>> best Detective games on steam the full ranking
These are the best Detective games on Steam, as voted by our community.
Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Detective games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Detective fans genuinely keep coming back to.
#1
Persona 4 Revival
beats 98%
percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it
| rk | art | game | score | players | beats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 |
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Persona 4 Golden | 147 players | beats 77% | |
| 03 |
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The Incident at Galley House | 14 players | beats 80% | |
| 04 |
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut | 342 players | beats 76% | |
| 05 |
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The Roottrees are Dead | 39 players | beats 76% | |
| 06 |
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Batman™: Arkham Knight | 263 players | beats 75% | |
| 07 |
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Return of the Obra Dinn | 84 players | beats 75% | |
| 08 |
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Chants of Sennaar | 59 players | beats 76% | |
| 09 |
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Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition | 280 players | beats 75% | |
| 10 |
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Judgment | 38 players | beats 76% | |
| 11 |
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The Wolf Among Us | 76 players | beats 75% | |
| 12 |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair | 80 players | beats 75% | |
| 13 |
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Lost Judgment | 27 players | beats 76% | |
| 14 |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony | 50 players | beats 75% | |
| 15 |
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The Rise of the Golden Idol | 24 players | beats 76% | |
| 16 |
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The Case of the Golden Idol | 45 players | beats 75% | |
| 17 |
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Pathologic 2 | 46 players | beats 75% | |
| 18 |
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Strange Antiquities | 34 players | beats 75% | |
| 19 |
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L.A. Noire | 105 players | beats 74% | |
| 20 |
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles | 17 players | beats 76% | |
| 21 |
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Batman™: Arkham Origins | 190 players | beats 73% | |
| 22 |
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MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | 23 players | beats 75% | |
| 23 |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition | 306 players | beats 72% | |
| 24 |
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Blacksad: Under the Skin | 12 players | beats 75% | |
| 25 |
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Who's Lila? | 18 players | beats 74% | |
| 26 |
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Supraworld | 4 players | beats 82% | |
| 27 |
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No Case Should Remain Unsolved | 11 players | beats 75% | |
| 28 |
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Detective Grimoire | 11 players | beats 75% | |
| 29 |
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The Precinct | 13 players | beats 74% | |
| 30 |
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Cube Escape Collection | 20 players | beats 73% | |
| 31 |
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective | 10 players | beats 75% | |
| 32 |
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Unavowed | 9 players | beats 75% | |
| 33 |
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Tangle Tower | 16 players | beats 73% | |
| 34 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter | 39 players | beats 72% | |
| 35 |
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The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery | 3 players | beats 84% | |
| 36 |
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Virginia | 8 players | beats 75% | |
| 37 |
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Strange Horticulture | 57 players | beats 71% | |
| 38 |
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne | 37 players | beats 71% | |
| 39 |
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Subsurface Circular | 7 players | beats 75% | |
| 40 |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy | 101 players | beats 70% | |
| 41 |
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark | 5 players | beats 77% | |
| 42 |
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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game | 5 players | beats 77% | |
| 43 |
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Max Payne | 43 players | beats 70% | |
| 44 |
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Blackwell Epiphany | 4 players | beats 78% | |
| 45 |
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AI: The Somnium Files | 20 players | beats 70% | |
| 46 |
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Pathologic 3 | 5 players | beats 76% | |
| 47 |
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Between Time: Escape Room | 4 players | beats 77% | |
| 48 |
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First Class Escape: The Train of Thought | 5 players | beats 75% | |
| 49 |
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A Case of Fraud | 5 players | beats 75% | |
| 50 |
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping | 10 players | beats 71% | |
| 51 |
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Hypnospace Outlaw | 28 players | beats 69% | |
| 52 |
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Lost Wiki: Kozlovka | 8 players | beats 71% | |
| 53 |
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Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus | 3 players | beats 78% | |
| 54 |
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RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army | 4 players | beats 75% | |
| 55 |
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Still Life | 4 players | beats 75% | |
| 56 |
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GET EVEN | 4 players | beats 75% | |
| 57 |
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Case Solved: The London Files | 3 players | beats 78% | |
| 58 |
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Batman - The Telltale Series | 48 players | beats 67% | |
| 59 |
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Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game | 4 players | beats 75% | |
| 60 |
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The Séance of Blake Manor | 21 players | beats 68% | |
| 61 |
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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative | 6 players | beats 72% | |
| 62 |
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Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express | 4 players | beats 74% | |
| 63 |
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Back to the Dawn | 5 players | beats 73% | |
| 64 |
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut | 3 players | beats 77% | |
| 65 |
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Police Quest™ Collection | 3 players | beats 76% | |
| 66 |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | 92 players | beats 66% | |
| 67 |
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The Sexy Brutale | 24 players | beats 67% | |
| 68 |
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Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 69 |
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father® | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 70 |
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Heavy Rain | 63 players | beats 66% | |
| 71 |
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DEEMO -Reborn- | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 72 |
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The Mermaid Mask | 5 players | beats 71% | |
| 73 |
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Jenny LeClue - Detectivu | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 74 |
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Logiart Grimoire | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 75 |
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NUTS | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 76 |
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Scene Investigators | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 77 |
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Crime O'Clock | 4 players | beats 71% | |
| 78 |
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Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series | 29 players | beats 65% | |
| 79 |
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Shadows of Doubt | 78 players | beats 64% | |
| 80 |
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IMMORTALITY | 15 players | beats 66% | |
| 81 |
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Cyber Manhunt | 11 players | beats 66% | |
| 82 |
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Twin Mirror | 6 players | beats 67% | |
| 83 |
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The Council | 16 players | beats 65% | |
| 84 |
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Operation: Tango | 34 players | beats 64% | |
| 85 |
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Heaven Does Not Respond | 3 players | beats 71% | |
| 86 |
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy | 6 players | beats 67% | |
| 87 |
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Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut | 18 players | beats 64% | |
| 88 |
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Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane | 3 players | beats 70% | |
| 89 |
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Observer: System Redux | 8 players | beats 63% | |
| 90 |
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Desktop Explorer | 8 players | beats 63% | |
| 91 |
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition | 6 players | beats 64% | |
| 92 |
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Kathy Rain | 18 players | beats 61% | |
| 93 |
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Urban Myth Dissolution Center | 4 players | beats 65% | |
| 94 |
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Sherlock Holmes The Awakened | 12 players | beats 61% | |
| 95 |
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Erica | 3 players | beats 66% | |
| 96 |
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Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis | 6 players | beats 62% | |
| 97 |
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Sam & Max Save the World | 7 players | beats 61% | |
| 98 |
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SpyParty | 4 players | beats 63% | |
| 99 |
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Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County | 4 players | beats 63% | |
| 100 |
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged | 3 players | beats 63% | |
| 101 |
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The House of Da Vinci 3 | 6 players | beats 60% | |
| 102 |
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On Your Tail | 4 players | beats 61% | |
| 103 |
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Daemonologie | 4 players | beats 61% | |
| 104 |
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This Bed We Made | 8 players | beats 59% | |
| 105 |
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Shelve the Potions! | 20 players | beats 58% | |
| 106 |
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Paradise Killer | 24 players | beats 56% | |
| 107 |
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Down in Bermuda | 4 players | beats 58% | |
| 108 |
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Syberia: The World Before | 7 players | beats 57% | |
| 109 |
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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales | 12 players | beats 56% | |
| 110 |
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The Darkest Files | 9 players | beats 56% | |
| 111 |
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Enigma of Fear | 10 players | beats 56% | |
| 112 |
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Contrast | 10 players | beats 55% | |
| 113 |
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Sam & Max Hit the Road | 5 players | beats 56% | |
| 114 |
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Call of Cthulhu® | 36 players | beats 54% | |
| 115 |
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We Were Here Forever | 57 players | beats 54% | |
| 116 |
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Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles | 3 players | beats 56% | |
| 117 |
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Blair Witch VR | 3 players | beats 56% | |
| 118 |
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Song of Farca | 15 players | beats 53% | |
| 119 |
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The Thaumaturge | 28 players | beats 53% | |
| 120 |
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Shift At Midnight | 17 players | beats 53% | |
| 121 |
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Curious Cases | 3 players | beats 54% | |
| 122 |
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Condemned: Criminal Origins | 15 players | beats 53% | |
| 123 |
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Perfect Heist 2 | 15 players | beats 53% | |
| 124 |
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The House of Da Vinci 2 | 11 players | beats 53% | |
| 125 |
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Dimhaven - The Lost Source | 6 players | beats 53% | |
| 126 |
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The Blackwell Legacy | 15 players | beats 52% | |
| 127 |
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Epigraph | 7 players | beats 52% | |
| 128 |
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Zoochosis | 5 players | beats 52% | |
| 129 |
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GNOSIA | 5 players | beats 52% | |
| 130 |
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami | 19 players | beats 51% | |
| 131 |
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Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. | 3 players | beats 52% | |
| 132 |
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TR-49 | 13 players | beats 51% | |
| 133 |
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Bahnsen Knights | 3 players | beats 52% | |
| 134 |
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Equinox: Homecoming | 3 players | beats 51% | |
| 135 |
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>observer_ | 15 players | beats 51% | |
| 136 |
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Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood | 4 players | beats 51% | |
| 137 |
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AR-K | 4 players | beats 51% | |
| 138 |
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Alone in the Dark | 6 players | beats 51% | |
| 139 |
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Escape From Mystwood Mansion | 10 players | beats 51% | |
| 140 |
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Puzzle Agent 2 | 15 players | beats 51% | |
| 141 |
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Nobody Wants to Die | 36 players | beats 51% | |
| 142 |
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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story | 3 players | beats 51% | |
| 143 |
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Contraband Police | 36 players | beats 50% | |
| 144 |
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Pentiment | 15 players | beats 50% | |
| 145 |
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Whispers of a Machine | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 146 |
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The White Door | 20 players | beats 50% | |
| 147 |
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Unheard - Voices of Crime | 15 players | beats 50% | |
| 148 |
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Blackwell Convergence | 11 players | beats 50% | |
| 149 |
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The Raven Remastered | 4 players | beats 50% | |
| 150 |
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Gamedec - Definitive Edition | 11 players | beats 50% | |
| 151 |
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Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered | 33 players | beats 50% | |
| 152 |
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Deceive Inc. | 19 players | beats 50% | |
| 153 |
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Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 154 |
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Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek | 4 players | beats 50% | |
| 155 |
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Operation: Tango - Friend Pass | 19 players | beats 50% | |
| 156 |
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength | 29 players | beats 50% | |
| 157 |
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Blackwell Unbound | 11 players | beats 50% | |
| 158 |
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A Case of Distrust | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 159 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 160 |
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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 161 |
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This Is the Police 2 | 18 players | beats 50% | |
| 162 |
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Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 163 |
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Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 164 |
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The Shapeshifting Detective | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 165 |
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Her Story | 49 players | beats 50% | |
| 166 |
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter | 23 players | beats 50% | |
| 167 |
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Puzzle Agent | 14 players | beats 50% | |
| 168 |
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Kona | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 169 |
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Tails Noir | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 170 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 171 |
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HellSign | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 172 |
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The Last Express Gold Edition | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 173 |
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SIMULACRA | 23 players | beats 50% | |
| 174 |
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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You | 98 players | beats 50% | |
| 175 |
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Murdered: Soul Suspect | 60 players | beats 50% | |
| 176 |
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The Red Stare | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 177 |
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This Is the Police | 38 players | beats 50% | |
| 178 |
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The Shivah | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 179 |
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Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard | 8 players | beats 50% | |
| 180 |
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Tales of the Neon Sea | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 181 |
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Post Mortem | 5 players | beats 49% | |
| 182 |
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Cube Escape: Paradox | 39 players | beats 49% | |
| 183 |
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Phasmophobia | 423 players | beats 49% | |
| 184 |
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Blackwell Deception | 11 players | beats 49% | |
| 185 |
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments | 24 players | beats 49% | |
| 186 |
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A Hand With Many Fingers | 4 players | beats 49% | |
| 187 |
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Hacker Simulator | 6 players | beats 48% | |
| 188 |
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Traitors in Salem | 4 players | beats 44% | |
| 189 |
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Budget Cuts Ultimate | 3 players | beats 42% | |
| 190 |
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Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse | 6 players | beats 44% | |
| 191 |
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The Silver Case | 8 players | beats 44% | |
| 192 |
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island | 14 players | beats 43% | |
| 193 |
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Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist | 4 players | beats 40% | |
| 194 |
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Westerado: Double Barreled | 14 players | beats 42% | |
| 195 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) | 6 players | beats 41% | |
| 196 |
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Murder by Numbers | 16 players | beats 42% | |
| 197 |
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The Sinking City Remastered | 19 players | beats 41% | |
| 198 |
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Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit | 4 players | beats 38% | |
| 199 |
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Tokyo Dark | 4 players | beats 38% | |
| 200 |
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Night Book | 4 players | beats 38% | |
| 201 |
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Eternal Threads | 6 players | beats 38% | |
| 202 |
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Aviary Attorney | 18 players | beats 38% | |
| 203 |
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Airport X-Ray Simulator | 3 players | beats 32% | |
| 204 |
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Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division | 6 players | beats 35% | |
| 205 |
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One | 18 players | beats 37% | |
| 206 |
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Beat Cop | 38 players | beats 37% | |
| 207 |
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Clue/Cluedo | 6 players | beats 34% | |
| 208 |
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Chicken Police - Paint it RED! | 7 players | beats 34% | |
| 209 |
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First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds | 3 players | beats 29% | |
| 210 |
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The House of Da Vinci | 29 players | beats 37% | |
| 211 |
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GeoGuessr Steam Edition | 92 players | beats 37% | |
| 212 |
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Pathologic 3: Quarantine | 6 players | beats 33% | |
| 213 |
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Anonymous Hacker Simulator | 5 players | beats 32% | |
| 214 |
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Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery | 3 players | beats 28% | |
| 215 |
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Ghost Exorcism INC. | 5 players | beats 31% | |
| 216 |
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Contradiction: Spot The Liar | 4 players | beats 29% | |
| 217 |
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Oh Deer | 5 players | beats 31% | |
| 218 |
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Bear With Me - Episode One | 3 players | beats 27% | |
| 219 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring | 4 players | beats 29% | |
| 220 |
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Scrutinized | 6 players | beats 31% | |
| 221 |
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The Operator | 18 players | beats 34% | |
| 222 |
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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs | 6 players | beats 31% | |
| 223 |
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The Monster Inside | 13 players | beats 33% | |
| 224 |
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Loco Motive | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 225 |
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 226 |
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Gabriel Knight® 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 227 |
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Wounded - The Beginning | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 228 |
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Reversion - The Escape (1st Chapter) | 8 players | beats 31% | |
| 229 |
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The Black Watchmen | 5 players | beats 29% | |
| 230 |
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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs | 10 players | beats 32% | |
| 231 |
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A Normal Lost Phone | 15 players | beats 32% | |
| 232 |
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Night Call | 8 players | beats 30% | |
| 233 |
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Hector: Episode 1 | 6 players | beats 28% | |
| 234 |
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Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon | 3 players | beats 23% | |
| 235 |
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Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 | 13 players | beats 31% | |
| 236 |
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Hacknet | 116 players | beats 33% | |
| 237 |
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Blues and Bullets | 3 players | beats 22% | |
| 238 |
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals | 3 players | beats 22% | |
| 239 |
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Tails Noir: Prologue | 4 players | beats 24% | |
| 240 |
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Gemini Rue | 13 players | beats 30% | |
| 241 |
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The Occupation | 5 players | beats 26% | |
| 242 |
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog | 90 players | beats 32% | |
| 243 |
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Overboard! | 8 players | beats 28% | |
| 244 |
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Telling Lies | 10 players | beats 29% | |
| 245 |
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Face Noir | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 246 |
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D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die -Season One- | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 247 |
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Adventure Escape Mysteries | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 248 |
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She Sees Red - Interactive Movie | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 249 |
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 250 |
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Batman™: Arkham VR | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 251 |
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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes | 14 players | beats 29% | |
| 252 |
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The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief | 5 players | beats 24% | |
| 253 |
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Discolored | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 254 |
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The Silent Age | 17 players | beats 29% | |
| 255 |
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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper | 9 players | beats 26% | |
| 256 |
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The Journey Down: Chapter Two | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 257 |
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The Detail | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 258 |
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428: Shibuya Scramble | 3 players | beats 18% | |
| 259 |
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Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha | 10 players | beats 27% | |
| 260 |
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Fingered | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 261 |
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Last Word | 5 players | beats 23% | |
| 262 |
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West Hunt | 5 players | beats 23% | |
| 263 |
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The Painscreek Killings | 12 players | beats 27% | |
| 264 |
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Jack Orlando: Director's Cut | 6 players | beats 23% | |
| 265 |
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of the Devil | 4 players | beats 19% | |
| 266 |
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Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) | 9 players | beats 25% | |
| 267 |
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The Darkside Detective | 18 players | beats 27% | |
| 268 |
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Interrogation: You will be deceived | 8 players | beats 24% | |
| 269 |
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1bitHeart | 4 players | beats 19% | |
| 270 |
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SIMULACRA 2 | 9 players | beats 25% | |
| 271 |
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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure | 13 players | beats 26% | |
| 272 |
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Accident: The Pilot | 3 players | beats 15% | |
| 273 |
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise | 15 players | beats 26% | |
| 274 |
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CaseCracker | 4 players | beats 18% | |
| 275 |
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Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition | 12 players | beats 25% | |
| 276 |
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Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone | 12 players | beats 25% | |
| 277 |
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Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony | 12 players | beats 25% | |
| 278 |
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TEST TEST TEST | 13 players | beats 25% | |
| 279 |
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure | 16 players | beats 25% | |
| 280 |
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Ghost Watchers | 12 players | beats 24% | |
| 281 |
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Demonologist | 26 players | beats 25% | |
| 282 |
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The Deed | 26 players | beats 25% | |
| 283 |
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Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders | 14 players | beats 23% | |
| 284 |
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Bear With Me - Collector's Edition | 8 players | beats 21% | |
| 285 |
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Insecticide Part 1 | 4 players | beats 15% | |
| 286 |
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Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories | 48 players | beats 25% | |
| 287 |
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Blameless | 14 players | beats 22% | |
| 288 |
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Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege | 63 players | beats 25% | |
| 289 |
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The Deed: Dynasty | 25 players | beats 22% | |
| 290 |
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A Detective's Novel | 10 players | beats 16% | |
| 291 |
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Dodgy Deliveries | 23 players | beats 18% |
