The Best Investigation Games - Page 5

Update : Best Served Cold added at rank #23.
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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

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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

43

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

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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

45

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

46

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

47

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery (2021)

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PC Windows

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery is a danmaku-detective game that combines point-and-click style deduction with high octane bullet hell gameplay. Find evidence, interrogate suspects, and refute contradictions to solve the case!

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  • bullet-hell
  • investigation
  • logic
  • visual-novel
  • detective
  • magic
  • linear
  • mystery
  • anime
  • shoot-em-up
  • pixel
  • story
  • cute

48

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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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

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Belonging (2024)

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Belonging is a game about a cult and its victims. As a hacktivist breaking into a target location, the player searches an abandoned estate of a cult to find data to leak to the public and uncover uncomfortable truths about what happened to the people that lived there.


  • investigation
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • lgbtq
  • mythology
  • political
  • collectathon
  • futuristic
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • 3d

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