Detective games like Hellink

Looking for that same hand-drawn and story-driven spark as Hellink? Give these detective games a try when the craving hits.

Cyber Manhunt
You are a hacker hired to take on dangerous cases, and you solve them from behind a screen. Search the web, crack passwords, read emails and chats, and piece together what happened. A grim, topical take on cybercrime and privacy for armchair detectives who like following a digital trail.
Story-driven, Mysterious
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Story-driven, Mysterious
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Operator
You are the FDI's newest Operator, stuck at a desk while field agents call in murders, missing people and cyber attacks. You dig through databases, photos and terminals to hand them answers, and the case files keep pointing somewhere darker. Short, slick and conspiratorial.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
of the Devil
You are Morgan, a public defender in 2086 taking murder cases almost no lawyer can win. You walk 3D crime scenes, question suspects, and use a killer insight to spot what others miss, then risk it all in court.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
99% of 2,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32Free
ANONYMOUS;CODE
Hack Into God
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
77% of 519 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Song of Farca
You are Isabella Song, a hacker and private detective solving linked criminal cases in a dark, corporate-run future. You hack drones and cameras, dig through the darknet, question suspects, and piece together evidence where no one is innocent. A grim procedural for armchair detectives who like hard choices.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
78% of 1,406 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
SYNESTHESIA
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Five Stages of Pink
Psychological horror and mystery game about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city and investigate murders while trying to escape Death. This is a visual novel and point and click game.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
96% of 98 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Legion Was Here
You are Legion, a secret agent who can change his face at will. For each mission you study a file of documents, piece together what the person you must impersonate looks like, build that face from age to nose to eye color, then talk your way through suspicious questions without breaking cover. Short, funny, and tense in equal measure.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 266 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$9.99
To Hell With The Ugly
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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.
Story-driven, Mysterious
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
SIMULACRA 2
A young influencer is dead and the case is already closed, but Detective Murilo hands you her phone anyway. You dig through messages, videos, and social media, question three flawed suspects, and connect the lies into a darker truth. A phone-screen detective game with live-action footage, tough choices, and multiple endings.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious
87% of 1,385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99

Hidden gems like Hellink

HoloTrials: Case Covered

A graffiti mocking the Student Council President appears on the walls, and your best friend is the prime suspect!

Free

lily's world XD

You find Lily's 2004 laptop and go through her diary, blog, messages and friends to piece together where she went.

$11.99

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.

$4.99

Legion Was Here

You are Legion, a secret agent who can change his face at will.

$9.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

Hymer 2000

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

$4.99

of the Devil

You are Morgan, a public defender in 2086 taking murder cases almost no lawyer can win.

Free

Yet Another Killing Game

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

$16.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

FAKEBOOK

Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.

$14.99

Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator

You are an AI assistant built by Titan Corporation, hired to sift chats, files, and search histories until lies fall apart.

$12.99

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

You join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami Fukurai, gathering evidence onsite and online to dissolve cases about cursed relics, shady…

$12.59

Newest detective games like Hellink

Game of Fitna Vol. 1

Game of Fitna Vol. 1: A thrilling death game visual novel set in 2030.

$16.99

Legion Was Here

You are Legion, a secret agent who can change his face at will.

$9.99

lily's world XD

You find Lily's 2004 laptop and go through her diary, blog, messages and friends to piece together where she went.

$11.99

HoloTrials: Case Covered

A graffiti mocking the Student Council President appears on the walls, and your best friend is the prime suspect!

Free

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

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

Hymer 2000

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

$4.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

You join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami Fukurai, gathering evidence onsite and online to dissolve cases about cursed relics, shady…

$12.59

of the Devil

You are Morgan, a public defender in 2086 taking murder cases almost no lawyer can win.

Free

Yet Another Killing Game

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

$16.99

Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator

You are an AI assistant built by Titan Corporation, hired to sift chats, files, and search histories until lies fall apart.

$12.99