The Best Investigation Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer added at rank #22.
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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit (2022)

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Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the secrets of the king who was never crowned.


  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • choices
  • conspiracy
  • cartoony
  • detective
  • story
  • investigation
  • atmospheric
  • hand-drawn
  • 1990s
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • funny
  • adventure

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Little Locked Rooms (2024)

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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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What Awaits, Aleksey? (2024)

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Utilize your analytical skills to connect the dots and unveil hidden conspiracies! Join the ranks of the People's Intelligence Bureau as a junior cryptologist, decipher cryptic messages and unravel plots brewed up by enemies of the state. Or . . . decide to save them...?


  • cold
  • dynamic
  • typing
  • dystopian
  • lore
  • logic
  • investigation
  • political
  • narration
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • story
  • retro

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Neon Hearts City (2025)

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A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.


  • cyberpunk
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • retro
  • interactive
  • 1990s
  • crime
  • conspiracy
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • colourful

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Murder in Crayontopia (2025)

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Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.

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  • choices
  • investigation
  • detective
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • lore
  • drama
  • dark
  • mystery
  • story
  • colourful

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Chromatic Memories (2024)

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A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?

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  • visual-novel
  • emotional
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • choices
  • interactive
  • hand-drawn
  • linear
  • colourful
  • narration
  • 2d

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The Roottrees are Dead (2025)

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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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The Phantom Fellows (2024)

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The Phantom Fellows is about two best friends who start a paranormal investigation business together, since one of them is already dead.


  • comedy
  • dark
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • humor
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • romance
  • funny
  • atmospheric
  • old-school
  • mystery

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Splittown (2025)

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Splittown is a point-and-click adventure inspired by 90s classics such as Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit The Road. You are Leonard Nimby, a former top agent of the IM5, hot on the trail of a villanous mayoral candidate on the eve of a fateful election.

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  • conversation
  • investigation
  • 1990s
  • point-and-click
  • political
  • choices
  • surreal
  • detective
  • historical
  • alternate
  • dark
  • comedy
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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