Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Detective

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

Suggest updated description

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!)

Suggest updated description

Top ratedtagged Detective and Text based Page 2 (80 results)

Explore games tagged Detective and Text based on itch.io · Upload your games to itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

A Found Phone Detective Game
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Un bebé desaparecido, un misterio por resolver en el sur del mundo con brujas y criaturas sobrenaturales en el siglo XX
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Draw your own connections. Read like a detective.​
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A text-based descent into a detective's death and discovery of a great and horrible truth.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lost Light is a mystery, puzzle, detective game.
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Your own adventure in a steampunk world! Find mysterious Alexander Cooper and unravel secrets in city of Staighrem.
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
A parser-based interactive fiction about romance and Cold War intrigue in the Caribbean.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Be a bartender AND detective!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Regency Era Country House Party Simulator with added Romance and Murder
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Jogo de investigação interativa, você se coloca no papel de um detetive com o objetivo de resolver um caso
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A locked room mystery.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
A text-based detective adventure - can you solve the mystery?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Choices Matter - a Murder Mystery set on an Airship
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The cyberpunk investigation twine game of your dreams. Maybe.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Can Lady Eldelaide solve a madwoman's perilous puzzles?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Gosick Text-based Visual Novel Fangame
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Text based true crime
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Solve the strange case of a missing girl in this interactive mystery story game!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Solve a randomly generated murder mystery!
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Origins, is a narrative mystery game, where you play as an old police detective, trying to solve a murder.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Detective Jack Steel's office. Watersburg City. Rain dripping down the window. Choose between truth and deception.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A text adventure set in the world of Watchmen (unofficial)
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
An escape room-whodunnit mystery
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Loading more games...
itch.io now on YouTube!