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Detective

Use skills of observation and intelligence to figure out clues to a bigger picture or mystery.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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for Windows tagged Detective and Text based (53 results)

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Lunaria City Stories
MG Studio
The Next Train Arrives In 2 Minutes
A game about a boy trapped in a time-loop.
MAGES Institute
Puzzle
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Friendly Facade
$5
Join a scientific study, compete in games, and avoid the manipulation of others before things take a turn for the worse.
FriendlyFacade
Visual Novel
Lost Light
Lost Light is a mystery, puzzle, detective game.
Pykatone
Visual Novel
From Champagne To Murder
an experimental detective game, using a new form of dialog system
Vin Botthin
Puzzle
Play in browser
Death in the Theatre
Draconic Chipmunk
Play in browser
Hysteria in Howlsbend
Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with ChatGPT Language Model.
Cetacean
Visual Novel
The Moonlight Bar
Be a bartender AND detective!
Somber
Visual Novel
Interment
A short narrative puzzle game about the connection between the stories of our ancestors and the stories we make today
Interment
Puzzle
Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Visual Novel
According to Cain
An inquiry
Jim Nelson
Interactive Fiction
GIF
The Shelter Case
Find the killer through the process of elimination
Zivfon
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Mysterious Death of Anna Gomide
Text puzzle game in which you play the detective going through a computer to solve a murder
luanmm
Puzzle
Sussy Love
Take a trip down to Skeld High! You are a transfer student here, make the most of your time! Good luck!
Julian Garcia
Visual Novel
Epitome Of Mysteries
Gosick Text-based Visual Novel Fangame.
Hayaka Sae
Visual Novel
Ardilous
Uncover international spies in this investigative text puzzle game inspired by the classic Carmen San Diego.
Alexander Sheep
Puzzle
Trial and Error
Text based true crime
Dinara Abdullina
The Miserable Clown
Interrogate suspects and look for clues in an attempt to find out who stole “The Miserable Clown”.
Tymmo
Interactive Fiction
The Name of the Ruse
Forbidden books in an abandoned abbey
stancarter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Menacing Maze of Madalune Husher
Can Lady Eldelaide solve a madwoman's perilous puzzles?
stancarter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Aventuriere Interimaire le Jeu
$4.99
Aventuriers Intérimaires
Interactive Fiction
L. C. Noire
Investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects & catch the culprit
Button Cupcake
Puzzle
Play in browser
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Interactive Fiction
Detective Holiday in the New Years Nightmare
Solve a randomly generated murder mystery!
Sleth
Strategy
Play in browser
High Moon
This is a Mystery Text Adventure set right in the middle of a small town in the West.
gadse
Interactive Fiction
One Last Page
Simon Thomson
Adventure
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
StormAstray
stormastray
Visual Novel
A Smoking Gun: A Charles Valentine Detective Story
1920s Detective Mystery
JFog
Visual Novel
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Interactive Fiction
A Sole Joking Time | Demo
Where Circus Freaks wake up to devour their prey...
Loïc da Silva
Visual Novel
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Adventure
P.I. - The Chartide Cases
A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
decaf
Interactive Fiction
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