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.
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99
Games like The Silver Case
Miss the mysterious and story-driven pull of The Silver Case? These games are a good place to start.
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…
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91% of 485 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99AI: The Somnium Files
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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91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE
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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77% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$12.99The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
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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79% of 1,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$49.99Return to Shironagasu Island
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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93% of 4,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
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.
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95% of 6,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
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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80% of 2,308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami, a new hire who reads residual thoughts through her glasses. Cursed relics, creepy rental listings, dimensional anomalies: each case is a short occult mystery told in psychedelic pixel art, with social media digging, onsite legwork and a psychic boss who divines the truth from his desk.
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87% of 6,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
A detective game set in a 1960s London where one person in ten has a supernatural ability. Read case files, arrange clues into documents and catch the contradictions that crack each murder wide open. Five cases, two substories, and truths that go deeper than they first appear.
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93% of 4,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$16.99Bloody Chronicles - New Cycle of Death Visual Novel
A serial killer is on the loose and only you can stop the Phantom! Story of Koyama Kazuki, a young detective working for the Igrasil. While working on several, seemingly unrelated cases, you find clues pointing to the person who killed your parents. Can you stop this new cycle of death before it's too late?
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73% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$24.99No Case Should Remain Unsolved
A retired detective, a missing girl, and a case file that lives in her own memory. Sort 54 fragments of testimony, work out who said what and when, and accept that every witness lied. A short, sharp mystery that ends somewhere you will not expect.
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96% of 10,612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
You are dead, you have no memory, and sunrise is your deadline. Solve your own murder as a ghost who hops between objects, rewinds time and saves the living, in a witty, twist-packed mystery from the director of Ace Attorney.
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97% of 6,594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$29.99
Cheaper than The Silver Case
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE
A game based on a simple concept: a mystery puzzle you can complete in an hour.
77% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Return to Shironagasu Island
A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start.
93% of 4,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Investigate a rain-drenched city, then take the case into a labyrinth where the truth itself turns hostile.
80% of 2,308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
Read case files, piece the clues together and expose the lie hiding in every murder.
93% of 4,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$16.99
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Question suspects, chase clues across six years, and let a twisty, funny mystery keep you guessing until the very end.
85% of 3,618 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$5.99
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
A retired detective reopens a missing girl's case from memory alone, piecing together 54 fragments of testimony to find the truth.
96% of 10,612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
A shut-in's quiet life in Shibuya shatters when a message predicts a murder, and it comes true the next day.
87% of 2,103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$12.49
The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
Play a criminal investigation student who solves the strange cases unfolding right next to him, one puzzle and interrogation at a time.
90% of 1,608 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
428: Shibuya Scramble
Switch between five strangers in Shibuya as their stories collide, and steer a kidnapping case toward one of more than 50 endings.
94% of 3,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.99
The Case Book of Arne
A vampire and a girl... who are they? The two of them have a secret and solve a strange case...
87% of 339 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like The Silver Case
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Kill The Shadow
Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.
86% of 491 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$16.99
Yet Another Killing Game
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?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
AKIBA LOST
A live-action suspense story set in Akihabara: thirteen years after six girls vanished, a game creator casts six women to relive the case, and then…
85% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
LumineNight
Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset.
87% of 548 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
The Shell Part I: Inferno
Question suspects, follow the clues through 1956 Tokyo, and let your choices decide who walks away alive.
90% of 1,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Absent in the Rain
A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet...
94% of 937 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
マーダーミステリーパラドクス このひと夏の十五年
"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game.
85% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
A dead detective with one night to unravel the mystery of his own death, one possessed object at a time.
97% of 6,594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$29.99
Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
Read case files, piece the clues together and expose the lie hiding in every murder.
93% of 4,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$16.99
Newest games like The Silver Case
AKIBA LOST
A live-action suspense story set in Akihabara: thirteen years after six girls vanished, a game creator casts six women to relive the case, and then…
85% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Kill The Shadow
Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation.
86% of 491 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$16.99
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery.
75% of 773 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Sofia in Exchange for Lies
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the…
82% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$25.99
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery.
64% of 131 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Yet Another Killing Game
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?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
LumineNight
Team up as veteran Detective Kelvin Foster and his code-cracking daughter Selen to solve murders unsolved for a decade in 1950s Summerset.
87% of 548 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~
The legendary Okhotsk Disappearance... is coming back.
92% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$44.99
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Investigate a rain-drenched city, then take the case into a labyrinth where the truth itself turns hostile.
80% of 2,308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
A retired detective reopens a missing girl's case from memory alone, piecing together 54 fragments of testimony to find the truth.
96% of 10,612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99