Novel
Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with ChatGPT Language Model.
Visual Novel
Investigate a group chat on a victim's phone, find clues, fill a report - and try to save someone!
Puzzle
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This is a Mystery Text Adventure set right in the middle of a small town in the West.
Interactive Fiction
Take a trip down to Skeld High! You are a transfer student here, make the most of your time! Good luck!
Visual Novel
A text-based mystery game based on Alexis Hall's Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Interactive Fiction
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"We'll make it out together and become friends"
Role Playing
Rediscover Memories
Interactive Fiction
Interrogate suspects and look for clues in an attempt to find out who stole “The Miserable Clown”.
Interactive Fiction
The Trials and Tribulations of a Time-Traveling Assistant Detective, an interactive parody
Interactive Fiction
Paper Detective is a text-based mystery game made for Android devices, set in 1907 London.
A visual novel game
Visual Novel
A short IF mystery where you take on the role of Hastings and assist Hercule Poirot in solving a murder.
Interactive Fiction
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Text puzzle game in which you play the detective going through a computer to solve a murder
Puzzle
You get one try to exonerate your friend.
Puzzle
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