
AI: The Somnium Files
Interrogate suspects by day, then step into their dreams on a six-minute clock to crack a serial killer case in Tokyo.
Loved how mysterious and story-driven Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective can get? These games line up well for what comes next.
Detective Kaname Date hunts a serial killer through near-future Tokyo, and through other people's dreams. A murder mystery with sharp twists, a talking AI partner and dream puzzles on a six-minute clock. Dark, funny and stranger than it has any right to be.
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A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour. Can you solve the cases narrated in this beautiful pixel-art adventure?
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A live-action murder mystery spanning a century. Watch four killings unfold in 1922, 1972 and 2022, gather the clues hidden in the footage, build your hypotheses and face the culprit. Playing as mystery novelist Haruka Kagami, you pit your reasoning against the Shijima family's deadly secret.
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A horror-adventure visual novel set in 1980s Tokyo. The Seven Mysteries of Honjo hide a Rite of Resurrection, and everyone who learns of it gains the power to curse. Investigate real Sumida streets in 360° panoramas, follow several points of view, and choose your moves carefully, because a wrong one can kill you.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
A murder, a mansion, and a suspect who is literally a painting. Explore Tangle Tower, question its oddball residents, and piece together clues in a fully voiced, hand-drawn detective story with genuinely funny writing and clever puzzles. Come for the banter and the beautiful rooms; the case itself is one you will want to crack.
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An amnesiac detective and the death god haunting him solve a rain-soaked city's impossible murders. Gather clues in Kanai Ward, then storm a surreal Mystery Labyrinth where the case itself attacks you. From the minds behind Danganronpa: dark, colorful, twisty detective action.
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Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past. Work out who was where and when, unlock the scenes, and piece together a mystery that turns darker than any murder case. From the makers of The Roottrees Are Dead.
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A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start. Read through a full-voiced mystery with Neneko, his assistant, follow the clues, make choices that steer the story toward different endings, and find a way off the island alive.
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A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
A murder in a swamp, and the prime suspect is a mythical creature. Detective Grimoire is a short, funny point-and-click whodunit: explore a hand-painted marsh, grill a fully voiced cast of suspects, and piece your clues together into deductions. Cozy, colorful and cleverly written.
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Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset. Search neon-lit streets for clues, crack locks and ciphers, sneak past security, and talk lying suspects in circles. A slow-burn noir for puzzle fans who like their mysteries hand-drawn and dramatic.
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A detective game you play with your ears. Walk through a top-down blueprint of a crime scene, eavesdrop on every conversation as it happened, and match names to voices to work out who did what. Five cases hide a thread connecting them all, and only careful listening finds it.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional

Interrogate suspects by day, then step into their dreams on a six-minute clock to crack a serial killer case in Tokyo.

A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour.

Follow several points of view through 1980s Tokyo, uncover the truth behind the Seven Mysteries of Honjo, and try to survive a story where one wrong…

Question the residents, gather clues and crack a hand-drawn whodunit at your own pace.

Investigate a rain-drenched city, then take the case into a labyrinth where the truth itself turns hostile.

Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.

A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start.

A lost girl and a talking traffic light search a strange city for the one name she remembers.

Question a colorful cast of suspects, gather clues around a hand-painted marsh, and argue your way to the culprit of one very strange murder.

Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset.

Walk a blueprint of each crime scene, listen in on every conversation and match voices to names to uncover what happened.

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.

Captain Mortuga is dead in a locked room aboard the world's strangest submarine, with only an ancient cauldron for a witness.

Help Holmes and Watson solve a mystery by grabbing and stretching the world itself, one odd puzzle at a time.

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues.

A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?

Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.

Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.

You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset.

In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.

Wander a twisted gothic mansion, solve its puzzles and let your choices decide which ending you earn.

“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror…

Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.

Captain Mortuga is dead in a locked room aboard the world's strangest submarine, with only an ancient cauldron for a witness.

Decades later, a strange machine lets you listen to echoes of the past.

《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues.

Help Holmes and Watson solve a mystery by grabbing and stretching the world itself, one odd puzzle at a time.

Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.

A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?

Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.

Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.