The Best Detective Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Mysterious Mystery, EP 1: The Duo Dilemma added at rank #35.
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The Roottrees are Dead (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows Linux

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • 1990s
  • story
  • point-and-click
  • logic
  • atmospheric
  • mystery-solving
  • fiction
  • deduction
  • visual
  • well-made
  • interactive

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Guilty Parade (2021)

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One war. Two sides of a military conflict. Which side will you choose if you take a look at the world from both sides of the conflict? Whom will you support and whom will you destroy if some are fighting for an uncertain future, while others are for a peaceful present?

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  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • anime
  • war
  • wartime
  • mystery
  • story
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • hand-drawn
  • violent
  • comedy

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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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Soulslayer (2017)

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An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.

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  • visual-novel
  • detective
  • casual
  • adventure

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Detective School Club (2024)

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Android Linux PC Windows

Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!

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  • dating-sim
  • fiction
  • text
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • detective
  • interactive
  • cartoony
  • emotional
  • anime
  • stylized
  • crime
  • adventure

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The Operator (2024)

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Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.


  • fmv
  • investigation
  • conspiracy
  • thriller
  • immersive
  • detective
  • choices
  • narration
  • crime
  • simulation
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • visual-novel
  • interactive

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No Recollection (2024)

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A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!

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  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • detective
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • dark
  • interactive
  • anime
  • mystery
  • story
  • colourful
  • romance
  • casual

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Little Locked Rooms (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries! Think outside the box and solve them all in this new brand of detective game!

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  • investigation
  • detective
  • visual-novel
  • anime
  • mystery
  • text
  • logic
  • crime
  • story
  • 3d
  • relaxing
  • single-player
  • point-and-click
  • funny

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Phoenix Springs (2024)

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Lose yourself in the mystery of Phoenix Springs, a modern point-and-click set in a striking neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.

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  • noir
  • investigation
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • stylized
  • mystery
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • cinematic
  • comic
  • immersive
  • book

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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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