The Best Detective Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Paper Perjury added at rank #39.
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The Mildew Children (2024)

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Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.


  • visual-novel
  • surreal
  • detective
  • horror
  • quick-time-event
  • choices
  • story
  • adventure
  • faith
  • scroller
  • psychological
  • exploration
  • magic
  • colourful
  • 2d

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Nine Noir Lives (2022)

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Xbox One 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?


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

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Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Xbox One

The demonic preacher has escaped to the remotest mountains in pursuit of a grim secret that could give him ultimate power. He has already eluded the investigation of the protagonist detective and her partner Hamilton twice: once in Maple Creek, and again in Ravenwood. It’s no mystery that this time it’s personal.


  • detective
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • puzzle
  • adventure

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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit (2022)

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Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the secrets of the king who was never crowned.


  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • choices
  • conspiracy
  • cartoony
  • detective
  • story
  • investigation
  • atmospheric
  • hand-drawn
  • 1990s
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • funny
  • adventure

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Trust No One (2024)

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You'll need to think outside more than just the box. In "Trust No One,” a point-and-click detective adventure, you play as a journalist who tries to unravel a web of secrets about a mysterious AI-company. Explore the nooks and alleyways of Kyiv to discover the identity of your informant.


  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • conspiracy
  • investigation
  • logic
  • philosophical
  • conversation
  • hand-drawn
  • dystopian
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • exploration
  • cartoony

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Occult Crime Police (2021)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Murder. Conspiracy. Thought Influencers. Only you can decipher the mystery of Base 24. Comb a mysterious government base for evidence, catch suspects in their lies, and unravel the truth, no matter how ridiculous it may be!

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  • cartoony
  • supernatural
  • detective
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • funny
  • anime
  • 2d
  • conversation
  • story
  • sci-fi

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Rainswept (2019)

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Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel entangled threads of love, relationships and unresolved trauma in this character driven murder mystery game.


  • detective
  • mystery
  • crime
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • narrative
  • local
  • story
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • 2d

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Another Lost Phone (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Explore the social life of Laura in this spiritual sequel to A Normal Lost Phone.


  • casual
  • detective
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • short
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • story
  • narration
  • in-depth
  • puzzling
  • visual-novel
  • replay-value
  • fps

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Kona II: Brume (2023)

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Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.

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  • surreal
  • detective
  • mystery
  • investigation
  • snow
  • narration
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • fiction
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • 3d

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Beat Cop (2017)

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A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by 80’s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed into murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.


  • detective
  • pixel
  • local
  • retro
  • crime
  • boss
  • 1980s
  • old-school
  • point-and-click
  • dash

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