Murder Mystery/Detective Work

Compilation of games centered around a murder mystery/whodunnit/investigation/death game.

Zoku Mikagura Shoujo Tanteidan: Kanketsuhen
Zoku Mikagura Shoujo Tanteidan: Kanketsuhen
The Zodiac Trial
The Zodiac Trial
Zetsubou Prison
Zetsubou Prison
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World
Yousei
Yousei
Your Turn to Die: Death Game by Majority
Your Turn to Die: Death Game by Majority
Your Dry Delight
Your Dry Delight
Yasogaya Murder Cases
Yasogaya Murder Cases
Yamiyo ni Sasayaku: Tantei Sagara Kyouichirou
Yamiyo ni Sasayaku: Tantei Sagara Kyouichirou
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Zaiteku Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Zaiteku Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Ryuu no Tera Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Ryuu no Tera Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Kurama Sansou Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Kurama Sansou Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Kurama Sansou Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Kurama Sansou Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Hana no Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Hana no Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken
XV
XV
X-Note
X-Note
Wrongly Accused
Wrongly Accused
World's End Club
World's End Club
World of Horror
World of Horror
World End Syndrome
World End Syndrome
The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us
Why Am I Dead: Rebirth
Why Am I Dead At Sea
Why Am I Dead At Sea
Who's Lila?
Who's Lila?
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Who Killed My Father Academy!
Who Killed My Father Academy!
Who is the Killer: Episode Two
Who is the Killer: Episode One
Who is the Killer: Episode III
Whispers of a Machine
Whispers of a Machine
Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows
Where's an Egg?
Where's an Egg?
When the Night Comes
When the Night Comes
We Suspect Foul Play
We Suspect Foul Play
The Walsingham Files - Chapter 2
The Walsingham Files - Chapter 2
The Walsingham Files: Chapter 1
The Walsingham Files: Chapter 1
Voodoo Detective
Voodoo Detective
Virginia
Virginia
Vincent: The Secret of Myers
Vincent: The Secret of Myers
The Vigilant Villa
The Vigilant Villa
Verbal Verdict
Verbal Verdict
Vera Blanc: Ghost in the Castle
Vera Blanc: Ghost in the Castle
Vera Blanc: Full Moon
Vera Blanc: Full Moon
Venture to the Vile
Venture to the Vile
The Vault
The Vault
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Vampire: Who killed me?
Utakata no Hana ga Chiru
Utakata no Hana ga Chiru
Usotsuki Game
Usotsuki Game
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Unsolved Crimes
Unsolved Crimes
Unsolved Case: The Scarlet Hyacinth - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: The Scarlet Hyacinth - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Murderous Script - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Murderous Script - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Fatal Clue - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Fatal Clue - Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Above the Law Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case: Above the Law Collector's Edition
Unsolved Case
Unsolved Case
Unheard: The Lethal Script
Unheard: The Lethal Script
Unheard
Unheard
Unavowed
Unavowed
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Uchida Yasuo DS Mystery Detective Asami Mitsuhiko Series: Fukutoshin Serial Murder Incidents
Uchida Yasuo DS Mystery Detective Asami Mitsuhiko Series: Fukutoshin Serial Murder Incidents
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane
Twin Coves
Twin Coves
A Turnabout to El Dorado
A Turnabout to El Dorado
Turlock Holmes
Turlock Holmes
Tsuki wa Kirisaku: Tantei Sagara Kyouichirou
Tsuki wa Kirisaku: Tantei Sagara Kyouichirou
Tsuihou Senkyo
Tsuihou Senkyo
Trick x Logic Season 1
Trick x Logic Season 1
Trauma Team
Trauma Team
Only the forensics chapters.
The Trace: Murder Mystery Game
The Trace: Murder Mystery Game
Trace Memory
Trace Memory
Touhou Hakujinki: White Names Spoiled Past
Touhou Hakujinki: White Names Spoiled Past
Touhou: Fading Illusion
Touhou: Fading Illusion
Touch Detective 2 1/2
Touch Detective 2 1/2
Touch Detective
Touch Detective
Toraware no Kan
Toraware no Kan
Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
Tokyo Dark
Tokyo Dark
Tokyo Chronos
Tokyo Chronos
To Kill A Black Swan
Toby's Nose
Toby's Nose
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
Time Hollow
Time Hollow
Three Guys That Paint
Three Guys That Paint
This Bed We Made
This Bed We Made
Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park
Thief's Roulette
Thief's Roulette
Theresia
Theresia
The Thaumaturge
The Thaumaturge
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze
Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze
Tell Me Why
Tell Me Why
Telling Lies
Telling Lies
Technobabylon
Technobabylon

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1 year ago

Lacuna, Brok the Investigator, Lamplight City, Misadventures of Laura Silver, Technobabylon, and Voodoo Detective.

1 year ago

I'd suggest Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, The Black Mirror, Circle of Blood

1 year ago

@ZapRowsdower I just added them, thank you for the suggestions!

1 year ago

@Penumbra Just added, thank you!

6 months ago

Suggestion, although a bit of an obscure pick: Animal Land Satsuijin Jiken/Animal Land Murder Case

6 months ago

@qbbyamiibo Just added! Thank you for the suggestion!

5 months ago

Amazing list for my favourite genre of fiction, just wanted to mention Roman's Christmas as I noticed it wasn't on the list!

5 months ago

Also the Ace Attorney Fangame: Gyaku Shaun Sai Hanri

5 months ago

@Zakdj thank you so much! Just added both games!

1 month ago

Wow, thanks for posting this list, it's incredibly thorough! I have some suggestions if you're looking for more.

Her Story has two follow-ups, Telling Lies and Immortality. Analogue: A Hate Story has a sequel, Hate Plus. Also 428: Shibuya Scramble (2008), Beyond (2005), Deadline (1982), Draugen (2019), Foo Foo (2016), Killed Until Dead (1986), Lunium (2023), Mizzurna Falls (1998), Moonmist (1986), and Murder on the Zinderneuf (1983).

Couple of other games that I've heard of but haven't played, but sound like they belong here? 2064: Read Only Memories, GameDec, Lux-Pain, Mask of the Rose, Scarlet Hollow, Shadows of Doubt, and Unavowed. Whew!

1 month ago

@bellwoods Thank you so much for so many suggestions!! 428: Shibuya Scramble and Unavowed were already on the list, but I just added the rest!

1 month ago

Wanted to leave some more obscure/newly added suggestions for the list:
Murders in Space
The Failure of Aniconfuku: Convention Murder Episode
The Crimson Debt
Murders on the Yangtze River
Wrongly Accused
We Suspect Foul Play
Eunae Liaro in: Fowl Play
Classified: of 2015
Murders at Tealwoods Manor
Clash: Robot Detective
Lucifer Within Us
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One
Murder Mystery Machine
Oniria Crimes
Boodunnit
Sixtieth Kilometer
Eternal Threads
Touhou: Fading Illusion
Murder Diaries 1 2 and 3
Detective Kobayashi
Murder Is Game Over

Apologies if any of these are already in the list and I missed them, this list has been a godsent for me in finding interesting games to check out and would love for it to be as definitive as it could possibly be!

1 month ago

Some more that I forgot:
Between Horizons
Verbal Verdict
Turlock Holmes
The Order of the Snake Scale
Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate
In a Detective's Mind
Clash: Blue Mirage
The Cadet Files
Paper Perjury

1 month ago

@Zakdj thank you so much for all the suggestions! I also want this list to be as complete as possible so I really appreciate the help! :)

27 days ago

Got another batch of games. I decided to send suggestions whenever I have a substantial amount to put forward. This is A LOT, and I still doubt I've found everything I could. But more mystery games is more mystery games, and that's always a great thing.

Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Cracks Where the Light Gets In
Where's An Egg
Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition
Crime O'Clock
Detective: Ritual of the Sea
Abscission
Back to the Dawn
Pixel Noir
Cube Escape: Paradox
Cube Escape: Paradox - Chapter 2
Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
Red Line
Why Am I Dead: Rebirth
Aswang Detective: The Case of New York
Inworld Origins
PROZE: Enlightenment
Dollhouse
Puzzle Agent
Puzzle Agent 2
Chants of Sennaar
Overboard!
Heaven's Vault
Sethian
Norco
The Thaumaturge
Retro Mystery Club Vol.1: The Ise-Shima Case
Retro Mystery Club Vol.2: The Beppu Case
Methods: The Canada Files
Hermitage: Strange Case Files
Escape Room: Reality
Please close the doors
The Walsingham Files: Chapter 1 and 2
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games
Synesthesia
Seance
The Case of Maneki
The Firebrand
Eighteen
A Turnabout to El Dorado
The Vault
Anata o Yurusanai
Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei
Inugamike no Ichizoku
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 - Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon
Sound Novel Machi: Machi
The many enteries in the Tantei Jinguuji Saburo series
Missing Parts 2: The Tantei Stories
Missing Parts 3: The Tantei Stories
J.B. Harold no Jikenbo #2: Manhattan Requiem
J.B. Harold 3: D.C. Connection
J.B. Harold: Kiss of Murder
J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues
Detective Evangelion
Deka Voice
DS Nishimura Kyotaro Suspense Shin Tantei Series: Kyoto Atami Zekkai no Kotou - Satsui no Wana
Tantei Shinshi Dash!
London Seirei Tantei-Dan
Quiz Meitantei Neo & Geo
Another Time Another Leaf: Kagami no Naka no Tantei
Apathy: Narugami Gakuen Toshi Densetsu Tantei Kyoku
Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Kadan no Isshu & Nazo no Jikenbo
Again
Tantei Gakuen Q: Meitantei Hakimida!
Tantei Gakuen Q: Kyuukyoku no Trick ni Idome!
Simple 1500 Series Vol. 59: The Suiri - IT Tantei: 18 no Jikenbo
Simple 1500 Series Vol. 74: The Horror Mystery - The Sangeki Yakata Cabin Hakushaku no Fukkatsu
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 17: The Suiri - Aratanaru 20 no Jikenbo
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 43: The Saiban - Shinmai Shihoukan Momota Tsukasa no 10 no Saiban File
Simple 2500 Series Portable Vol. 3: The Dokodemo Suiri - IT Tantei: Zen 68 no Jikenbo
Mystereet: Yasogami Kaoru no Chousen!
Camisole
Laplace's Demon
Femme Fatale
Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsk ni Kiyu
Fushigi Deka
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Psychic Detective Vol 1 -5
Gensou no Artemis: Actress School Mystery Adventure
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbou: Akuma no Satsujin Koukai
Ooe
Sanma no Meitantei
Red, Blue, and Green
BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni Kieta Kako
Hitman 3 (The Dartmoor level is based around a murder mystery)
The absurdly long list of Nancy Drew Games

26 days ago

@Zakdj everything added, thank you so much for finding so many games!

24 days ago

More obscure, similar to Hitman, MGS1 VR missions has a series of challenges called "Mystery Mode", where you solve the mystery of who the culprit behind a murder is, the final of these missions being a locked room mystery.
https://youtu.be/CcZta_mNgb0
https://youtu.be/Yg8QCbvAGGg
https://www.backloggd.com/games/metal-gear-solid-vr-missions/

23 days ago

@Zakdj added, thanks!


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