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Lamplight City (2018)

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Lamplight City
Game
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
A witness who dislikes your approach may stop helping, so deciding how to ask is part of the investigation. There is no inventory to manage: clues sit in a casebook and your conduct can close leads. The English cast is voiced. Keep earlier saves if you want to reconsider an accusation; you can also declare a case unsolved and let the story carry that failure forward.
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Contradiction: Spot the Liar! (2015)

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Contradiction: Spot the Liar!
Game
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
Watch the live-action interview, then put two incompatible statements together and ask the speaker to account for them. That little piece of scene analysis is the main puzzle. You can revisit testimony and try another pairing when a deduction misses. The actors perform the conversations in English, though remembering details still matters; it is a good one to discuss aloud with someone watching.
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Chicken Police (2020)

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Chicken Police
Game
8.8/10on IGDB
Released
The original Paint it RED! turns an interview into a performance with an objective: read a suspect's personality and choose questions that increase your detective's focus. Its fully voiced noir cast makes listening enjoyable in its own right. Interrogations can be repeated to improve a result, while clues and connecting evidence still need attention. The animal faces accompany an adult, often bleak story.
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Silicon Dreams (2021)

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Silicon Dreams
Game
Released
An emotional monitor makes each question a deliberate intervention: can you build trust, provoke a revealing response or protect an android by reporting something different? This is the 2021 interrogation game, with substantial reading and no spoken conversations. Your reports and relationships affect lives and endings. The rewind feature unlocks after a finished playthrough, including death, so the first run carries real uncertainty.
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Tangle Tower (2019)

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Tangle Tower
Game
7.6/10on IGDB
Released
Ask the mansion's peculiar inhabitants about one another and put physical clues back to them. The fully voiced exchanges give you personalities to read as well as information to record. Forming a deduction becomes a small sentence-building puzzle, with room to try again when an answer misses. There are separate object puzzles too, making this a welcoming bridge from ordinary point-and-click exploration into conversational investigation.
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Whispers of a Machine (2019)

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Whispers of a Machine
Game
8.2/10on IGDB
Released
Choose an empathetic, analytical or assertive response and watch that approach shape Vera's developing augmentations and later puzzle solutions. It gives the detective's manner a mechanical consequence beyond the immediate line. Full English voice acting supports the substantial dialogue. Use separate saves to experiment with a different approach; the route you develop across conversations matters more than finding one universally correct personality.
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The Red Strings Club (2018)

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The Red Strings Club
Game
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Mixing a drink changes the emotional opening for a conversation; later, choosing whose voice to impersonate changes what a telephone call can reveal. Both make social context into an actual puzzle. Most dialogue is read, and the pottery and bartending sections ask for mouse control between exchanges. Its choices invite commitment and replay, with uncomfortable consequences for the people you try to influence.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut (2021)

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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Game
7.3/10on IGDB
Released
A notebook topic becomes useful when you take it to the person who can explain it. Kathy's interviews and phone calls build a trail through a family's history, with full English voice acting helping the personalities land. The 2021 Director's Cut expands the original mystery and uses a single-click interface. Expect a largely directed investigation with inventory and evidence puzzles alongside revisiting people for new questions.
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Astrologaster (2019)

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Astrologaster
Game
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Listen to a client's problem, then choose an interpretation of the stars that becomes your advice. Returning clients reveal how that advice has played out, often entangling another person's affairs. Voiced dialogue and sung introductions give the consultation comedy a theatrical rhythm. It autosaves, so take the consequences seriously; exploring a different course can mean starting a fresh run. The astrology is a comic decision system.
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The Shapeshifting Detective (2018)

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The Shapeshifting Detective
Game
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
The same question can produce a different disclosure when you ask it wearing someone else's face. Choosing an identity and deciding what to say make its live-action interviews more than a succession of clips. Actors perform the dialogue in English. Choices and a murderer selected at the start encourage another run; treat the first investigation as a performance with consequences rather than assuming every line can be undone.
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Aviary Attorney (2015)

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Aviary Attorney
Game
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
A courtroom turns listening into a precise task: identify which statement the evidence can actually challenge. Before the trial, interviews and a limited investigation schedule shape what you have available to argue with. This is a reading-heavy adventure without spoken dialogue. Lost cases can change the story, so a failed argument belongs to a possible route; replay is useful if you want to explore another outcome.
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Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived (2019)

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Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived
Game
6.6/10on IGDB
Released
Work out whether empathy, pressure or deception will get this particular suspect to talk while the interview clock is running. The conversational puzzles sit alongside managing a police team, budget and public reputation. Expect dense reading, difficult subject matter and no spoken dialogue. Failed approaches can demand another attempt, and different outcomes invite replay. Choose it when you want pressure and moral discomfort in the questioning.
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Inspector Waffles (2021)

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Inspector Waffles
Game
Released
Collecting a statement matters when you can bring a contradictory clue back to its owner. The notebook keeps questions available while a compact, comic detective story moves between its animal suspects. Conversations are text-led, so allow for reading rather than a voiced cast. It follows an authored mystery with answers to work out and questions to revisit; a few conventional inventory puzzles accompany the interviewing.
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A Golden Wake (2014)

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A Golden Wake
Game
6.7/10on IGDB
Released
A property salesman has to understand another person's temperament before choosing a pitch. Its persuasion sequences make reading an audience a practical skill in a fully voiced, period-set point-and-click adventure. Failed persuasion can leave another way forward. Some answers need trial and error, so allow patience for finding the intended pitch. Ordinary item puzzles and minigames sit between the social manoeuvring in its directed historical story.
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Overboard! (2021)

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Overboard!
Game
6.8/10on IGDB
Released
You have already committed the murder; now choose conversations that support an alibi, redirect suspicion or exploit what another passenger wants. Characters keep moving and remembering while your actions spend the ship's remaining time. Most exchanges are read. A run lasts roughly 30 to 45 minutes, making restarting with a better social plan part of the design. It is a choice-driven point-and-click story for anyone willing to play the liar.
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