Top 17 Detective Video Game Protagonists

Trench coats, deerstalkers and one very small hat. These sleuths range from rain-soaked noir cops to a lawyer who yells at witnesses, plus a few who never quite fit the badge.

1. 1
   Phoenix Wright

   Capcom's spiky-haired defense attorney who investigates crime scenes and shouts Objection! in the Ace Attorney series.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Cole Phelps

   The war veteran rising through the LAPD desks of 1947 Los Angeles in Rockstar's L.A. Noire (2011).
   952pts
3. 3
   Connor

   The android detective sent to hunt deviant machines in Detroit: Become Human (2018).
   768pts
4. 4
   Tex Murphy

   The down-on-his-luck private eye of post-apocalyptic San Francisco in Access Software's FMV adventure series.
   621pts
5. 5
   Professor Layton

   Level-5's top-hatted archaeology professor and gentleman puzzle solver in the Professor Layton series.
   621pts
6. 6
   Bigby Wolf

   The Big Bad Wolf turned sheriff, hunting a killer through Fabletown in Telltale's The Wolf Among Us (2013).
   621pts
7. 7
   Nancy Drew

   The teenage sleuth who starred in more than 30 point-and-click mysteries from Her Interactive.
   548pts
8. 8
   Lady Love Dies

   The flamboyant investigator solving a divine massacre on a vaporwave island in Paradise Killer (2020).
   548pts
9. 9
   Gabriel Knight

   The New Orleans author and Schattenjäger investigating voodoo murders in Sierra's Gabriel Knight series.
   464pts
10. 10
    Miles Edgeworth

    Phoenix Wright's prosecutor rival who leads his own crime-scene investigations in Ace Attorney Investigations.
    464pts
11. 11
    Harry Du Bois

    The amnesiac, self-destructive cop piecing together a murder and his own identity in Disco Elysium (2019).
    464pts
12. 12
    Kaname Date

    The one-eyed special agent who dives into suspects' dreams in AI: The Somnium Files (2019).
    365pts
13. 13
    Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective, star of Frogwares' long-running series of investigation games.
    365pts
14. 14
    Kyle Hyde

    The ex-NYPD detective turned salesman unravelling secrets at a desert motel in Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (2007).
    249pts
15. 15
    Ronan O'Connor

    The murdered Salem detective solving his own killing as a ghost in Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014).
    249pts
16. 16
    Sam & Max

    Steve Purcell's dog-and-rabbity-thing duo of Freelance Police, stars of LucasArts and Telltale adventures.
    249pts
17. 17
    Detective Pikachu

    The coffee-loving, deerstalker-wearing talking Pikachu who solves cases in Ryme City.
    0pts

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