The Best Simulation detective Games

Update : Contraband Police added at rank #5.
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Hypnospace Outlaw (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Hypnospace Outlaw is a unique game that takes you to the world of the early internet circa 1999. As an assigned moderator of the Hypnospace community, you have to investigate unapproved commerce, strike down images and links with copyright infringement and page through personal blogs and projects. You will explore a web browser as well as a customizable desktop with programs and documents, while having to scan for references and redirects.


What we like:
  • Unique game setting in the early internet
  • Investigative detective work
  • Engaging storyline
  • Eye-searing kitsch comedy
  • Built with consistent world elements
What could be improved:
  • Limited color palette
  • Grainy pixelated artwork

  • detective
  • alternate
  • conspiracy
  • simulation
  • parody
  • funny
  • online
  • puzzle
  • 1990s

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SIMULACRA (2017)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Android Mac OS IOS iPhone

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.


  • horror
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • fmv
  • choices
  • detective
  • immersive
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • narrative
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • mystery
  • malaysian
  • puzzle

3

The Test (2020)

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PC Windows

Take a journey with Markiplier as he attempts to answer a series of questions in order to unlock hidden truths about himself. Will you be able to answer the questions honestly and accurately, revealing truths that you may not have known before?

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What we like:
  • Thought-provoking questions
  • Introspective exploration
  • Interesting music
What could be improved:
  • Scary scenarios
  • Difficulty understanding puzzles
  • Potential consequences for dishonest answers

  • choices
  • psychological
  • horror
  • japanese
  • multiple-endings
  • investigation
  • rpg
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • visual-novel
  • detective
  • pixel
  • survival-horror
  • jrpg
  • story

4

Scrutinized (2020)

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PC Windows

Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.

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  • hacking
  • detective
  • horror
  • simulation
  • dark
  • perma-death
  • survival
  • 3d

5

Contraband Police (2023)

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PC Windows

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.


  • simulation
  • auto
  • open-world
  • first-person
  • police
  • 1980s
  • multiple-endings
  • destruction
  • immersive
  • management
  • physics
  • detective
  • realistic
  • action-adventure
  • fps

6

SIMULACRA 2 (2019)

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A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.


  • horror
  • fmv
  • detective
  • immersive
  • hacking
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • simulation
  • mystery
  • text
  • choices
  • narrative
  • supernatural
  • artificial
  • intelligence

7

Contraband Police: Prologue (2021)

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PC Windows

You are a border police inspector in a communist country of the early 1980s. Every second driver is a smuggler and the vehicles are stuffed with hidden contraband. Documents, vehicles, cargo.. everything is a subject to detailed control... This is a 5-day tutorial of the final game.

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  • automobile
  • immersive
  • investigation
  • simulation
  • transportation
  • first-person
  • hidden-object
  • 1980s
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • colourful
  • fps
  • exploration
  • detective
  • economy

8

Keyword: A Spider's Thread (2021)

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PC Windows

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.

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  • immersive
  • hacking
  • thriller
  • logic
  • detective
  • cyberpunk
  • 3d
  • investigation
  • story
  • crime
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • simulation
  • futuristic
  • puzzle

9

the untold story of hengshui school (2018)

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PC Windows

It’s based on Hengshui high school to reveal the real society, Game feature: cult painting style, puzzle elements, serious student death event plus humorous minor role, As it was released on March,2015, and finished in the following four months, now it’s downloaded almost 0.9 million players, the live video of the game has 2.

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  • detective
  • simulation
  • casual
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • cult
  • mystery
  • visual-novel

10

School Years (2019)

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PC Windows

A visual novel adapted from a real story.To tell the most authentic Chinese story in the most simple words

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  • visual-novel
  • japanese
  • foreign
  • horror
  • romance
  • rpg
  • psychological
  • drama
  • detective
  • anime
  • jrpg
  • story
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • fps

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