FTL composer Ben Prunty also provides an excellent, atmospheric soundtrack. You play as Francis McQueen, and along with sidekick and foil Dooley, you solve cases with a hidden supernatural element, like a goofier X-Files. This reference-heavy adventure game is pretty traditional when it comes to point-and-click puzzle design, but the funny writing and great characters make it.
This garish (and hilarious) simulated internet, inspired by the golden age of the web, is hiding all kinds of illegal content, and you really have to work to find the offending material, infiltrating hacker collectives, locating hidden pages, and cracking passwords. You're an internet detective, tasked with hunting down illegal content on the GeoCities-inspired Hypnospace. Hypnospace Outlaw (Image credit: Tendershoot) Our heroes are detectives by trade, Sam & Max is more in line with other LucasArts adventures from the era, with absurd item puzzles and wild leaps of logic. The case takes them across the United States, and it’s genuinely funny throughout. This adventure follows freelance detectives Sam (a dog) and Max (a rabbit) as they track down a bigfoot who’s gone missing from a carnival. The game is completely linear, often to a fault, but the compelling way the mystery unravels and the strength of the characters makes up for it-and all without a single line of dialogue.
#Best detective games for ps4 series#
It's a series of short first-person vignettes, stitched together with snappy TV-style editing. In this stylish, minimalist adventure game you play as an FBI agent investigating a disappearance in rural Virginia. But by the end of the game you'll know them intimately, and will have uncovered a series of shocking truths about their lives. These troubled souls are complete strangers to you, their lives a total mystery.
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In this follow-up to Her Story you're given access to an archive of secretly recorded video calls taken from the laptops and mobile phones of four very different people. Telling Lies (Image credit: Half Mermaid) Set in an abandoned American town in the 1990s, you play as a journalist investigating a series of murders, and you really have to use your mind, intuitively piecing clues together, to get any kind of resolution out of it. Many games on this list are really good at simulating being a detective, but cult favourite The Painscreek Killings is one of the few where you actually have to be one. It's a spiralling conspiratorial thriller, and throws in enough twists and surprises to keep things interesting. In the dystopian Orwell (what else would it be with a title like that) you’re a government agent who’s been given permission to pry into people’s personal lives, digging through private chats, emails, and social media profiles to pin crimes against the state on them. Rather than solving a murder, you're covering one up, and helping Veronica get away with the crime is incredibly satisfying. Cleverly, it's a detective game in reverse. This is the devilish premise of Overboard, a superb interactive fiction game from Inkle, the studio behind 80 Days. Veronica Villensey has murdered her husband in cold blood, and you're going to help her get away with it. And piecing together the story really makes you feel like a detective. This unique freeform structure, combined with understated and believable police interview clips, makes it a bold narrative experiment.
In this stylish FMV adventure you take a non-linear path through a mystery by searching a fragmented archive of video clips-and the story becomes clearer with each one uncovered. This is another entry that isn't strictly a detective game, but has the feel of one. And eventually his story becomes entwined with another, very different playable character. In a rainy Blade Runner-inspired urban setting, it follows cop Azriel Odin as he searches for his missing brother. This cyberpunk adventure is set in the far future, taking place on a distant planet in the Gemini system. Its combination of 3D environments and live-action FMV is extremely 1990s. Murphy, a booze-soaked PI down on his luck, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of a doomsday cult. With its sleazy jazz soundtrack, gritty monologues, and trenchcoat-wearing hero, Under a Killing Moon is unashamedly an homage to film noir-but set in San Francisco in the future of 2042. Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon (Image credit: Access Software)
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