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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark $14.99
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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The Darkside Detective$14.99
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.

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Hornet the Vanguard$14.99
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Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon$5.99
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Crossword City Chronicles$4.99
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RED MAN FOLLOWSFREE
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Who Did It?$7.99
Who Did It? Is a detective puzzle-game. Your job is to read the given case files to find out who the murderer is! Do you have what it takes to master all cases and close them all for good?

Detective Kobayashi - A Visual Novel$12.99
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我的一个多重人格朋友$0.99
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.

Justice.exe$11.99
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Project Blue Book: Hidden Mysteries$6.99
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Baker Street Breakouts: A Sherlockian Escape Adventure$9.99
"Baker Street Breakouts" combines the thrill of an Escape Room with the storytelling of an Adventure. Use your superior deduction skills in this story-driven mystery to help Sherlock deducing his way through an old film studio to finally face his arch nemesis Moriarty. Become a Master of Deduction!

Dynasty Detective$14.99
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