Detective games like New Folder

Did New Folder leave you in a mysterious and retro frame of mind? These detective games make natural next picks for you.

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, Retro, Story-driven
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
Mystery of the Malign
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
94% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
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.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
last seen online
You bought a stranger's old computer at a garage sale and skipped the formatting. Now you get to snoop through their files, poke at odd puzzles, and piece together what happened to them. Short, strange, and built like an old flash escape room for armchair detectives who like reading other people's secrets.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
97% of 2,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
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, Retro, Story-driven
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
My New Computer
A short, experimental indie game where you figure out who you can trust while home alone. Point, click and chat as you investigate on your new computer in this puzzle mystery.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Utter a Name
Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
90% of 233 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
CD-ROM
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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, Retro, Story-driven
96% of 108 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
[Redacted] The Safehouse
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Mysterious, Retro, Story-driven
99% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Tiny 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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
86% of 825 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than New Folder

My New Computer

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

$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

Window Of Perspectives

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

$2.24

Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

You are Agent A, sent into rival spy Ruby La Rouge's hideout to stop her plans.

$1.99

The Samaritan Paradox

A writer has died. His daughter seeks the help of you, Ord Salamon, to find his secret last novel. During the search, questions will emerge.

$1.99

Creepy Forest

Creepy Forest, a scary plot puzzle game, is full of strange things waiting for you to discover the truth on the mysterious mountain.

$1.99

Forgotten Hill First Steps

The first three games of the Forgotten Hill series joined together with new contents, new locations, new puzzles and secrets revealed: let's follow…

$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

Blackout Tonight

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

$2.99

Nothing To Remember

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

$1.99

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

Kathy Rain returns to her hometown in 1995 to bury her grandfather and ends up investigating what broke him years earlier.

$3.74

Aberration

Aberration, a point & click thriller experience that will lead you down a rabbit hole of suspense, fear and misdirection.

$2.99

Hidden gems like New Folder

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

CD-ROM

10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.

$9.99

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

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

Utter a Name

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

$6.99

last seen online

You bought a stranger's old computer at a garage sale and skipped the formatting.

Free

TEST TEST TEST

Same fifteen minutes, same office, same tired employee: you.

Free

CLeM

CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.

$15.99

Newest detective games like New Folder