The Best Investigation Games for Playstation 4 - Page 4

Update : The Darkest Files added at rank #5.
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Shanghai Summer (2024)

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Playstation 4 j Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?


  • travel
  • dating-sim
  • word
  • investigation
  • multiple-endings
  • time
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • text
  • fiction
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • anime
  • narration
  • drama

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Unsolved Case: Murderous Script (2023)

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

The life of a detective is unpredictable and very dangerous. You never know what awaits you around the next corner and what secrets you need to unravel. But you knew what you were getting into, there's no turning back!


  • dynamic
  • investigation
  • detective
  • thriller
  • crime
  • episodic
  • hidden-object
  • drama
  • choices
  • narration
  • visual-novel
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • dark
  • multiple-endings

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Unsolved Case: The Scarlet Hyacinth (2023)

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Playstation 4 j Playstation 5 PC Windows

It's time to make your choice! A whole series of crimes happens right before your eyes: a murder in an alley, your boss getting shot, abductions in broad daylight, and so on… Can you deal with it all?


  • dynamic
  • detective
  • investigation
  • choices
  • thriller
  • crime
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • hidden-object
  • episodic
  • mystery
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • drama
  • dark

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Curious Cases (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One HTC Vive Oculus Rift

3 ChaptersThe game consists of 3 chapters, each chapter unlocks at the end of the previous one. Once a chapter is unlocked, players can jump to it, to continue where they left off.StoryA scientist has gone missing, after claiming they made a groundbreaking discovery! Vanished from a locked office with only one exit this extraordinary case immediately grabs Detective Moore’s attention. A modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work. Some cases are more difficult than others, but he always comes through, but this time is different... Something seems off about this case, it is almost as if greater forces are in play...


  • investigation
  • horror
  • noir
  • pvp
  • linear
  • discovery
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • vr
  • psychological
  • narration
  • detective
  • competitive
  • 3d
  • exploration

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EDENGATE: The Edge of Life (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

Mia Lorenson, wakes up in an abandoned hospital full of questions. What happened to her? What happened to the world? Edengate: The Edge of Life is an interactive experience reflecting on feelings of uncertainty, isolation and hope in the face of devastation.


  • linear
  • walking-simulator
  • emotional
  • third-person
  • dark
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • investigation
  • drama
  • lore
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • casual

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The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (2024)

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j Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows osvr

Investigate the murder of Sherlock Holmes in an incredible Virtual Reality adventure. Interact with everything in an authentic voxel reconstruction of 221B Baker Street. Search for clues, play the violin, read books and become a oneiric detective in this dreamlike escape room.


  • voxel
  • investigation
  • detective
  • collectathon
  • logic
  • vr
  • hidden-object
  • family-friendly
  • mystery
  • historical
  • alternate
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • first-person
  • cute

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Your Computer Might Be At Risk (2022)

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Playstation 4 l Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Linux PC Windows

Your Computer Might Be At Risk is a first-person narrative puzzle game. Locked up in a room after a mysterious car accident, you must figure out how to escape. Narrated in parallel, twenty years later your son unravels the story of your mysterious vanishing.


  • first-person
  • fmv
  • cinematic
  • narration
  • investigation
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • psychological
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • story
  • fps
  • horror
  • abstract

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Titan Chaser (2021)

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early access j Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Titan Chaser is a surreal driving and walking experience. Your job is to scout giant creatures and use the light to drive them off without fighting or killing.


  • dynamic
  • simulation
  • auto
  • walking-simulator
  • lore
  • music
  • immersive
  • surreal
  • investigation
  • driving
  • narration
  • experimental
  • atmospheric
  • meditative
  • open-world

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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue (2023)

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

Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.


  • choices
  • investigation
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • time-management
  • detective
  • dark
  • anime
  • drama
  • 2.5d
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • horror

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DETECTIVE - The Motel (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows

DETECTIVE The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.


  • detective
  • crime
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • noir
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • story
  • controller-support
  • 3d
  • violent
  • realistic

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