Investigation Hidden Gems 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 investigation games.

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USAC: Code Breach USAC: Code Breach™ is a unique coop experience set in a cyberpunk universe. As a special police unit, you and your partner are called in to investigate the unexpected shutdown of a high-tech research facility. Between reflection and action, you must survive a situation that is beyond you.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Oct 2022
Sunday Gold Sunday Gold is a point-and-click, turn-based adventure game set in grim, dystopian future. Play as a ragtag trio of criminals to hunt down and expose the dark secrets of an evil mega-corporation and the malevolent billionaire behind it.

Price -80% 4.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 13 Oct 2022
Eville Betray your friends- and lie your way to victory. Inspired by popular multiplayer social-deduction party games such as Werewolves and Among Us, this is a new take on the concept with realtime gameplay and interaction.

Price -94% 0.92€
Rating 6.9
Release 11 Oct 2022
Broken Pieces Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Sep 2022
DREAM LOGIC DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Sep 2022
Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist "Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.

Price 7.40€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Jun 2022
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is an open-world survival horror video game serving as both a sequel and prequel to the original Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut.

Price 39.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Jun 2022
Voodoo Detective Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 May 2022
Eternal Threads Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Price -99% 0.34€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 May 2022
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.

Price -79% 4.25€
Rating 7.7
Release 06 May 2022
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 May 2022
SCP Strategy Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 May 2022
Vampire: The Masquerade - Heartless Lullaby Experience Vampire: The Masquerade in a new way through this isometric cRPG. Change perspectives as you travel through the Heartless Club as a Human and a Vampire. Roll the dice, take your choices, and embrace the night in this narrative prologue.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Apr 2022
The Testing Chamber For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.

Price -40% 2.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Mar 2022
Fayburrow In a world of fairies, a childhood friend suddenly calls Beatrice back to her old hometown. Yet when she arrives, her friend is mysteriously missing.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Feb 2022
Cemetery Mary A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Dec 2021
I'm on Observation Duty 4 A spot the difference -type of puzzle horror game about monitoring live surveillance camera footage and spotting anomalies. Anomalies range from furniture movement to intruders. Fix anomalies by filing reports. You will need sharp eyes and good memory. The goal is to survive the entire night.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Dec 2021
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.

Price -92% 1.72€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Dec 2021
Time Loader Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Price -95% 0.42€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Nov 2021
Dahlia View A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.

Price -97% 0.85€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 Nov 2021
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.

Price -84% 2.43€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 Oct 2021
The Alien Cube A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.

Price -94% 1.20€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2021
Midnight Protocol Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2021
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases Discover an untold crime story from the mysterious youth of the famous detective Hercule Poirot.

Price -98% 0.51€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Sep 2021
First Class Escape: The Train of Thought "First Class Escape: The Train of Thought" is a co-operative atmospheric escape room puzzle game, set in a beautifully realized vintage train. Do you think you have what it takes to solve the puzzles and escape the train?

Price 5.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Sep 2021
Between Time: Escape Room You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?

Price -68% 3.09€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Sep 2021
Rail of Möbius It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 31 Aug 2021
Meridian 157: Chapter 3 You have ventured this far, now there is no turning back. Uncover the island’s dark history by travelling through crumbling caverns and mysterious laboratories, but be warned, some may not be too welcoming of your presence…

Price -67% 1.94€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Jul 2021
Blackhaven Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 26 Jul 2021
GAME.exe You bought a PC that belonged to a suicidal developer, do you dare to run "Game.exe"?

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Jul 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
Untrusted Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking / social deduction game: as an hacker, hack your target - as an undercover agent, disrupt the operation. Follow your objective or kill everyone - the choice is yours.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 May 2021
Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt A horror anthology shooter in the Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by DUSK creator David Szymanski. Featuring 7 new short games, a robust launcher world set in an abandoned arctic base.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Apr 2021
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 The Caregiver | 終焉介護 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game about a caregiver.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Apr 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 -82% 1.13€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2021
GET OUT! A 2D noir, point and click game where you uncover clues and solve puzzles in a world of espionage and international intrigue.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Mar 2021

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