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The most popular detective, mystery games

A murder to solve! A criminal to apprehend! Detective and mistery games have the recipe for a perfect crime story. Police investigations, finding clues, mysterious killings, a noir atmosphere are all ingredients that makes a good detective / mystery game worth playing. The Police Quest series, the Tex Murphy series, games based on Sherlock Holmes are just some of the most popular detective games ever published in the last century.
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The Legacy: Realm of Terror

DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected Magnetic Scrolls
The Legacy: Realm of Terror is a first-person view survival horror RPG set in the modern world, in a haunted house. The Legacy was developed by Magnetic Scrolls and published by MicroProse Software in 1993.
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Martian Memorandum

DOS1991protecteddemo Access Software
Martian Memorandum is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Access Software. It was released in 1991 and is the sequel to the game Mean Streets. The game is set in a dystopian future on Mars, where players take on the role of Tex Murphy, a private investigator with a sarcastic and humorous demeanor.The story begins with Tex Mu...
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Return of the Phantom

DOS1993protecteddemo MicroProse Software
Return of the Phantom is adventure game set in France, designed by Raymond Benson, developed by MicroProse Software and released in 1993 for DOS only. Return of the Phantom is a third-person adventure game based on the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
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Daughter of Serpents

DOS1992 Eldritch Games
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Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/951991 Riverhill Soft
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Mean Streets

DOS1989protected Access Software
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L.A. Crackdown

DOS1988 Nexa Corporation
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The Last Express

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo Smoking Car Productions
The Last Express, released in 1997, is a unique adventure game designed by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Set on the Orient Express in July 1914, just before World War I, the game offers an intricate and immersive narrative that unfolds in real-time.In the game, players assume the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor with a tro...
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221B Baker Street

DOS1986 Datasoft
221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.
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Jack the Ripper

DOS1995 Intergalactic Development
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Deadline

DOS1982 Infocom
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Escape from delirium

DOS1995 Virtual X-Perience
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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS1994 Stormfront Studios
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 Stormfront Studios
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Felony!

DOS1984 BrainBank
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Borrowed Time

DOS1985 Interplay Productions
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable for its early use of digitized photos and a noir-style detective narrative.The game's story is set in the 1930s and foll...
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Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS1991 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
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Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 Trecision
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The Scoop

DOS1989 Telarium
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Murders in Venice

DOS1990 CobraSoft
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The Orion Conspiracy

DOS1995 Divide by zero
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Sleuth: A Murder Mystery

DOS1983freeware Norland Software
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Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing
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Clue Master Detective

DOS1989 Dalali Software
Clue Master Detective is an abandoned strategy game developed by Dalali Software and released by Leisure Genius in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64. Clue Master Detective is based on the well known board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). Clue can be played in single player, but the best gaming experience come from the multi-player mode.
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In the Dead of Night

DOS1995 Trecision
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Murders in Space

DOS1990protected Hitech Productions
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Earthly delights

DOS1984 Datamost
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The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom
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Amnesia

DOS1986 Cognetics corporation
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The President is Missing

DOS1988protected Cosmi Corporation