Detective mystery
Fiction genre theme
622
games
73platforms
Collecting clues, often involves solving a crime; always some mystery to solve. A type of crime fiction
Notable people involved: Katie Candland, Philip Bouchard, Kenneth Goldstein, Yosuke Shiokawa and David P. Gray
Alternate names: Murder mystery, Whodunnit
WIN 2001
WIN 2008-06-27
C64 1985
WIN 1997
SPC 1990
DOS 1989
C64 1990
VITA 2014-11-04
9801 1986-11
NES 1990-03-02
C64 1982
MAC 1991
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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 published most of these games.
Platforms
MS-DOS | 79 | |
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Windows | 49 | |
C64 | 44 | |
Linux | 42 | |
Apple II E | 38 | |
Amiga | 34 | |
Atari ST | 31 | |
Mac OS Classic | 31 | |
Amstrad CPC | 27 | |
ZX Spectrum | 21 | |
NES | 20 | |
Nintendo DS | 14 | |
Atari 400/800 | 12 | |
NEC PC9801 | 9 | |
Win3.1 | 8 | |
MSX2 | 8 | |
Thomson | 7 | |
Mac OS X | 7 | |
Famicom Disk System | 7 | |
NEC PC8801 | 7 | |
Apple IIGS | 6 | |
C128 | 6 | |
Amstrad PCW | 6 | |
MSX | 6 | |
Tandy Coco | 5 | |
Oric | 5 | |
MICRO 7 - FM7 | 5 | |
Coleco Adam | 4 | |
PS3 | 4 | |
Commodore PET | 4 |