The Best Noir Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Mouse: P.I. For Hire added at rank #22.
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No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files (2025)

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Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!


  • visual-novel
  • mystery
  • noir
  • detective
  • psychedelic
  • conspiracy
  • anime
  • fiction
  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • choices
  • crime
  • sci-fi
  • interactive

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Lacuna (2021)

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A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

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  • noir
  • detective
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • narration
  • cyberpunk
  • crime
  • fiction
  • text
  • pixel
  • investigation
  • futuristic
  • sci-fi
  • drama
  • interactive

3

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (2025)

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Android Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows

You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!


  • detective
  • mystery
  • noir
  • investigation
  • short
  • cute
  • birds
  • stand-alone
  • story
  • puzzle
  • funny
  • point-and-click
  • fiction

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The Darkest Files (2025)

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Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?


  • detective
  • simulation
  • historical
  • noir
  • political
  • immersive
  • investigation
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • nonlinear
  • puzzle
  • story
  • 3d

5

Read Only Memories: Neurodiver (2024)

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Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.


  • cyberpunk
  • visual-novel
  • noir
  • sci-fi
  • conversation
  • point-and-click
  • fiction
  • comic
  • emotional
  • anime
  • futuristic
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • stylized
  • interactive

6

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

7

Loretta (2023)

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Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.


  • thriller
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • america
  • noir
  • multiple-endings
  • crime
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • narration
  • drama
  • adventure
  • interactive

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Rough Justice: '84 (2023)

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Do what it takes to make your fledgling security agency thrive in this 80s noir crime bustin', dirty crossing, vengeance-seeking board game inspired strategy game with dice and cards.

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  • board-game
  • investigation
  • america
  • noir
  • time-management
  • 1980s
  • dice
  • stylized
  • narration
  • isometric
  • detective
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • management
  • card

9

Genesis Noir (2021)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

A noir adventure spanning time and space. When a love triangle between cosmic beings becomes a bitter confrontation, you'll witness a gunshot fired by a jealous god—otherwise known as The Big Bang. Jump into the expanding universe and search for a way to destroy creation and save your love.

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  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • noir
  • surreal
  • narrative
  • detective
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • tactile
  • interactive
  • space
  • mystery

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Terminal 81 (2023)

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Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.


  • horror
  • job
  • psychological
  • retro
  • mystery
  • noir
  • crime
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • open-world
  • capitalism
  • choices
  • immersive
  • emotional

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