The Detective Zone
Games about clues, deduction, suspects, mysteries, interviews, and case solving.
Latest Standouts
Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.
lily's world XD - Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu
Sep 17, 2026
Sniper Dan - Sniper Dan is a delightfully funny, family-friendly 3D Hidden Object game with a big twist. Use a sniper rifle to solve hundreds of low-stakes jobs across six packed locations, discover surprising secrets, snap hilarious photo ops, and unlock costumes, upgrades, office décor, collectables and more!
Sep 17, 2026
Police Chief Simulator - Welcome to Winston Springs, Officer! The local police station is in urgent need of a Chief of Police, and you’ve been chosen for the job! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!
Sep 17, 2026
Rehaunted - Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.
Sep 14, 2026
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! - Run your bar as a gorilla and hunt down the humans in animal costumes hiding among your customers. Observe them closely, spot the clues that give their disguises away, test their slogans, and blow the imposters away with your shotgun. Choose your targets wisely... or become the hunted.
Sep 13, 2026
HoloTrials: Case Covered - A graffiti mocking the Student Council President appears on the walls, and your best friend is the prime suspect! Play as a student detective in HoloTrials: Case Covered. Investigate the high school campus, face off against your rivals, and clear her name in this legal mystery.
Sep 9, 2026
Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker - Every character remembers, watches, tests, and may deceive you like a living person. They have emotions, voices, expressions, and buried secrets. Break them with words or evidence — or realize too late that you were only a pawn in their game. A detective game built around truly lifelike NPCs.
Aug 21, 2026
Desktop Detective - An idle detective game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Aug 19, 2026
The World Well: Blood of Caro - The World Well: Blood of Caro is a cinematic dark fantasy visual novel where every choice reveals another piece of the truth. Join 4 and Noma as they journey through a vampire-ruled world filled with unforgettable characters, hidden secrets, and difficult decisions.
Aug 17, 2026
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story - Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Aug 5, 2026
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Heavy Rain - Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Jun 18, 2020
Down in Bermuda - An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search of a way back home.
Jan 14, 2021
Agent A: A puzzle in disguise - A suave secret agent adventure game. Your mission (should you choose to accept) is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge’s secret hideaway and put a stop to her evil plans!
Aug 29, 2019
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony - A young adventurer Hugh Radcliff is in pursuit of one of the greatest mysteries of history: The Lost Colony. Deal with pirates, dive into native rituals, reveal conspiracies, and make tough choices on your difficult journey for unveiling this mystery!
Jan 6, 2022
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened - Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Apr 11, 2023
Toilet Chronicles - Trapped in a public restroom. You’re not alone. You make bad decisions. Horror-comedy with multiple endings.
Jul 14, 2022
Nobody Wants to Die - Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Jul 17, 2024
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo - Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
Dec 16, 2021
Song of Farca - Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Jul 21, 2021
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure - A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
May 20, 2021
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery - Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics
Feb 25, 2021
Kona II: Brume - Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Oct 18, 2023
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
The Children of Clay - The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Mar 7, 2025
of the Devil - Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Feb 6, 2025
The Mermaid Mask - An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.
Jul 16, 2026
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County - You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
Oct 26, 2022
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy - Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Apr 9, 2019
The Wolf Among Us - From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Oct 11, 2013
Chants of Sennaar - In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
Sep 5, 2023
The Case of the Golden Idol - A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Oct 13, 2022
Cube Escape Collection - In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.
Oct 14, 2020
The Test: Hypothesis Rising - The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Apr 27, 2020
Threefold Recital - Threefold Recital is set in an oriental fantasy world where the metropolis of Bluescales faces turmoil after a long golden age. The mix of magic, modern, and ancient technologies challenges governance, while tensions between humans, beastlings, and dragons grow. In the shadows, a crisis looms...
Jan 13, 2025
The Test: Final Revelation - The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Oct 12, 2020
