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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 launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 55%.

S5 games
  1. #1Phasmophobia96% of 313
  2. #2Disco Elysium72% of 202
  3. #3A Detective's Novel93% of 30
  4. #4MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™77% of 79
  5. #5L.A. Noire74% of 118
A15 games
  1. #6Her Story78% of 63
  2. #7Return of the Obra Dinn77% of 57
  3. #8Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc74% of 68
  4. #9Shadows of Doubt76% of 50
  5. #10Face Noir81% of 31
  6. #11The Vanishing of Ethan Carter71% of 66
  7. #12Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller80% of 30
  8. #13Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut72% of 57
  9. #14Hypnospace Outlaw75% of 36
  10. #15Demonologist77% of 30
  11. #16Orwell64% of 118
  12. #17The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux67% of 66
  13. #18The Detail72% of 32
  14. #19The Wolf Among Us64% of 103
  15. #20Kathy Rain65% of 72
B22 games
  1. #21Gemini Rue68% of 37
  2. #22Do Not Feed the Monkeys64% of 69
  3. #23Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy63% of 62
  4. #24Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders62% of 50
  5. #25The Testament of Sherlock Holmes62% of 47
  6. #26Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter59% of 69
  7. #27The Painscreek Killings61% of 36
  8. #28The Sexy Brutale57% of 51
  9. #29Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse55% of 42
  10. #30The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles53% of 30
  11. #31Tesla Effect52% of 58
  12. #32Observer52% of 60
  13. #33Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis50% of 30
  14. #34Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)50% of 32
  15. #35Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments50% of 40
  16. #36Call of Cthulhu51% of 65
  17. #37The Darkside Detective50% of 48
  18. #38Whispers of a Machine48% of 33
  19. #39The Shapeshifting Detective49% of 41
  20. #40The Sinking City Remastered47% of 32
  21. #41Chicken Police47% of 38
  22. #42Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony47% of 38
C18 games
  1. #43Bear With Me - Collector's Edition46% of 35
  2. #44Paradise Killer46% of 39
  3. #45Heavy Rain49% of 110
  4. #46Orwell: Ignorance is Strength45% of 38
  5. #47Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair46% of 54
  6. #48Lacuna44% of 48
  7. #49Aviary Attorney43% of 40
  8. #50A Case of Distrust41% of 34
  9. #51Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper41% of 32
  10. #52The Occupation40% of 30
  11. #53The Deed46% of 99
  12. #54Gamedec - Definitive Edition40% of 35

And 6 more: Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series, Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island, SIMULACRA, Puzzle Agent, Twin Mirror, Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard.

D13 games
  1. #61The Forgotten City30% of 63
  2. #62Blacksad: Under the Skin18% of 34
  3. #63Nobody Wants to Die26% of 54
  4. #64SIMULACRA 215% of 34
  5. #65Still Life16% of 38
  6. #66Kona21% of 61
  7. #67Alter Ego3% of 30
  8. #68Still Life 26% of 34
  9. #69Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?13% of 45
  10. #70Puzzle Agent 217% of 59
  11. #71Night Call0% of 34
  12. #72Tales of the Neon Sea7% of 45

And 1 more: Tails Noir.

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 55% 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.