10 Best Hidden Object Investigation Games

If you have an eye for detail and great patience at combing through crime scenes, this list of our 10 best hidden object investigation games is for you! Play as a Private Investigator or be part of a secret service as you investigate various crime scenes to solve impossible murder mysteries.

As an investigator, you will also have to arm yourself with both knowledge of various scientific techniques that can help you nab the criminals as well as the criminal’s mindset and psyche.

With all these factors to consider when conducting an investigation, it is little wonder that this is a challenging job that can only be taken up by the keen-eyed and the keen-minded.

Are you up to the task of convicting felons by digging into various crime scenes? Can you help right the wrongs and bring justice to the perpetrators? Try out these free hidden object investigation games now!

Family Mysteries 3: Criminal Mindset

Family Mysteries 3: Criminal Mindset is a thrilling hidden object game that sees you take on the role of a behavioral psychologist, Nancy Bradford.

When Nancy agreed to work for a famous and mysterious professor Webster, she never imagined the dark and cruel powers that lurk underneath the professor’s experimental philosophy. Nancy will need all of her wit and intuition to uncover the lies behind the cruel experiments and learn the truth about her parents’ demise. Is the human mind too fragile or simply easily corrupted? Find out in Family Mysteries: Criminal Mindset!

Family Mysteries 3: Criminal Mindset features

Rating:4.5
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 758 Mb
Price: Free!

Hope Lake

In one of the best detective games, the Hope Lake Boarding School was closed after a teacher drowned. Today, the girls who have attended Hope Lake have all gone missing. Through finding hidden objects, can you investigate the boarding school where this all began? Pick up any clue you can find along the maniac’s trail to put a stop to his gruesome crime spree!

Hope Lake features

Rating:4.3
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 563 Mb
Price: Free!

Secrets of the Past: Mothers Diary

The main character of this game receives an unusual birthday gift from her foster parents – a letter written by her real mother. The girl desperately wants to know the truth about her origins and begins her own investigation.

It seems that all roads lead her to a haunted and abandoned mansion. A terrible tragedy occurred in that place many years ago, and this old house has kept its secrets well.

This is a story about love, death, treachery and lies. Can a young and innocent girl unravel the dangerous secrets of the past?

Secrets of the Past: Mothers Diary features

Rating:4.2
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 246 Mb
Price: Free!

Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow

In this sci-fi hidden object game, Leitan Keyes, a famous inventor, is on the verge of a brilliant scientific discovery. Little does he know that his most valuable and most dangerous discovery has already been created and resulted in the near-destruction of future of human civilization in another timeline.

Can Leitan identify which invention of his is the one that destroyed human civilization in the future, and prevent this tragedy? Find out in Family Mysteries: Echoes of Tomorrow!

Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow features

Rating:4.3
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 917 Mb
Price: Free!

Murder in New York

Help the Special Enquiry Detail bring the killer to justice in this captivating Hidden Object investigation. Play as two detectives investigating a group of serial murders. Follow the evidence while interrogating suspects and studying forensics. Search for helpful items and solve intriguing mini-games. spectacular scenes and deceptive puzzles.

Murder in New York features

Rating:4.1
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 115 Mb
Price: Free!

Sacred Almanac: Traces of Greed

An interesting addition to the detective genre, the mysterious disappearance of a Chief Engineer forced the construction company to halt work. Richard Stone, an ex-army officer, was tasked to investigate this puzzling disappearance, and his attention was drawn to a stone monument.

Little did Richard know that he would soon take a dangerous path as a defender of an ancient civilization.

Sacred Almanac: Traces of Greed features

Rating:4.4
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 591 Mb
Price: Free!

Dark Chronicles: The Soul Reaver

In Dark Chronicles: The Soul Reaver, you play detective in solving a horror death of your friend’s sister who died in a mysterious death. Find hidden object and unravel clues to the truth of the spooky mansion.

Dark Chronicles: The Soul Reaver features

Rating:4.3
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 353 Mb
Price: Free!

Taken Souls: Blood Ritual

Taken Souls: Blood Ritual allows you to explore the streets of London as the detective, James Voodoo, investigates a series of ritual murders. As you dig deeper into the mystery, you will realize that things aren’t as simple as they seem. A global massacre maybe incoming…

Taken Souls: Blood Ritual features

Rating:4.2
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 562 Mb
Price: Free!

Mystery of Mortlake Mansion

A particular old mansion has been living a mysterious life of its own in Mystery of Mortlake Mansion. Explore the dark rooms and uncover the secrets that haunt this eerie place. Meet the talking raven and the Spirit as they guide you on your adventure of hidden-object puzzles. Confront the insidious lord, break the evil spells, set the captives free and become the owner of the gorgeous mansion.

Mystery of Mortlake Mansion features

Rating:4.4
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 170 Mb
Price: Free!

Inspector Magnusson: Murder on the Titanic

A peaceful night of 14 April 1912, the Titanic is quietly sailing towards a distant destination when the ship’s doctor is awakened in an emergency. The corpse of Charles Taylor, a coal laborer, has been found lying in the engine room. The captain will assign the investigation to the famous Swedish inspector Jakob Magnusson, on board for a business trip. As Magnusson’s assistant, help him elucidate this murder by solving different puzzles and hidden objects games.

Inspector Magnusson: Murder on the Titanic features

Rating:4.1
System Requirements: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7/8/10
File size: 107 Mb
Price: Free!

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10 Best Hidden Object Games!