The Best Investigation Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Mysterious Mystery, EP 1: The Duo Dilemma added at rank #27.
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Phantom Patrol (2024)

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A chilling VR and Flatscreen co-op game where you investigate a haunted house, race against phantoms, and unravel eerie anomalies. Survival is a test of memory and teamwork!

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  • illuminati
  • horror
  • hidden-object
  • investigation
  • vr
  • stylized
  • hunting
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • flat-screen
  • survival-horror
  • exploration
  • casual
  • first-person
  • dark

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The Backrooms - Nightmare Dimension (2023)

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The Backrooms - Nightmare Dimension is a Co-op online horror game with up to 4 players, where you and your friends take on the roles of soldiers who are part of the SCP Foundation with the mission to eliminate the mysterious entities found in the infamous place called "the Backrooms".

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  • horror
  • cooperative
  • investigation
  • psychological
  • survival-horror
  • supernatural
  • dark
  • first-person
  • demons
  • detective
  • thriller
  • shooter
  • mystery
  • online
  • multiplayer

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SYNESTHESIA (2023)

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🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is a multi-route sci-fi mystery visual novel. Follow a group of college students with unique cognitive abilities who soon learn something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them, leading to implications larger than they ever imagined.

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  • travel
  • emotional
  • choices
  • time
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • romance
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • anime
  • sci-fi
  • science
  • story
  • interactive

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Huckleberry Fields Forever (2022)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Huckleberry Fields Forever is a co-op mystery action-platformer. Track thieves in scenic real-world locales, run and jump through procedurally generated levels assembled from hundreds of handcrafted challenges, gather clues, interview witnesses, uncover secrets... but can you solve the case in time?

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  • 2d
  • platform
  • procedural
  • cartoony
  • mystery
  • investigation
  • action-adventure
  • detective
  • open-world
  • family-friendly
  • 4-player
  • controller-support
  • story
  • cooperative

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Amazing Superhero Squad (2021)

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How easy you think it is to solve all the problems of a cursed city and not go insane? Lead a team of superheroes, save Storborg City from looming disasters and beat your dishonourable rivals. Amazing Superhero Squad is a vivid superhero corporation sim.

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  • investigation
  • superhero
  • resource-management
  • time-management
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • satire
  • management
  • text
  • hero
  • idler
  • story
  • corporation
  • point-and-click

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Superfluous Returnz (2023)

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The adventures of Superfluous, a very useless superhero in a peaceful village in the deep French countryside: helped by his assistant Sophie, who tries to somehow temper the enthusiasm of her employer, he will try to apprehend the mysterious apple thief who terrorizes the orchards of Fochougny...

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  • superhero
  • point-and-click
  • investigation
  • choices
  • hand-drawn
  • funny
  • open-world
  • comic
  • 2d
  • story
  • adventure
  • cartoony
  • book
  • puzzle

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We. The Revolution (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Paris, the times of the French Revolution. The Player controls a Judge – an alcoholic and a gambler - of The Revolutionary Tribunal. His objective is to preside over court proceedings, judging people brought in front of him – revolutionaries and their enemies, criminals and ordinary citizens. Along the course of the story, the protagonist will be expanding his influence over XVIIIth-century Paris, but at the same time will be forced to fight for the lives of his family and his own.


  • political
  • choices
  • investigation
  • suvival
  • historical
  • politics
  • dark
  • violent
  • story
  • drama
  • strategy
  • addictive
  • simulation
  • turn-based

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Schrodinger's Catgirl (2022)

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[IS THE GIRL IN THE MANOR ALIVE OR DEAD?] Investigate an abandoned manor, gather evidence, and make choices that affect both the past and future in this mystery point-and-click adventure.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • psychological
  • detective
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • narration
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • story
  • cartoony
  • anime

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HIVESWAP: Act 2 (2020)

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Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.


  • soundtrack
  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • lgbtq
  • investigation
  • hand-drawn
  • comedy
  • acid
  • colourful
  • story
  • serpent
  • futuristic-looking
  • deer
  • 2d
  • sci-fi

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Internet Exploring (2022)

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What if the Internet was your escape room? Solve fun riddles whose answers are hidden online. Real people, places, songs, objects, paintings, movies etc. become clues in the biggest escape room there is…the online world.

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  • investigation
  • casual
  • detective
  • education
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • single-player

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