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Video Games Encyclopedia by Gamepressure.com
A list of Upcoming Detective video games sorted by popularity among gamers.
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Shadows of Doubt
Adventure 2024 (early access since 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.
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - Reforged
Adventure June 2024
A remastered version of an iconic point-and-click adventure game. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - Reforged stars George Stobbart, uncovering the mystery of the titular order alongside the journalist Nicole Collard.
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 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.
Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone
Adventure 2025
The sixth installment in an iconic series of point-and-click adventure games. Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone stars George and Nico, searching for the mythical Holy Grail, the fate of the world in their hands.
Decapolice
RPG 2024
DECAPOLICE is an open-world detective RPG. The player explores a futuristic city, investigates, gathers evidence, interviews witnesses and arrests criminals. All this is intertwined with turn-based combat and the use of virtual reality during investigations.
The Darkest Files
Adventure August 2024
Detective FPP adventure game, developed by Paintbucket Games studio. In The Darkest Files, we investigate Nazi crimes and bring their perpetrators to justice.
Loco Motive
Adventure June 2024
A point & click adventure game in which we take the role of three passengers of Reuss Express train. In Loco Motive we investigate to discover identity of the murderer. The game is kept in light slapstick comedy style.
Repo Man
RPG TBA
Repo Man is a Polish open-world RPG that combines cyberpunk with urban fantasy elements in the fictional colonial city of San Alma. As Arthur Newstead, you collect debts by searching for debtors and making difficult moral decisions.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Adventure 2024
A point-and-click detective adventure game and a sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. The Rise of the Golden Idol has us solving fifteen investigations and trying to figure out how they're related to the titular Golden Idol.
The Mermaid's Tongue
Adventure 2025
The sequel to Tangle Tower and the third installment in a series of point-and-click adventure games originating from 2014. The Mermaid's Tongue stars Detective Grimoire and Sally, investigating the death of the captain of the world's strangest submarine.
Neo Berlin 2087
RPG 2024
Science fiction detective thriller action RPG with shooter and stealth game elements. In Shadow of Conspiracy: Section 2 we find ourselves in futuristic Berlin and our task is to unravel the mystery of police chief's murder.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Adventure 2024
The second installment in a series of adventure games starring a pair of chicken detectives. Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is a noir crime story, featuring elements of a point & click game and a visual novel.
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.
Tales of Herring Lake
Adventure June 2024
Fishing simulator and FPP detective adventure game. In Tales of Herring Lake we get to the lake and it's only up to us whether we will spend our time fishing or decide to investigate the mysteries of this place.
Ibru
RPG 2025
Ibru is a detective RPG set in the world from Olga Tokarczuk's novel. The gameplay focuses on investigations, conversations and exploration. There is no combat in the game.
Let Bions Be Bygones
Adventure 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.
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.
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.
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam
Adventure 2025
A detective adventure game and a new installment in the iconic series originating from 2007. Professor Layton and The New World of Steam tells the tale of yet another mystery solved by the titular character and his apprentice, Luke Triton.
Do Not Cross
Adventure TBA
Do Not Cross is an unusual adventure developed for PCs, in which we play the role of a member of the team cleaning the crime scene. Players can limit themselves to performing official tasks or play detective games and try to discover the real perpetrators of crime.
Black Feather Forest
Adventure TBA
A classic investigation point-and-click adventure game developed by Dutch artist and developer Tim Hengeveld. The story of the game was inspired by actual events that occurred in British Columbia, a province of Canada, where several young women disappeared along a remote highway. The player assumes the role of a woman named Sofia who, accompanied by camera operator Caleb, travels to Augier’s Peak city in order to solve the mystery and find either the three missing girls or their corpses.