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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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Murder Club
DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 Riverhill Soft
Ballyhoo
DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
The Clue!
DOS1994freeware4/5 neo Software Produktions
Igor Objective Uuklaonia
DOS19953.5/5 Péndulo Studios
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 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...
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
Suspect
DOS19844.2/5 Infocom
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Murder on the Zinderneuf
DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates
Fish!
DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
The President is Missing
DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation
Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle
DOS1989protected3.5/5 Softdisk Publishing
Defender of Boston: The Rock Island Mystery
DOS19923.2/5
Murder by the Dozen
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
The Scoop
DOS19893.8/5 Telarium
Murder in the Atlantic
DOS19883.2/5 CobraSoft
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS19883.6/5 Time Warp Software
The Third Courier
DOS19893.9/5 Manley Associates
The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.
Gumboots Australia
DOS19904/5 Reckon Software