Detective is a subgenre of Mystery-fiction and Crime-fiction, in which a detective or an investigator either an amateur, professional or retired investigates the crime and often murder. The detective games take place in the fictional environment full of puzzles, mysteries, and objectives. The player as the detective must investigate the crime scene, interact with the environment to find clues, analyze them, interrogate the suspect and find the person who is guilty. The detective is the person who is responsible for solving the murder, and criminal cases to enhance his reputation in the city. There are four different types of detectives such as the Amateur Detective, the Private Detective, the Police Detective, and the Forensic Specialist. Some detective games are inspired by television shows. In these games, the player deals with mysterious, crime scenes, suspects, environment, and clues. Some detective games use point and click interface to control the character, and while some games use hidden and object elements to fulfill the requirement or catch the guilty person.

11 Best Detective Games for Xbox 360

#1 L.A Noire

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L.A Noire is an Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, Third-person Shooter and Stealth video game by Team Bondi. Featuring the protagonist Cole Phelps the game is set in the city of Los Angeles. Cole Phelps recently joined in as the Detective after serving for years as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Being a police officer, Phelps worked in a lot of police departments and in every Department, he worked with different partners having different sets of skills in crime investigations and interrogations. Players get to solve the cases of different kinds, assigned to them as the investigation tasks and by using their skills, they are meant to put the responsible behind the bars. This amazingly twisted and amalgamated series of fast-paced action and adventure includes crime scene investigations, interrogations, fieldwork and super thrilling gun battles between the law-breakers and the lawmakers. Player mostly uses melee attacks, a lot of weapons and rides vehicles of different kinds in an open world environment. With greatly 3D graphics, exhilarating game-play and an appealing and well-inscribed story-line, L.A Noire takes you to a new dimension of Action-Adventure and Shooting game experience.

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#2 The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

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Are you familiar with Sherlock Holmes? Well Sherlock Holmes was a finest detective the world has ever seen. Sherlock Holmes had the unique skills of solving the most difficult cases and nobody else could find the clues and evidence that he could. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is based on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and is developed by Frogwares for all the detective games lovers. The game is set in the year 1890s and takes you back to an old depiction of London where Sherlock Holmes along with his companion Dr. Watson, is trying to solve a very uncommon case. After the game starts, it puts you into the character of Sherlock Holmes and lets you solve the case by using the strategies and techniques that Sherlock Holmes used back then. You play as Sherlock Holmes and try to solve the case of a missing “Samoan Necklace”. Near the solution of the case you notice that the necklace is not original. The thief has put an imitation of the original one on the scene and the real Necklace is still missing. This discovery makes you feel a bit dizzy because all of the investigation seems of no use. You must find the original necklace. Use your best skills and techniques to examine the clues and evidence, go to different locations to investigate people and collect more evidence. The game lets you jump into the character of DR. Watson to observe the situation more adequately. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes lets you travel from one location to another by walking, running or on any vehicle available. You can solve side puzzles to focus on the real matter too if you want. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes provides with a great episodic storyline and an engagingly addictive game-play for you to play and enjoy. Do try this game out for a great Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama experience. You’ll like it for sure.

#3 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a Puzzle, Point and Click and Single-player video game based on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. The game offers the exciting gameplay to CSI: Miami and Dimension of Murder center on a set of five complex cases such as Inn and Out, Light my Fire, Garvey’s Beat, More Fun than a Barrel of Corpses, etc. In the game, you assume the role of the protagonist, a detective and your primary objective is to investigate multiple cases, find clues, solve mind-bending puzzles and capture the person who is guilty. There are lots of detective tools available, and you can use them all to immerse yourself in detective gameplay experience. The game offers serious cases, as you progress through the game and you have to solve enough cases to become the master. Interact with environment, objectives and other things to advances in the case and solve mysteries to earn points. You will question suspects and witnesses during the investigation to find clues and motives to arrest. With brilliant gameplay, addictive features, and smooth controls, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the best game to play.

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#4 Murdered: Soul Suspect

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Murdered: Soul Suspect is and adventure game developed by Alright Games and Published by Square Enix. The story of the game kick starts from an American town named Salem. With a third person perspective, the player controls the main character of the game Ronan (formerly and agent) and explores the town walking and running through different places and buildings like churches, apartments, graveyards etc. Ronan is bound to collect different collectibles scattered around the town. Ronan being a ghost gets the advantage to use a lot of ghostly powers and benefits himself along the way and the story continues. The game comes with a lot of amazing and special characters like a ruthless serial killer Bell, Julia the wife of Ronan, Abigail a Puritan era girl, Cassandra Ronan’s mother and Joy the only witness to the murder of Ronan. Ronan is back to finish what he started and wows to kill his killer. Amazing graphics, details and gameplay forces you to stick to your chair and play till you get tired. Packed with all the action and drama, Murdered: Soul Suspect is worth giving a try. You can play this game on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

#5 The Wolf Among Us

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The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.

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#6 Condemned: Criminal Origins

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Condemned: Criminal Origins is an Action, First-person Perspective, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game produced by Monolith Productions and published by Sega. The game offers exploration gameplay with a heavy emphasis on melee combat, solving-puzzles, including finding clues, searching for fingerprints and more. Unlike traditional first-person shooter games, the most of the game focuses on exploration, interaction with NPCs and environment. You can step into the shoes of the protagonist, a detective and your ultimate task is to explore the breathtaking environment around you to complete different missions. The game world is full of strange creatures, mysteries, and enemies, and you can use different weapons during the gameplay to kill enemies and earn points. There are exciting levels available, and you have to complete each one to progress through the game. During the gameplay, the player will encounter lots of deadly creatures, which scares and fend off you by completion of your missions. Condemned: Criminal Origins offers prominent features such as thrilling Environment, First-person Gameplay, heart-pumping Story, and smooth Controls. It is the fantastic game to play and enjoy.

#7 BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea

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BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a Downloadable Content Pack for the original game BioShock Infinite created by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The game mixes the Adventure, Stealth and First-person Shooter elements and offers Single-player mode only. It takes place after the event of BioShock Infinite in Columbia, a floating city known as Rapture in 1912. It introduces two different protagonists such as Booker DeWitt as a detective and Elizabeth as a female protagonist. By combining the limited spaces of BioShock and BioShock 2, the game offers a massive environment to explore with more dynamic combat system. To start the game, the player needs to select his character either as a male or a female and his ultimate task is to explore the environment to complete a set of missions to earn points. The player can manipulate world from either on foot or by a pneumo-line (a roller coaster). BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea offers enhanced graphics, mechanics, and prominent features to hardcore players. With brilliant gameplay and smooth controls, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is the best game to play and enjoy.

#8 D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die

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D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is a great Episodic, Interactive Drama and Action-Adventure video game developed by Access Games. The game lets you be the protagonist David Young, a Private Detective who struggles to investigate about the murder of his wife. You must follow the story-line and use your Time Traveling abilities to investigate and collect clues and evidence about your lost memories. The time travel abilities are strictly bound to the search of necessary clued and objects so when you find a clue you can go back in time to a specific and limited point. The more you collect objects and clues, the more you can go back in time and eventually reach down to the point where you can stop[ the murder from happening and in some cases you can arrest the murderer. D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die provides with Cel-Shaded graphics and an amazing game-play filled with thrill, action and adventure. Do try it out if you haven’t played it yet, you’ll definitely enjoy this game.

#9 Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival First and Third-person Shooter video game by Headfirst Productions. The story of the game revolves around the character of Jack Walters who is a mentally unstable freelance detective. He gets hired on a case of a missing person and travels to Innsmouth a mysteriously strange town situated in the cutout suburbs of America. While investigating in the Innsmouth, Jack feels the unseen presence of an unearthly force, under the heavy effects of that force, he begins hallucinating and degrading mentally. It depends on the player to control his situation or let him die by losing control and committing suicide. One possible way of preserving and restoring the sanity of the protagonist is to kill the enemies or find the sanctuary. If player fails to find the sanctuary, he dies under the heavy influence of graphical anomalies and sound distortions and the game ends. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth features a twisted and quite confusing game-play and a mysteriously impressive story-line, amazing visuals and a lot of other great things.

#10 Jurassic Park: The Game

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Jurassic Park: The Game, presented by Telltale Games is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game based on the Jurassic Park Movie Franchise. The game takes place in the time between the first and the second Jurassic park movies. The game is heavily influenced by the Mechanics used in the Blockbuster Heavy Rain by Quantic Dreams and lets you investigate different matters by exploring the game world, collecting the clues and evidences, Interacting with the AIs (Artificial Intelligence) and NPCs and by solving different complex puzzles. The game has four Episodes named as The Intruder, The Cavalry, The Depths and The Survivors and lets you follow the story-line strictly and act accordingly. With swiftly changing environments, amazing graphics, story-line, and a great Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama and thrill filled game-play, Jurassic Park: The Game is a super exciting and a brilliant game to play and enjoy.

#11 Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a Single-player and Third-person Shooter video game created by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sequel to the Max Payne game and it takes place in the fictional world. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Max Payne, who is detective in the NYPD (New York City Police Department). After the previous events, the protagonist team up with Mona Sax, and set out on an adventure to resolve a conspiracy of betrayal and death. There are two different protagonists such as Mona Sax and Max Payne. You can assume the role of Max Payne, but also play as Mona Sax in some levels. In the beginning, the primary weapon is 9mm Pistol, as the game progress, you access other weapons including submachine gun, handguns, assault rifles, hand thrown weapons and more. There are a variety of missions and each mission needs a completion of certain tasks. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is the best game to play and enjoy.