The Best Mystery Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : Loco Motive added at rank #44.
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Nuclear Blaze (2021)

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Nuclear Blaze is a unique 2D firefighting game from the creator of Dead Cells, with all the devastating backdrafts, exploding walls and sprinklers you could expect. Fight your way through a mysterious facility and try to keep the blaze under control.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • mystery
  • scroller
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • rogue-like
  • action
  • investigation
  • full-blown

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Twelve Minutes (2021)

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Twelve Minutes is a highly-anticipated, unique narrative adventure game. You play as the male protagonist who lives with his wife and control the cursor with the analogue stick to interact with the environment or other characters. Every bit of dialogue is voiced by stars like Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe and you have a limited window of time to figure out how to get out of the time loop.

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What we like:
  • Unique narrative adventure game
  • Fantastic voice acting
  • Graphically beautiful
  • Enjoyable point-and-click gameplay
  • Opportunity to complete multiple play-throughs for achievements
What could be improved:
  • Some graphical fuzziness when zooming in on objects
  • Tough final act that may leave players feeling angry

  • point-and-click
  • top-down
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • romantic
  • inventory
  • time
  • interactive
  • drama

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Embracelet (2020)

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Embracelet is an adventure game set in Northern Norway - a unique coming of age story about love, loss, friendship and family - and a magical bracelet with mysterious powers!

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  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • narrative
  • joystick
  • tap
  • story
  • economy
  • difficult
  • timing
  • relaxing
  • slow-paced
  • exploration
  • music
  • romantic

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The Case of the Golden Idol - Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka (2023)

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A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.


  • conspiracy
  • investigation
  • crime
  • mystery
  • detective
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • choices
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • narrative
  • story
  • pixel
  • point-and-click
  • historical

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Terminal 81 (2023)

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Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.


  • horror
  • job
  • psychological
  • retro
  • mystery
  • noir
  • crime
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • open-world
  • capitalism
  • choices
  • immersive
  • emotional

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Death Come True (2020)

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"A new wave interactive movie game" where your actions, and the ending of the story, are determined by your choices. A completely new science fiction mystery, in full-length live-action movie format, from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka.

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  • choices
  • fmv
  • mystery
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • cinematic
  • psychedelic
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • sci-fi
  • survival-horror
  • multiple-endings
  • beautiful
  • wave
  • horror

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Lord Winklebottom Investigates (2022)

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It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.


  • detective
  • mystery
  • crime
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • narrative
  • comedy
  • dark
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • classic

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The Hand of Glory (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The challenge of a dangerous serial killer plummets detective Lazarus Bundy’s career into a chasm with no way out. In a desperate attempt at a comeback, Lazarus decides to secretly investigate the disappearance of Kathrin Mulzberg.


  • thriller
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • first-time
  • comedy
  • story
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • funny
  • single-player
  • dark
  • in-depth
  • hand-drawn

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Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game (2021)

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As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you. • Hitchhike across a strange and beautiful landscape in five rides with five total strangers who will challenge your grasp on reality... And maybe your philosophy on life. • Solve environmental puzzles, and keep an eye out for clues, in order to uncover your mysterious past.

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  • well-written
  • mystery
  • philosophical
  • narration
  • short
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • emotional
  • mature
  • story
  • conversation
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • drama
  • surreal

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Before I Forget (2020)

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Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived.A narrative exploration that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled. A game about dementia and what happens when you can't hold onto the things you've done or the people you've loved.

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  • walking-simulator
  • short
  • exploration
  • emotional
  • beautiful
  • mystery
  • narrative
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • thought-provoking
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • piano
  • colour
  • dream

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