Best Murder Mystery
And Then There Were None is a 1939 mystery thriller by British author Agatha Christie. The plot centers on ten individuals with hidden pasts who are lured to an isolated island and subsequently murdered one by one in accordance with a counting-out nursery rhyme. The novel is distinguished by its per...
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a darkly comedic crime film from 1949. It tells the story of Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, an ambitious young man who orchestrates a series of murders to claim control of a wealthy aristocratic family's inheritance. Alec Guinness delivers a remarkable performance portraying mu...
The Rise of the Golden Idol is an indie deduction and puzzle game developed by Color Gray Games and scheduled for release in 2024. It serves as a standalone sequel to the 2022 title The Case of the Golden Idol, advancing the timeline roughly two centuries into a 1970s setting. The gameplay consists...
The Sexy Brutale is an adventure puzzle game developed by Tequila Works and Cavalier Game Studios and released in 2017. Set during a masked ball in a casino mansion, it places the player in a repeating time loop in which guests are murdered and must be saved by observing events and changing their ti...
Tangle Tower is a 2019 point-and-click mystery adventure developed by SFB Games. Detective Grimoire and his assistant Sally investigate the apparent murder of Freya Fellow at a strange mansion occupied by two interconnected families. Players search illustrated rooms, collect and combine evidence, so...
"The Colonel's Bequest" is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Created by veteran game designer Roberta Williams, it utilizes Sierra's SCI engine and is the first installment in the Laura Bow mystery series. Set in 1925 on a decaying Louisiana plantation, the...
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a 2022 narrative mystery game published by Square Enix and developed by h.a.n.d. Presented largely through live-action video, it follows mystery novelist Haruka Kagami as she investigates a chain of deaths associated with the Shijima family and a legendary sou...
Mystery of the Abbey is a deduction board game designed by Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget, first published in French as La Fureur de Dracula? No. The game places players in a medieval monastery where a monk has been murdered, and the culprit must be identified from a community distinguished by order...
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? is a 2022 interactive full-motion-video mystery developed by Wales Interactive and D'Avekki Studios. The story follows a family gathering conducted through a video call, during which Uncle Marcus reveals that he has been poisoned and asks the player to identify the...
13 Clues is a deduction game designed by Martino Chiacchiera and Silvano Sorrentino. Each player attempts to identify a hidden murder scenario by reasoning from visible cards, public information, and questions directed at other players. The concealed information concerns elements of the case, such a...
Six Wakes is a 2017 science fiction mystery novel by Mur Lafferty. On the starship Dormire, six cloned crew members awaken in new bodies and discover that their previous bodies have been murdered, while the ship continues a generations-long voyage carrying colonists toward Tau Ceti. The investigatio...
Unsolved Case Files is a tabletop murder-mystery series built around fictional cold cases rather than real crimes. Players examine a physical case file containing documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other evidence, then solve three objectives; an online answer key confirms theories and...
A tabletop mystery series originally published in the Netherlands where players examine physical evidence reproductions packaged in a box to solve a fictional cold case.
A subscription mystery experience launched in 2016 where players receive monthly boxes of physical evidence—letters, documents, and objects—to solve a serialized murder.
