Best Detective Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated detective games.

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Alone in the Dark Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.

Price -99% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Mar 2024
Logiart Grimoire Logiart Grimoire is a puzzle game that combines the number puzzle "Logiart" and the word puzzle "Fusion" in which you deduce combinations from clues.

Price -49% 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Mar 2024
The Thaumaturge The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.

Price -94% 2.11€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Mar 2024
Turlock Holmes A detective narrative puzzler without pre-set options! Raise your questions at will, and an AI-host will answer only with 'yes' or 'no.' Drive the investigation with your curiosity; the path to solving the mystery lies in questions you ask. Can you dig out the truth through your questions?

Price -53% 4.58€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Feb 2024
The Inquisitor Jesus did not die on the cross, but came down and unleashed vengeance on all the nonbelievers. 1500 years later, an army of Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith. In this dark fantasy adventure you solve intricate cases and unveil abysmal secrets as Inquisitor Mordimer Madderdin.

Price -52% 19.29€
Rating 6.8
Release 08 Feb 2024
Persona 3 Reload Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.

Price -76% 14.95€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Feb 2024
Murders on the Yangtze River "Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Price -80% 3.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jan 2024
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Price -61% 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Jan 2024
Remnant Records Remnant Records is a horror investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Explore places haunted by the dead, survive elaborate and unique ghosts and find out what happened to them through thousands of generated stories.

Price -98% 0.39€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Jan 2024
No Case Should Remain Unsolved Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Jan 2024
TEST TEST TEST Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Jan 2024
Supernormal Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.

Price 7.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Jan 2024
KRAMPEN Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Price 3.15€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Dec 2023
MetaPhysical Supernatural phenomena are on the rise. In MetaPhysical you and up to 5 other friends can go on the hunt for eerie creatures to put an end to their sinister activities! Whether it's an ordinary ghost or a demon, your task is to identify the rumbling creature and then finish it off.

Price -17% 12.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Dec 2023
Nut City Blues A comedy-mystery visual novel about Captain Fox, Detective Raccoon and the danger of pineapple pizza.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Nov 2023
Life Makeover Explore Life Makeover: Unleash your style, dye outfits, and design freely. Dive into unlimited dress-up, build your dream home - all for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Nov 2023
This Bed We Made This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Nov 2023
Scene Investigators A hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the “true crime” genre. Only by unraveling the logic and grasping at the motivations behind each case can the crimes be completely solved. Perfect as a social-style mystery fiction.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 Oct 2023
Black Lily's Tale Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl... But her pure feelings are torn apart by a "loop of tragedy."By [interrupting choices] and [typing in words], you will weave her feelings into the story.

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 Oct 2023
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express Step on board the legendary Orient Express and immerse yourself in the most famous detective suit in a race against the clock to unmask the murderer.

Price -92% 3.34€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Oct 2023
Kona II: Brume Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.

Price -90% 3.12€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Oct 2023
The Mildew Children: Chapter 1 Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2023
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. I made this first-person single player ghost hunting simulation game, trying to take an authentic approach at investigating ghosts. Use essential paranormal tools to help your community alleviate their concerns and put their minds at ease.

Price -91% 0.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Sep 2023
Escape From Mystwood Mansion In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion's final secret?

Price -97% 0.58€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Sep 2023
Demonologist Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Sep 2023
Chants of Sennaar In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 9.6
Release 05 Sep 2023
Clue/Cluedo Experience a fresh take on the classic crime-solving board game. Step into new mysteries and use your skills of deduction to find out whodunit, with what weapon and where.

Price -83% 2.59€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Aug 2023
Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate Join Dangeresque, (Strong Bad from Homestar Runner) the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point n' click adventure.

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 11 Aug 2023
Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories 'Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories' is a humorous co-operative escape room game where you are a henchman who has to make his way through variety of puzzles to make it to a job interview on time. Can you solve all of the puzzles that stand in the way of your employment?

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Aug 2023
Mandemon Decaying Japanese school buildings, a series of bizarre incidents, eerie Mandemon legends. Lies and truths intertwine, love and hate entwined in the mist. What should one do? Whom should one believe? Welcome to this cruel world filled with deception and harm —

Price 3.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Aug 2023
The Shell Part I: Inferno Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

Price -75% 5.00€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Jul 2023
Inworld Origins Origins is a playable short created by the team at Inworld AI to showcase NPCs powered by artificial intelligence. After an explosion in Metropolis, you’ve arrived on the scene as the lead detective. Question witnesses, uncover the mystery, and solve the case. From the creator of The Matrix Awakens.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Jul 2023
Crime O'Clock Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!

Price -93% 1.39€
Rating 6.7
Release 21 Jul 2023
Nodes Escape The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Jul 2023
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.

Price -91% 2.95€
Rating 9.4
Release 29 Jun 2023
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane In Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, you play as a defense attorney who practices law in a world of fantasy and wizards. You must defend clients accused of various crimes committed using magic and use the rules of magic to prove them innocent.

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 23 Jun 2023

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