The Best Investigation Games for Mac OS

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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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Good match + 5 Bad match - 17

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Strange Horticulture (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

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

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Good match + 11 Bad match - 25

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Shadows Over Loathing (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.

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• choices
• rpg
• comedy
• lovecraftian
• turn-based
• point-and-click
• investigation
• funny
• adventure
• character
• puzzle
• old-school
• 2d
• customization
• multiple-endings

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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

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Good match + 4 Bad match - 10

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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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• conspiracy
• investigation
• crime
• mystery
• detective
• thriller
• fiction
• choices
• dark
• puzzle
• narrative
• story
• pixel
• point-and-click
• historical

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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.

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

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Good match + 3 Bad match - 3

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Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS

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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Chinatown Detective Agency (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.

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• detective
• point-and-click
• noir
• investigation
• trivia
• cyberpunk
• mystery
• dystopian
• pixel
• crime
• multiple-endings
• dark
• economy
• choices
• story

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The Signifier (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.

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• surreal
• psychological
• investigation
• emotional
• multiple-endings
• mystery
• thriller
• tech-noir
• horror
• dark
• first-person
• walking-simulator
• choices
• psychology
• exploration

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Good match + 14 Bad match - 19

10

Meridian 157: Chapter 2 (2020)

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Trapped deep underground on a lost and forgotten island, David’s priority shifts from finding answers about the mystery surrounding him, to surviving the crisis he now finds himself trapped in. It’s now up to you to find an escape from the 157th meridian, but be warned, as escape may not be so easy

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• puzzle
• investigation
• point-and-click
• hidden-object
• adventure
• thriller
• mystery
• casual
• realistic
• horror
• 2d
• challenging
• exploration

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