The Best Noir Games for Linux

Update : The Order of the Snake Scale added at rank #13.
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Voodoo Detective (2022)

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Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.


  • point-and-click
  • noir
  • detective
  • investigation
  • hand-drawn
  • conversation
  • mystery
  • 2.5d
  • comedy
  • cartoony
  • story
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • funny
  • romance

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Nine Noir Lives (2022)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?


  • detective
  • noir
  • comedy
  • cats
  • point-and-click
  • funny
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • story
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • crime

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Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived (2019)

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Linux Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

As a police detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?


  • detective
  • political
  • noir
  • crime
  • psychological
  • story
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • mature
  • fiction
  • book
  • comic
  • dark
  • manipulation
  • realistic

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay (2022)

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.

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  • choices
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • noir
  • cooperative
  • asynchronous
  • comic
  • 1990s
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • detective
  • comedy
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • book

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Depanneur Nocturne (2020)

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A short exploration game about poking around a convenience store and finding a gift with the help of its owner. But sometimes the perfect gift finds you.

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  • adventure
  • experimental
  • noir
  • atmospheric
  • inventory
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • cats
  • conversation
  • cute
  • walking-simulator
  • first-person
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • supernatural

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FRAMED Collection (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

"The Framed Collection is the compilation of the the critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, noir-puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2, where you re-arrange panels of a comic book to change the outcome of the story. Change the Order, Change the Outcome. The games have been completely overhauled and redesigned for the platform and given extra love and care for our PC players to enjoy the high quality experience that is the FRAMED universe."


  • noir
  • winning
  • puzzle
  • multi-award
  • comic

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To Hell With The Ugly (2023)

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To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.


  • noir
  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • investigation
  • turn-based
  • fiction
  • humor
  • narration
  • combat
  • conspiracy
  • mystery
  • stylized
  • interactive
  • dark
  • comedy

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Love Shore (2023)

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Android Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.

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  • choices
  • cyberpunk
  • noir
  • fiction
  • cinematic
  • text
  • narration
  • interactive
  • stylized
  • visual-novel
  • colourful
  • dating-sim
  • crime

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Critters for Sale (2021)

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Experience death from the comfort of your seat.

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  • surreal
  • gore
  • choices
  • noir
  • travel
  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • psychedelic
  • point-and-click
  • humor
  • time
  • devil
  • violent
  • conversation
  • horror

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Don't Forget Me (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 PC Windows

The first season aired in Japan between January 8, 2012 and March 24, 2012 while the second season started airing between July 8, 2012 and September 23, 2012 following a recap episode on July 1, 2012. Both seasons have been licensed by Viz Media in North America and Anime on Demand in the United Kingdom. A manga accompaniment began serialization in Enix's Young Gangan magazine and a light novel from Media Factory, both from September 2011.[2][3] A hybrid Blu-ray Disc containing an original video animation and a PlayStation 3 video game was released on August 23, 2012.


  • typing
  • philosophical
  • soundtrack
  • noir
  • investigation
  • word
  • detective
  • cyberpunk
  • sci-fi
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • point-and-click
  • violent
  • mystery
  • story

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