The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
You follow a viral ghost-hearse video and a run of fatal falls, pick through clues, solve puzzle minigames, and reason out what happened over coffee.
90% of 1,608 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Detective games like 久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白
Still thinking about 久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白 and its mysterious and story-driven tone? These detective games could fill that gap nicely.
The Shell Part I: Inferno
March 1956, Tokyo. As private detective Reiji Tokisaka, you take on three linked cases: a girl asking you to find her true self, a run of murders, and two missing students at Oba Girls' Academy. A slow, grim visual novel for armchair detectives who like following clues through character talk and case connections.
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90% of 1,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
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89% of 329 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3FreeThe Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
Watch four murders unfold on film across 1922, 1972, and 2022, then solve them yourself as mystery novelist Haruka Kagami. You gather clues from the footage, build hypotheses, and name the killer to untangle a century of Shijima family deaths around the red camellia and the Fruit of Youth.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
79% of 1,047 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$49.99The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
You follow a viral ghost-hearse video and a run of fatal falls, pick through clues, solve puzzle minigames, and reason out what happened over coffee.
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90% of 1,608 Steam reviews are positive$3.99子归 - Blossom
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village. Then, on the night of the fifteenth day, numerous villagers witnessed a woman in red who bore an uncanny resemblance to a lady who had previously met an unjust demise...
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87% of 557 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
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64% of 131 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
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92% of 254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99她杀 - The Suspected Murder
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
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77% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$8.99AKIBA LOST
Thirteen years ago six girls vanished in Akihabara, and now a game about that cold case is bleeding into reality. As creator Daiki Shinjo, you switch between seven viewpoints, follow new disappearances, and choose who lives to see the ending.
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84% of 317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a Tokyo detective hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes. You work crime scenes by day and break into suspects' dreams by night, and every route changes what you think you know. Funny, dark and full of turns, it is built for armchair detectives who like to be wrong twice before breakfast.
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91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$3.99428: Shibuya Scramble
A kidnapping in Shibuya pulls five strangers into one tangled day: a detective, a journalist, an ex-gang leader, a pharma researcher, and a part-timer in a cat suit. You switch between their parallel stories, and one small choice in one thread can wreck another. A funny, tense live-action mystery worth untangling.
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94% of 3,849 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99The Chrono Jotter
Ran Ibuki is stuck in a derelict forest school where classmates keep getting murdered, and her missing girlfriend Ann is the reason to get out. You interrogate suspects, keep your clues when time rewinds after each death, and try to stop the next killing. A yuri horror visual novel for armchair detectives who like feelings with their case files.
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94% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Cheaper than 久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白
子归 - Blossom
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village.
87% of 557 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a Tokyo detective hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes.
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$3.99
Return to Shironagasu Island
Detective Sen Ikeda and his assistant Neneko Izumozaki are lured to solitary Shironagasu Island by a millionaire's will.
93% of 4,177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
再见断刀
A wuxia murder mystery in a cliffside villa cut off by a single suspension bridge.
92% of 2,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
The Kuon Island Nursery Rhyme Murders: Case Notes
A storm-lashed island, a nursery rhyme that foretells death, seven prodigies, serial murders, modern locked-room mysteries, classic locked-room…
58% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
炸鸡块与天使
"Fried Chicken Nuggets and Angels" is a text based adventure game with the theme of a detective story.
92% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
√Letter - Root Letter -
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared.
78% of 556 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
恒水中学连环虐杀 / The untold story of hengshui school
It’s based on Hengshui high school to reveal the real society, Game feature: cult painting style, puzzle elements, serious student death event plus…
85% of 514 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
景安区奇案-Jing 'an District Copstories
Jing' an District is a peaceful place, but sometimes some interesting cases will happen. The cases here are not all so bloody.
67% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like 久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白
FLAM EVAW
Collect clue cards, build skills, question four very different assistants, and reason your way to one of 12 endings.
95% of 1,376 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.
92% of 254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Misty Judgment
You are Qi Yi, a mystery writer who cannot remember his own name, caught in a loop of murders across a campus, a mental hospital, a villa, and an…
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Kill The Shadow
Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.
86% of 491 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$16.99
The Real Face of a VTuber
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber…
90% of 288 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$10.19
SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
89% of 329 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
AKIBA LOST
Thirteen years ago six girls vanished in Akihabara, and now a game about that cold case is bleeding into reality.
84% of 317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
再见断刀
A wuxia murder mystery in a cliffside villa cut off by a single suspension bridge.
92% of 2,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries.
94% of 608 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
星影の館殺人事件
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
95% of 145 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
子归 - Blossom
Early spring, 1999, Taoyuan Village. In just several days, a series of drowning incidents occurred in the same quaint village.
87% of 557 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Shell Part I: Inferno
March 1956, Tokyo. As private detective Reiji Tokisaka, you take on three linked cases: a girl asking you to find her true self, a run of murders…
90% of 1,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Newest detective games like 久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白
Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror…
64% of 437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99
AKIBA LOST
Thirteen years ago six girls vanished in Akihabara, and now a game about that cold case is bleeding into reality.
84% of 317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Kill The Shadow
Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.
86% of 491 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$16.99
How Many Secrets Under Ceiling
The first light novel-style immersive detective game's here!
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.
92% of 254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
春泥 Soil of Rebirth
《春泥》是一款刑侦题材的悬疑解谜推理游戏。2018年中秋前夕，刑警程佑接到报案，动身前往泥塑匠林家处理一起家庭伤人案。随着调查深入，案件的疑点层层浮现，将她引向一连串尘封已久的谜团。往事的土壤正在松动，深埋的真相即将揭开......
73% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Real Face of a VTuber
A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber…
90% of 288 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$10.19
SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
89% of 329 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
London: Echoes of the Past
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces.
79% of 211 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
FLAM EVAW
Collect clue cards, build skills, question four very different assistants, and reason your way to one of 12 endings.
95% of 1,376 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Misty Judgment
You are Qi Yi, a mystery writer who cannot remember his own name, caught in a loop of murders across a campus, a mental hospital, a villa, and an…
92% of 1,167 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery.
64% of 131 Steam reviews are positive$12.99