Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death…
77% of 343 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Detective games like Pentiment
If Pentiment scratched a hand-drawn and story-driven itch for you, keep reading. These detective games are a good place to start.
The Forgotten City
You wake by ruins, travel 2,000 years into ancient Rome, and land in a cursed city where if one person sins, everyone dies. To save it you question its residents, connect their stories, and rewind time to try again. A talk-first mystery for armchair detectives who like untangling people.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 11,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
77% of 343 Steam reviews are positive$17.99Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Council
1793, a private island, and your mother is missing. As Louis de Richet you search rooms for clues, read people in tense confrontations, and pick apart the lies of guests like Napoleon and Washington. Choices stick, skills shape what you notice, and every answer opens a darker question.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
83% of 5,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26FreeThe Inquisitor
Jesus did not die on the cross, but came down and unleashed vengeance on all the nonbelievers. 1500 years later, an army of Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith. In this dark fantasy adventure you solve intricate cases and unveil abysmal secrets as Inquisitor Mordimer Madderdin.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
66% of 280 Steam reviews are positive$39.99Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the conspiracy behind a cursed relic and the secrets of the King who was never crowned.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
78% of 409 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Burn Me Twice
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
81% of 270 Steam reviews are positiveFreeWhat have you done, Father?
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot. Embark on the frightening adventure of a young priest entangled in a forbidden affair with a beautiful lady who meets a gruesome end. Lust, wrath, murder, despair.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$10.99This Bed We Made
You are Sophie, a chambermaid at the Clarington Hotel in 1958, and your cleaning round turns into a murder inquiry. You snoop through guests' rooms, inspect their belongings, piece together how their secrets connect, and decide what to do with what you find. A slow, glamorous neo-noir for armchair detectives who like prying.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
90% of 3,271 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99The Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic point-and-click mystery where witchcraft and superstition conceal a far darker truth.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$5.59The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay. Immerse yourself in a period drama that intertwines romance with murder mystery, as a young cleric who must resist or give in to the charms of a strikingly beautiful maid.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Cheaper than Pentiment
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
What have you done, Father?
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot.
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
The Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic…
94% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
Untale: King of Revinia
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk?
74% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Lamplight City
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight!
89% of 814 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow.
98% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Case of the Golden Idol
Twelve strange deaths, fifty years, one cursed idol. As an 18th-century investigator you freeze each death scene, pick apart pockets, letters and…
97% of 9,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$17.99
Hidden gems like Pentiment
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
The Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic…
94% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
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
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case.
85% of 738 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.79
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer!
88% of 996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$10.99
The Mildew Children
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage…
92% of 473 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Saltsea Chronicles
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next?
97% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
What have you done, Father?
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot.
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Newest detective games like Pentiment
宽恕我（Show me mercy）
SHOWMEMERCY is mystery otomegame. Play as Lilith, a widowedduchess who must eliminate those threaten herself or others. Choose method, plan thecrime.
74% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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 Silver Crow
Play as Conrad, the town's executioner. Investigate a mysterious death, gather clues, question suspects and solve puzzles in this classic…
94% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
The Crimson Maid
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
A Storied Life: Tabitha
A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell.
79% of 70 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
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.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Game Of Fate 3：Clash Of Crowns
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case.
85% of 738 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.79
Darkway: Murder of King Mere
The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow.
98% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit
Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure!
97% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders
Play as a sharp-witted detective in late 19th-century Leipzig, Germany, in this retro pixel-art point & click adventure.
82% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99