Best Investigation 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 investigation games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Investigation games on Steam.

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Escape Simulator First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Price -48% 9.00€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Oct 2021
The Alien Cube Worlds collide as your cursed inheritance throws you into the middle of a series of mysterious events. Discover terrifying secrets as you follow your uncle’s disappearance, and confront a terrible truth that will change your life forever in this cosmic horror first-person adventure.

Price -31% 13.90€
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 -98% 0.39€
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% 0.58€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Sep 2021
Accident Become a journalist who researches old car accident cases. Help victims and perform first aid, obtain evidence and reconstruct the events to discover what really happened.

Price -93% 0.91€
Rating 7.4
Release 21 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
Gamedec - Definitive Edition Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

Price -92% 2.51€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 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 -69% 2.99€
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 -93% 0.80€
Rating 8.8
Release 31 Aug 2021
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.

Price -59% 9.65€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Aug 2021
Far Away Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.

Price -55% 5.75€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 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 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Jul 2021
The Forgotten City The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Price -99% 0.45€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Jul 2021
Night Book Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

Price -83% 2.51€
Rating 6.7
Release 27 Jul 2021
Ghost Exorcism INC. Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 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
Tails Noir Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

Price -98% 0.62€
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jun 2021
Operation: Tango It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!

Price -81% 3.23€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 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
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Price -97% 0.63€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 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
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Apr 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