The Best Investigation Games

Update, 30 June 2023: Crime O\'Clock added at rank #19.

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Silicon Dreams (2021)

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It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

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conversation
investigation
multiple-endings
dystopian
cyberpunk
choices
emotional
futuristic
sci-fi
detective
experimental
text
political
story
visual-novel

Strange Horticulture (2022)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Xbox One

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

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mystery
investigation
puzzle
nature
detective
relaxing
lovecraftian
exploration
multiple-endings
choices
2d
alternate-universe
simulation
clue
lovecraft

Goetia 2 (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Explore a dark & unknown Venice in this point-and-click adventure. Your goal? Find a way to reunite your soul & body. Gather information & solve puzzles in your spectral form to make your way into this world despite the shenanigans of a troublesome demon!

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fiction
investigation
choices
point-and-click
magic
demons
interactive
psychological
exploration
atmospheric
adventure
2d
realistic
dark
horror

Machinika Museum (2021)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.

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science
investigation
puzzle
hidden-object
mystery
logic
point-and-click
short
sci-fi
narration
atmospheric
futuristic
aliens
pattern-matching
first-person

Treason (2023)

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PC Windows

A group of wise guys found a dead body; there are traitors amongst them... Innocent players have to collect clues to find the murderer(s) and kill them!

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investigation
first-person
pvp
detective
cooperative
shooter
fps
mystery
3d
stealth
tactical
casual

Escape Machine City (2021)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

- A next level escape game with stunning 3D graphics and visual effects!. Discover a strangely unique machine world that is trapped on a high cliff in a desolated wasteland.

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puzzle
investigation
steampunk
hidden-object
point-and-click
mystery
logic
3d
escape
linear
retro-futuristic
room
atmospheric
first-person
adventure

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi (2019)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One

Lost and alone after a terrible landslide, Yandi must find his way home in this old-school point and click adventure set deep in the Sumatran jungle! Will he make it out alive?

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investigation
point-and-click
emotional
thriller
nature
drama
psychological
story
old-school
pixel
mystery
2d
exploration
atmospheric
puzzle

Cleo - a pirate's tale (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

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investigation
pirates
1990s
logic
linear
narration
top-down
comedy
point-and-click
action-adventure
pixel
funny
2d
old-school
retro

Boxville (2022)

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Linux Android Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.

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logic
emotional
point-and-click
hand-drawn
investigation
family-friendly
puzzle
relaxing
cartoony
experiences
colourful
atmospheric
exploration
adventure
story

The Case of the Golden Idol - Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

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