Most played relaxing detective games

Slow afternoons and small mysteries run through these most played relaxing detective games. You search detailed scenes in Detective Holmes: Hidden Objects, untangle village oddities alongside Sherlock in The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure, and piece together illustrated puzzles with The Dagby Files. Expect clue hunting, chats with suspects and gentle puzzles with no rush.

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1. Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition

   

   Two JRPGs in one package where you work as a cyber detective or hacker solving digi-mysteries across the real world and the digital EDEN network. You collect over 300 Digimon, raise and Digivolve them, then take that team into classic turn-based battles. A long, colorful pick for armchair detectives who also want creature collecting.

   89%89% of 10,965 Steam reviews are positive512Players online now: 512$49.99

2. Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

   

   You play prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, out of the courtroom and walking crime scenes himself. Search for clues, question persons of interest, and link evidence through logic to close tough cases. Both Investigations games in one HD collection, funny and story-driven, with the second game as the standout reason to keep going.

   96%96% of 3,515 Steam reviews are positive247Players online now: 247$39.99

3. Death at Fleming Manor

   

   England, 1959. A series of unexplained deaths at a country manor, and your job is to write the death certificate. Examine bodies, study evidence, question the residents and fill out the official paperwork in a hand-drawn forensic mystery where every conclusion is yours to defend.

   82%82% of 489 Steam reviews are positive246Players online now: 246$16.19

4. Funeral for the Sun

   

   A town of 724 people burns down and only one survivor is left. The official story is false. Travel through 400 years of memories in the ashes of Cerro Milagroso, name the people you meet, and draw the connections between them in a hand-drawn detective story where supernatural secrets run under generations of history.

   99%99% of 207 Steam reviews are positive221Players online now: 221$17.99

5. The Séance of Blake Manor

   

   Ireland, 1897: guest Evelyn Deane is missing from remote Blake Manor, and private investigator Declan Ward has until All Hallow's Eve to find her. Question mystics, gather clues, and link motives in your journal as the manor turns stranger by the night.

   95%95% of 3,959 Steam reviews are positive200Players online now: 200$19.99

6. The Incident at Galley House

   

   In 1936, locals walked into Galley House and found something bloody and unexplained. Years later, with a strange machine that replays echoes of the past, you piece together what happened that night. A slow, clue-led detective game for armchair detectives who like timelines, transcripts, and working it out themselves.

   93%93% of 4,961 Steam reviews are positive157Players online now: 157$19.99

7. Police Chief Simulator

   

   You run the Winston Springs county station from an empty outpost to a working complex. Civilians bring reports to the front desk, you check the forms, build the case file, and send officers and detectives out to close it. A management take on detective games, with paperwork as the investigation.

   74%74% of 1,116 Steam reviews are positive146Players online now: 146$15.99

8. The Roottrees are Dead

   

   It is 1998, a private jet is down, and a billion-dollar fortune needs blood relatives. As a hired genealogist you dig through a dial-up imitation of the early Internet to rebuild the Roottree family tree, name by name and photo by photo.

   96%96% of 10,118 Steam reviews are positive140Players online now: 140$19.99

9. 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 machinery left behind. For armchair detectives, the draw is slow clue-chasing across a quiet, strange island, where each solved puzzle opens the next question about your presence.

   90%90% of 3,881 Steam reviews are positive120Players online now: 120$2.49

10. 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%99% of 3,165 Steam reviews are positive111Players online now: 111$15.99

11. Adventure 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.

    86%86% of 1,197 Steam reviews are positive104Players online now: 104Free

12. The Red Pearls Of Borneo

    

    A clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London reads the psychic echoes of one night in 1941 Borneo. With old photos, a plantation map, and jumps between witnesses and moments, you name the guests, trace where everyone went, and work out what happened at Goodwill plantation. A hand-drawn, dialogue-heavy deduction story for armchair detectives.

    95%95% of 4,919 Steam reviews are positive97Players online now: 97Free

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