Detective/Mystery Video Game Tier List
My ranking of every detective/mystery game that I've played
This is purely my opinion, If you disagree, please I encourage you to make your own list! I'd love to see more people talk about this genre, the games they love and why they love them.
This is very subject to change with time and thinking.
This is purely my opinion, If you disagree, please I encourage you to make your own list! I'd love to see more people talk about this genre, the games they love and why they love them.
This is very subject to change with time and thinking.
46 Games
This is just flat out my favourite game of all time I'm sorry
1
VERY debatable if it should be on this list
2
The literal only issue I can think of is case 1 is kinda okay at best. Aside from that, absolute zenith fiction.
3
Another debatable, but there is a murder and it is the major mystery. I also love persona 4 so.
4
I love this game but some days I remember Ryukishi as a human and hold a gun very tightly.
5
This game made me more poltical than I ever expected to be. God bless you Kim Kitsuragi
6
I am Hajime Hinata's most impassioned fan, he is my favourite protagonist in this franchise he is so great.
7
Kaname Date Cringe Compilation 1 of hopefully thousands more to come.
8
I love the ending, I think it's great. That is the basis for it being this high.
9
I AM VIRTUES LAST REWARDS BIGGEST DEFENDER I WILL NOT HEAR SLANDER FOR MY GOAT!!!! ZTD RUINED EVERYTHING WRAGHHHHHHHHHH
10
Edgeworth might be the best written character like ever maybe possibly.
11
I had to live through the trenches of this game being considered bad for this generation to realise how great it is if you ignore the boring (corner) and awful (seranade) cases
12
I have a thing where I compare media to Jojo part 5, 7 and 8. Part 7 is a flawless masterpiece, part 5 is consistently good, and part 8 has great themes with messy execution.
This is Part 8.
This is Part 8.
13
I WILL SLOG THROUGH 50 MORE APOLLO JUSTICE'S IF IT MEANS PEOPLE REALISING THIS GAMES GREAT!
14
This game holds up so well even though comparing its case writing to later games feels really strange. It feels quaint by later games standards but not archaic or outdated.
15
I like genuenly some days hate episode 2 and 4. Episode 2 is a filter that make most people drop the game because it takes so long to take off, and episode 4 is MISERABLE. But oh my god when dread of the grave starts playing I forgive you.
16
This is the start of Uchikoshi writing cool fun facts about topics he finds interesting and apparently a story unfolds around it. It's kinda goated.
17
This game has a lot of heart and spirit. It got that moxxy. It is swinging FAR above its weight class being here but it earns it for me. A absolute sleeper hit.
18
Shu Takumi should be allowed to cook more often. I love ace attorney but please let his shackles loose more.
19
This game has the charm, the writing, the music, the presentation and the character to make up for some of the most mediocre case writing in the series (ignoring case 3 and 5)
20
Kodaka I'm begging you, please keep writing Komaeda Males and not Teruteru Males. You have the ability to write really good characters man please stop writing perverts.
21
This game has a atmosphere that the later enteries never manage to really capture. Just this has the most wonky character writing out the series, its either the best or the worst no in betweens.
22
So like what I said about Great Ace Attorney. I adore everything about this game aside its main muder mystery, it's kinda not that impressive when actually solved but OH MY GOD THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD AND THE ART IS AMAZING AND I HAVE MULTIPLE PIECES OF MERCH FROM THIS GAME IT'S OOZING CHARISMA!
23
I'm not as stauch a defender of SOJ as I am DD but I still think this has really strong moments and cases, Magical Turnabout and Turnabout Time Traveller are some of my favourite cases in the series. Just, fuck the civil trial.
24
This game took me like 3 years on and off to get through because man this has really good ideas and writing but MAN THE DELUSION MECHANIC SUCKS AND I WOULD PREFER IF YOU DIDN'T FORCE DOGSHIT ECCHI BULLSHIT INTO THIS MAN. Anyway yeah its pretty great if you ignore the central mechanic of the game.
25
I wish I liked you as much as Umineko
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How I wish this was finished
30
This is very strange to count on the list, I'm aware, I like the game alot but by the metrics I judge games on this list this feels right here.
31
I genuenly despise you some days, but Farewell stops you from being the worst
32
35
Mystery kinda sucks but oh my god its so funny
36
The character writing is so good but the case writing is so awful jesus christ
38
Not awful just I don't care much for sonic so alot of the charm is lost on me
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42
Absolute joke of a game
43
I have seen a lot of other lists count this as a mystery game, and yeah there is a disappearence/murder I guess. Funnily means that something is LOWER than ZTD, so good for it, it's the only praise it'll ever get out of me
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