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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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 ...

Crime Time

DOS1990 Starbyte Software

Suspect

DOS1984 Infocom

The Scoop

DOS1989 Telarium

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 Magicom Multimedia

Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected Softdisk Publishing

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...

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy

Windows XP/98/951998 Trecision

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...

L.A. Crackdown

DOS1988 Nexa Corporation

Welcome to Los Angeles, where crime runs rampant and your job is to bring the chaos down with nothing but surveillance skills and a stern attitude. L.A. Crackdown puts you in the shoes of a tactical commander who never actually le...