Top 10 Best Detective Games for PC and Mac

Our top 10 list of the all time best detective games to play on computer. Download full versions for PC and Mac online including free demos.

As there are so many types of mystery detective games to play on your computer – either for PC or Mac, we’ve split the list further into different sub-genres.

10 Best HOPA Detective Games for Computer

This top ten includes the best hidden object puzzle adventure crime solving games for PC. As well as some being available for Mac, iOS, Android and Kindle Fire.

Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial

Number 1 in this top 10 hidden object detective game. Features Poe’s famous fictional detective Auguste Dupin. This is a beautiful and atmospheric detective game. With it’s evocative and eerie Victorian setting!

Dark Tales 3 is available for download online for PC and Mac. As well as for tablet and mobile devices – iOS and Android.

For more details: Best Detective Games for PC & Mac – Dark Tales 3.

Clue / Cluedo for PC & Mac

The original detective board game Cluedo. Now available to play on your computer. Play against AI opponents in this 3D adaptation. Available for PC and Mac.

For more details: Top Detective Games for Computer: #2 Clue / Cluedo Review.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles

From Frogwares, this top computer detective game is based on the most well-known Sherlock Holmes story. With brilliant use of puzzle-solving and hidden object game play to create an immersive detective game for computer!

For more details: Top Detective Games for Computer: #3 The Hound of the Baskervilles Review.

Royal Detective: Lord of Statues

Top-rated HOPA game from Elephant Games, the first in this series. You have been summoned to save the alpine village of Martlet in Royal Detective: Lord of Statues…

For more details: Top Detective Game #4 Royal Detective 1 Review.

Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters

The 4th installment in the Dark Parables HOPA series. The Red Riding Hood Sisters from Blue Tea Games. For more details: Top Detective Game Review: 5. The Red Riding Hood Sisters.

Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood

The Mists of Ravenwood the second chapter for PC and Mac in the brilliant detective hidden object series by Artifex Mundi. For more details: Top Computer Detective Game: 6. The Mists of Ravenwood.

Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water

Curse of the Black Water by Mariaglorum. You travel to the remote island town of Black Water, investigating the mysterious disappearance of two archaeologists when you encounter a mythical monster straight from the ancient myths of Poseidon! For more details: Top Detective Game Review: 8. Curse of the Black Water.

Mystery Trackers: Four Aces

Four Aces by Elephant Games. Stop a devious conspiracy in Mystery Trackers: Four Aces! The entire town of Brightfield was evacuated after a series of bizarre animal attacks… For more details: Top Detective Game Review: 7. Four Aces.

Mystery Case Files Dire Grove

By Big Fish Studios. Set in an eerie northern English town. As the Detective, you are challenged to solve the mystery of the missing graduate students. For more details: Top Detective Game Review: 9. Mystery Case Files Dire Grove for PC and Mac