Newest emotional detective games
Loss and memory shape these newest emotional detective games, where you work through clues to understand people as much as cases. No Case Should Remain Unsolved asks you to untangle old recollections about a missing girl, Good Bones sends you through a house holding traces of death and grief, and Kathy Rain: Director's Cut lets you press neighbors for answers as a hometown inquiry grows bleak.
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Hope in the City
Hope Song, 17, comes home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. As an artist, she sees what others miss: capture details as sketches, combine them into insights, and let the picture of what really happened in Shenyang grow darker with every answer.
91% of 35 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34Funeral 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% of 207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 221$17.99Amnea28: Two Eternities
A week of psychology lectures in an old hotel turns into something far stranger. Read, question, and watch your stress meter while five routes and 38 endings branch around four students with secrets. The walls of Amnea don't let everyone leave.
97% of 34 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$8.49Manus Sors
A mystical horror-puzzle game. A cozy grandmother's apartment hides dark family secrets. Explore rooms, solve riddles, and pay close attention - every detail matters!
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$4.49The Clock the Queen and the Door on the Beach
A first person adventure about helping an inventor start a very unusual and untested reactor, to save a distant civilization. You explore the island, find clues in the environment, and make progress by solving simple, but interconnected and layered puzzles ( see main description ). Absolutely no AI.
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Agent of Strange: Arrival
A dark role-playing thriller and the prologue to Agent of Strange. Play a Conspirator returning from exile to the frozen, surreal city of Brocken, hunted by the occult Traum regime. Build your hero's whole personality through choices, sneak and scheme your way home, and shape a story where every decision leaves a mark.
88% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9FreeEdicts of the Truthsinger: The Orb of Artemagus
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The 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 896 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 428$24.99Curse of Resthaven
Take charge of the cursed island colony of Resthaven to find your missing niece Amalia. Question 25 fully voiced residents, trade with merchants, upgrade businesses, and head beyond the walls on card-based expeditions — then loop back through the same six days with your memories intact to piece together what really happened.
98% of 105 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$19.99Scarlet Beret - Murder at the Orphanage
Fabienne a 17-year-old genius, has a rare gift: she detects lies! But when she discovers the body of one of her teachers, she’s left with no choice but to uncover the killer among the residents she’s lived with her entire life.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeHIRUGAO
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through many eyes, including the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
66% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Ann's Parlor
Awakened from years of slumber, the witch Ann returns to her old cabin, where visitors arrive seeking love, truth, or glimpses of fate. Through crystal-ball readings, you interpret their stories and guide their paths—every choice reshaping their destinies and the secrets that await within.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positiveFree
