Best Noir Games on Steam
Games with crime, shadows, moral ambiguity, hardboiled narration, and smoky mood.
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1Disco 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
2Katana ZERO - Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Apr 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- slow time until bullets hang in the air, then slice them back into shooters.
- finish a level and watch a security-camera replay of your one perfect run after all the rewinds.
- interrupt someone mid-sentence and shatter the text box to force your response through.
- die, hear "No… That won't work," rewind instantly, and retry until the route finally works.
- solve a room by mixing one-hit slashes, dodge rolls, bullet deflects, and thrown objects into a clean chain.
- turn the environment into a kill plan by stealing guns, triggering traps, and setting off lasers or explosions.
- pick dialogue on a timer, so conversations demand the same split-second decisions as fights.
- chase platinum ranks with an in-game timer and built-in speedrun mode, replaying rooms to shave off seconds.
3The 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
In this game, you can…
- choose which lead to follow first, and lose the other one forever when it means evidence gets destroyed or someone dies.
- track clues by scent, sniffing out evidence around crime scenes instead of relying on gadgets or lab tools.
- decide whether to act like a restrained sheriff or beat a suspect down, and have characters remember how far you went later.
- solve a brutal murder as the Big Bad Wolf, where the first body is just the start and everyone in the fable community becomes a suspect.
- replay a chapter, take the other location first, and watch the whole investigation chain change—who you catch, who escapes, and what you learn.
- interrogate fairy-tale suspects in loaded conversations where your tone can win trust, provoke fear, or trigger a confession.
- get slammed into cinematic brawls where you trade brutal hits and can lose control enough to start turning into a wolf.
4Return of the Obra Dinn - Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Oct 18, 2018
In this game, you can…
- step into a corpse's final seconds and walk around a frozen 3D death scene.
- watch the entire story unfold backward, jumping further and further back in time as you investigate.
- go from mundane ship deaths to discoveries of monstrous, supernatural maritime horrors.
- hear only the voices and sounds from the moment someone dies, then use them to identify who's who.
- work backwards from an obvious killing to deduce who the victim was, who fired, and what led to it.
- follow one person through multiple different death memories, then revisit earlier scenes when new info makes them click.
- reconstruct cases where someone vanishes, gets wounded earlier, and only dies later in a different place.
- solve fates in any order, building your own web of deductions across the whole ship.
5Alice: Madness Returns - Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
Jun 17, 2011
In this game, you can…
- grow to towering size and crush enemies that get too close.
- trigger a sixth-sense vision that reveals invisible platforms, then use that new path to push deeper into the level.
- use your weapons to activate mechanisms and platforms, so the right combat tool can also be the key to moving forward.
- glide with your dress to extend jumps across broken platforms.
- shrink down to slip through tiny entrances and reach hidden areas.
- chain a double-jump into a float, then keep stringing jumps across gaps that shouldn't be crossable.
- fight with a lineup of named weapons like a machine-gun Pepper Grinder, a hammer-like Hobby Horse, timed Clockwork Bombs, and a Teapot Cannon.
- shift out of 3D exploring into side-scrolling stretches and motion-heavy sliding sequences as a change of pace.
6NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE - Descend into the underworld of Japanese street racing. Set between 1990-2009, join the local street racing crews in their battle for territory control. Explore the real location open world(s), compete in wager races, battle other crews and upgrade your vehicles with detailed car customization.
Feb 23, 2024
In this game, you can…
- hit 300 km/h until the speedometer runs out of numbers.
- build a monster car that can outrun its own cooling and reliability if you overdo the power.
- strip body panels and gut the interior for weight reduction, then still cram in a huge subwoofer setup.
- blink your headlights to start a race.
- weave through highway traffic at top speed as cars appear almost at the last second.
- walk around your garage, change oil, repair the engine, and see consequences if you neglect maintenance.
- watch the engine bay physically change as you install upgrades piece by piece.
- take double-or-nothing offers after you lose to try to win your money back.
- race to take over crew territory and climb through local crews instead of just earning points.
7The Looker - You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Jun 17, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn a familiar maze panel into a first-person shooter sequence, then finish it like an arcade challenge.
- reach a final puzzle that ends the whole game as a single escalating punchline.
- play a sudden Snake-style arcade segment in the middle of the puzzle island.
- solve maze puzzles that are hidden in the world, not just on panels.
- cheat at labyrinths by exploiting how the world and panels interact.
- solve a puzzle using sound cues instead of visual logic, and brute-force it if you want.
- unlock running late in the game and realize you could've been sprinting around the island the whole time.
- look through a telescope straight at the sun.
8MOUSE: P.I. For Hire - Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first person shooter.
Apr 16, 2026
In this game, you can…
- smash enemies pancake-flat using falling anvils and grand pianos as real weapons
- wall-run, double-jump, dash, grapple, then glide on your tail to reach a new ledge and pick a lock at the end of the run
- collect hidden baseball cards around levels, then use them to battle the computer in a side minigame
- upgrade guns until they evolve, changing how they look and adding alt-fires that radically shift how they behave
- drink spinach to get absurd super strength and use it to bully fights with cartoon logic
- pin clues to a corkboard, connect evidence, and solve cases that spiral into a city-wide conspiracy
- get ambushed by set-piece boss fights that mix in platforming or simple puzzles before the payoff
9Gunpoint - Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.
Jun 3, 2013
In this game, you can…
- see the building's wiring and reroute switches, sensors, doors, cameras, and elevators across multiple floors.
- string together a whole chain: wire a switch to knock out a guard, trigger a door with a sensor, fire one guard's gun to make another gun shoot, then crash through a glass ceiling and sprint through a vault door before it closes.
- launch across huge gaps, cling to walls and ceilings, and shrug off lethal falls with your jump trousers.
- rewire a light switch to open a trapdoor so a guard flips it and drops straight through.
- shoot a surveillance camera to call an elevator, then use its arrival ding to trigger a sensor that opens a trap somewhere else.
- throw yourself through plate-glass windows to knock people out and keep moving.
- turn off the lights, then wire the building so guards shoot each other, get crushed by doors, or walk into traps you set from another floor.
10The Roottrees are Dead - A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Jan 15, 2025
In this game, you can…
- scour a late-1990s internet on dial-up, chasing tiny breadcrumb clues until a single maiden name finally clicks.
- reconstruct a huge blank family tree by pinning down each person's name, face, job, spouse, and alternate identities.
- finish the main mystery, then unlock a second campaign with a whole new investigation into infidelity, scandal, and possible descendants.
- clip evidence into an in-game notebook, rename and organize pages, highlight source text, then jump straight back to the original document.
- watch three or four relatives snap into confirmed place at once when a set of deductions locks in together.
- use family resemblance as evidence, matching portraits across generations like a visual logic puzzle.
- try weird search queries and stumble into hidden Easter eggs and unexpected results inside the game's browser.
