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Best Detective Games on Steam

Filter the Steam catalog for top-rated Detective games. Every title listed here is aggregated based on positive community reviews and active player feedback. Compare current discounts below to get the best deal on your next game.

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The Wolf Among Us Remastered A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Price -20% 20.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Oct 2026
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Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 26 Oct 2026
SEVERANCE Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
Price 10.25€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Oct 2026
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction A solo deduction roguelite with over 175 roles, set in a noir city run by a criminal syndicate. Investigate everyone, make arrests and protect your reputation. Take down the syndicate and don’t get duped like the rest. Everyone is a suspect, trust no one. No friends required.
Price -37% 8.29€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Oct 2026
Superhero Simulator Superhero Simulator is an open-world superhero game where you fight villains and save lives! But being a hero isn’t free! You’ll need to work, pay rent, and survive. Can you handle both sides of the superhero life?
Price -78% 0.97€
Rating 6.9
Release 07 Oct 2026
lily's world XD Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu
Price 12.25€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Sep 2026
Police Chief Simulator Welcome to Winston Springs, Officer! The local police station is in urgent need of a Chief of Police, and you’ve been chosen for the job! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!
Price -30% 13.78€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Sep 2026
Rehaunted Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
Price -20% 6.52€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Sep 2026
HoloTrials: Case Covered A graffiti mocking the Student Council President appears on the walls, and your best friend is the prime suspect! Play as a student detective in HoloTrials: Case Covered. Investigate the high school campus, face off against your rivals, and clear her name in this legal mystery.
Hidden gem
Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Sep 2026
Shelve the Potions! Shelve the Potions! Organize 2000+ potions on shelves after the witch's cats have knocked them over, using clues around an enchanted cellar. Learn strange symbols, decipher cryptic notes, and uncover the correct shelf orders in a cozy organizational simple puzzle game.
Price 6.15€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Aug 2026
Money for Girls: Amortized A girl detective faces her darkest mystery yet, in this horror-romance visual novel with stickers, fashion, and bad ends.
Price 14.78€
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Aug 2026
Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets. Break them with words or evidence — or realize too late that you were only a pawn in their game. A detective game built around truly lifelike NPCs.
Price -43% 11.76€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Aug 2026
The Sinking City 2 Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
Price -4% 48.14€
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Aug 2026
Security 51 You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.
Price -58% 4.23€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Aug 2026
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Price 7.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 05 Aug 2026
PatriotMemoirs Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86. All wear masks: pretend, kill, survive. When sacrificing a friend is the only way, when betrayed, when only isolated cities remain - fight to the end, live a coward, or take an unimagined path?
Price -61% 5.32€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Aug 2026
Kill The Shadow Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation. Play as Lucas, a former police officer, alongside a mysterious Shadow who can see the “past.” Remember—every choice you make will change the fate of countless characters!
Price -61% 6.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Aug 2026
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Price -30% 12.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Aug 2026
Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Price -13% 21.74€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Jul 2026
Shift At Midnight An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.
Price -21% 7.90€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Jul 2026
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.
Price 10.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Jul 2026
Desktop Explorer Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Price 16.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Jul 2026
The Mermaid Mask An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.
Price -20% 16.39€
Rating 9.5
Release 16 Jul 2026
The Incident at Galley House In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.
Price -10% 18.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 Jul 2026
Forensics: Crime Scene Detective Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.
Price -28% 18.19€
Rating 6.1
Release 13 Jul 2026
Feed The Pit JOIN THE SOCIETY in this story-driven, investigative horror game. Hunt down wealthy humans in a deadly forest in order to Feed The Pit. Act 1 is available at launch. Acts 2 & 3 will release as free updates in the coming months!
Hidden gem
Price -51% 5.06€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jun 2026
REWIND 《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Jun 2026
Dimhaven - The Lost Source Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
Price -35% 17.09€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Jun 2026
Rina's Undercover Train Operation A rogue-lite simulation animated game where you play as Rina, a special investigator with psychic powers that aims to cut down crime rate on trains. Upgrade your skills, combine them, and take down your enemies before they get you! Oh, and have fun changing Rina's outfits too!
Price -20% 11.59€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Jun 2026
Crushed In Time Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!
Price -20% 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 10 Jun 2026
Sister Ray 2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.
Price -64% 4.31€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2026
Burden Street Station A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Hidden gem
Price 10.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 May 2026
CaseCracker 3 Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Price 13.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2026
Wax Heads Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Hidden gem
Price -44% 8.52€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 May 2026
Demons' Timeline Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.
Price 10.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Apr 2026
Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter Kill each other...for science! The class of '89 is trapped in an elite school killing game. Investigate, solve, and expose your classmates in Kumitantei™: Old-School Slaughter, an episodic murder-mystery ADV card-battler inspired by retro anime.
Price -57% 6.05€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Apr 2026

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