Hidden Detective Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated detective games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Detective games on Steam.

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Overboard! GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Price -88% 1.51€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jun 2021
The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 31 May 2021
Fallen girl - Black rose and the fire of desire The lady of the noble was taken to prison by the countess "I don't want to be reduced to a plaything without consciousness." ——In the face of the bad taste of the countess, how to use their body and wisdom, in order to avoid suffering? "Before I lose my mind, I want to find that life."

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 28 May 2021
幽灵高校(Ghost College) An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 May 2021
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.

Price -58% 2.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2021
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Feb 2021
NUTS NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.

Price -85% 3.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 04 Feb 2021
Stowaway An 10 player online social deduction game inspired by games like Among Us & Town of Salem, where the stowaway is tasked with killing the crew before they reach land!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Nov 2020
The Case Book of Arne A vampire and a girl... who are they? The two of them have a secret and solve a strange case... In a world where paranormal activity takes place, "Player" solves a case in which a non-human becomes a suspect. Such a "detective adventure" is coming to STEAM.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Oct 2020
Lucifer Within Us Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Price -90% 2.14€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Oct 2020
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Price -72% 2.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Oct 2020
Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.

Price -80% 1.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
Metamorphosis Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Aug 2020
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Jul 2020
A Hand With Many Fingers Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Jun 2020
Methods: The Detective Competition One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Jun 2020
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

Price -79% 2.27€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 May 2020
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 May 2020
Interrogation: You will be deceived As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Dec 2019
Banter Schooldays!!三〇一室无一人 Banter Schooldays!! is a visual novel legal drama adventure game developed by the independent  team Lingtan Studio.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Nov 2019
Discolored Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.

Price -93% 0.46€
Rating 7.5
Release 11 Nov 2019
Dry Drowning Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Price -93% 1.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Aug 2019
Night Call Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Jul 2019
Legal Dungeon Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 May 2019