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Detective mystery

Fiction genre theme

Collecting clues, often involves solving a crime; always some mystery to solve. A type of crime fiction

616
games
73
platforms

Alternate names: Murder mystery, Whodunnit

Suspect: An Interactive Mystery (Macintosh OS Classic)
Suspect: An Interactive Mystery
MAC 1984
221B Baker Street (Atari ST)
221B Baker Street
ST 1987
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo (MS-DOS)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
DOS 1996
Mord an Bord (Amstrad CPC)
Mord an Bord
CPC 1985
The Witness (Amstrad PCW)
The Witness
PCW 1986
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (MS-DOS)
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
DOS 1993
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyouto Hana no Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyouto Hana no Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken
NES 1989-02-11
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True (MS-DOS)
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True
DOS 1987
Wolfsbane (MS-DOS)
Wolfsbane
DOS 1995
Scapeghost (Amstrad CPC)
Scapeghost
CPC 1989
Ballyhoo (Amstrad CPC)
Ballyhoo
CPC 1986
Killed Until Dead (Commodore 64)
Killed Until Dead
C64 1986
Related:
* Detective protagonist

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Parent group

Crime fiction

Related groups

Activities
Investigation, Deduction

Creatures
Law enforcer protagonist, Investigator protagonist

Culture
Mystery

Games by year

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The first Detective mystery video game was released in 1977.

Infocom, Infogrames and Riverhill Soft published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 79
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
Win3.1 8
NEC PC9801 8
MSX2 8
Mac OS X 7
Famicom Disk System 7
Thomson 7
Apple IIGS 6
C128 6
Amstrad PCW 6
NEC PC8801 6
MSX 6
Tandy Coco 5
Oric 5
PS3 4
Commodore PET 4
MICRO 7 - FM7 4
Coleco Adam 4

Most common companies

Infocom70
Infogrames24
Riverhill Soft18
Sierra On-Line12
Activision12
Icom Simulations11
Cobra Soft11
Mindscape10
Electronic Arts9
Ariolasoft8
Spinnaker Software8
Enix8
U.S. Gold7
Nintendo7
Level 9 Computing7