>> best Investigation games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Investigation games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Investigation 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 Investigation fans genuinely keep coming back to.

The Last Gas Station

beats 80%

12 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Blue Prince	113 players	beats 76%
03	Lost Judgment	27 players	beats 76%
04	Judgment	38 players	beats 76%
05	The Roottrees are Dead	48 players	beats 75%
06	The Rise of the Golden Idol	28 players	beats 76%
07	The Case of the Golden Idol	49 players	beats 75%
08	The Forgotten City	46 players	beats 75%
09	The Séance of Blake Manor	24 players	beats 76%
10	Strange Antiquities	40 players	beats 75%
11	Servant of the Lake	6 players	beats 81%
12	Ace Attorney Investigations Collection	3 players	beats 88%
13	Obenseuer	4 players	beats 84%
14	Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut	19 players	beats 75%
15	The Drifter	6 players	beats 80%
16	Indiana Jones and the Great Circle	17 players	beats 75%
17	Blacksad: Under the Skin	12 players	beats 75%
18	No Case Should Remain Unsolved	13 players	beats 75%
19	Detective Grimoire	13 players	beats 75%
20	The Horror at Highrook	3 players	beats 85%
21	Strange Horticulture	73 players	beats 71%
22	Crime O'Clock	9 players	beats 75%
23	Lost Wiki: Kozlovka	9 players	beats 75%
24	Between Time: Escape Room	5 players	beats 78%
25	Cats and the Other Lives	5 players	beats 78%
26	Confidential Killings - A Detective Game	6 players	beats 77%
27	Shadows Over Loathing	6 players	beats 76%
28	The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark	6 players	beats 76%
29	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative	7 players	beats 75%
30	Back to the Dawn	7 players	beats 75%
31	Species: Unknown	9 players	beats 74%
32	A Case of Fraud	6 players	beats 75%
33	Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game	7 players	beats 74%
34	The Message from Deep Space	12 players	beats 72%
35	The Talos Principle: Reawakened	6 players	beats 75%
36	L.A. Noire	113 players	beats 69%
37	Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express	6 players	beats 74%
38	RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army	5 players	beats 75%
39	Still Life	5 players	beats 75%
40	Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division	10 players	beats 71%
41	Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping	10 players	beats 71%
42	Bombe	9 players	beats 71%
43	s.p.l.i.t	8 players	beats 71%
44	Case Solved: The London Files	3 players	beats 78%
45	Wytchwood	12 players	beats 69%
46	Grunn	6 players	beats 72%
47	Arctic Eggs	18 players	beats 68%
48	Quern - Undying Thoughts	15 players	beats 68%
49	The Dark Rites of Arkham	3 players	beats 76%
50	[Chilla's Art] Shinkansen 0 \| 新幹線 0号	3 players	beats 75%
51	The Mermaid Mask	5 players	beats 71%
52	Old Skies	3 players	beats 75%
53	This Bed We Made	9 players	beats 68%
54	Scene Investigators	3 players	beats 75%
55	I'm on Observation Duty 6	3 players	beats 75%
56	Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter	49 players	beats 65%
57	Heavy Rain	73 players	beats 64%
58	Operation: Tango	42 players	beats 65%
59	Cyber Manhunt	11 players	beats 66%
60	Security 51	4 players	beats 70%
61	Beholder: Conductor	20 players	beats 64%
62	Heaven Does Not Respond	3 players	beats 71%
63	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy	6 players	beats 67%
64	We. The Revolution	16 players	beats 63%
65	The Precinct	18 players	beats 63%
66	First Class Escape: The Train of Thought	6 players	beats 65%
67	I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar	14 players	beats 62%
68	Observer: System Redux	8 players	beats 63%
69	Desktop Explorer	8 players	beats 63%
70	Sherlock Holmes The Awakened	13 players	beats 62%
71	Tails Noir	8 players	beats 63%
72	Enigma of Fear	14 players	beats 61%
73	I'm on Observation Duty 3	3 players	beats 66%
74	The Low Road	3 players	beats 66%
75	Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County	4 players	beats 63%
76	Mad Experiments: Escape Room	4 players	beats 63%
77	Epigraph	8 players	beats 60%
78	I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine	6 players	beats 61%
79	Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged	3 players	beats 63%
80	Paradise Killer	27 players	beats 58%
81	Call of the Sea	26 players	beats 58%
82	On Your Tail	4 players	beats 61%
83	The Darkest Files	10 players	beats 58%
84	Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?	4 players	beats 58%
85	Crushed In Time	3 players	beats 59%
86	Syberia: The World Before	7 players	beats 57%
87	The Posthumous Investigation	3 players	beats 59%
88	The Test	5 players	beats 57%
89	Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1	4 players	beats 57%
90	The House of Da Vinci 3	10 players	beats 55%
91	We Were Here Together	88 players	beats 54%
92	Blair Witch VR	3 players	beats 56%
93	JudgeSim	3 players	beats 56%
94	The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition	4 players	beats 55%
95	Nothing To Declare	7 players	beats 54%
96	Subsurface Circular	9 players	beats 54%
97	Whisper Mountain Outbreak	5 players	beats 54%
98	Shift At Midnight	22 players	beats 53%
99	The Thaumaturge	39 players	beats 53%
100	Murder by Numbers	19 players	beats 53%
101	Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise	4 players	beats 53%
102	Dimhaven - The Lost Source	6 players	beats 53%
103	ANONYMOUS;CODE	3 players	beats 52%
104	Duck Detective: The Secret Salami	21 players	beats 51%
105	Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room	3 players	beats 52%
106	Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room	4 players	beats 52%
107	TR-49	14 players	beats 51%
108	Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.	3 players	beats 52%
109	We Were Here Too	103 players	beats 51%
110	Bugsnax	26 players	beats 51%
111	Bahnsen Knights	3 players	beats 52%
112	Killer Frequency	31 players	beats 51%
113	Escape Memoirs: Safe House	3 players	beats 51%
114	7 Days to End with You	23 players	beats 51%
115	Her Story	54 players	beats 51%
116	LOCKDOWN Protocol	31 players	beats 51%
117	Equinox: Homecoming	3 players	beats 51%
118	Pentiment	15 players	beats 50%
119	The Ratline	3 players	beats 51%
120	while True: learn()	46 players	beats 50%
121	Deceive Inc.	23 players	beats 50%
122	Operation: Tango - Friend Pass	21 players	beats 50%
123	Police Simulator: Patrol Officers	32 players	beats 50%
124	SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION	13 players	beats 50%
125	Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator	5 players	beats 50%
126	Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You	109 players	beats 50%
127	Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse	9 players	beats 50%
128	Eternal Threads	7 players	beats 50%
129	HellSign	5 players	beats 50%
130	Paranormal State: Poison Spring	3 players	beats 50%
131	The Apothecary of Trubiz	9 players	beats 50%
132	The Inheritance of Crimson Manor	7 players	beats 50%
133	Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard	8 players	beats 50%
134	Tales of the Neon Sea	9 players	beats 50%
135	Phasmophobia	483 players	beats 50%
136	Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis	7 players	beats 49%
137	Post Mortem	5 players	beats 49%
138	A Hand With Many Fingers	4 players	beats 49%
139	The Eyes of Ara	4 players	beats 48%
140	Curious Cases	4 players	beats 47%
141	We Were Here	247 players	beats 47%
142	Traitors in Salem	4 players	beats 44%
143	Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Demo	30 players	beats 46%
144	The Operator	21 players	beats 45%
145	Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments	28 players	beats 45%
146	The Silver Case	8 players	beats 44%
147	Kathy Rain: Director's Cut	6 players	beats 43%
148	Do No Harm	7 players	beats 43%
149	NORCO	12 players	beats 44%
150	HIVESWAP: ACT 2	6 players	beats 42%
151	Unheard - Voices of Crime	20 players	beats 43%
152	Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island	14 players	beats 43%
153	Airport X-Ray Simulator	4 players	beats 40%
154	Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt	6 players	beats 41%
155	Telling Lies	12 players	beats 41%
156	Night Book	4 players	beats 38%
157	Dreamcore	3 players	beats 35%
158	A Case of Distrust	8 players	beats 39%
159	Blair Witch	7 players	beats 38%
160	Tested on Humans: Escape Room	4 players	beats 36%
161	First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds	4 players	beats 36%
162	Lucifer Within Us	3 players	beats 34%
163	Please Love My Computer Game	3 players	beats 32%
164	The Norwood Suite	12 players	beats 38%
165	Nancy Drew®: Danger by Design	3 players	beats 31%
166	A Guidebook of Babel	4 players	beats 32%
167	Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™	5 players	beats 32%
168	Contradiction: Spot The Liar	4 players	beats 29%
169	How 2 Escape	4 players	beats 29%
170	Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist	5 players	beats 30%
171	The Solitaire Conspiracy	6 players	beats 31%
172	Wolflord - Werewolf Online	3 players	beats 25%
173	Loco Motive	3 players	beats 25%
174	Drill and Delve	3 players	beats 25%
175	Project Unknown	3 players	beats 25%
176	Hard Time III	3 players	beats 25%
177	Murders on the Yangtze River	3 players	beats 25%
178	Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper	10 players	beats 31%
179	SCP Strategy	3 players	beats 24%
180	Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery	4 players	beats 26%
181	Night Call	8 players	beats 30%
182	Ghost Exorcism INC.	7 players	beats 29%
183	Hello Neighbor Alpha 1	13 players	beats 31%
184	The Testament of Sherlock Holmes	19 players	beats 32%
185	USAC: Code Breach	4 players	beats 25%
186	Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1	3 players	beats 22%
187	Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker	17 players	beats 31%
188	Digger: Galactic Treasures	9 players	beats 29%
189	Remnant Records	5 players	beats 25%
190	Accident	8 players	beats 27%
191	Lust from Beyond: Scarlet	4 players	beats 22%
192	Machinika: Atlas	5 players	beats 24%
193	Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha	10 players	beats 27%
194	BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION	3 players	beats 18%
195	Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)	8 players	beats 25%
196	The Painscreek Killings	16 players	beats 27%
197	Occlude	9 players	beats 25%
198	Demonologist	30 players	beats 28%
199	Hello Neighbor Alpha 2	18 players	beats 27%
200	Neverout	5 players	beats 21%
201	The Room VR: A Dark Matter	11 players	beats 25%
202	Adventure Escape Mysteries	8 players	beats 24%
203	Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition	13 players	beats 25%
204	Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony	13 players	beats 25%
205	Moonrise Fall	19 players	beats 25%
206	Feign	12 players	beats 23%
207	Sherlock Holmes Chapter One	24 players	beats 25%
208	Machinika: Museum	49 players	beats 25%
209	Unfortunate Spacemen	38 players	beats 25%
210	Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories	52 players	beats 25%
211	Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege	72 players	beats 25%
212	Crash Time 2	10 players	beats 19%
213	Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5	15 players	beats 19%

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