Items12The 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. 3Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (2024)Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (2024) 8.9/10 on IGDBReleased 16 May 2024Simogo crafts a breathtaking, non-linear puzzle labyrinth set inside a surreal central European hotel shrouded in artistic intrigue. The game gives you no hand-holding or quest markers, requiring you to decipher cryptographic ciphers, architectural diagrams, and dates across vintage documents in…0
  4. 4Shadows 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
  5. 5The Painscreek Killings (2017)The Painscreek Killings (2017) 7.2/10 on IGDBReleased 27 Sept 2017Dropping you into an eerie, abandoned town with nothing more than a camera, this uncompromising investigative mystery completely abandons objective markers and guidance prompts. Piecing together who murdered Vivian Roberts demands rifling through forgotten diaries, cross-referencing keys with…0
  6. 6Her 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
  7. 7Paradise 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
  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
  9. 9Hypnospace Outlaw (2019)Hypnospace Outlaw (2019) 8.8/10 on IGDBReleased 12 Mar 2019Assuming the role of an online enforcer in a delightfully tactile recreation of the late-nineties internet, you must police quirky digital communities for harassment, copyright infringement, and malicious viruses. Uncovering infractions requires searching obscure pseudonyms, inspecting hidden web…0
  10. 10Unheard (2019)Unheard (2019) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased 29 Mar 2019This clever acoustic investigation strips away visual crime scenes, presenting only spatial floorplans and overlapping multi-room audio recordings of the past. Sleuthing requires pacing through the rooms with headphones, tagging voices, and cross-referencing character movements to unravel complex…0