Riddhi observant and usually with a
checkered past of their own
detectives are popular protagonists in
almost every form of pop culture
including videogames assault kidnapping
identity theft
those are good charges welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
video game detectives there’s a
beautiful little thing in here called
the magic and it ain’t ever been wrong
for this list we’ve limited our choices
to detectives or former detectives that
use deduction and investigation to solve
mysteries so for example though Max
Payne is technically a police detective
since he spends most of his time
shooting his way through his problems he
doesn’t make the cut
mind you since most detective games are
story focused there are a bunch of doozy
spoilers on this list ain’t towed my car
hmm give me a second number 10
Ronan O’Connor murdered soul suspect you
shouldn’t try to be one of us when he
was alive
Ronan O’Connor was a tough-as-nails
former criminal turned pup known for his
violent police work and hardened
attitude an untimely death at the hands
of the hooded Bell killer leaves Ronan
trapped between the world of the living
and the dead
see as a ghost Ronin is able to possess
humans you can’t quite control them but
he can see through their eyes and listen
to their conversations this always
happen to me all I want okay using his
newfound powers Ronin slowly unravels
the mysterious truth behind his own
murder and the motivations of the Bell
killer stay where you are dirtbag oh
come on back up number nine Kyle hide
Hotel dusk room 250 after spending the
majority of his life serving in the New
York Police Department I’ve left the
force after discovering that his partner
had been feeding information to a crime
syndicate called Niall after a
confrontation and a shootout
Kyle’s partner disappeared never to be
seen again as the game begins several
clues lead hyj to hotel dusk though he’s
now a Salesman he uses his detective
prowess to examine the building perform
interrogations and uncover the truth
about his past and the whereabouts of
his lost partner number 8 ace Harding
deja vu series
ace Harding is a private detective who
wakes up in a bar bathroom with a bad
case of amnesia and a worse case of
being framed for murder after a dead
body is found in the bars office ace
must work to clear his name and uncover
the truth about the murder combating the
effects of a mysterious drug ace is
constantly grappling with lapses in
memory and strange flashbacks a gambling
scotch drinking one-liner spitting kind
of guy ace is one of the earliest
examples of detectives in video games
number seven
Rainn McCoy Blade Runner you can stop
staring at my ass now you got eyes in
the back of your head all you got to do
is ask slim this game based off the
critically acclaimed sci-fi film of the
same name follows ray McCoy a young and
inexperienced Blade Runner tasked with
tracking down and killing rogue
replicant agents replicants are cyborgs
that are physically indistinguishable
from humans so ray must use traditional
observation techniques to catch his
suspects you know how this works I set
up situations and you respond
unlike Deckard from the film Ray is
still learning on the job
and his naivete and self-doubt often
shine through hope you’ve been enjoying
your leisure time kid cuz it’s time to
take that thumb out of your ass as you
might expect many of the questions
surrounding Decker’s origins in the film
also apply to McCoy whose fate is
determined by a number of different
endings all I knew was that we live each
day as if it was the last put them all
together they just might add up to a
lifetime number six dick gumshoe Phoenix
Wright Ace Attorney series there’s
definitely no detective on this list
with a more stereotypical detective name
than dick gumshoe a reoccurring
character in the Ace Attorney series
dick gumshoe is the main detective
assigned to investigate many of Phoenix
rights cases
dick usually lays out the basic facts of
the murder scene and presents his
investigative findings to the lawyers
and during their respective court cases
the loyal honest and big-hearted dick
gumshoe is not a very good detective and
it’s usually pretty easy to poke holes
and find inconsistencies in his accounts
number five Bigby wolf the wolf among us
I should probably go handle this yes
please thank you in the wolf among us
Big D wolf is the sheriff of Fabletown a
borough of New York where a ton of
fictional characters have been relocated
Big B has a troubled past he was once
the big bad wolf amassing his fair share
of enemies how about I buy you a drink
how about you keep your drink and piss
off preconceptions the other characters
have about Big B often create problems
for him as he attempts to track down the
perpetrator of a series of grisly
murders when angered Big B transforms
into a massive werewolf creature usually
leading to a lot of destruction and
violence amen everyone’s got their
methods
number four sam and max sam and max
series sam boy am I glad to see you yo
hands have asked in here only knows how
to play one song sam and max are about
as inseparable as to Detective partners
can be their personalities may clash but
together their differences allow them to
tackle any case that comes up usually in
hilarious and zany fashions psycho
therapist handbook with the lunatics
handbook there’s a difference making up
the freelance police Sam is your classic
detective who uses investigative
techniques and sleuthing whereby Max is
a hyperactive off-the-wall rabbit whose
main tools include chaos and destruction
and shooting everything in sight okay
well they both like shooting stuff
actually I could do this all day number
three
Scott Shelby heavy rain
Punk didn’t give me a choice
Scot Shelby is a detective on the trail
of the origami killer in heavy rain
hired by the families of the victims
Shelby is a quiet and mysterious former
cop as the story unfolds Shelby’s
motives are shrouded in mystery but
start putting the pieces together
yourself and you’re in for a surprise
never say her name again hear me never
we’re not gonna spoil it here but just
like Blade Runner the game comes with
multiple endings and no matter which one
you wind up with you’ll be thinking
about it for a long time
listen when I’m done I’ll tell you
everything I know I promise number 2
Cole Phelps l.a doir you’re full of shit
Jakob the truth is you hated that bitch
a World War two hero cold Phelps becomes
a police officer in a post-war Los
Angeles rife with corruption politics
and crime you’re the gun clean and
bought a new box of ammunition
the store owner remembers you and where
you work Cole Phelps is standing in the
police force depends on the gameplay
skills of the player if you botched too
many investigations he’ll become a joke
among his peers likewise if you show
good intuition and interrogation skills
Phelps becomes well-respected around the
office masterfully done the officer
thugs Cole is an astute and tough
detective so long as you are to get a
dark shadow stemming from his time
fighting in Japan follows him around and
sometimes interferes with his work our
duty is to lead Kelso and their duty is
to die for your wonderful future before
we unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
once persona and shadow are two sides of
a coin if you are my shadow my persona
should have been unused
Fitzpatrick didn’t give me much to go on
just the newspaper photo of Malloy and
the fact that Malloy stayed here at the
Ritz
number one professor layton Professor
Layton series storyteller I’m afraid
that the power of your pen is no longer
absolute professor layton the
protagonist of the popular Nintendo DS
adventure series is a world renowned
archaeologist and puzzle a fiction natto
a good-hearted and noble person Layton
goes out of his way to help people with
their problems often by solving puzzles
that correlate to the current situation
along with his sidekick a young boy
named Luke Layton often finds himself at
the center of various supernatural
mysteries with his trademark gentlemanly
British attitude and attire Layton
brings to mind perhaps the most famous
private detective of them all Sherlock
Holmes oh no that was close yeah agree
with our list did we forget some
elementary video game detective what duh
for more hard-boil top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
checkered past of their own
detectives are popular protagonists in
almost every form of pop culture
including videogames assault kidnapping
identity theft
those are good charges welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
video game detectives there’s a
beautiful little thing in here called
the magic and it ain’t ever been wrong
for this list we’ve limited our choices
to detectives or former detectives that
use deduction and investigation to solve
mysteries so for example though Max
Payne is technically a police detective
since he spends most of his time
shooting his way through his problems he
doesn’t make the cut
mind you since most detective games are
story focused there are a bunch of doozy
spoilers on this list ain’t towed my car
hmm give me a second number 10
Ronan O’Connor murdered soul suspect you
shouldn’t try to be one of us when he
was alive
Ronan O’Connor was a tough-as-nails
former criminal turned pup known for his
violent police work and hardened
attitude an untimely death at the hands
of the hooded Bell killer leaves Ronan
trapped between the world of the living
and the dead
see as a ghost Ronin is able to possess
humans you can’t quite control them but
he can see through their eyes and listen
to their conversations this always
happen to me all I want okay using his
newfound powers Ronin slowly unravels
the mysterious truth behind his own
murder and the motivations of the Bell
killer stay where you are dirtbag oh
come on back up number nine Kyle hide
Hotel dusk room 250 after spending the
majority of his life serving in the New
York Police Department I’ve left the
force after discovering that his partner
had been feeding information to a crime
syndicate called Niall after a
confrontation and a shootout
Kyle’s partner disappeared never to be
seen again as the game begins several
clues lead hyj to hotel dusk though he’s
now a Salesman he uses his detective
prowess to examine the building perform
interrogations and uncover the truth
about his past and the whereabouts of
his lost partner number 8 ace Harding
deja vu series
ace Harding is a private detective who
wakes up in a bar bathroom with a bad
case of amnesia and a worse case of
being framed for murder after a dead
body is found in the bars office ace
must work to clear his name and uncover
the truth about the murder combating the
effects of a mysterious drug ace is
constantly grappling with lapses in
memory and strange flashbacks a gambling
scotch drinking one-liner spitting kind
of guy ace is one of the earliest
examples of detectives in video games
number seven
Rainn McCoy Blade Runner you can stop
staring at my ass now you got eyes in
the back of your head all you got to do
is ask slim this game based off the
critically acclaimed sci-fi film of the
same name follows ray McCoy a young and
inexperienced Blade Runner tasked with
tracking down and killing rogue
replicant agents replicants are cyborgs
that are physically indistinguishable
from humans so ray must use traditional
observation techniques to catch his
suspects you know how this works I set
up situations and you respond
unlike Deckard from the film Ray is
still learning on the job
and his naivete and self-doubt often
shine through hope you’ve been enjoying
your leisure time kid cuz it’s time to
take that thumb out of your ass as you
might expect many of the questions
surrounding Decker’s origins in the film
also apply to McCoy whose fate is
determined by a number of different
endings all I knew was that we live each
day as if it was the last put them all
together they just might add up to a
lifetime number six dick gumshoe Phoenix
Wright Ace Attorney series there’s
definitely no detective on this list
with a more stereotypical detective name
than dick gumshoe a reoccurring
character in the Ace Attorney series
dick gumshoe is the main detective
assigned to investigate many of Phoenix
rights cases
dick usually lays out the basic facts of
the murder scene and presents his
investigative findings to the lawyers
and during their respective court cases
the loyal honest and big-hearted dick
gumshoe is not a very good detective and
it’s usually pretty easy to poke holes
and find inconsistencies in his accounts
number five Bigby wolf the wolf among us
I should probably go handle this yes
please thank you in the wolf among us
Big D wolf is the sheriff of Fabletown a
borough of New York where a ton of
fictional characters have been relocated
Big B has a troubled past he was once
the big bad wolf amassing his fair share
of enemies how about I buy you a drink
how about you keep your drink and piss
off preconceptions the other characters
have about Big B often create problems
for him as he attempts to track down the
perpetrator of a series of grisly
murders when angered Big B transforms
into a massive werewolf creature usually
leading to a lot of destruction and
violence amen everyone’s got their
methods
number four sam and max sam and max
series sam boy am I glad to see you yo
hands have asked in here only knows how
to play one song sam and max are about
as inseparable as to Detective partners
can be their personalities may clash but
together their differences allow them to
tackle any case that comes up usually in
hilarious and zany fashions psycho
therapist handbook with the lunatics
handbook there’s a difference making up
the freelance police Sam is your classic
detective who uses investigative
techniques and sleuthing whereby Max is
a hyperactive off-the-wall rabbit whose
main tools include chaos and destruction
and shooting everything in sight okay
well they both like shooting stuff
actually I could do this all day number
three
Scott Shelby heavy rain
Punk didn’t give me a choice
Scot Shelby is a detective on the trail
of the origami killer in heavy rain
hired by the families of the victims
Shelby is a quiet and mysterious former
cop as the story unfolds Shelby’s
motives are shrouded in mystery but
start putting the pieces together
yourself and you’re in for a surprise
never say her name again hear me never
we’re not gonna spoil it here but just
like Blade Runner the game comes with
multiple endings and no matter which one
you wind up with you’ll be thinking
about it for a long time
listen when I’m done I’ll tell you
everything I know I promise number 2
Cole Phelps l.a doir you’re full of shit
Jakob the truth is you hated that bitch
a World War two hero cold Phelps becomes
a police officer in a post-war Los
Angeles rife with corruption politics
and crime you’re the gun clean and
bought a new box of ammunition
the store owner remembers you and where
you work Cole Phelps is standing in the
police force depends on the gameplay
skills of the player if you botched too
many investigations he’ll become a joke
among his peers likewise if you show
good intuition and interrogation skills
Phelps becomes well-respected around the
office masterfully done the officer
thugs Cole is an astute and tough
detective so long as you are to get a
dark shadow stemming from his time
fighting in Japan follows him around and
sometimes interferes with his work our
duty is to lead Kelso and their duty is
to die for your wonderful future before
we unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
once persona and shadow are two sides of
a coin if you are my shadow my persona
should have been unused
Fitzpatrick didn’t give me much to go on
just the newspaper photo of Malloy and
the fact that Malloy stayed here at the
Ritz
number one professor layton Professor
Layton series storyteller I’m afraid
that the power of your pen is no longer
absolute professor layton the
protagonist of the popular Nintendo DS
adventure series is a world renowned
archaeologist and puzzle a fiction natto
a good-hearted and noble person Layton
goes out of his way to help people with
their problems often by solving puzzles
that correlate to the current situation
along with his sidekick a young boy
named Luke Layton often finds himself at
the center of various supernatural
mysteries with his trademark gentlemanly
British attitude and attire Layton
brings to mind perhaps the most famous
private detective of them all Sherlock
Holmes oh no that was close yeah agree
with our list did we forget some
elementary video game detective what duh
for more hard-boil top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
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