Best Detective Games on Steam
Games about clues, deduction, suspects, mysteries, interviews, and case solving.
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1Phasmophobia - Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Sep 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- use your real voice to taunt a ghost, and it can hunt you for what you say.
- ask a ghost questions, hear it answer "close" and "die," then get strangled while your friends photograph the body for cash.
- trigger a cursed item that starts a deadly round of hide-and-seek while you listen from a hiding spot.
- insult a ghost inside the house, and it can instantly lock the door and start hunting your teammate.
- sit in the truck watching cameras and sensors while your friends investigate inside and try not to get hunted.
- take a photo of a ghost standing over a collapsing teammate, and sell that death moment as mission-paying evidence.
- watch a ghost ignore everyone else during a hunt, beeline to the basement to stare at you, then walk away.
2Batman™: Arkham Knight - Batman™: Arkham Knight brings the award-winning Arkham trilogy from Rocksteady Studios to its epic conclusion. Developed exclusively for New-Gen platforms, Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady's uniquely designed version of the Batmobile.
Jun 23, 2015
In this game, you can…
- race at full speed, eject out of the Batmobile, and immediately glide across Gotham's skyline without stopping.
- use voice synthesis to give commands in enemies' voices, then pick them off one by one as they search for you.
- drive captured criminals to the police station yourself while they talk in the back seat.
- call your Batmobile from anywhere in Gotham.
- transform the Batmobile from a race car into a tank instantly.
- snap into stealth and chain fear takedowns on several enemies in rapid succession, leaving the rest panicking and exposed.
- swap mid-fight between Batman and allies like Robin, Nightwing, or Catwoman and trigger coordinated tag-team finishers.
- get sudden horror-style jump scares and surprise story beats in the middle of a Batman game.
3Persona 5 Royal - Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- get framed for assault, moved to Tokyo, then dragged into a parallel world by a talking cat to commit heists.
- send a calling card, break into someone's mind, and steal their "heart" to change how they act in real life.
- talk enemies into joining you mid-fight, then fuse them into new monsters to build custom battle strategies.
- spend a full in-game year budgeting every day between school, jobs, friends, workouts, and night-time dungeon raids.
- hide behind cover, grapple to hidden routes, and ambush guards in themed dungeons that play like stealth heists.
- trigger a critical hit, chain teammate follow-ups, and end the turn with a screen-filling group finisher.
- build friendships that unlock concrete combat perks and special moves, not just extra dialogue.
4Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Oct 15, 2019
In this game, you can…
- wake up with no memory and have your necktie talk to you
- set up a nightclub and drug lab in an abandoned church during a homicide investigation
- hunt a creature unknown to science and eventually meet the Insulindian Phasmid
- listen to 24 inner voices argue and vote on what you do next
- fail key checks and get new scenes and dialogue instead of a reload screen
- solve a murder while also tracking down your own name, badge, shoes, and lost past
- talk to the city like it's a living thing that whispers history through you
- shape your politics through play and still get called a liberal by the biggest communist you meet
5Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition - Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
Mar 26, 2010
In this game, you can…
- perch on gargoyles and pick off armed thugs one by one until they start panicking about the shadows.
- scan a crime scene for evidence, follow trails, and reconstruct what happened using forensic tools.
- dive into Scarecrow's nightmare sequences where the level turns into a surreal horror setpiece with its own rules.
- escort the Joker through Arkham, then watch him escape and turn the whole asylum into a trapped, hostile maze.
- chain punches, counters, dodges, and takedowns into long, uninterrupted combos that carry you across a room.
- hunt down hidden Riddler riddles, trophies, and secret interview tapes with built-in tracking across the entire island.
- stalk enemies from vents, swoop down for takedowns, then vanish back into the rafters before anyone can react.
- roam an open-but-contained asylum island, slipping between buildings and courtyards through shortcuts, secrets, and hidden history.
6Persona 4 Golden - A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Jun 13, 2020
In this game, you can…
- step into your TV on a rainy night.
- build friendships — even with a shrine fox — that directly power up your combat fusions.
- fight someone's "other self" so their Persona can awaken and join your team afterward.
- live a full school year where every day is two choices.
- capture Personas, then fuse them into custom builds with the exact skills and resistances you want.
- dive into a foggy TV-world dungeon of random floors, hunt the staircase, and push deeper for treasure and rare fights.
- investigate a string of disappearances by chasing clues across town, watching the Midnight Channel, then entering the next victim's TV world before the deadline hits.
- bounce from goofy school trips and club hangouts to life-or-death boss fights as your classmates become a full detective squad.
7Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition - Get Batman: Arkham City and all DLC for one low price with the release of the GOTY Edition!
Sep 7, 2012
In this game, you can…
- fight Mr. Freeze in a boss battle where you can't use the same takedown twice because he adapts to your tricks.
- switch to Catwoman to cling to walls, crawl across ceilings, and use her whip to navigate and fight in her own story sections.
- glide off rooftops, grapple midair, and cross the entire city in minutes.
- chain counters, stuns, gadgets, and finishers while enemies force you to attack shields from above and shock sticks from behind.
- drop into a room of armed thugs, perch on gargoyles, crawl through vents, and pick them off until the last one is alone and searching.
- control Robin in a post-story DLC mission arc and bring his different gear and combat style into the finale.
- hunt down 440 Riddler trophies hidden all over the city to unlock his side mission.
- scan crime scenes, track signals, and follow environmental clues with detective vision that reveals enemies and hidden details through walls.
8Batman™: Arkham Origins - As of December 4, 2016, the online services portion of Batman: Arkham Origins has been retired. We thank those that have joined us to battle. The Single player campaign may still be played and enjoyed offline. For any questions relating to Batman: Arkham Origins, please contact WB Games customer service.
Oct 24, 2013
In this game, you can…
- get hunted across Gotham after a $50 million bounty drops on you, drawing eight assassins into the city on Christmas Eve.
- reconstruct a murder by scrubbing through a 3D hologram replay of the crime scene, rebuilding events step by step.
- fire a Remote Claw to string a tightrope between rooftops, then use it to create new paths and pull enemies into hanging traps.
- clear a room without being detected by yanking enemies up to vantage points and leaving them suspended as you thin the patrols.
- take down control towers to unlock fast travel, turning movement options into something you earn by disabling the city's network.
- watch Joker hijack the assassination plot by posing as Black Mask, flipping the entire manhunt into a different story midstream.
- pull off a 2000+ hit combo, then have it shattered when armored, martial-artist, and venom-boosted enemies force you to switch tactics.
9Phoenix 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
In this game, you can…
- interrogate a parrot as a courtroom witness.
- use a magic lock-and-key mechanic to confront someone's hidden secret and force the truth out before you ever reach court.
- defend a client while everyone in court is openly hostile, and still win by proving a murder case in just three days.
- cross-examine witnesses and slam contradictions with the right evidence mid-testimony.
- walk crime scenes, inspect obvious objects, and interrogate everyone until the clue chain finally makes sense.
- keep pressing a witness until they add one tiny detail, then use that new line to spring a contradiction and flip the whole trial.
- watch witnesses and culprits visibly break down in court when your evidence finally corners them.
- start on a goofy, low-stakes case that keeps unfolding into a way bigger murder mystery with late twists that rewrite everything you believed.
10Firework - An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.
Feb 3, 2021
In this game, you can…
- reopen a closed massacre case when a funeral coffin catches fire.
- talk to the dead to pull out hidden memories that advance your investigation.
- watch the world abruptly shift between reality, remembered scenes, and the realm of the dead as you chase clues.
- follow a routine murder inquiry in a mountain village until you're uncovering each victim's past life, one by one.
- reconstruct what happened to a family from scattered clues, only for the presumed murder-suicide to collapse into a different tragedy.
- stumble into a nasty jump scare by interacting with a TV at just the wrong time.
- uncover a grim family history tied to an illegal underground ancient-artefact trade intertwined with murder and local myths.
- hit a climax where multiple myths, family sins, and earlier scenes suddenly click into one explanation all at once.
