The Best Investigation Games - Page 2

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A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen (2023)

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In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.

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  • dynamic
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • humor
  • narration
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • historical
  • rpg
  • 3d

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aecc Rail of MAbius (2021)

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Enter a bloody cycle of fate deep under the ocean. Will you become everyone’s salvation? A train shuttling underwater carrying students and teachers on a graduation trip is suddenly trapped in a strange time loop, endlessly experiencing the moment of a derailing accident . . .

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  • travel
  • investigation
  • time
  • dating-sim
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • anime
  • fiction
  • drama
  • story
  • hand-drawn
  • interactive

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Meridian 157: Chapter 1 (2020)

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While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...


  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • classic
  • difficult
  • 2d
  • first-person
  • horror
  • casual
  • realistic

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Contradiction - Spot The Liar! (2015)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

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  • fmv
  • investigation
  • detective
  • crime
  • mystery
  • conspiracy
  • fiction
  • immersive
  • movie
  • point-and-click
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • retro
  • exploration

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Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2022)

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You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.

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  • detective
  • mystery
  • short
  • comedy
  • funny
  • sequel
  • investigation
  • colourful
  • cute
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • amphibian
  • crime
  • soundtrack
  • relaxing

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Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery (2019)

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- Hints for bonus chapter. - Fixed lots of small bugs. - Hinted at some of the problems in the previous chapter.


  • investigation
  • logic
  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • hidden-object
  • modern
  • narration
  • mystery-puzzle
  • stylized
  • isometric
  • puzzle
  • linear
  • exploration
  • mech

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Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders (2019)

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A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.


  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • historical
  • investigation
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • minimalist
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • linear
  • narrative
  • story
  • crime

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Machinika Museum (2021)

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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.


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

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This is a Ghost (2024)

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This is a Ghost is a supernatural investigation game. You are a member of a secret society that hunts or sets free scary entities from our world. Gather evidence, identify the entity and send it back to the afterlife. Playable in Solo and co-op : 1 to 4 players.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • cooperative
  • supernatural
  • lovecraftian
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • demons
  • detective
  • dark
  • 3d
  • mystery
  • realistic
  • tactical
  • first-person

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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

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