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A casual AI-hosted text deduction game with user-generated puzzles, currently rough and buggy in early access.

Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
A lighthearted, SQL-driven detective game in Los Zorangeles where you solve criminal cases through queries — a beginner-friendly, compact experience of about three to five hours.
2026-07-17
- Puzzle

Indie

Mystery

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CaseCracker

A text-based detective game about searching and cross-referencing clues in a complex database, with engrossing quick mysteries and a median playtime around 8.5 hours.

2022-12-19

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)

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Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game

A cozy ~4.5-hour detective game where you solve everyday little problems by collecting clues and filling in deduction prompts.

2025-09-09

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Mystery

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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

A short, casual detective adventure about a depressed duck solving a quirky no-murder mystery at a haunted campground via evidence inspection and deduction puzzles.

2025-05-22

Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Mystery

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Acolyte

A conversational detective ARG where you interrogate your AI assistant Acolyte, though glitches and limited responses temper the free-talk promise.

2022-06-28

Adventure
Strategy
Indie

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Vaudeville

A short experimental whodunit that uses AI to generate dialogue in a suspenseful, absurdist murder case, though mixed reviews cite unreliable AI and technical issues.

2025-11-28

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Mystery
Sandbox
Drama
Visual Novel

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Murder Mystery Mayhem AI

A short ~3.5-hour single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world, where you interrogate suspects, gather clues, and deduce the killer—though case variety may feel limited after the first playthrough.

2026-04-20

Puzzle
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

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CaseCracker3

A single-player detective adventure with AI-generated presentation, focused on testimony analysis and crime-scene reconstruction, with positive early reviews and a reviewer-averaged playtime of about 4.4 hours.

2026-05-13

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Acolyte: Prologue

A short detective/puzzle adventure where you converse freely with your Acolyte digital assistant to solve a narrative mystery.

2021-01-10

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Detective Worden

A compact, casual word-puzzle detective game where you crack clues and gather evidence as a private detective to uncover a shadowy truth, playable in about four hours.

2025-10-22

Strategy
Indie

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REWIND

A short, single-player text-based detective puzzle game about combining nearly a hundred clues to solve a single murder, typically finished in one to two hours.

2026-06-29

Puzzle
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

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Detective 26

A relaxing turn-based mystery board game of short dice-rolling investigations across low-poly maps, where you deduce the culprit before turns run out.

2026-03-23

Strategy
Indie