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The Vigilante: Single Shot Justice
Can you stop a crime you know will happen?
Magnesium Ninja
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Detective S. Harkins
Solve a murder using your deductive skills as a rocket-powered mechashark.
rava.games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Diary of Jane
Was Jane a crazy old lady? Or was something else going on? Check her diary and dig trough archives to find out!
Kapistijn
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Show Only
A detective game where you interrogate witnesses to a crime
Tristan DahlVerified Account
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
Who Killed My Uncle?
"Who Killed My Uncle" is a narrative game set in WWII about censorship, loss, and family you'll never get to meet.
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
The Devil's Game -Demo-
Storytold Comics
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Eunae Liaro in: Fowl Play
Seamus Ly ✨
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
O jantar de aparências
Descubra quem cometeu o crime sem ser intolerante!
rotciv
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Rye in the Dark City [Act1]
Nothing is as it seems...
manonamora
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MRD-GameStart
Power / Wealth / Unity
FG_G_Sudio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
The Red Clew
A detective game in an epistolary format.
OMMAcorp
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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An interactive fiction 🎮 ⚙️ with Twine where ❌🔤 and 🫵🔍🔤!
Louphole
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Unsettled Ground
Draw your own connections. Read like a detective.​
Thomas McMullan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Alexey's Winter: Night Adventure
Hand-drawn point-and-click detective set in 1990ies Ukraine.
NezhySoft
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Invunche
Un bebé desaparecido, un misterio por resolver en el sur del mundo con brujas y criaturas sobrenaturales en el siglo XX
hechelion
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Private Investigations
A murder mystery text adventure with a light-hearted spin.
Birds For Two
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
Area51: Roswell Incident (Incidente Roswell) 128k!
A noir, sci-fi detective survival adventure for your ZX Spectrum 128k
Furillo Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Кинопреступление
Новелла об убийстве в 4D-кинотеатре с Вашей подругой-полицейской!
danya_balakhnin
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
SHELLIE'S SECRET
Psychological horror on a 1985 computer
HYPERTELEX
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Velociraptors, Guns, Bananas
A murder mystery about dinosaurs. vry srs. For my games design class
JonOS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beyond Replicant
Un jeu d'enquete dans l'univers de Blade runner
Owfull1
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Abandonded Nursery
Play as a detective who investigates murder inside an abandoned nursery's building.
Cult Balm Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TRAINEE DETECTIVE (EN)
$15
Visual novel game and mistery
StarNathy_Arts
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Scoop (Act One)
A journalism game set in an alternate 80s New York. Chase leads. Get quotes. Write drafts. (Written for Introcomp 2020.)
Thomas Martin
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In Too Deep
Unravel an intriguing plot in this Film Noir inspired interactive experience.
Dihara Wijetunga
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Montpassant Mysteries: Betrayal at Botheringham Manor!
A short interactive detective story made in 7 days for Stranger Jam 2020 - if you die, you become another suspect!
Thomas Martin
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Project Pastorate (Demo)
Cleanse your land from crime and sin
PsyRob
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Chains of Judgment
$6.99
Investigate, Interrogate, Solve Puzzles
ChaniMK
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
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
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
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
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
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