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24 alternatives to Mystery Of Criminal Detective
An amazing and intellectual investigation game...
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mystery Of Criminal Detective launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I built SQL Noir, an interactive detective game that challenges you to solve mysteries using real SQL queries. It’s fully open source, designed to give you a practical and immersive way to learn SQL while engaging with a narrative-driven mystery.
2025 · sqlnoir.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
Oct 2025 · detective.wiki · its alternatives →
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SQL Police Department is an online game where you solve crimes using SQL (and learn SQL in the process). Learn SQL while playing a game!
2020 · sqlpd.com · its alternatives →
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Find the weapon and motive in a crime scene
2015 · its alternatives →
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2015 · fourtonfish.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this really fun project I put together. I originally built this project 2-3 years ago, AI was already booming at the time, however voice AI agents were still very early. I loved my proof of concept at the time, but wasn't quite happy with it. I recently had the desire to check out the tech again, and know many of you will be interested. Interviews are speech to speech with OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 over WebRTC. This model is... expensive, and because of that, I have to add some amount of restrictions, conversations are tied to a authenticated Clerk user id. I…
Aug 2026 · whodunnitai.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Virtual Reality investigation game in the ancient Egypt
2016 · its alternatives →
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Complete all the unsolved mystery of many different crim...
2016 · its alternatives →
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2025 · detective-stories.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun! We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just…
2023 · gron.games · its alternatives →
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Interrogate AI suspects and solve ever‑changing murder cases
Jan 2026 · murdermysterygame.org · its alternatives →
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