The Best Investigation Games - Page 5

Update : Carmen Sandiego added at rank #6.
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Silicon Dreams cyberpunk interrogation (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

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  • conversation
  • investigation
  • choices
  • emotional
  • dystopian
  • cyberpunk
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • political
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • detective
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • atmospheric

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Last Days of Lazarus (2022)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

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  • investigation
  • first-person
  • politics
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • faith
  • narrative
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • drama
  • demons
  • gore
  • dark
  • exploration

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Murderous Muses (2023)

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

Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.

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  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

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Lacuna - Sci-Fi Noir Adventure (2023)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows

You are Neil Conrad, CDI agent. Awoken by the news of a murder, you rush into a case that will turn your life and the whole solar system upside down. Ask questions, collect evidence, and put the pieces together until the ugly truth reveals itself... or not.


  • noir
  • conversation
  • cyberpunk
  • investigation
  • thriller
  • narration
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • linear
  • detective
  • fiction
  • choices
  • crime
  • sci-fi
  • drama

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Nothing to Declare (2023)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

As a guardian of the customs realm, you hold sway over the comings and goings of travelers, packages, and cargo containers alike. Do you possess the mettle to tackle such a formidable responsibility?


  • investigation
  • conversation
  • point-and-click
  • choices
  • linear
  • management
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • casual
  • cartoony
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • 2d

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Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One

A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.


  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • historical
  • investigation
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • minimalist
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • linear
  • narrative
  • story
  • crime

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Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh (2023)

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

Tintin and his faithful companion Snowy are going to experience some extraordinary adventures…After meeting Professor Sarcophagus whilst cruising the Mediterranean Sea, the famous reporter sets out in search of the tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh.

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  • choices
  • adventure
  • investigation
  • action-adventure
  • thought-provoking
  • stealth
  • 3d
  • detective
  • innovative
  • action
  • fps
  • quick-time-event
  • first-person

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Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows

You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.

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  • sequel
  • detective
  • short
  • investigation
  • soundtrack
  • comedy
  • mystery
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • colourful
  • point-and-click
  • relaxing
  • funny
  • cute
  • interactive

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Rail of Mobius (2021)

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PC Windows

Enter a bloody cycle of fate deep under the ocean. Will you become everyone’s salvation? A train shuttling underwater carrying students and teachers on a graduation trip is suddenly trapped in a strange time loop, endlessly experiencing the moment of a derailing accident . . .

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  • travel
  • investigation
  • time
  • dating-sim
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • anime
  • fiction
  • drama
  • story
  • hand-drawn
  • interactive

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aecc Rail of MAbius (2021)

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PC Windows

Enter a bloody cycle of fate deep under the ocean. Will you become everyone’s salvation? A train shuttling underwater carrying students and teachers on a graduation trip is suddenly trapped in a strange time loop, endlessly experiencing the moment of a derailing accident . . .

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  • travel
  • investigation
  • time
  • dating-sim
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • anime
  • fiction
  • drama
  • story
  • hand-drawn
  • interactive

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