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15 Detective Games To Put On Your “Suspect List” In 2026 Here are 15 mystery and detective games releasing in 2026 that fans of the genre can check out!

Mystery sleuths, gather around!

Kate has compiled a case of 15 detective games to look out for in 2026:

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Not to mention that finding out a person on, like, a two-dev team is bad is so much more impactful on my will to engage with it. Gotta work on applying that to AAA. Still sad about learning an indie I loved is actually made by someone contributing to the issues I thought it so clearly condemned. Eh.

A followup thought I had to this is that indie is not free of plenty of other shared faults. There are sizable pockets in indie spaces that contribute to the same problems, and there's equal disappointments in the people involved in them. Kinda still struggling with Silksong being such an Xbox tool.

Following indie games makes me happy. Even if they don't make it, they poured their heart out and followed their dreams. Their stories inspire. In the AAA space, people can pour their heart out for years for it all to get cancelled, it's all outside their control.
Play Demon Tides, Angeline Era.

Indie 3D platformers are downplayed, unfairly pitted against each other, and have to fight to even be considered art on the same level their big-budget peers. I would love nothing more than for that perception to change. I'm putting my money where my mouth is for my new favorite game in the space.

Mateusz recommends stealth game, Styx: Blades of Greed, by @cyanidestudio.bsky.social and Nacon.

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#Styx

Backloggd is Letterboxd which is Twitter. Mass culture of snark. Lots of "post the popular take/joke you saw elsewhere." Follows give people confidence to turn any window where you can write text into the same public journal. Yet we still spread takes around other sites. Me too, I'm here. But why?

The issue with every site gaining social features is that everyone wants to run away from a different social site, but they all eventually become the same one. You just entrench yourself and take the few truly unique annoyances of the one you picked on top of the universal ones. I never escaped any.

10 Upcoming Indie 3D Platformers To Be Excited About In 2026 Hungry for some more platforming? Check out these upcoming indie 3D platformers for recommendations!

2026 has a lot of indie 3D platformers that you should keep an eye on!

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Mateusz recommends climbing game, Cairn, by @thegamebakers.com.

Read our full review here: gameobserver.com/cairn-review...

#Cairn

10. Spiritfarer (2020) Developed and published by Thunder Lotus A screenshot of the main character fishing in Spiritfarer Spiritfarer is a cozy management game following themes of death. 9. Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) Developed and published by Lucas Pope (3909) 8. Undertale (2015) Developed and published by Toby Fox 7. Stardew Valley (2016) Developed and published by ConcernedApe 6. Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025) Developed and published by Team Cherry 5. Disco Elysium (2019) Developed and published by ZA/UM A screenshot of the main character waking up in the opening of Disco Elysium. You play an amnesiac detective with a murder to solve in RPG, Disco Elysium. 4. What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) Developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive 3. Hades (2020) Developed and published by Supergiant GamesBest video game consoles 2. Hollow Knight (2017) Developed and published by Team Cherry 1. Outer Wilds (2019) Developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive

And our top 10 indie games of all time, as voted by our staff! Full list of our top 100: t.co/sbwyEUyZAK

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100. Overcooked! (2016) Developed by Ghost Town Games and published by Team17 99. Coffee Talk (2020) Developed and published by Toge Productions 98. Untitled Goose Game (2019) Developed by House House and published by Panic 97. Death’s Door (2021) Developed by Acid Nerve and published by Devolver Digital 96. Paradise Killer (2020) Developed by Kaizen Game Works and published by Fellow Traveller 95. A Hat in Time (2017) Developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Gears for Breakfast and Humble Games 94. Ball X Pit (2025) Developed by Kenny Sun and Friends and published by Devolver Digital 93. Star Birds (2025) Developed and published by Toukana Interactive and Kurzgesagt 92. Tiny Bookshop (2025) Developed by neoludic games and published by Skystone Games and 2P Games 91. Colossal Cave (2023) Developed and published by Cygnus Entertainment

As voted by our staff, our Top 100 Indie Games! Full list: gameobserver.com/gameobserver...

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As a licensed game appreciator, I really gotta play those Iron Man movie tie-ins because it's hard for me to imagine many things being overall worse than Anthem. Every time I think about Anthem and Owen... gosh, I hated that story so bad. But, also, play mecha games! Not bullet sponge simulators!

Anthem is dead. Happy I got to beat it a few years back before that, one day I hope to say I beat every Bioware game. That being said, seeing sentiments like "it had potential" or "the flying felt so good" feels nuts. Imagine if the only thing people said about Elden Ring is that Torrent is so cool.

Mateusz recommends 3D platformer, Big Hops, by Luckshot Games.

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Sometimes I do yea, but ultimately I don't think it's, like, anything weird to just feel excited that I found some angle to enjoy something others don't. As long as it isn't creating malice to others, I think it's ultimately worth exploring, even should my hype fade after a bit if it was a tad fake.

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Bodies of zombies

More licensed games. Finished The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. A very ugly, Wii-feeling game, sure, but it's a structurally sound, neat, replayable mini-survival horror. Tad incompetent is all. Better than you'd think given its reputation, still C-tier at best. Screenshots courtesy of MobyGames.

Pink Panther Pinkadelic Pursuit PS1 Manual Notes Page on page 23

Shoutout PS1 manuals that had... pages for taking notes lmao

YOU SHOULD MAN MANUALS ARE INCREDIBLE GENUINELY

A game of rock paper scissors between Tigger and Owl

A game of Pooh Sticks between Roo, Tigger, Pooh and Piglet

Tigger running in the 100 Acre Woods, some honey pots float above

Tigger riding a turtle on a snowy lake

Update on weird and usually licensed games I played since the last bunch: Tigger's Honey Hunt. Loved Winnie the Pooh as a kid, loved the game too, nowadays: great vibes, but I was disappointed with how much it tries to be a platformer. Speedrun challenges, really? (Screenshots courtesy of MobyGames)

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Explosiovania Demo on Steam Rocket-jump using explosive fireballs, unlock abilities and master an ever-growing movement system. After descending into a broken underworld, you must learn to traverse Satan Hill. Explore the non-li...

Some of the best gaming.
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Winter sale is nearing its end, if you're interested in some jarshcore take a look at this thread!

In my friend group, I'm known as the guy who reacts in a humorously insane manner to the plethora of insane video game genres and comparisons. There was always a nugget of truth in that, and the recent Sword and Fairy 4 debacle felt like a good time to bring back this idea for an article back.

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The GameObserver Awards 2025 - Blast From The Past While we love to shine light on brilliant new releases, we also wanted to share some staff picks of the games we’ve played this year that were released before 2025.

Our staff picks of the games we played and loved this year that were released before 2025:

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Astro Bot won seventeen hundred GOTY awards last year, don't despair yet alex!

Second game was Hugo: Frog Fighter. Hugo is a Danish troll, a mascot that was once very, very popular in some parts of Europe. The game is a 20-minute-long Frogger clone with some great music and cool stages, but it's hard to see depth sometimes. Pretty wild they made games this short on the system.