I'm obsessed with detective games, and I think these 9 prove that 2025 was the best year for the genre ever

There's just something about solving mysteries in games. Piecing together clues, interrogating suspects, and finally discovering that oh-so-satisfying answer. It's absolute magic.

Needless to say, I'm a bit of a genre obsessive—and particularly this year, I found myself sleuthing through a record number of modern classics.

I think 2025 was one of the best detective game years ever, if not the best. Who knows what it was about these particular twelve months that suddenly made the idea...