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

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Interactive Fiction

Blending narrative storytelling with player choice, often text-based experiences where readers shape the story through their decisions. These works can range from simple branching narratives to complex simulations, offering immersive worlds and character-driven plots that unfold based on user input.

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Dig the socials
Use real social networks to uncover hidden connections, investigate and dig up the truth.
ArtemiiF
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Purity & Decay GAME JAM PROTOTYPE
A cybernoir detective game where you play the detective, in an indigenous future.
Meagan Byrne
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Sickness
Video Game Writing Class Final Project
GuizmoPower
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BRUTEFORCE
Feel like a real hacker in BRUTEFORCE.
Totteri
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
All's Fair In The City Of Love
Tangle with artists and spies in the 1937 World Fair, in this short story from Over the Alps writer Harry Tuffs.
Over The Alps: The Lost Postcards
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Drawing Closer
Enter the internal train of thought of a detective on the case in this interactive story made in Twine.
Damian Roman
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Shadows That Linger
Solve a murder by channeling your crystal ball to learn from beings on the other side
Crimson Ink Games LLC
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Detective S. Harkins
Solve a murder using your deductive skills as a rocket-powered mechashark.
rava.games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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GIF
ARS POETICA
A game about returning home, using poetry and physical medium as drivers of the narrative.
João Eiras Antunes
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Case of the Solitary Resident
Uncover the truth behind a mysterious death in an apartment
thesleuthacademy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Zerlizan: The Shadow of the Crime
Explore a desolate desert and solve crimes in a dystopian future.
Coyrestaurado
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
YOU CAN STILL ESCAPE
A cyber-noir detective story
Edamessiah
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Дело №35
amber_wolf7
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Devil Lurks in Coin
Uncover deep dark secrets in a city run by greed
Ralf Sawazki
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
burning alexandria
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
javid hornet
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beauty Behind the the Veil
A text-based descent into a detective's death and discovery of a great and horrible truth.
Flying Ghost Head
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Spooky Investigator
See you later investigator.
arobeans
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Wizards' Hamlet
Solve a magical mystery
Antoine Foucault
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Cake Machine
Get your own cake from cake machine
Codeblumi
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Magistrate's Chambers
Stewart C Baker
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Interrogation Game (JCS Inspired)
Try to outwit a slippery suspect in this suspenseful police interrogation simulator.
Ion Klamp
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
1 New Msg
Interactive Android Game
bbapps
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
SUPER HIRO
Help a boy become a hero!
maho_anpu
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Beyond Replicant
Un jeu d'enquete dans l'univers de Blade runner
Owfull1
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Christian Delaney and the Dirigible of Death
Your Choices Matter - a Murder Mystery set on an Airship
noseflautist
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lies & Cigars
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
katherine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Variety Megajam 2018
7 short games at once!
communistsister
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Empty Chamber - A Celia Swift Mystery
A locked room mystery.
Tom Sykes
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
1958: Dancing with Fear
A parser-based interactive fiction about romance and Cold War intrigue in the Caribbean.
Victor Ojuel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
¿SUEÑAN LOS FANTASMAS?
La aventura de una reportera en busca de su hermana, supuestamente muerta.
tentamenta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Cyberpunk
The cyberpunk investigation twine game of your dreams. Maybe.
Sylven
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hot&Cool
[FR] Investigation game with l'inspecteur LeFrigo
Darius G
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
MicroSpy - МикроШпион
Michael Tomtruher has to complete the toughest assignment of his career in an abandoned lab in Chernobyl.
hirakill studio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
Murder On The Love Train
Dating simulator x Murder Mystery. Solve murders but don't date the killer!
Ben Crooks
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Trouble at the Cotton Club
Tigervamp
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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