16 Best Netflix Games In Crime, Mystery and Thriller Categories

Our 2024 list of best Netflix Games includes titles from some of the most iconic franchises like Grand Theft Auto as well as new titles like Money Heist: Ultimate Choice.

Note: To check out Mystery Tribune’s coverage of some of the best and most exciting and noteworthy games in crime, horror, mystery and thriller genre, please visit our Gaming Lists.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition

It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition

Set in 1986 within the fictional Vice City (based on Miami and Miami Beach), the single-player story follows mobster Tommy Vercetti’s rise to power after being released from prison and becoming caught up in an ambushed drug deal.

Grand Theft Auto III

Set within the fictional Liberty City (loosely based on New York City), the story follows Claude, a silent protagonist who, after being betrayed and left for dead by his girlfriend during a robbery, embarks on a quest for revenge that leads him to become entangled in a world of crime, drugs, and gang warfare.

Into the Dead 2: Unleashed

Into The Dead is about a journey through the zombie apocalypse in a race to save your family. The “Unleashed” version shares the same storyline and lore as the original, Into the Dead 2, with some differences to game mechanics, such as the removal of in-app purchases. The game are completely separate. You can have both versions on a device at the same time, but progress is not shared between them.

Scriptic: Crime Stories

Tis game is more cerebral compared to our previously picked titles like GTA: Find clues. Catch a killer. You’re the lead detective in this crime drama, and the victim’s cell phone — ripe with evidence — is hot in your hands.

Vikings: Valhalla

Earn your place among the gods in this strategy game based on the hit series. Build your settlement and lead raids against rivals to become a legend.

Tomb Raider Reloaded

Tomb Raider Reloaded is an action arcade game developed by Emerald City Games and published by CDE Entertainment for iOS and Android devices. This is an action game.

Twelve Minutes

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What should be a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police detective breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death.. An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop.

Ghost Detective

You’re a detective who’s been killed on the job. Now as a ghost, your mission is clear: Find hidden objects and solve puzzles to catch your own murderer. Experience a new hidden object murder mystery crime game set in haunted New Orleans — where life’s never boring and dying can get downright complicated.

Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales

Battle the Demogorgon, embark on mysterious quests, collect characters and discover new storylines in this Hawkins-inspired stylized adventure game. Join Eleven and the gang in this match-3 puzzle RPG adventure that reimagines the Stranger Things universe in the style of an ’80s Saturday morning cartoon.

Narcos: Cartel Wars Unlimited

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Enter the world of Narcos: Step into the dangerous and thrilling role of cartel kingpin in the official strategy game based on the hit Netflix series. Decide between ruling with an iron fist and gaining respect through loyalty. Sometimes bad people do good things… In the end, you must decide will it be “Plata o Plomo”?

Dead Cells: Netflix Edition

You’re what’s left after a botched experiment in an abandoned castle made you a pile of undead sludge. All you need to escape is someone else’s less-than-alive body and the sheer will to battle your way through a constantly changing, pixel art castle full of rogue enemies and terrifying bosses.

Immortality

This game puts the player in the role of a nameless viewer scrolling through an archive of video clips from three unreleased films, all starring the fictional Hollywood starlet, Marissa Marcel (Manon Gage), who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1999.

Kentucky Route Zero

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An adventure game in which players follow a story about a secret highway running through underground caves in Kentucky. Players explore a variety of environments while engaging in dialogue with other characters.

OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

The game picks up five years after the first game when teenage Alex and her friends unwittingly open an interdimensional portal on Edwards Island. The player becomes Riley, an environmental researcher who returns home to coastal Camena and discovers things aren’t quite as they seem.

Highwater

The Game immerses players in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change-induced floods, war, and chaos. In the game, players help a teenager named Nikos sneak onto a rocket ship the rich have built to flee to Mars.

Bonus: Money Heist: Ultimate Choice

Choose your character and experience a whirlwind crime drama, love story or both — see where your choices lead you. You’re the newest member of the Professor’s iconic crew. The mission: infiltrate the alluring criminal world of Spain’s underground art auctions, and make decisions that will change your fate.

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