Detective mystery
Fiction genre theme
Collecting clues, often involves solving a crime; always some mystery to solve. A type of crime fiction
615
games
73platforms
Alternate names: Murder mystery, Whodunnit
WIN 2014-09
CPC 1987
W31 1996
THMS 1986
IIE 1987
9801 1987
ST 1985
SPC 1987
PET 19??
OCS 1986
THMS 1986
WIN 2007
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Related groups
Activities
Investigation, Deduction
Creatures
Law enforcer protagonist, Investigator protagonist
Culture
Mystery
Games by year
The first Detective mystery video game was released in 1977.
Infocom, Infogrames and Riverhill Soft published most of these games.
Platforms
MS-DOS | 78 | ||
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Windows | 48 | ||
C64 | 44 | ||
Linux | 42 | ||
Apple II E | 38 | ||
Amiga | 34 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 31 | ||
Atari ST | 31 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 27 | ||
ZX Spectrum | 21 | ||
NES | 20 | ||
Nintendo DS | 14 | ||
Atari 400/800 | 12 | ||
NEC PC9801 | 8 | ||
MSX2 | 8 | ||
Win3.1 | 8 | ||
Thomson | 7 | ||
Mac OS X | 7 | ||
Famicom Disk System | 7 | ||
MSX | 6 | ||
Apple IIGS | 6 | ||
C128 | 6 | ||
Amstrad PCW | 6 | ||
NEC PC8801 | 6 | ||
Oric | 5 | ||
Tandy Coco | 5 | ||
Commodore PET | 4 | ||
MICRO 7 - FM7 | 4 | ||
Coleco Adam | 4 | ||
PS3 | 4 |