The Best Simulation detective Games - Page 2

Update : The Darkest Files added at rank #1.
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Accident (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Android Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Become a journalist who researches old car accident cases. Help victims and perform first aid, obtain evidence and reconstruct the events to discover what really happened.


  • medical
  • simulation
  • education
  • blood
  • investigation
  • travel
  • emotional
  • time-management
  • hidden-object
  • time
  • realistic
  • replay-value
  • quick-time-event
  • detective
  • first-person

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Scrutinized (2020)

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PC Windows

Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.

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  • hacking
  • detective
  • horror
  • simulation
  • dark
  • perma-death
  • survival
  • 3d

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The Test (2020)

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PC Windows

Take a journey with Markiplier as he attempts to answer a series of questions in order to unlock hidden truths about himself. Will you be able to answer the questions honestly and accurately, revealing truths that you may not have known before?

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What we like:
  • Thought-provoking questions
  • Introspective exploration
  • Interesting music
What could be improved:
  • Scary scenarios
  • Difficulty understanding puzzles
  • Potential consequences for dishonest answers

  • choices
  • psychological
  • horror
  • japanese
  • multiple-endings
  • investigation
  • rpg
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • visual-novel
  • detective
  • pixel
  • survival-horror
  • jrpg
  • story

14

SIMULACRA 2 (2019)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.


  • horror
  • fmv
  • detective
  • immersive
  • hacking
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • simulation
  • mystery
  • text
  • choices
  • narrative
  • supernatural
  • artificial
  • intelligence

15

School Years (2019)

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PC Windows

A visual novel adapted from a real story.To tell the most authentic Chinese story in the most simple words

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  • visual-novel
  • japanese
  • foreign
  • horror
  • romance
  • rpg
  • psychological
  • drama
  • detective
  • anime
  • jrpg
  • story
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • fps

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Night Call (2019)

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As the game progresses, the Messenger gains new abilities such as climbing walls, gliding in the air, long-range shuriken attacks, and using a grappling hook to propel himself through obstacles and enemies. By collecting Time Shards earned by defeating enemies or hitting lamps, the player can purchase additional upgrades such as health bonuses or extra attack moves. If the player dies, however, a demon named Quarble will appear and automatically claim any Time Shards the player collects as payment for a short amount of time.


  • detective
  • mystery
  • noir
  • non-linear
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • second-person
  • dialogue-driven
  • platform
  • narrative
  • narration
  • hand-drawn

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Save Koch (2019)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux Xbox One Playstation 4

You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.


  • detective
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • crime
  • choices
  • political
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • empire
  • violent
  • boss
  • 2d
  • conspiracy
  • difficult

18

Hypnospace Outlaw (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Hypnospace Outlaw is a unique game that takes you to the world of the early internet circa 1999. As an assigned moderator of the Hypnospace community, you have to investigate unapproved commerce, strike down images and links with copyright infringement and page through personal blogs and projects. You will explore a web browser as well as a customizable desktop with programs and documents, while having to scan for references and redirects.


What we like:
  • Unique game setting in the early internet
  • Investigative detective work
  • Engaging storyline
  • Eye-searing kitsch comedy
  • Built with consistent world elements
What could be improved:
  • Limited color palette
  • Grainy pixelated artwork

  • detective
  • alternate
  • conspiracy
  • online
  • simulation
  • funny
  • parody
  • puzzle
  • drama
  • 1990s

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Flashing Lights - Police Fire EMS (2018)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Become the law or save lives! Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Discover leagues of player-created mods!


  • simulation
  • job
  • open-world
  • moddable
  • cooperative
  • third-person
  • driving
  • first-person
  • tps
  • detective
  • online
  • sandbox
  • shooter
  • vehicle
  • truck

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the untold story of hengshui school (2018)

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PC Windows

It’s based on Hengshui high school to reveal the real society, Game feature: cult painting style, puzzle elements, serious student death event plus humorous minor role, As it was released on March,2015, and finished in the following four months, now it’s downloaded almost 0.9 million players, the live video of the game has 2.

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  • detective
  • simulation
  • casual
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • cult
  • mystery
  • visual-novel

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