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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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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
Lost Light
Lost Light is a mystery, puzzle, detective game.
Pykatone
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
StormAstray
stormastray
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Moonlight Bar
Be a bartender AND detective!
Somber
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Blank House
Regency Era Country House Party Simulator with added Romance and Murder
puddletron
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Projeto: ENIGMA
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
StellarFox Studio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Caso 1.5.0
Jogo de investigação interativa, você se coloca no papel de um detetive com o objetivo de resolver um caso
ChiefDev
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Reapertiree: When Time Flies
Lowke
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emma is Offline
Feather of wolf
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Lies & Cigars
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
katherine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Interment
A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Interment
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
The Thornfield Disappearances Demo
A text-based detective adventure - can you solve the mystery?
Melika Jeddi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Have A Sweet Dream
Xuan Long
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
The Menacing Maze of Madalune Husher
Can Lady Eldelaide solve a madwoman's perilous puzzles?
stancarter
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Danganronpa : Restrained Nature CHAPTER 1 DEADLY LIFE
Arthur1200
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Epitome Of Mysteries
Gosick Text-based Visual Novel Fangame
Hayaka Sae
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Trial and Error
Text based true crime
Dinara Abdullina
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
An Elmwood Trail
Solve the strange case of a missing girl in this interactive mystery story game!
Techyonic
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
One Last Page
Simon Thomson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Detective Holiday in the New Years Nightmare
Solve a randomly generated murder mystery!
Sleth
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
RAIN OF LIES
Detective Jack Steel's office. Watersburg City. Rain dripping down the window. Choose between truth and deception.
Benjamin Pilbrow
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Last Vestiges
An escape room-whodunnit mystery
thesleuthacademy
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Origins
Origins, is a narrative mystery game, where you play as an old police detective, trying to solve a murder.
Thanos Makaronas
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You Are Rorschach
A text adventure set in the world of Watchmen (unofficial)
ChocolateOcelot
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Yet Another Detective Story
It's a short premise of a detective story... a slightly odd one.
daspruthvi96
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
{TITLE}
The story of a homeless woman. Your story of her life.
Anthony Jauneaud
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Adventure
The Beach
A mystery unfolds by the sea
Mayura
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Investigador Aligator
Short Text based Game, puzzle/crimeMystery-like. Currently available only in spanish.
Cleto Thar
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Danganronpa : Restrained Nature PROLOGUE
Deadly trust and deadly betrayal
Arthur1200
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
CASE
Crime story with only one word at a time.
Please wait
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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