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Which detective games actually get played?

73 detective games owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 40%.

S5 games
  1. #1Phasmophobia89% of 313
  2. #2A Detective's Novel83% of 30
  3. #3Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut65% of 57
  4. #4Her Story62% of 63
  5. #5L.A. Noire57% of 118
A15 games
  1. #6Disco Elysium54% of 202
  2. #7MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™58% of 79
  3. #8The Wolf Among Us55% of 103
  4. #9Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter55% of 69
  5. #10Return of the Obra Dinn56% of 57
  6. #11Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc53% of 68
  7. #12Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller60% of 30
  8. #13Demonologist57% of 30
  9. #14The Vanishing of Ethan Carter50% of 66
  10. #15Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse52% of 42
  11. #16Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy50% of 62
  12. #17Shadows of Doubt48% of 50
  13. #18The Detail50% of 32
  14. #19The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux45% of 66
  15. #20The Painscreek Killings47% of 36
B22 games
  1. #21The Sexy Brutale45% of 51
  2. #22Face Noir45% of 31
  3. #23Hypnospace Outlaw44% of 36
  4. #24Do Not Feed the Monkeys42% of 69
  5. #25Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony42% of 38
  6. #26The Shapeshifting Detective41% of 41
  7. #27Orwell41% of 118
  8. #28Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair41% of 54
  9. #29Aviary Attorney40% of 40
  10. #30Whispers of a Machine39% of 33
  11. #31The Darkside Detective40% of 48
  12. #32Paradise Killer38% of 39
  13. #33Kathy Rain39% of 72
  14. #34Gemini Rue38% of 37
  15. #35The Sinking City Remastered38% of 32
  16. #36Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders38% of 50
  17. #37The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles37% of 30
  18. #38The Occupation37% of 30
  19. #39The Testament of Sherlock Holmes36% of 47
  20. #40Bear With Me - Collector's Edition34% of 35
  21. #41Call of Cthulhu35% of 65
  22. #42Gamedec - Definitive Edition31% of 35
C18 games
  1. #43Heavy Rain35% of 110
  2. #44Observer32% of 60
  3. #45Orwell: Ignorance is Strength29% of 38
  4. #46A Case of Distrust26% of 34
  5. #47Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series30% of 54
  6. #48Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper25% of 32
  7. #49Tesla Effect29% of 58
  8. #50Chicken Police26% of 38
  9. #51Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments25% of 40
  10. #52Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)22% of 32
  11. #53Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis20% of 30
  12. #54The Deed29% of 99

And 6 more: SIMULACRA, Twin Mirror, Lacuna, Blacksad: Under the Skin, SIMULACRA 2, Nobody Wants to Die.

D13 games
  1. #61The Forgotten City19% of 63
  2. #62Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?13% of 45
  3. #63Alter Ego3% of 30
  4. #64Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard10% of 41
  5. #65Still Life 26% of 34
  6. #66Still Life8% of 38
  7. #67Puzzle Agent15% of 61
  8. #68Tales of the Neon Sea7% of 45
  9. #69Night Call0% of 34
  10. #70Tails Noir6% of 47
  11. #71Kona8% of 61
  12. #72Puzzle Agent 25% of 59

And 1 more: Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island.

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 40% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.