The Best Investigation Games for Linux

Update : Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Chapter IV: Sacred Feathers added at rank #21.
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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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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer (2025)

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In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…


  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • investigation
  • noir
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • conspiracy
  • 1990s
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • story

3

Boxville (2022)

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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.


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

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Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood (2021)

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Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?


  • investigation
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • scroller
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • endings
  • cartoony
  • book
  • horror
  • stylized
  • story
  • text

5

Detective From The Crypt (2021)

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Jane wakes up in a crypt as a ghost. You are investigating the death of her family together. Seeking and researching evidences. Building an accusation based on them. You have a laboratory to research evidences. Play and get the feeling of being a true Victorian detective.

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  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • logic
  • investigation
  • hidden-object
  • cats
  • hand-drawn
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • old-school
  • exploration
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • relaxing

6

Silicon Dreams cyberpunk interrogation (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?

Buy

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

7

Scott Whiskers in: The Search for Mr. Fumbleclaw (2024)

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“Scott Whiskers in: the Search for Mr. Fumbleclaw” is a modern, funny and family-friendly point & click adventure game about cats, pop culture and life itself. Created in the spirit of the classics of the genre.


  • 2.5d
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • cats
  • point-and-click
  • old-school
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • logic
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • comedy
  • funny
  • puzzle
  • adventure

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The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure (2025)

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Beekeeper (and former world’s greatest detective) Sherlock Holmes is arranging a surprise picnic for his friend Watson. Unfortunately pesky mysteries keep getting in the way! Explore, find clues and interrogate your neighbours in this cosy point and click adventure!

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  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • investigation
  • nature
  • agriculture
  • historical
  • pixel
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • relaxing
  • 1990s
  • puzzle
  • old-school
  • mystery

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The Operator (2024)

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Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.


  • fmv
  • investigation
  • conspiracy
  • thriller
  • immersive
  • detective
  • choices
  • narration
  • crime
  • simulation
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • visual-novel
  • interactive

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Detective From The Crypt Windows (2021)

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Linux PC Windows

Jane wakes up in a crypt as a ghost. You are investigating the death of her family together. Seeking and researching evidences. Building an accusation based on them. You have a laboratory to research evidences. Play and get the feeling of being a true Victorian detective.

Buy

  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • logic
  • cats
  • investigation
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • mystery
  • classic-sounding
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • old-school
  • cartoony
  • 2d

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