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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Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

DOS1988protected Sierra On-Line

Police Quest 2: The Vengeance is a graphical point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1988 as the second installment in the Police Quest series, which was created by former ...

221B Baker Street

DOS1986 Datasoft

You are Sherlock Holmes, and someone has committed a crime, possibly because they couldn’t handle the game’s UI. 221B Baker Street is a detective board game where your mind is your only weapon. And also a notepad, beca...

Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 Stormfront Studios

Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS1994 Stormfront Studios

Deadline

DOS1982 Infocom

Sleuth: A Murder Mystery

DOS1983freeware Norland Software

Perry Mason

DOS1985 Paisano Productions

Escape from delirium

DOS1995 Virtual X-Perience

Murders in Space

DOS1990protected Hitech Productions

Crime City

DOS1993

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS1988 Challenge

The Witness

DOS1983 Infocom

Murders in Venice

DOS1990 CobraSoft

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 Trecision

Mortville Manor

DOS1988 Lankhor

Daughter of Serpents

DOS1992 Eldritch Games

Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected Access Software

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected Access Software

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more spe...

Maupiti Island

DOS1991 Lankhor

The Clue!

DOS1994freeware neo Software Produktions

Sam and Max Hit the Road

DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1993protecteddemo LucasArts

Sam & Max Hit the Road is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 and is based on the characters Sam and Max created by comic artist Steve Purcell. The game follows the ti...

Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 Magicom Multimedia

Ballyhoo

DOS1986 Infocom

Come one, come all, to the saddest circus ever pixelated. In Ballyhoo, you're stuck in a depressing carnival trying to solve a kidnapping while dealing with clowns, carnies, and the worst text parser since your last therapy sessio...

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 Gu...

Blackstar: Agent of Justice

DOS1995

In Blackstar: Agent of Justice (1995), you play a noir-style detective in a trench coat so dramatic it probably has its own union. Set in a dark, crime-ridden city where everyone talks like they’ve swallowed gravel, it&rsquo...

The Scoop

DOS1989 Telarium

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 ta...

La Abadia del Crimen

DOS1987 Opera Soft

La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is an action-adventure developed in Spain by Paco Menéndez in the mid-1980s. It was initially created for the Amstrad CPC and later ported to other popular home computer syst...