Detective Failure
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A dialogue-heavy 2D point-and-click murder mystery with branching choices and multiple endings, playable in about two hours.

The Wild Case
A compact 2D first-person point-and-click adventure with puzzles, quirky characters, and a humorous mystery that plays like an escape room.
2021-04-06
- Puzzle
- Adventure

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Games like Detective Failure

A dialogue-heavy 2D point-and-click murder mystery with branching choices and multiple endings, playable in about two hours.

The Wild Case
A compact 2D first-person point-and-click adventure with puzzles, quirky characters, and a humorous mystery that plays like an escape room.
2021-04-06
- Puzzle
- Adventure

Indie

Point-and-click

Paper Perjury

A single-player detective adventure in the Ace Attorney vein, with a well-crafted mystery and a roughly 18-hour campaign.

2024-12-09

Indie

The Mermaid Mask

A charming, dialogue-heavy point-and-click murder mystery aboard a strange submarine, with sharp humour, tricky puzzles, and a roughly 10-hour story-driven investigation.

2026-07-16

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Mystery

A Case of Fraud

A compact, non-linear detective puzzler about cross-referencing documents to expose corporate fraud, with a playful office tone and ~3.5-hour runtime.

2025-11-10

Adventure
Indie

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

A short, whimsical single-player adventure where you play a duck detective using evidence inspection and fill-in-the-blank deductions to solve a twisty case.

2024-05-23

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Mystery
Point-and-click

Mini Murder Mysteries

A cozy single-player collection of nine short deduction mysteries, finishable in about two to four hours.

2026-06-23

Detective Ridelle

A cozy escape-room-style murder mystery where you find clues and interrogate suspects to solve the case in about 7-8 hours.

2024-02-04

First person
Puzzle
Indie
Mystery
Visual Novel

Little Locked Rooms

A short single-player detective game about solving locked-room crimes in tiny dioramas by examining clues and reasoning through each mystery.

2024-06-05

Indie
Mystery
Visual Novel

Yuletide Regicide

A darkly comic North Pole murder mystery visual novel where you interrogate suspects and save Christmas in about an hour.

2025-12-01

Adventure
Indie
Visual Novel

Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe

A short comedy noir adventure with a wisecracking detective, light puzzles, and a murder mystery to solve in about three hours.

2020-03-31

Comedy
Adventure

Alicia Griffith – Lakeside Murder

A compact single-player casual detective adventure about solving a ritual murder in a lakeside town.

2016-12-16

Adventure
Mystery

Star Seeker in: the Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff

A silly point-and-click wizard-detective comedy that lasts about 90 minutes, with unique dialogue for every evidence combo.

2020-11-03

Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

The Wild Case