The Best Investigation Games - Page 5

Update : Beholder: Conductor added at rank #34.
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Machinika: Atlas (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!


  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • investigation
  • mystery
  • dystopian
  • aliens
  • puzzle
  • science
  • logic
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • casual
  • atmospheric

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A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen (2023)

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PC Windows

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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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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Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring (2021)

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PC Windows

Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?

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  • investigation
  • word
  • dating-sim
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • interactive
  • story
  • anime
  • romance
  • mature
  • drama
  • dark
  • time-management

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Eville (2022)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Betray your friends- and lie your way to victory. Inspired by popular multiplayer social-deduction party games such as Werewolves and Among Us, this is a new take on the concept with realtime gameplay and interaction.


  • deduction
  • social
  • werewolves
  • investigation
  • diplomacy
  • conversation
  • cooperative
  • pvp
  • party
  • assassin
  • cartoony
  • colourful

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Silicon Dreams cyberpunk interrogation (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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
  • choices
  • emotional
  • dystopian
  • cyberpunk
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • political
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • detective
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • atmospheric

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Murderous Muses (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

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  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

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Last Days of Lazarus (2022)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

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  • investigation
  • first-person
  • politics
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • faith
  • narrative
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • drama
  • demons
  • gore
  • dark
  • exploration

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Lacuna - Sci-Fi Noir Adventure (2023)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows

You are Neil Conrad, CDI agent. Awoken by the news of a murder, you rush into a case that will turn your life and the whole solar system upside down. Ask questions, collect evidence, and put the pieces together until the ugly truth reveals itself... or not.


  • noir
  • conversation
  • cyberpunk
  • investigation
  • thriller
  • narration
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • linear
  • detective
  • fiction
  • choices
  • crime
  • sci-fi
  • drama

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Nothing to Declare (2023)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

As a guardian of the customs realm, you hold sway over the comings and goings of travelers, packages, and cargo containers alike. Do you possess the mettle to tackle such a formidable responsibility?


  • investigation
  • conversation
  • point-and-click
  • choices
  • linear
  • management
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • casual
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • 2d

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