Items8The creator’s order
  1. 1Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) 9.0/10 on IGDBReleased 18 Oct 2018Lucas Pope crafts an unmatched masterclass in forensic reconstruction, arming you with an enchanted pocket watch and a sparse crew manifest. Success hinges entirely on cross-referencing visual cues, spoken accents, and spatial chronologies across sixty distinct fates. The game never spoon-feeds…0
  2. 2The Case of the Golden Idol (2022)The Case of the Golden Idol (2022) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased 13 Oct 2022Colour pixel art vignettes conceal intricate machinations of greed and murder across an eighteenth-century alternate history. Rather than prompting you with obvious answers, the game provides a fill-in-the-blanks scroll where you must assemble names, motives, and murder weapons from raw contextual…0
  3. 3Shadows of Doubt (2024)Shadows of Doubt (2024) 6.4/10 on IGDBReleased 26 Sept 2024This procedurally generated immersive sim drops you into a gloomy voxel metropolis where every citizen has a daily routine, home address, and fingerprint record. Investigating a homicide requires pinning surveillance notes, telephone records, and shoe prints onto your corkboard to connect the dots…0
  4. 4Her Story (2015)Her Story (2015) 7.8/10 on IGDBReleased 24 Jun 2015Sam Barlow revolutionised narrative investigation by sitting players in front of an antiquated CRT police terminal loaded with fragmented interview tapes. Unravelling the central disappearance requires searching specific keywords uttered by the interviewee and interpreting delicate…0
  5. 5Paradise Killer (2020)Paradise Killer (2020) 8.7/10 on IGDBReleased 4 Sept 2020Set across a bizarre vaporwave island governed by immortal demigods, this open-world mystery hands you absolute autonomy as investigator Lady Love Dies. You roam the bizarre topography collecting physical evidence and cross-examining suspects until you decide you have built a compelling indictment.…0
  6. 6Pentiment (2022)Pentiment (2022) 8.7/10 on IGDBReleased 15 Nov 2022Obsidian Entertainment grounds sixteenth-century Bavarian murder inquiries in illuminated manuscripts and strict historical realism. With time relentlessly ticking away before each tribunal, you must choose which leads to pursue and which townsfolk to interrogate over shared meals. The game boldly…0
  7. 7Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments (2014)Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments (2014) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased 29 Sept 2014Frogwares captured the quintessential Victorian sleuth by translating Arthur Conan Doyle's investigative methodologies into a tactile mental deduction board. Connecting individual clues forms synaptic pathways that generate contrasting interpretations of motive and evidence. Because the system…0
  8. 8Chants of Sennaar (2023)Chants of Sennaar (2023) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased 5 Sept 2023Reframing the investigative discipline around philological codebreaking, this evocative journey asks you to decipher distinct glyph-based dialects within a mythical tower. Deduction proceeds by observing social rituals, reading environmental signage, and verifying hypothesised meanings inside your…0