The Investigation Zone

Games about gathering evidence, questioning details, forming theories, and uncovering truth.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

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!
lily's world XD - Players say: Explore a missing teen’s 2004 laptop, decode its messages and files, and uncover why someone is watching your investigation. Players like: Early-Web Aesthetic · Emotional Story · Immersive Investigation ·
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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

Police Chief Simulator - Players say: Build a county police station, process cases, patrol Winston Springs, arrest suspects, and dispatch officers as you expand. Players like: Build Up The Station · Manage Police Staff · Relaxed Game Pace ·
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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!

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.
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.
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.
Desktop Detective - An idle detective game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Ghost Buster:Village - An extreme blogger travels to an abandoned village that, according to legend, was deserted in a single day. While exploring, he encounters rituals and entities rooted in Slavic mythology. But the truth waiting there is far more terrifying than any legend.
WE ARE SO DEAD - Players say: In online co-op, a dead player guides living friends through a haunted maze with a Ouija board as they gather relics and banish demons. Players like: Co-op Laughs · Player-Made Codes · Ghost-Living Roles ·
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A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.

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The Divine Invasion - Players say: As a cyberpunk bounty hunter, recover stolen historical artifacts, fight or sneak through missions, and investigate who is rewriting morality. Players like: Cyberpunk Atmosphere · Sci-Fi And Fantasy · Philosophical Mystery ·
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Strange events occur in the cyberpunk age: a mysterious criminal steals museum pieces, historical documents in order to make certain corrections and then puts everything back. Someone is trying to prove that Good and Evil have swapped places in the past… But why?

Nobody Wants to Die - Players say: In 2329 New York, Detective James Karra rewinds crime scenes and follows clues to investigate killings among the immortal elite. Players like: Noir Visual Design · Dystopian Worldbuilding · Time-Rewind Investigations ·
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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.

Cybernetic Fault - Players say: As an inept scientist in a failing research complex, investigate an experiment gone wrong by exploring, fixing systems, and solving puzzles. Players like: Sci-Fi Atmosphere · Absurd Humor · Interesting Puzzles ·
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Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!

Asleep: Act 1 - Players say: As Ana Lúcia, explore a 1990s Brazilian nightmare, solve point-and-click puzzles, and use light to evade hostile creatures. Players like: Eerie Pixel Art · Brazilian Setting · Intriguing Story ·
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Use light to survive a nightmare: each creature reacts differently to it. Explore, solve puzzles, and evade the horrors in the dark. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.

Machinika: Museum - Players say: As a museum technician, inspect and repair alien devices by exploring their mechanisms and solving compact 3D puzzles. Players like: Alien Machine Puzzles · Calm Sci-Fi Atmosphere · Satisfying Puzzle Solving ·
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Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Lucifer Within Us - Players say: As a digital exorcist in a church-run future, investigate three murders by comparing suspect timelines, evidence, and hidden motives. Players like: Timeline Deduction · Unusual Future Setting · Distinctive Visual Style ·
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Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition - Players say: As Blade Runner Ray McCoy, investigate murders and hunt replicants in a point-and-click Los Angeles case shaped by shifting identities and choices. Players like: Rainy Noir Atmosphere · Branching Replayability · Blade Runner World ·
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Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.

Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town - Players say: A letter from his missing father sends Willy to a quirky pirate town, where he questions locals and solves item-based puzzles. Players like: Distinctive Visual Style · Logical Puzzles · Pirate Town Atmosphere ·
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A letter from 10 years ago, an intricate web of lies to unravel and a mystery to solve. Explore an unconventional town of pirates, dive into the past, collect items and look for clues to help Willy find out what happened to his father...

Eternal Threads - Players say: As a time operative, explore a burned house’s seven-day past and alter its residents’ choices to save six housemates. Players like: Timeline Manipulation · Character Stories · Voice Acting ·
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Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

The Forgotten City - Players say: Investigate an ancient Roman city bound by a deadly rule, using a time loop to uncover its mystery and change events. Players like: Compelling Story · Engaging Mystery · Time-Loop Progression ·
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The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

A Case of Distrust - Players say: In 1924 San Francisco, private investigator Phyllis Malone searches crime scenes, questions suspects, and tests their stories against evidence. Players like: Distinctive Silhouette Art · Jazz And Atmosphere · Engaging Dialogue ·
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A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

Night Call - Players say: A Paris cabbie hunts a serial killer by ferrying night passengers, hearing their stories, and weighing clues against a ticking shift. Players like: Passenger Stories · Noir Atmosphere · Thoughtful Conversations ·
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Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 - Players say: Help pizza-maker Caetano with deliveries while pursuing his old saxophone through a surreal, secret-filled city corner. Players like: Surreal City Setting · Jazz Soundtrack · Secrets to Find ·
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On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 - Players say: As ranger Ethan Hill, search an abandoned Appalachian park for missing Jen, photographing clues and solving point-and-click puzzles. Players like: Beautiful Environments · Clever Puzzles · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 is the second part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from a national park to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division - Players say: Work as Los Zorangeles’ database detective, using SQL queries and online sleuthing to solve absurd minor-crime cases. Players like: Beginner SQL Lessons · Absurd, Funny Writing · Satisfying Case Deduction ·
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Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.

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The Dark Rites of Arkham - Players say: Two Arkham detectives investigate a sealed-room ritual murder in a pixel-art point-and-click mystery of cults and occult clues. Players like: Lovecraftian Storytelling · Detailed Pixel Art · Detective Duo Chemistry ·
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A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.

Chronoquartz - Players say: Plan ten-turn loops, explore a world under threat, and use what you learn in each reset to solve puzzles and move forward. Players like: Satisfying Puzzle Reveals · Ten-Turn Loop Design · Logical Puzzle Solutions ·
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In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?

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Nightmare Frames - Nightmare Frames is a supernatural thriller where you'll step into the shoes of Alan Goldberg, in the search for the scariest horror film of all time. An enthralling journey through the streets of the Hollywood of the 80s, a small haunted town, and even Hell itself.
A Case of Fraud - Players say: As a detective, analyze a startup’s documents, identify its staff and pets, and piece together a missing CEO’s fraud case. Players like: Satisfying Identity Deductions · Cute Pet Profiles · Fair Puzzle Difficulty ·
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A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.

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Supercow - Supercow is a hilarious dynamic arcade game with an exciting plot for the whole family. If you like Platformers and Runners, you'll definitely enjoy it!
Svoboda 1945: Liberation - Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Pieced Together - Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship and getting older. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook as you uncover the story piece by piece.
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I'm on Observation Duty 4 - Players say: Monitor security cameras, report strange changes and intruders, and survive the night until 6 a.m. Players like: Black-and-White Cameras · Unsettling Atmosphere · Subtle Anomaly Hunts ·
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A spot the difference -type of puzzle horror game about monitoring live surveillance camera footage and spotting anomalies. Anomalies range from furniture movement to intruders. Fix anomalies by filing reports. You will need sharp eyes and good memory. The goal is to survive the entire night.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

The Mermaid Mask - Players say: Detectives Grimoire and Sally investigate a locked-room murder aboard a submarine, questioning its crew, examining clues, and solving puzzles. Players like: Characterful Writing · Voice Performances · Art and Animation ·
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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.

Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County - Players say: As Frog Detective, investigate a sheriff-less cowboy county by questioning locals, trading favors, and exploring on a scooter. Players like: Funny Dialogue · Satisfying Series Finale · Memorable Characters ·
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You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.

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The Case of the Golden Idol - Players say: Investigate frozen scenes of twelve deaths, gather clues, and fill in case reports to identify suspects and uncover a linked mystery. Players like: Satisfying Deduction · Connected Storyline · Rewarding Puzzle Curve ·
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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.

The Test: Hypothesis Rising - Players say: Answer probing personal and hypothetical questions in an eerie quiz that concludes with an analysis and a secret word. Players like: Personal Reflection · Varied Questions · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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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?

The Test: Final Revelation - Players say: Answer personal and moral-dilemma questions in the trilogy’s final psychological test, then receive a secret word and reflection. Players like: Thought-Provoking Questions · Personal Reflection · Comforting Final Advice ·
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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?

The Drifter - Players say: Hunted after witnessing a murder, Mick Carter investigates a conspiracy and solves point-and-click puzzles as death sends him back seconds. Players like: Gripping Story · Excellent Voice Acting · Logical Puzzles ·
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A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

The Room VR: A Dark Matter - Players say: In 1908 London, investigate an Egyptologist’s disappearance by exploring eerie rooms and solving hands-on VR mechanisms. Players like: Tactile VR Puzzles · Eerie Atmosphere · Detailed Environments ·
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The British Institute of Archaeology, London, 1908: The disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist prompts a Police investigation into the unknown. Explore cryptic locations, examine fantastic gadgets and uncover an otherworldly discovery which blurs the line between reality and illusion.

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last seen online - Players say: Snoop through a secondhand computer, solve password and file-based puzzles, and piece together its former owner's story. Players like: Nostalgic PC Atmosphere · Emotional Story · Clever, Fair Puzzles ·
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Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.

The Test: Secrets of the Soul - Players say: Answer personal questions in an eerie psychological test, then receive a closing interpretation and a single “gifted” word. Players like: Thought-Provoking Questions · Personal Final Reading · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

Murders on the Yangtze River - Players say: A traveling detective investigates murders along early-20th-century China’s Yangtze, seeking clues to his brother’s death. Players like: Connected Case Story · Historical Detail · Memorable Characters ·
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"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Enigma of Fear - Players say: Detective Mia searches the impossible Perimeter for her missing father, piecing together clues and solving puzzles amid paranormal threats. Players like: Satisfying Deductions · Intriguing Mystery · Distinctive Visuals ·
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Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection - Players say: Play prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, inspect crime scenes, connect evidence, and expose contradictions across two linked mystery adventures. Players like: Interconnected Story Arcs · Edgeworth Character Growth · Crime Scene Investigation ·
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Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!