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The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series - Season 1
Adventure 11 October 2013
An episodic adventure game based on the popular Fables comic book series. The Wolf Among Us was developed by Telltale Games, studio that used the same mechanics as in its previous title, The Walking Dead. The protagonists are fairy creatures that were forced to look for a safe haven in the human world where they must hide their true nature. During the game the player can encounter many characters known from the comic books – including the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White or Ichabod Crane.
Shadows of Doubt
Adventure 24 April 2023
Shadows of Doubt is an FPP combination of a detective adventure game and a stealth game. It's set in a bustling city, its buildings all fully explorable and its citizens all unique, with distinctive personalities and daily schedules.
Fallen Aces
Action TBA (early access since 31 May 2024)
The FPP action game kept in the noir style. Fallen Aces takes us to Switchblade City where we eliminate gangsters. As an immersive sim, the game has an open structure. There are several ways to reach each target and we get rid of our enemies in different ways.
L.A. Noire
Adventure 17 May 2011
A noir detective action adventure game developed by the Australian studio Team Bondi in cooperation with the veterans from Rockstar Games. The game invites you into Los Angeles of the 1940’s, a city filled with corruption and drug dealing organizations. You assume the role of Cole Phelps, an ex-soldier who becomes a police officer after the war. The game lets you experience the key moments of Cole’s career, starting from the traffic police all the way through murder and drugs department.
Let Bions Be Bygones
Adventure 30 April 2024
A detective adventure game with RPG elements. Let Bions Be Bygons puts the player in the role of a detective, attempting to find a missing upper-class girl. His search takes him to the very bottom of the futuristic city-planet known as Terrahive.
The Precinct
Action 2024
An action game, in which we play as a rookie cop. The Precinct tasks us with maintaining order in the city of Averno, foiling procedurally generated crimes while investigating the death of the protagonist's father. We'll get to traverse the city on foot, in a police car or a helicopter.
Nobody Wants to Die
Adventure 2024
A neo-noir adventure game, using an FPP camera and Unreal Engine 5. Nobody Wants to Die is set in dystopian New York in 2329. We play as detective James Karr and use futuristic gadgets to manipulate time and solve crimes. We must track the person killing the city's elite.
The Godfather: Five Families
Strategy 26 October 2011
The Godfather: Five Families is a free-to-play, browser-based MMO strategy in gangster climates. The action was set in New York from the second half of the 1930s, where a war takes place between five great mafia families. By joining Stracci, Cuneo, Barzini, Tattaglia and Corleone, players build a gangster empire and try to get rid of the competition. The game was developed by Kabam studio specializing in this kind of productions.
Grim Fandango (1998)
Adventure 30 November 1998
An excellent adventure game that takes us to the posthumous world, where we play the role of an agent working for death, who solves the mystery of the problems digesting this land. The game consists mainly in conducting conversations, exploring the location and searching for objects and solving puzzles.
Black Dahlia
Adventure 28 February 1998
Black Dahlia is a detective adventure game, maintained in the noir convention. The player takes on the role of an agent of the governmental COI organisation, who encounters the trail of the dangerous organisation "Brotherhood of Thule". The plot of the game produced by Take 2 Interactive is a blend of fictional and authentic events from the 1940s.
Pixel Noir
RPG 08 February 2024
An independent retro RPG, which combines elements of a detective game and a horror. The main protagonist of Pixel Noir is trying to solve a mystery of the tragic events from a decade ago when his partner died, leading to him quitting work as a police officer, as he unjustly was sentenced to jail. After being released, he begins to work as a private detective and tries to solve minor cases, until finally, he finds a lead that might help him get the answers that have been taunting him for years.
The Wolf Among Us 2
Adventure 2024
Second season of The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series. During the game we get to know the fate of fairy tale characters hiding in our world.
My Eyes on You
Action canceled
A noir action adventure game. My Eyes on You is a title developed by independent Ukrainian studio Storymind Entertainment, members of which previously worked on games like Metro: Last Light, The Witcher 3 and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. In the game the player assumes the role of an FBI detective Jordan Adalien who attempts to catch a murderer known as the Man in the Red Mask. The killer is acting in Chicago during a carnival.
Metropolis: Lux Obscura
Puzzle 11 October 2017
Combining the visual novel adventure with a "combine three elements" logic game. The hero of the game is Jon Lockhart, who immediately after leaving prison starts looking for people responsible for framing him into murder and arrest. The production draws inspiration from comics and noir crime films.
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Adventure 05 November 2019
An adventure point-and-click game by the award-winning Pendulo Studios. The hero of Blacksad: Under the Skin is an anthropomorphic black cat who is a detective by profession. The character originally debuted in the comic book Blacksad by the French publisher Dargaud.
Knee Deep
Adventure 06 July 2015
An episodic noir adventure story developed by Prologue Games. The action takes place in Cypress Knee, a small town located in the swampy region of Southern Florida. The story begins with an alleged suicide of a washed-out Hollywood star whose corpse is found hanging from a tower at a local amusement park. However, some of the evidence contradicts the leading theory, while the case is investigated by three individuals: a private detective, a local journalist, and a popular blogger.
The Dark Phantom
Action canceled
A third-player action game maintained in a noir atmosphere. We play the title avenger, who lost his memory and his skin was partially destroyed by fire. Hoping to discover the facts of his own past, dressed in special bandages, he goes out into the streets of a corrupt city at night and becomes the terror of all criminals.
Framed
Puzzle 13 November 2014
An independent puzzle game maintained in an eye-catching comic setting. The player's task is to adjust the individual elements of the interactive comic book in a way that will allow the wall hero to escape safely.
Dark Years
Adventure 17 October 2015
An action-adventure game developed by RSK Entertainment, based on authentic events from Iran’s history. The plot of Dark Years takes us to 1950s, where, as a result of a secret pact between Great Britain and USA, a democratically chosen government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown, resulting in a serious political crisis as well as destabilization and violence among local communities.
Red Johnson's Chronicles: One Against All
Adventure 12 September 2012
Red Johnson's Chronicles: One Against All is the second part of a series of adventures by the French development studio Lexis Numerique. The player gets to know further adventures of private detective Red Johnson and tries to solve dark criminal riddles. The game is distinguished by unconventional styling of the visual setting and an interesting plot with humorous elements.
Emerald City Confidential
Adventure 19 February 2009
A classic two-dimensional point and click adventure. The action takes place on the streets of the eponymous Emerald City, a city that is a kind of reflection of the magical land of Oz from Frank Baum's novel transferred to the atmosphere of noir films from the forties of the last century.
Nirvana Noir
Adventure 2025
A detective adventure game and a sequel to the critically acclaimed Genesis Noir. Nirvana Noir stars No Man, dealing with the consequences of his actions and opposing the threat of the mysterious Bigger Bang.
This Bed We Made
Adventure 01 November 2023
A third-person noir adventure game. This Bed We Made stars Sophie, a hotel maid investigating a dark secret by browsing through her visitors' belongings.
Combustion
RPG TBA
A noir action RPG set in the city of Norrune, inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. Combustion has us playing as a rookie cop, hunting down a serial killer terrorizing the metropolis.