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A single-player detective adventure featuring AI-driven voice interrogations, with brief but positive early access reviews.

DETECTIVE - Rainy night
A compact ~3-hour detective adventure with psychological horror and paranormal elements, where players solve a challenging case through note-taking and deduction.
2025-12-04
- First person
- Puzzle

Thriller

Adventure

Horror

Indie

Simulator

Mystery

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Unheard - Voices of Crime

A short single-player detective game where you solve connected mysteries by replaying audio from crime scenes.

2019-03-28

Puzzle
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Point-and-click
Auditory

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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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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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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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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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Case Files: Internal Affairs

A short FMV murder mystery where you spot lies in police interrogation footage, with a strong story and solid acting.

2026-05-14

First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Mystery

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Midnight Files: THE NOIR CUT

A short noir detective adventure focused on photographing evidence, searching police records, and linking clues on a detective board across standalone cases.

2025-11-04

First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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Detective INNA DUKE

A charming, short noir visual novel about investigating a streamer's abduction in a rainy city, with light detective mystery and sharp humor.

2026-06-09

Adventure
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