Detective games like Whisperstring

Chasing that story-driven and mysterious feeling you got from Whisperstring? You might settle into these detective games easily.

Casting Whispers
Sound is your only hope for survival in this first-person psychological horror game. Investigate the mysteries of an apartment block in 1960s America terrorized by a cosmic horror, as you try to save your lost mentor… and yourself.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
84% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Sato Killing Time Chat.exe
It was supposed to be just a harmless chat to kill time with a stranger named Mina. But from the other side of the browser, the boundary between your reality and the internet is slowly being eroded. This is a desktop-invasion chat horror.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
76% of 228 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Whispers of Prague: The Executioner's Last Cut
Classic first-person point-and-click adventure game set in contemporary Prague. As a programmer and treasure hunter, you embark on a long journey to uncover the secrets of the infamous Executioner. Your task will be complicated by a sect of fanatic cultists and your own unexplained heritage.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
93% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$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, Retro
90% of 577 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Super Chillers: The Chat Room
Travel back to the 90s in this campy point-and-click horror comedy adventure inspired by classic YA horror books like Fear Street and Point Horror.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
71% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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. A slow, eerie treat for armchair detectives who like reading files closely.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
Radiolight
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
90% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
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.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
96% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
GAME.exe 2 - Phantom Strike
You find an old computer with a forgotten program installed: Phantom Strike. A single server is still online, frozen in time and waiting for someone to finish the match. What begins as nostalgic curiosity becomes a descent into something far stranger.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
89% of 1,050 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Killer Frequency
You are Forrest Nash, washed-up DJ on the midnight shift in Gallows Creek, 1987, when the phones start ringing with people hunted by a killer. Talk panicked callers through hiding and escape, dig around the station for the clue that saves them, and work out who is behind the whistling. Talky, tense and darkly funny.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
92% of 5,266 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$4.99
Enclosure 3-D
You are Mike Goodman, joining a mission to investigate mysterious activity at an arctic base. Text-parser mystery adventure game inspired by classics of the genre, using pixel art in 3D.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
90% of 39 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Hidden gems like Whisperstring

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

Burden Street Station

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

$14.99

[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

Foolish Mortals

Louisiana, 1933: a whole wedding vanished on Devil's Rock thirty years ago, and the treasure of Bellemore Manor went with it.

$19.99

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

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

Creepy Support

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization!

$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

The Crimson Diamond

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond…

$14.99

Newest detective games like Whisperstring

Super Chillers: The Chat Room

Travel back to the 90s in this campy point-and-click horror comedy adventure inspired by classic YA horror books like Fear Street and Point Horror.

$7.99

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

Project DeepWeb: Eternal Nightmare

This is a desktop-like adventure game about exploration of the Deep Internet, a sequel to Project DeepWeb.

$9.99

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

Creepy Support

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization!

$4.99

GAME.exe 2 - Phantom Strike

You find an old computer with a forgotten program installed: Phantom Strike.

$5.99

Burden Street Station

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

$14.99

[Redacted] The Safehouse

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

$3.99

Sato Killing Time Chat.exe

It was supposed to be just a harmless chat to kill time with a stranger named Mina.

Free

Heaven Does Not Respond

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

$9.99

My New Computer

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

$2.99

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

Mystery of Silence is a point-and-click adventure where William, a young writer in search of inspiration, enters an abbey shrouded in silence.

$7.99