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24 alternatives to Play Sleuth

A series of open-ended, detective role playing games

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Play Sleuth launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia▲318
Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
2025 · detective.wiki · its alternatives →
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Hunt a Killer▲94
Interactive mystery and unannounced monthly deliveries
2017 · huntakiller.com · its alternatives →
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SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes▲463
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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Mysteries.ai▲93
A game where you play detective and solve a mystery
2023 · mysteries.ai · its alternatives →
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Truth Sleuth▲74
A crtical thinking detective game aimed at young people
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Darkside Detective▲55
A humorous micro-adventure game investigating the occult
2015 · spookydoorway.com · its alternatives →
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Whodunnit▲80
Everything you need for a murder mystery dinner party
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The Wolf Among Us▲71
An episodic interactive mystery drama graphic adventure
2015 · telltale.com · its alternatives →
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Infra▲71
Uncover the mystery in this first person puzzler
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Discover O▲71
A minimalist game
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Splice▲60
An experimental and artistic puzzler
2015 · cipherprime.com · its alternatives →
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Murder▲70
a 30-minute adventure about morality and sentience
2015 · petermoorhead.com · its alternatives →
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Murder! - 1: An Invitation▲56
Serial meets Thrilling Adventure Hour
2015 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
14
Below▲80
Explore. Survive. Discover.
2015 · whatliesbelow.com · its alternatives →
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Secrets of Rætikon▲85
Solve mysteries in a beautiful and atmospheric open world.
2015 · secrets-of-raetikon.com · its alternatives →
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Replica▲67
Uncover a mystery by searching someone's phone
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Her Story▲114
A real life crime story where you play detective
2015 · herstorygame.com · its alternatives →
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Spyfall▲62
A card game of bluffing, probing, & suspicion
2015 · cryptozoic.com · its alternatives →
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Role▲92
A storytelling party game
2015 · playrole.com · its alternatives →
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Brogue▲53
One of the best Roguelike games around
2015 · sites.google.com · its alternatives →
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Pongoss▲67
The endless running game
2015 · smappi.com · its alternatives →
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Jack the detective▲62
Player VS Player murder mystery game on mobile
2016 · prefundia.com · its alternatives →
23AM
A murder mystery game built on an open-source gen-AI agent framework▲43
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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The Quest▲56
An old-school, hand-drawn RPG
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

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