The Best Investigation Games

Update : Whispers in the Dark added at rank #1.
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Whispers in the Dark (2025)

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PC Windows

Whispers in the Dark is an online cooperative RPG horror game mixing exploration phases of haunted and management places. Improve your character, his knowledge of the paranormal, his skills and his tools thanks to a research system.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • rpg
  • class
  • customization
  • idler
  • gun
  • supernatural
  • resource-management
  • 3d
  • heist
  • character
  • realistic
  • action

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The Precinct (2025)

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Android

Averno City, 1983. Gangs rule the streets and your father lies restless in his grave. Clean up the city, uncover the truth, and embark on thrilling vehicle chases through destructible environments in this neon-noir action sandbox police game.

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  • noir
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • nonlinear
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • 1980s
  • procedural
  • immersive
  • detective
  • crime
  • neon-noir
  • top-down
  • driving
  • open-world

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Best Served Cold (2025)

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Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!

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  • detective
  • cozy
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • story
  • lgbtq
  • romance
  • relaxing
  • interactive
  • alternate-universe
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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Beholder: Conductor (2025)

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A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!


  • choices
  • dystopian
  • investigation
  • trains
  • political
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • management
  • pixel
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • simulation

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Detective - The Test (2025)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Test your detective instincts across three challenging cases. No hints, no help—just you, your intuition, and your ability to piece together the truth. Can you solve the mystery?

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  • investigation
  • crime
  • walking-simulator
  • detective
  • mystery
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • realistic
  • logic
  • noir
  • drama
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • 3d

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

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Linux PC Windows

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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YOUR HOUSE (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS Android

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.


  • thriller
  • noir
  • interactive
  • mystery
  • comic
  • book
  • fiction
  • detective
  • story
  • puzzle
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • text
  • narration

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Trials of Innocence (2025)

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PC Windows

Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.

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  • lore
  • detective
  • fiction
  • anime
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • conversation
  • memes
  • interactive
  • crime
  • mystery
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • multiple-endings
  • story

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Unnatural Investigations (2025)

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PC Windows

4 player online coop game, eliminate enemies, find special items & clues, summon the boss, and destroy it

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  • investigation
  • first-person
  • detective
  • horror
  • cooperative
  • gore
  • demons
  • shooter
  • team
  • atmospheric
  • multiplayer
  • realistic
  • fps
  • 3d
  • exploration

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Conscience (2024)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Jack Beckham is found dead, hanging in his apartment alone. Police rule it a suicide. His father, refusing to accept the conclusion, hires you to investigate. Delve into the clues left behind in his apartment to discover what really happened.

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  • noir
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • mystery
  • lgbtq
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • cartoony
  • lore
  • aliens
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • futuristic
  • colourful

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