The Best Detective Games for Xbox Series X - Page 5

Update : The Darkest Files added at rank #10.
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DETECTIVE - The Motel (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows

DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.


  • detective
  • crime
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • noir
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • story
  • controller-support
  • 3d
  • violent
  • realistic

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Unsolved Case: Murderous Script (2023)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 5 j Playstation 4

The life of a detective is unpredictable and very dangerous. You never know what awaits you around the next corner and what secrets you need to unravel. But you knew what you were getting into, there's no turning back!


  • dynamic
  • investigation
  • detective
  • thriller
  • crime
  • episodic
  • hidden-object
  • drama
  • choices
  • narration
  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • dark
  • multiple-endings

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Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X

Experience the beginning of the end of Cypress Ridge in this '90s survival horror nightmare at the dawn of the zombie outbreak.


  • horror
  • noir
  • first-person
  • pve
  • tps
  • dinosaurs
  • shooter
  • rpg
  • detective
  • dark
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • post-apocalyptic
  • fps
  • third-person

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Murder on the Marine Express (2022)

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Xbox One Linux Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Android Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

A mystery visual novel taking place aboard the underwater train Marine Express. Follow student Ranko Togawa on her quest to find the culprit on the murder of an accompanying teacher... with lots of surprises along the way!


  • visual-novel
  • mystery
  • detective
  • text
  • submarine
  • pixel
  • old
  • conversation
  • underwater
  • investigation
  • drama
  • comedy

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ClueCluedo (2018)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X l IOS iPhone (IOS iPhone) Xbox One

The official digital version of Hasbro’s classic mystery board game, Cluedo (Clue). Roll the dice and launch into a murder investigation. Whodunit? With what weapon? Where? You’ll need all your brain power to find the answers you need, as you race your friends and family to the truth!


  • board-game
  • card
  • investigation
  • tabletop
  • crime
  • logic
  • detective
  • family-friendly
  • mystery
  • 4-player
  • multiplayer-play
  • strategy
  • pvp
  • trading
  • puzzle

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TEMPUS (2022)

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Android PC Windows Oculus Rift Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X

TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?


  • investigation
  • hidden-object
  • cyberpunk
  • vr
  • post-apocalyptic
  • narration
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • detective
  • first-person
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • controller-support
  • puzzle
  • adventure

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Times & Galaxy (2024)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows j

Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!


  • choices
  • shuttle
  • alberta
  • visual-novel
  • lgbtq
  • conversation
  • comic
  • investigation
  • detective
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • book

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BROKEN MIND (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One

A psychological murder mystery set in 90s Japan.


  • detective
  • horror
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • stylized
  • cartoony
  • first-person
  • hand-drawn
  • shooter
  • psychedelic
  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • 1990s

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Detective From The Crypt (2021)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X Linux PC Windows

Jane wakes up in a crypt as a ghost. You are investigating the death of her family together. Seeking and researching evidences. Building an accusation based on them. You have a laboratory to research evidences. Play and get the feeling of being a true Victorian detective.


  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • logic
  • cats
  • investigation
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • atmospheric
  • multiple-endings
  • relaxing
  • adventurefamily
  • exploration
  • old-school
  • 2d
  • cartoony

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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue (2023)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 l Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.


  • choices
  • investigation
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • time-management
  • detective
  • dark
  • anime
  • drama
  • 2.5d
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • horror

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