Hidden Gems Detective Stories
These hidden gems let you follow detective cases where the story pulls you forward and your reasoning decides what happens next. In The Mermaid Mask you move through a submarine questioning the crew and examining objects from different angles, while The Posthumous Investigation gives you limited time to track fourteen suspects with their own routines and secrets. Long Knives adds choices that reshape the path ahead. If you like reading documents, pressing suspects and piecing evidence into an answer, this set gives you quiet, plot-led mysteries to work through.
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The Mermaid Mask
A locked-room murder aboard a strange submarine: Captain Mortuga is dead beside an ancient stone cauldron, and it is up to Detective Grimoire and Sally to find out how. You question an eccentric crew, turn clues over in 3D, and solve story-themed puzzles on the way to a satisfying, well-foreshadowed answer.
99% of 3,165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$15.99Mistbound City
Content Demo. Step into Mistbound City, a cinematic interactive mystery where every clue matters and every choice has consequences. Investigate a rain-soaked manor, question suspicious characters, uncover hidden secrets, and shape the story toward multiple possible endings.
98% of 137 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMini Murder Mysteries
Solve cozy, crafty whodunits. Puzzle your way through nine unique investigations – and use your noggin to make intelligent deductions. Explore the evidence, scrutinize statements, and connect the dots.
96% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Penelope 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! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.
97% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Methods: The Canada Files
Methods: The Canada Files is a mystery visual novel. You play as a team of eccentric detectives in a mysterious crime-solving competition. To solve each mystery, you must use your team member’s unique detective methods, refute faulty theories with evidence, and find out the truth!
93% of 314 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Long Knives
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.
98% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeThe 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.
94% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$5.59Demons' Timeline
Cyber Detective L never leaves his room. You solve supernatural murders called Paradoxes entirely through Parrotter, a fake social feed, with help from your Demon partner Nyasuteria. Read timelines, unmask alt accounts, and logic your way to the culprit.
97% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$10.99The Wolf Among Us Remastered
You are Bigby Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown, working brutal murders where fairy-tale figures hide among ordinary streets. You examine crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and make hard calls that change how people fear or trust you. A dark, choice-driven detective story across five episodes, now remastered with a black-and-white Noir Mode.
91% of 880 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 428$19.99The Bird of the North
In 1921: a kidnapping, a revolution... Investigate and uncover the truth behind a dark, mysterious story.
98% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Lost 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.
96% of 1,795 Steam reviews are positive$4.99A Case of Fraud
A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
96% of 617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.19
