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Mystery

Weaving intrigue and suspense, these experiences challenge players to uncover hidden truths, solve puzzles, and piece together clues in enigmatic narratives or atmospheric settings.

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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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Gnosis
$2
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself.
So Ro
Interactive Fiction
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
GIF
The Third Kind
An unsettling Point'n'Click Adventure on a broken VCR.
Pizzamakesgames
Adventure
Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
OctiWriter
Visual Novel
Haunted Haiku Generator
Poetry for the sick
SexDrugsVideoGames
Play in browser
Anomie
$7.99
A new place with new rules—a new life, a new future. Will the public authority's desperate efforts bear fruit?
CascadeofLeaves
Visual Novel
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An Asylum Tale - Shellshock
Follow in this text adventure the horror of a war Veteran inside a Mental Asylum.
Fleischshake Games
Adventure
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
Bisexual teen ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Detective City
A comedy adventure game from GGJ2015
Plus Ultra
Adventure
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
Friendly Facade
$5
Join a scientific study, compete in games, and avoid the manipulation of others before things take a turn for the worse.
FriendlyFacade
Visual Novel
Compu-Tron x3000
$3.99
The Ultimate Digital Assistant for 1982 - from C.Tech Industries
circynsoftware
Interactive Fiction
Baleen
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Koimarina Games
Interactive Fiction
Room 222
$2
Everything in this game is not what it seems to be.
813South
Visual Novel
Penelope & Whiskers: The Case of the Missing China
A text-based mystery, puzzle game. Summer in Tamale, MS gets interesting when Penelope's Aunt's china is stolen.
Stephanie Glover
Puzzle
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🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Interactive Fiction
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The Coffee Shop
A text adventure about a sinister local shop.
Mystic Mill Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SoraKagi (ソラカギ) - Eden Escape 1.1.7
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Fujitsuki
Eldritch Detective: The Case of the Startled Salon
A text-based mystery game based on Alexis Hall's Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Eldritch Detective: The Game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Crimebot 2: Unsolved Cold Case
$4.99
Become a detective and investigate mystery murders in this thriller story!
RoboBot Studio
Puzzle
A Conscious Decision
kaelynmauve
Interactive Fiction
P.I. - The Chartide Cases
A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
decaf
Interactive Fiction
The Party Line
Point-and-click text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape Ortega
How fast can you get off this planet?
Dace Games
Adventure
Beyond Eternity: A prelude of Scripted Fates
A metaphysical Visual Novel in the realm of NonExistence.
Razeacc
Visual Novel
The Incident at the Seabrook Residence
Jamie Drew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
warrior of sunlight
maze of dream
fotocopiadora
Interactive Fiction
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Seul. (Alone) the day before
Funny, Sad, Creepy, Disturbing and completely absorbing, with a Shakespearean sense of tragedy.
Paranormal Games
Interactive Fiction
Adventure
A modern text adventure game! Explore the mysterious island and discover the truth!
enigmabrand
Adventure
Play in browser
pyOS's Test Program
'You're not the program.'
Daver The Dave
Interactive Fiction
Alive
A vintage text adventure made for GlobalGameJam'19
Amy Alex Parent
Interactive Fiction
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