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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Two Spike Chunsoft mystery adventures in one package: nine people are locked inside a facility and must pass through numbered doors to get out. It bundles the DS-born Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors with its sequel Virtue's Last Reward, alternating first-person escape-room sections with branching novel sections.
mysteryadventurenarrative-puzzleEliza
A visual novel about a woman who returns to work as the human voice of an AI counseling app, reading its scripted lines aloud to clients. Written by Matthew Seiji Burns and made by Zachtronics, the studio behind Opus Magnum, it ships with a kabufuda solitaire game on the side.
visual-novelnarrativeadventureAI: The Somnium Files
A detective adventure set in near-future Tokyo, in which a one-eyed police detective works a serial murder case alongside the artificial intelligence housed in his prosthetic eye. First-person investigation scenes alternate with third-person 'Somnium' dives into a suspect's dream, where a six-minute budget must be spent to open Mental Locks, and an in-game flowchart lets you walk the branches toward several endings. Written and directed by Kotaro Uchikoshi of the Zero Escape series, from Spike Chunsoft.
mysteryadventurenarrative-puzzleOrwell: Keeping an Eye On You
An adventure in which you operate a state surveillance system, assembling citizen profiles from fragments lifted out of social posts, news articles, private messages and tapped calls, and deciding who gets flagged. Osmotic Studios' five-episode surveillance drama, where submitting or withholding a fragment is your only move.
observationnarrative-puzzlesimulationChinatown Detective Agency
A cybernoir point-and-click set in near-future Singapore, where you run a detective agency and crack international cases by researching real facts in a browser outside the game. General Interactive Co.'s experiment hands the last step of every clue to the live web.
deductionobservationmysteryOverboard!
A reverse detective game aboard a 1930s ocean liner: as Veronica, who has just pushed her husband overboard, you have a few hours before the ship docks to bury the evidence and pin the crime on another passenger. Lie, bribe, seduce, or murder again — inkle (80 Days, Heaven's Vault) build countless perfect crimes from a handful of verbs.
mysterydetectivetime-loopHeaven's Vault
An archaeology adventure where you sail rivers of space, recover artefacts from forgotten ruins, and decipher an invented hieroglyphic script one word at a time from context. Built on a branching story that remembers your choices and a language you piece together yourself. From inkle, makers of 80 Days.
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