The Best Investigation Games for Linux - Page 3

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

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NINA AQUILA is back for her brightest, boldest, most magical adventure yet!

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  • investigation
  • crime
  • detective
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • anime
  • logic
  • magic
  • interactive
  • story
  • drama
  • comedy
  • funny
  • 2d
  • mystery

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Splittown (2025)

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Splittown is a point-and-click adventure inspired by 90s classics such as Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit The Road. You are Leonard Nimby, a former top agent of the IM5, hot on the trail of a villanous mayoral candidate on the eve of a fateful election.

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  • conversation
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • point-and-click
  • political
  • choices
  • surreal
  • detective
  • historical
  • alternate
  • dark
  • comedy
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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Mysterious Mystery, EP 1: The Duo Dilemma (2025)

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Mysterious Mystery is a fully voiced mystery visual novel centered around the detective duo, Justin and Dakota. Solve multiple cases using Dakota's evidence gathering abilities and Justin's expert interrogation. Discover outlandish cases, meet unique characters, and become world class detectives.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • detective
  • trains
  • comedy
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • pixel
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • interactive
  • hearted
  • adventure

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The Faceless Killer (2025)

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The Faceless Killer is a first-person survival horror game with retro PS1-style graphics, consisting of 2 chapters. Solve logic puzzles, fight against your enemies, or hide when there's no other option. Unravel this mystery surrounding the Faceless Killer. Who is he, and what are his motivations?

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • 1980s
  • investigation
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • crime
  • logic
  • hidden-object
  • walking-simulator
  • minimalist
  • interactive
  • atmospheric

25

Arts & Hearts Academy (2024)

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In the romantic visual novel Arts & Hearts Academy, immerse yourself in a world of mysteries, art scandals, and love! A student girl dreams of winning a prestigious architecture competition and finding love. Little does she know, a cunning criminal has already set their traps.

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  • otome
  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • text
  • visual-novel
  • drama
  • fiction
  • detective
  • character
  • choices
  • lgbtq
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn

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Spectre Vigil (2025)

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Linux PC Windows

Spectre Vigil is an Observation-Duty style horror game with a unique twist: Detecting ghosts! Spot many different abnormalities and handle terrifying entities, all whilst keeping track of what happens and figuring out what ails this location!

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  • horror
  • investigation
  • logic
  • supernatural
  • hidden-object
  • psychological
  • dark
  • casual
  • 3d
  • strategy
  • stylized
  • mystery
  • minimalist
  • first-person

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Deductopia Chapter 1: Bring Your Pet to School Day (2025)

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Can you sort out this chaotic classroom? Six kids, six pets, six desks--but whose is whose? Drag the right names and pictures to the right desks to win!

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  • detective
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • logic
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • cute
  • colourful
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • political

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GENBA no Kizuna (2024)

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A Mesozoic murder mystery, 4 suspects, 1 truth. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you set out to unravel the case with your team. Will you be able to accurately determine who took the victim's life? Or will your deductions lead you to arrest someone for a crime they did not commit...?

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  • investigation
  • detective
  • crime
  • dinosaurs
  • blood
  • logic
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • narration
  • mystery
  • interactive
  • gore
  • anime
  • story
  • multiple-endings

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World Without Reason (2024)

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Miss [FIRSTNAME] Audacity is the only sane mind in an unreasonable world. Help our protagonist as she tries to remember the past in order to save her sister, her friends, and herself.

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  • choices
  • philosophical
  • lore
  • investigation
  • conspiracy
  • emotional
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • stylized
  • detective
  • cartoony
  • dark
  • drama
  • third-person
  • mystery

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Desolatium (2023)

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DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.

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  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • mystery
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • exploration

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