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Embark on an art-filled quest through time and space.

The Forever Labyrinth

Trailer

Hollywood, a land of dreams!

But this dream has turned into a nightmare, with the assassination of famous actress Mary Helen in her villa in the middle of the night.

You are tasked to search the scene, find clues, and reconstruct what has happened!

We Suspect Foul Play

Made for the 22nd Metroidvania Month Game Jam, The Last Revenant is an atmospheric sci-fi action metroidvania with horror elements, multiple upgrades to collect and a short but engaging story to uncover.

Over 1200 years into the future, the last of a series of faulty cryosleep pods finally collapses open on a faraway lunar outpost. Sombre, a poor soul with little left of their original form, is serving their sentence on a barren moon with no way to call for help. The only possibility of survival lies in an abandoned comms satellite located in low orbit, which they can only reach by collecting items to survive the harsh journey across and beyond the facility. Entrusted with a spare Hookshot, Sombre will have to try and upgrade this tool to cling to salvation.

But what happened to the rest of the research colony, and their bodies..?

The Last Revenant

Wrongly Accused is a Case of the Golden Idol inspired murder mystery in the vein of Columbo... more of a How-Dunnit than a Whodunnit.

Set during the Years of Lead in 1970s Italy, an attempted assasination attempt on the mayor may not be what everyone thinks. The main suspect Tony has all the evidence pointing at him but maybe it's all a little too convenient.

Wrongly Accused

Unlike many internet-founded projects, this convention was successful. But close to the end of the second day, someone was found dead in convention hall C. People reported to the local police, and all suspects were gathered in the police station.

And now, Here you are.

The Failure of Aniconfuku: Convention Murder Episode

Deblue

A mouse lost in time and the crimes of their family

My Sister is Wanted

Incredulous Interactive

A short, cozy, narrative-driven Halloween game about three friends reuniting to spend a stormy Halloween night together in a haunted house.

Long Time No See

The year is 2021. Neo-America is prospering under the stern yet wise direction of President for Life, Gaius Julius Ceasar. 330 million souls live, love, and laugh, all working tirelessly for the glory of the American people! But with light comes darkness. With prosperity comes misery. And with law comes crime. Heinous crimes! Shocking crimes! Cunning crimes! And sometimes, very rarely, crimes so devious, so shadowy, so slippery that only Neo-America's greatest detectives can hope to solve them.

For these crimes, the very worst of crimes, America has a special team. Two individuals, both alike in dignity, in fair DC, where we lay our scene. Their names: Antony and Cleopatra.

He's the Vice President.

She's the Queen of Egypt.

Together, they fight crime!

Note that this is a fully synchronous two-player game and requires two people and internet access to work. You cannot download this game and play it offline.

Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando

Sylvie

Created by Sylvie & Aria, featuring music by Frédéric Chopin and 煉獄庭園 (Rengoku Teien) The difficulty is extremely high. Controls: Figure it out yourself!

Soft Kitten Experience

Gameplay Video

Jouji5555

Selen Tatsuki

Pomu Rainpuff

Join Detective Pomu as she tracks down the elusive Phantom Thief Selen Tatsuki to her Mystery Manor to save the poor missing Mascots. Solve puzzles, collect cute mascots, and most of all have fun with your oshi! Can Detective Pomu unravel the Mystery of Tatsuki Manor and save the Mascots in time?

Detective Pomu and the Tatsuki Manor Mystery

Larian Studios

Blood in Baldur's Gate is a community-driven free-to-play narrative browser game developed and published by Larian Studios. It served as a narrative teaser for Baldur's Gate III.

Set 15 years before the events of Baldur's Gate III, players are tasked with investigating a murder in the streets of Baldur's Gate. From June 19 to July 6 in 2023, the community could vote on which locations would be unlocked next. All locations are now unlocked, but players are still able to follow in the voters' original footsteps.

Blood in Baldur's Gate

Game Intro

Antares25

Halloween-themed murder mystery visual novel in the kooky town of Misteria.

When Kira and Ame return to their hometown of Misteria for their college break, it doesn't really take long for them to hear about a local's murder.

Kira wants nothing to do with this case, but when they learn about the circumstances of the murder being strangely similar to a storybook they once read as children... well, obviously they end up entangled with this damn mystery...!

Tales of Misteria

Fiddleling

1-Bit Explorer is an adventure game focused on exploration where you do NOT save the world and the world does NOT need saving.

The point is to explore to your heart's content and uncover mysteries and secrets (or don't, it's up to you, really).

1-Bit Explorer

Čendovy Patálie Devs

New Czech short story. The game takes place in Prague and also in Chotěbor. In the game you will encounter Czech dubbing. If you like the Polda game series, you will definitely enjoy this game.

The main character is Čenda, who is a bit of a jerk. He is a famous detective who solves all kinds of cases. But before you solve the main mystery, you have a lot to think about. The game also contains a few minigames.

This game was made as a school project.

Čendovy Patálie

DonutsHunter

In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

Re: Dream

Hatoge

Line 88 is a short kinetic novel with walking elements. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and has elements of horror.

Line 88

Yuga Labs

A Strange New World
We set out to build the Otherside with one thing in mind: the metaverse should be anything but boring.

The world should be dynamic, steeped in narrative, and your actions should hold consequence.

Step into the Otherside, where the normal rules do not apply.

Where you end up is up to chance. Where you go is up to you.

Otherside is a gamified, interoperable metaverse currently under development. The game blends mechanics from massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and web3-enabled virtual worlds.

Otherside

Media that wants to stay lost.

A horror blogger stumbles upon a series of lost media finds that leads them to uncover the mystery of characters "escaping" from their source material.

Cut Strings

Digital Mosaic Games

Homunculus is a short mystery point'n'click game created for Ludum Dare 52.

Homunculus

A game about the nature of dead things and the living and the still-dead languages of both for those who may be alive. But whom everyone else will see as dead or an animal.

Swallow Nine Tails

How far will one man go to prove his innocence?

Working Title Noir Game is an action adventure game featuring a hard-boiled detective framed for murder. Play in your own style, stealth, melee, action shooter... Different styles will reveal different endings.

Working Noir

Acryptia is a skill-based dungeon card game for browser, in which players have to beat Rug’O, the card dealer, to advance to new levels, climb the leaderboard, and complete Season Rewards.

Acryptia

Gameplay Trailer

Amazon Games [ NA / EU ]

Stop the werewolves and solve the mystery of Howl Town.

Tales of Howl Town is a single-player mystery-themed puzzle game playable on Amazon.com. As Amazon delivery driver Zara Briggs, you must identify and banish four werewolves disguised as town villagers. But be warned: banishing the wrong villagers may have disastrous consequences!

Tales of Howl Town is available to US players from 10/27/2022 to 10/31/2022.

Tales of Howl Town

Studio L00k

You find yourself trapped in a strange place...

Solve the hidden puzzles to escape!

Trace

Animal Crossing: New Murder is a game that’s all about finding evidence, talking to fun characters, and solving an (attempted) murder mystery!

The game is split into two different playstyles that feed into each other. On one side is a dream island within the Switch game, ACNH. You, as the player, open up ACNH and come to the dream island to search for evidence and clues.
The other side is a visual-novel web browser game. Through the website, you talk to the villagers and try to get to the bottom of this mystery. Enter the items you find in ACNH to present to characters and in court. But some items you can only find with help from the villagers on the web game.

After gathering enough evidence, you’ll put your knowledge to the test in the courtroom to nail the culprit!

Animal Crossing: New Murder

Friendly Pixel

Everybunny has a secret. Who do you trust to keep the town safe?

Trust No Bunny is a 5-8 player social deduction mission game for fans of Avalon, Town of Salem, Among Us, or Werewolf, actively being developed by new studio Friendly Pixel. It's a game for thinkers, schemers, and downright liars, where guessing the traitor is only half the battle.

Trust No Bunny

The Pandemonium Institute

Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception for five-to-twenty courageous players and one devious storyteller.

A social game played in person or online, seated in a circle, each player receives either a ‘good’ or ‘evil’ token with their unique character on it. Good players share information to solve the mystery whilst evil players lie about who they are and what they know. The good team wins if they can piece together their knowledge, trust each other, and execute the demon. The evil team wins if the demon can sow distrust, evade detection, and wipe out the village.

Blood on the Clocktower

Garry's worst fear is a TopDown point and click, turn based fighting game.
through garry's eyes you must face his worst fears in his cochemard

Garry's worst fear

Go on an adventure with Ratano, a little rat boy who has spent a lot of time doing science to impress his friends and teachers! But then something happens...

Ratano

Corru.Observer is a hard sci-fi visual novel, point-and-click adventure about a contractor hired by an intelligence agency to hack into an alien biological computing device dredged up from the bottom of the ocean.

Corru.Observer

planet drop

Finding the answer is about asking the right question.

Amelia Watson Case File no.420

George Broussard

STOWAWAY is a short sci-fi point & click adventure about a lone survivor, a dead crew, and a nasty alien. Voice acting, items & puzzles.

"Star log 617.7 of the USS Starcross. Pilot Travis Walker recordin'. It appears I am the sole remaining crew member. Some unspeakable - thing - has boarded the ship on our last salvage run. Chief Engineer June Harley and Captain Ben Thomas are dead."

Stowaway

Mindset Makers

Animus Toil is an experimental puzzle-adventure video game built for Game Boy, Analogue Pocket, PC, and web browser.

The Temple of the Herring was a legend to the people of Thera. Cursed by an evil wizard known only as Somnus, the temple strikes the curiosity of two explorers seeking answers. Who exactly is Somnus? Why is the temple cursed? What is the secret behind the mysterious artifacts? And how does this tale all tie into the future of our humanity?

Animus Toil

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Announcement Trailer

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Stray Feet

Not Involved is a dark fantasy/horror visual novel about Doctor who balances between helping others and taking care of himself.

If you want to save someone, you will have to make sacrifices. How far are you willing to go: being beaten, ostracized, having your limbs chopped off?..

You will find that this world doesn't always reward selflessness and kind heart...

Not Involved

Eleven Puzzles

A two-player cooperative puzzle adventure, that is all about communication. Players have to follow parallel paths, explore a secret laboratory, describe what they see, and work together to unravel the mystery. Parallel Lab is played on two devices with a browser.

Parallel Lab

SaveSlothStudios

This train doesn't stop.

You find yourself traveling somewhere inside a run-down railroad car. You know you have to get off at some point, but still – you do everything in your power just to stay a little bit longer. The conductor is watching your every step. He knows who you truly are.
Where is this train really headed?

The Railroad to Elsewhere

Fireberry Studio

The Splitting is a mystery adventure game.

In the 3rd chapter Daniel and geM visit Coldwin prison to look for llehctiM, who disappeared at the end of chapter 2 . There they learn more about Mitchell’s escape, and the mysterious ‘Dave’.

The Splitting: Chapter 3

GTK Mysteries

A daily deduction game designed to test logical thinking and reasoning abilities.

Murdle

Old-Fashioned Way to Die

Feverdream Johnny

"Let's Go! Baby!" is a mysterious netgame from 2001 where people could get together and hang out in a virtual world inhabited by babies. The game mysteriously disappeared off the market after many complaints, but has since resurfaced in hobbyist circles as a "so bad it's good" gem.

Today, we at Feverdream Softworks have decided to revive this classic game, now with various enhancements.

It's time to meet your maker... Or should I say, your Daddy?

Let's Go! Baby! Friends World

dumplingsquid

ModernModron

Sean S. LeBlanc

Carrie Z

Year 3871 Aboard The Adamant Gambit.

You're good at solving mysteries, right?

Crewmember Pigeon and the Case of the Burgled Buttons

An insatiable desire to dance inexplicably takes reign over a peasant farmland which Peter Talisman finds himself determined to find the source of. Harvest a seemingly endless amount of corn to clear the field to discover new characters, hidden artifacts, and steps to unravel the mystery of the dancing bug.

Peter Talisman: Lord of the Harvest

The night is dark, and the rain keep hitting the windshield of your car. An inexplicable breakdown forces you to stop, and to keep going on foot. This is when you spot, a few hundred yards ahead, the glow of a strange forgotten house in the middle of the woods.

Invitationem

Brave Giant LTD

Hidden Investigation - Who Did It? summons you to the scene of the crime. A cold case is haunting the police department. Assist Agent Sarah as she attempts to crack the case once and for all! Solve puzzles, find hidden objects, and interview a variety of interesting characters. Can you solve the mystery in Hidden Investigation - Who Did It?

Hidden Investigation: Who did it?

corpsepile

DreadXP

Experience the first Found Footage Video Game that isn’t about Slender Man (citation needed)! Based on the cult hit micro-micro-micro-budget film series, the Bad Ben game is here to take the beloved franchise digital. Take the role of Tom Riley—voiced by the man himself, Nigel Bach—as he once again makes the incredibly informed decision to buy a house sight unseen at a sheriff’s auction.

Obviously, the night does not go by un-ghosted. Soon after his arrival, paranormal happenings begin to plague the unflappable Tom. You’ll have to get to the bottom of these spectral shenanigans, mostly by finding keys. Because it’s an indie horror game.

Do you have what it takes to survive the night?

Bad Ben

Margaret, are you grieving

Over Goldengrove unleaving…

Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love, jealousy, violence, betrayal, and vengeance.

"What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed" is a puzzle-driven, parser-based gothic horror story with a unique command set.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed

Room of Batik

Rip, Gun and Tear your way through the Vast-Forest; Otherworld; Black-Space and Faraway, in this fast-pased, hectic doom/omori parody!

Doomori

Playthroughline

Solve a murder in a near future world by diving into the Wikipedia of that world.

Have you ever lost yourself in a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Imagine doing that for the Wikipedia of the year 2049. This is Neurocracy, an interactive narrative experience that offers an anthology of compelling sci-fi stories inside and between the hyperlinked articles of an online encyclopedia. It is both a single-player alternate reality game and an epistolary hypertext novel, opening with a high-profile assassination that you must investigate and solve.

Playing out entirely on a website with no download required, Neurocracy invites you to go it alone or join forces with others to piece together what has happened, and what is happening, in the world of 2049. Using the narrative power of your imagination, chase implications and interpretations by reading between the lines and arranging a story from a deeper pool of potential stories. Find clues, draw connections, compare notes, and ultimately solve a murder.

Neurocracy

Virgula Leal

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal is a visual novel that tells the story of creating a website for your friend.

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal

Felix the Fox, the famed Pirate Detective, is called to the Court Ship to investigate the case of the notorious pirate feline, Kaptain Klawz' missing eyepatch. He is tasked with investigating Klawz's crew, The Paddling Pirates, in order to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the strange disappearance.

However, something seems off - could the Paddling Pirates be hiding something?

Pirate Fox Detective: The Case of The Conspicuous Klawz Crew

2BrosInACup

You don't know where you are. You don't know how you got there. You do know one thing. You must escape. In this new 2D side scrolling puzzle game you must escape the dungeon and beat the man who captured you.

The Mystifying Trial

Infokub Arcade

Slide into the cave and explore all the rooms to discover many puzzles !

This temple also hide a mysterious chest but noone knows exactly what it contains.

Each time you want to move, you will slide on the floor until you reach an obstacle. But be careful, your body temperature will slowly go down... And if you reach 0 : it's over !

Don't worry, there are several coffee bottles on your path to warm up your body and keep you safe !

Play levels and make your owns

More than 40 levels and a mysterious secret
Available on PC and Android
Create your own caves with the level editor
Share your levels with your friends
Play it live with your community with the Twitch extension !

ICE Temple

Modus Interactive Games

In the basement of a local community college, a forgotten computer sits.

The last relic of the Anomalous Research Department.

What was their purpose? What did they find?

Was it the solution? Or was it the cause?

ARD: Anomalous Research Department

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim.

The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and Anchorhead.

The Weight of a Soul

An interactive murder mystery set in 1941 Singapore.

A Red Sky at Dawn

Katherine Morayati

An adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story, "An Evening's Entertainment", for the Gaming Like It's 1925 jam.

An Evening's Entertainment

After the new year, no one remembers their passwords. You play the detective to unlock the computers at your new job!

Admin

Two detectives get trapped as the next targets of a Cryptic Killer. Being separated they have to solve the puzzles that the killer prepared for them. Neither of them has the full picture, so they have to communicate in order to escape.

The game is co-op only, played on two devices with an external voice connection.

Unboxing the mind of a Cryptic Killer

Ferociter

After a hike you find yourself lost in a mysterious, dark forest. 
Solve its many riddles and puzzle your way out, or wander for all eternity.

Lost in Firefly Forest

KillerPokeGames

Fibby.io shows you random images from the web and the game decides if you describe the image truthfully or lie about what you see.
Everyone else interrogates you to find out which.

The goal is to make people think the opposite of whatever you're tasked with.
Make people believe your lies and that you're lying when you're telling the truth.
You can do this by describing the image in a truthful, but unbelievable way.

Fibby.io

The Retro Room

A detective RPG released for the Game Boy in 2020.

The game follows the main protagonist, recently promoted, Detective Allison Bennett on her quest for clean up her city, Strange Meadows, after the recent crime spree that has thrown the city into chaos. Athena, and her gang, has been terrorizing the residents and has set her sights on taking over the city for herself.

Quest Arrest

Space to Interrogate

Abigail Corfman

Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. 
 
A whodunit where the suspects are clamoring to be accused.

A Murder in Fairyland

Solve puzzles, find secret levels and mine magical ore which makes you faster the more you carry and bring it back to the level start to complete levels

Grand Ore Deal

Explore the town. Find the clues. Solve the murder.

Space to Investigate

The morbid silence of a strange town is broken when some noises are heard from inside of the abandoned nursery's building...
Step in your role as a detective in this interactive fiction and start finding clues.

Abandoned Nursery

Tim Sheinman

The Russian Doll is the sibling game of The Remains of Richard Fletcher.

The Russian Doll

The Remains of Richard Fleming is a narrative detective game built for Charlmes' I Can't Write But Want To Tell A Story. The theme of the Jam was lost and this game is all about lost information which you have to piece together. The competition features a 'duck' category. You can find the 'duck' in the fourth audio call. A duck is a British cricket term for no rounds (or points) scored when batting.

The Remains of Richard Fleming

Family is a puzzle game, based around a fictional, forgotten 80s indie music scene. Discover the strange and wonderful music of long-lost bands, while uncovering their stories.

Family

Kuno Hoshiko

Phonequest is a game about making friends online. 
 
You're Sam and you're wasting time on the Internet, home alone. Suddenly, you receive a strange prank call, and a minute later you've already got yourself in a pretty big turmoil, involving aliens invading Earth. Get your negotiation skills ready and prepare for a wild intergalactic ride. 
 
Phonequest takes inspiration from Homestuck and super old point & click adventure games I found on CD disk when I was cleaning my basement room. People also found it similar to Emily's Away and Undertale, but I don't know if they are right as I've not played these games thoroughly. Play Phonequest yourself and then tell me!

Phonequest

Asteristic Game Studio

Wishing Sarah is the tiny direct sequel to Dreaming Sarah.

After being in a coma, Sarah finally wakes up to find something odd about the world the lives in. She can't seem to understand what's going on very well, and you must help her traverse this new world - filled with intriguing new characters and events.

This small game will bridge the gap between Dreaming Sarah and the next game that's yet to come, Awakening Sarah.

Wishing Sarah

Czech Games Edition

The two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.

The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.

Codenames: win or lose, it’s fun to figure out the clues.

Codenames

Cecile Richard

When a pudding goes missing, C.C. Crowe is on the case.

Mystery Browser Games