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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Gumboots Australia

DOS1990 Reckon Software

Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected Softdisk Publishing

Ballyhoo

DOS1986 Infocom

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia

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...

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.

Suspect

DOS1984 Infocom

Corruption

DOS1988 Magnetic Scrolls

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS1985 Interplay Productions

Scapeghost

DOS1989 Level 9 Computing

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS1988 Challenge

Mystery of the Mummy

DOS1988 Time Warp Software

The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected Beam Software

The Scoop

DOS1989 Telarium

The President is Missing

DOS1988protected Cosmi Corporation

The Third Courier

DOS1989 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.