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Midnight Files: THE NOIR CUT
Games like Midnight Files: THE NOIR CUT

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Games like 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.

Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
A compact single-player murder-mystery set in Hollywood, with crime-scene investigation and clue-finding in a 4-5 hour playthrough.
2026-01-12
- First person

Puzzle

Adventure

Bird view / Isometric

Text

Mystery

Point-and-click

Drama

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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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The Last Case of John Morley

A 1940s detective adventure where you explore atmospheric crime scenes and unravel a twisty mystery in a compact 3–5 hour playthrough.

2025-11-27

Action
First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Mystery

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Mystery of the Malign

A single-player indie detective adventure of investigation and interrogation, with thorough logical deduction but an abrupt ending and a ~13.6-hour median reviewer playtime.

2025-09-22

Adventure
Indie

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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

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Scene Investigators

A hardcore detective game set in 1990s–2010s America where you solve murders by examining crime scenes and reading text clues, with mixed reviews and roughly 8–9 hours of play.

2023-10-24

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Text
Mystery

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Forensics: Crime Scene Detective

A short, atmospheric forensic crime-lab sim with DNA and digital analysis, though rough UI and shallow missions make it feel underdeveloped.

2026-07-13

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Simulator
Mystery

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The Archive

A slow-burn single-player mystery about reading evidence and connecting cases over quiet night shifts, with a roughly three-hour runtime.

2026-01-29

Puzzle
Thriller
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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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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Necrologium

A dark single-player adventure about investigating seven corrupted souls, offering a compact ~80-minute mystery whose sparse evidence can make deductions feel like conjecture.

2025-09-30

First person
Adventure
Indie
Visual Novel

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FORENSIC - M.E. Protocol

A single-player crime-investigation simulator that uses drones, robots, and chemical analysis to solve nine separate cases, though rough mechanics and a steep learning curve can get in the way.

2026-05-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Simulator