The Best Investigation Games - Page 4

Update : Beholder: Conductor added at rank #34.
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A Perfect Day (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Revisit the final moments of 1999 for an eternity. Come face to face with your dreams and regrets. Explore a deep and interwoven narrative, solve perplexing riddles, and even play a few nostalgic minigames. Immerse yourself in happiness and sorrow with friends of ages past in your Perfect Day.


  • fiction
  • nostalgia
  • travel
  • visual-novel
  • narration
  • story
  • investigation
  • interactive
  • emotional
  • time
  • multiple-endings
  • 1990s
  • narrative
  • choices
  • time-management

32

Elroy and the Aliens (2025)

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j PC Windows

It's the year 1993. Talking robots, ghosts from the past, and ancient alien technology buried under desert sand. An adventure following Elroy and Peggie in the search of a long-lost father. How far would you go to bring back the ones you love?


  • point-and-click
  • sci-fi
  • investigation
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • narration
  • cartoony
  • 1990s
  • family-friendly
  • fiction
  • story
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • adventure

33

Meridian 157: Chapter 1 (2020)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...


  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • classic
  • difficult
  • 2d
  • first-person
  • horror
  • casual
  • realistic

34

Beholder: Conductor (2025)

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85
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j Mac OS PC Windows

A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!


  • choices
  • dystopian
  • investigation
  • trains
  • political
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • management
  • pixel
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • simulation

35

Adventure Escape Mysteries (2020)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Ed and Marie parachute into Occupied France to save two physicists from the Nazis. Plans go awry as the ruthless Major Kressler smashes their spy ring. Who's the traitor? Where are the scientists? Will Ed and Marie ever get a night alone?


  • investigation
  • detective
  • mystery
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • colourful
  • hidden-object
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • inventory
  • story
  • adventure
  • mech

36

This is a Ghost (2024)

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PC Windows

This is a Ghost is a supernatural investigation game. You are a member of a secret society that hunts or sets free scary entities from our world. Gather evidence, identify the entity and send it back to the afterlife. Playable in Solo and co-op : 1 to 4 players.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • cooperative
  • supernatural
  • lovecraftian
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • demons
  • detective
  • dark
  • 3d
  • mystery
  • realistic
  • tactical
  • first-person

37

The Signifier (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.


  • surreal
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • tech-noir
  • horror
  • dark
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychology
  • exploration

38

Meridian 157: Chapter 3 (2021)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS

You have ventured this far, now there is no turning back. Uncover the island’s dark history by travelling through crumbling caverns and mysterious laboratories, but be warned, some may not be too welcoming of your presence…

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  • exploration
  • cinematic
  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • lovecraftian
  • hidden-object
  • investigation
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • detective
  • realistic
  • survival-horror
  • challenging
  • sci-fi

39

Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows Android

- Hints for bonus chapter. - Fixed lots of small bugs. - Hinted at some of the problems in the previous chapter.


  • investigation
  • logic
  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • hidden-object
  • modern
  • narration
  • mystery-puzzle
  • stylized
  • isometric
  • puzzle
  • linear
  • exploration
  • mech

40

Demonologist (2023)

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PC Windows Android

Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.


  • horror
  • cooperative
  • investigation
  • lovecraftian
  • cinematic
  • multiplayer
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • demons
  • dark
  • detective
  • mmo
  • tactical
  • mystery

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