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Scene Investigators
A first-person deduction game: walk reconstructed crime scenes, work out what happened from the evidence alone, and type your answers into an exam terminal. No hints, no confirmation. From EQ Studios, makers of The Painscreek Killings, built on their stated 70/30 principle.
deductionobservationinvestigationCryptmaster
A word-driven dungeon crawl in first person: type the words you have recovered to fire skills and answer riddles. Built in monochrome pencil illustration with a fully voiced narrator, by Paul Hart and Lee Williams.
puzzleword-gamenarrative-puzzleDuck Detective: The Secret Salami
A 2.5D observation-and-deduction adventure where a down-on-his-luck duck detective peers at evidence and slots words into fill-in-the-blank sentences to crack the case of a stolen lunch. Happy Broccoli Games takes the Golden Idol style and makes it light, fully voiced, and pun-heavy.
deductionobservationnarrative-puzzleThe Rise of the Golden Idol
A 2D deduction adventure where you click through frozen crime scenes and drop harvested words into blanks to reconstruct who did what, why, and in what order. A standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol, set across twenty linked cases in the 1970s.
deductionobservationnarrative-puzzleThe Roottrees are Dead
A first-person deduction puzzle: scour the early, dial-up-era Internet plus books and articles to establish who is truly blood-related to a crashed dynasty, filling in the blanks of their family tree. Evil Trout Inc.'s reworking of a free Global Game Jam browser game.
deductionobservationnarrative-puzzleThe Case of the Golden Idol
A deduction game: examine frozen crime-scene tableaus, gather words from the evidence, and fill in the blanks to reconstruct each murder across an 18th-century mystery.
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