Detective games like Coldwake

Loved how mysterious and story-driven Coldwake can get? These detective games are a good place to start.

Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Desktop Explorer
You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them. A slow, eerie treat for armchair detectives who like reading files closely.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
Facility 47
Begin a journey through an isolated research facility in the freezing depths of the Antarctic, solving exciting puzzles as you go and unlocking new locations around the Facility.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Mystery of the Malign
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
New Folder
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
UNMEMORY
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare. Short, text-led detective work built on reading closely and connecting the dots, with a retro desktop frame around it.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Subsurface Circular
You are a robot detective who never leaves your seat on a subway for robots, solving a string of disappearances among the robotic working class. You gather words and phrases and spend them in dialogue puzzles to open up new testimony. A tight two-hour mystery about robots and humans, built for one sitting.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Dark Room
Dark Room is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. You awaken in a mysterious, locked environment with no memory of who you are. Solve intricate puzzles, inspect hidden objects, and piece together forgotten journal entries to unlock the truth behind your confinement.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
59% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hymer 2000
You are sent to shut down Hymer 2000, an old computer watching over an empty building. To do it, you talk to it in your own words and type any keyword to dig up its old chats with others. Each log, clue, and strange face illustration brings its buried secret closer, in a short, sad sci-fi story worth piecing together.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
89% of 1,050 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Utter a Name
Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 233 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory. You ask questions through glyph cards, press gently or risk waking what is sealed, and piece together a short folk-horror mystery worth replaying for its secrets.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 2,960 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than Coldwake

Subsurface Circular

You are a robot detective who never leaves your seat on a subway for robots, solving a string of disappearances among the robotic working class.

$2.99

Dark Room

Dark Room is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. You awaken in a mysterious, locked environment with no memory of who you are.

$2.99

Who am I: Remedy

A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.

$3.14

Au Revoir

Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071.

$4.99

Whispers of a Machine

Vera is a cybernetically augmented agent sent to a quiet Nordic town to solve a string of murders tied to banned AI research.

$2.99

Blackout Tonight

A side-scrolling puzzle adventure where a power outage hits an apartment building during a stormy night.

$2.99

Window Of Perspectives

Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click.

$2.24

Acolyte

Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options.

$1.64

Nothing To Remember

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

$1.99

void game

void game() is a minimalist puzzle game about Death, its many faces, and its inevitable counterpart: Life.

$1.99

My New Computer

A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone.

$2.99

Quern - Undying Thoughts

Trapped on the island of Quern after your portal closes, you piece together what happened here through old letters, a lingering spirit, and the…

$2.49

Hidden gems like Coldwake

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a small Eastern European town, linking articles until a dark local mystery lays itself bare.

$4.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.

$3.99

Desktop Explorer

You click through its abandoned profiles, chat logs, and broken apps, piecing together who used it before you and what happened to them.

$17.99

REWIND

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues.

Free

Mind Diver

Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations.

$17.99

Terminal Lucidity

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.

Free

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

Dimhaven - The Lost Source

You are Emily Ravenstone, searching a mist-covered island for your uncle who vanished months ago.

$25.99

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

You are the Carimara, small, mute and sorcerous, wandering a grief-stitched house where every object holds a memory.

$4.99

Hymer 2000

You are sent to shut down Hymer 2000, an old computer watching over an empty building.

$4.99

Radiolight

Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.

$14.99

Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn

A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.

$19.99

Newest detective games like Coldwake