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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 Children of Clay The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Community pick
Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Mar 2025
Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters. What dark secrets wait to be found? The clock is ticking and you, as Alex Hill, must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Price -53% 9.32€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Mar 2025
The Other Side The Other Side is a co-op psychological thriller for up to 6 players. Your goal is to investigate haunted locations using modern ghost hunting equipment, gather evidence, identify entities, and cleanse them from the location. Customize your character, headquarters, and more.
Price 13.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Mar 2025
Urban Myth Dissolution Center Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Price -30% 12.24€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2025
of the Devil Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Feb 2025
The Shell Part III: Paradiso The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
Hidden gem
Price -47% 10.47€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jan 2025
Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Price -40% 8.27€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Jan 2025
The Roottrees are Dead A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Price -15% 16.57€
Rating 9.3
Release 15 Jan 2025
Game of Fate 2: A Century's Promise Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.
Price -63% 5.70€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Jan 2025
Threefold Recital Threefold Recital is set in an oriental fantasy world where the metropolis of Bluescales faces turmoil after a long golden age. The mix of magic, modern, and ancient technologies challenges governance, while tensions between humans, beastlings, and dragons grow. In the shadows, a crisis looms...
Community pick
Price -61% 5.89€
Rating 9.4
Release 13 Jan 2025
Lightracer: For Judge In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Price -20% 7.80€
Rating 8.5
Release 07 Jan 2025
Go Home Annie: An SCP Game A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.
Price 19.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2024
LumineNight LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.
Price 24.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Nov 2024
Enigma of Fear Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
Price -84% 4.10€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Nov 2024
Follow the meaning Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Price -33% 3.34€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Nov 2024
Loco Motive There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
Price -40% 10.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Nov 2024
Mercury Abbey In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its visitors.Follow Harrod and Willie to unravel an incredible story in Mercury Abbey, and go on an adventure that you would only find in mystery novels.
Price -66% 5.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Nov 2024
Great God Grove THE WORLD IS ENDING AND THE GODS ARE SQUABBLING! Suck up and launch dialogue in a world of puzzles, puppets, and weird gods… or THE RIFT WILL CONSUME US ALL!
Price 19.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 15 Nov 2024
Mindcop Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.
Price -92% 1.25€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Nov 2024
Trainee Death Simulator You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.
Price 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Nov 2024
The Rise of the Golden Idol The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
Price -47% 10.37€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Nov 2024
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Price -50% 10.35€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Nov 2024
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Price -50% 5.18€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Oct 2024
DAEMON MASQUERADE An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.
Hidden gem
Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Oct 2024
Sniper Killer Eliminate your victims as a serial killer dubbed ‘The Sniper Killer’. Terrorize the city with your keen eye and thirst for blood while staying one step ahead of a detective hell bent on bringing you to justice.
Price 11.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2024
Daemonologie A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.
Price -89% 0.35€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Oct 2024
Shadows of Doubt Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
Price -78% 5.64€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 Sep 2024
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Price -86% 4.28€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Sep 2024
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Price -32% 27.38€
Rating 9.3
Release 05 Sep 2024
The Crimson Diamond Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Hidden gem
Price -30% 8.74€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2024
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
Hidden gem
Price 20.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 Aug 2024
Violent Horror Stories: anthology 4 short horror games from different authors and in different genres. Each game is an author's vision on the theme of 'pursuit'.
Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Aug 2024
Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Price -63% 7.54€
Rating 8.0
Release 01 Aug 2024
Malware Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?
Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Jul 2024
It was a human. A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.
Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Jul 2024
The Operator Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Price -46% 7.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Jul 2024

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