Locust_4457
Locust_4457 is a self-contained compilation of puzzles with elements of cryptography, escape rooms, and some ARG tropes.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Detective games like Locktale
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Puzzle Spy International
Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure. As Agent Epsilon you’ll choose your path as you chat with (or chat up!) suspicious contacts. Deduce the puzzle rules, decode cryptograms and decipher clues as you solve wordplay & logic puzzles across the globe!
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
92% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$12.50CD-ROM
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Locust_4457
Locust_4457 is a self-contained compilation of puzzles with elements of cryptography, escape rooms, and some ARG tropes.
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Rune Log
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.
Mysterious, Minimalist, Relaxing
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Terminal 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
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEpigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
Mysterious, Minimalist, Relaxing
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Adventure Escape Mysteries
A big bundle of point-and-click mysteries where you play investigator, from Detective Kate Gray murder cases to an NCIS ship explosion. Search scenes for clues, question suspects, and crack escape-room puzzles across 500+ hand-drawn scenes. Generous, cozy-detective fun for armchair detectives.
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
86% of 1,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104FreeTiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
86% of 825 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Logic Town
Logic Town is a cozy deduction game built on Einstein puzzles: read the clues, rule out what cannot be true, and pin down who likes what and where it goes. Was Janet wearing a hat, does Jim like chocolate cake — small mysteries, solved by pure logic. Cute animals, tidy dioramas and endless procedurally generated grids make it a gentle daily workout for armchair detectives.
Mysterious, Relaxing
90% of 299 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$9.99Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
You are Agent A, sent into rival spy Ruby La Rouge's hideout to stop her plans. Expect 35 retro-styled rooms packed with hidden gadgets and 100 inventory puzzles that reward close looking, memory and logical links. A light, funny case for armchair detectives who like observation over interrogation.
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
95% of 5,972 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$1.99The House of Da Vinci
As Leonardo da Vinci's apprentice, you return to find your master gone and his workshop locked up tight with puzzles. You work through decorated rooms, open lockboxes and machines, find hidden objects and read what he left behind to learn what happened.
Mysterious, Relaxing, Story-driven
85% of 6,778 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99TEST TEST TEST
Same fifteen minutes, same office, same tired employee: you. TEST TEST TEST is a retro pixel-art puzzle adventure about breaking a time loop by finding clues, reading between the lines, and solving cryptic puzzles that spill outside the game itself. Short, strange, and built for armchair detectives who take notes.
Mysterious, Story-driven
91% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Locktale
Rune Log
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your…
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Epigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
You are Agent A, sent into rival spy Ruby La Rouge's hideout to stop her plans.
95% of 5,972 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$1.99
Nodes Escape
The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination.
85% of 536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$1.99
Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
Two detectives, one cryptic box, and a killer who planned it that way.
89% of 2,408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage
Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining…
85% of 528 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$0.89
Puzzle Agent
Nelson Tethers of the U.S. Department of Puzzle Research is sent to Scoggins, Minnesota, after the eraser factory stops answering the White House…
89% of 1,627 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Apothecary of Trubiz
A short puzzle game where you decipher a fictional language, mix potions, and treat patients.
93% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Riddlord: The Consequence
To complete this game, you will need to mobilize your logic, spatial thinking, memory, observation, ingenuity, and assiduity.
56% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
YOUR HOUSE
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
79% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Meridian 157: Chapter 3
You have ventured this far, now there is no turning back. Uncover the island’s dark history by travelling through crumbling caverns and mysterious…
96% of 461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.99
Hidden gems like Locktale
The Apothecary of Trubiz
A short puzzle game where you decipher a fictional language, mix potions, and treat patients.
93% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
CD-ROM
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Puzzle Spy International
Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure.
92% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$12.50
Amatsuko
A knowledge-based progression game. Explore and solve the strange misteries of the interconnected fantasy worlds trapped inside an esoteric book and…
89% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Parallel Experiment
Two detectives, one Cryptic Killer, and a case split clean down the middle.
84% of 747 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$9.99
TEST TEST TEST
Same fifteen minutes, same office, same tired employee: you.
91% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positiveFree
CLeM
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Logic Town
Logic Town is a cozy deduction game built on Einstein puzzles: read the clues, rule out what cannot be true, and pin down who likes what and where…
90% of 299 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$9.99
Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room
Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths.
80% of 229 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Little Locked Rooms
Grab your magnifying glass and peek inside a series of tiny dioramas filled with crimes and carefully crafted mysteries!
86% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Epigraph
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
85% of 368 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Newest detective games like Locktale
Rune Log
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your…
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Case Solved: The London Files
Solve logic puzzles and crack multiple cases in a cosy noir London using reason, not guesswork.
65% of 114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
What Awaits, Aleksey?
A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives.
81% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
CD-ROM
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Puzzle Spy International
Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure.
92% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$12.50
Locust_4457
Locust_4457 is a self-contained compilation of puzzles with elements of cryptography, escape rooms, and some ARG tropes.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Amatsuko
A knowledge-based progression game. Explore and solve the strange misteries of the interconnected fantasy worlds trapped inside an esoteric book and…
89% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
The Apothecary of Trubiz
A short puzzle game where you decipher a fictional language, mix potions, and treat patients.
93% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
回ル！ハッカー探偵
Become a righteous hacker detective who solves people's problems... and hack the requested PC by solving riddles! Analyze the PC by hacking!
81% of 26 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Detective Worden
As a private detective, you’ll crack word clues left by a mysterious informant, gather evidence, and uncover the truth hidden in the shadows.
85% of 55 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room
Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths.
80% of 229 Steam reviews are positive$9.99