23 Best Crime Games for Mac OS

Grand Theft Auto III mixes the Action-Adventure, Open World, Third-person Shooter and Exploration elements developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. The game has a Single-player mode, and it serves as the 5th title in the popular series of GTA. It takes place within the fictional city known as Liberty, based in New York City. The plot centers on the protagonist named as Claude, who is left for dead and become the leader of the criminal world full of crime and corruption. You assume the protagonist’s role and can explore the landscape from the third-person view either on foot or by vehicle. The open world landscapes enable you to move freely in the world comprises three islands. In the gameplay, you have to complete a variety of challenging missions, and each mission consists of a set of objectives. You can run, walk, jump, drive, and fight your way through a variety of tasks to progress through the game and can use a huge arsenal of weapons to take down enemies and fulfill your missions to earn money. During the fight, you use melee attacks, explosives, and firearms. Grand Theft Auto III is the addictive and action-packed game in the series of GTA.

Nancy Drew is a Series of games that offers various Action-Adventure and Point-and-Click exploits of the character of Nancy Drew. The series features over a dozen games and is one of the longest running series of mysteries that tends to provide you with quality entertainment and immerses you deeply with the brilliant stories. Available on various gaming platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo and Smart phones, Nancy Drew offers Interactive and Visual Novel style aesthetics and allows you to solve puzzles, talk to NPCs, Collect items, and solve crimes and Mysteries. Being a fantastic video game series, Nancy Drew offers some of the most amazing Video games in the series and some of them are big hits such as Nancy Drew Adventures, Nancy Drew Dossier and Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries etc. Throughout the series Nancy Drew offers a number of different environments, stories, characters and various gameplay experiences etc. With all the fantastic story-driven gameplays, Nancy Drew lets you enjoy both exploration and Detective aesthetics and that is what makes the whole series a marvelous creation of all time.

CSI 4: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence, published by Ubisoft is a PC video game that lets you be a part of the CSI team and solve different cases. You can start playing by selecting a character for yourself and by going to crime scene. Your task is to visit the crime scene, gather clues/evidence, analyze at the lab, talk to NPC’s, arrest possible suspects, record their alibis and solve the case by the findings you have. The game is based on the hit television series CSI 4: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence and provides with 5 cases to solve. You’ll definitely like playing this super thrilling game. Do try it out.

Do you want to be Mr. President? Or Prime-Minister? Or a high ranking official in the government who can change whatever he wants? Well if yes then Democracy 3 is made for you. This wonderful Simulation allows you to be President or Prime-Minister (Totally depends on your choice of selection) and change all the things in your virtual country as you please. If you have a better solution to all the major problems such as Crime, Unemployment, Terrorism, National Debts, Climate Change and Internal Matters, here is your chance to settle everything into an order and run your government with the help of great strategies and all the skills you have got. With a wonderfully created Virtual Country, a lot of Political Parties, Opposition, and all the challenges, Democracy 3 allows you to show off your best talents and skills and enjoy the game.

Her Story mixes the Psychological Horror, Adventure, Detective, Point-and-Click and Single-player video game developed and published by Sam Barlow. It is a mystery game, playing like a true crime documentary where the game enables the player go hand on with the database of police of live action footage. The game starts with a film actress named as Viva Seifert, Joe Gideon and Shark. In the game, the player takes on the role of the detective who must solve a variety of murder cases and experience a unique gameplay from start to finish. The player needs to find and collect evidence, interact with suspects, and progress through the story to solve complicated cases. It lets the player sits in front of the computer, logs into the police database to find out hundreds of video clips that covers several interviews from 1994, in which the women are interrogated about their missing husband. The player can manipulate the police database by typing words and watch the clips where the player needs to collect evidence. Her Story is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Enforcer: Police. Crime. Action is a Third-person Action-Adventure and Shooter video game that offers an L.A Noire inspired gameplay and mechanics. The game is developed by Odin Game Studio and is available to play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X gaming platforms. The game is set in a tiny town in the United States in which you act as the protagonist who works for the local law enforcement department and is tasked to control the law and order situations in the town. The game as the storyline suggests, lets you deal with traffic accidents, pull over the drunk, escort them to police station, stop robberies and thefts, investigate different crimes like murders, muggings, and do all the things a policeman can do. Enforcer: Police Crime Action is a police themed game so it makes you act strictly as a police officer while on duty but after the duty, you can do whatever you want. This third person game actually is a great amalgamation of thrill, action-adventure, and shooting elements and is quite great to play and enjoy.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a Puzzle, Point and Click and Single-player video game based on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. The game offers the exciting gameplay to CSI: Miami and Dimension of Murder center on a set of five complex cases such as Inn and Out, Light my Fire, Garvey’s Beat, More Fun than a Barrel of Corpses, etc. In the game, you assume the role of the protagonist, a detective and your primary objective is to investigate multiple cases, find clues, solve mind-bending puzzles and capture the person who is guilty. There are lots of detective tools available, and you can use them all to immerse yourself in detective gameplay experience. The game offers serious cases, as you progress through the game and you have to solve enough cases to become the master. Interact with environment, objectives and other things to advances in the case and solve mysteries to earn points. You will question suspects and witnesses during the investigation to find clues and motives to arrest. With brilliant gameplay, addictive features, and smooth controls, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the best game to play.

The Darkness II is an Incredible, Action-Adventure, FSP (First-person Shooter), Co-op, Horror and Single-player video game created by Digital Extremes and published by 2K Games. The game is much inspired by the popular comic book which is produced by Top Cow Production, Inc. the game provides you with a combination of Gripping Narrative of Tragedy, thrilling, Crime, and Drama. In the game, you assume the role of Jackie Estacado who leads a criminal gang named as The Darkness. Two years ago Jackie Estacado (The Protagonist) use his gang called The Darkness to the man who is responsible for his girlfriend’s death. A strong attack by the mysterious company known as the Brotherhood Heralds on the gang of Jackie. After the attack, the war start between two teams and the game sets you on a journey to hell and worse. The game includes most prominent features such as Co-op, Quad-Wielding Chaos, Unstoppable and Harness Power, Kill the Light, and much more. With an addictive and quite engaging gameplay, well-written story, and the best mechanics, The Darkness II is an amazing game to play and enjoy. Try it out.

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is an Adventure, Point and Click and Single-player video game offered by Artefacts Studio for multiple platforms. The game offers an exciting gameplay which leave you in the fictional land to explore a variety of crime scenes in different cities takes place in the stunning environment around the United States. Assume the role of the protagonist who is a detective, and his primary job is to solve mysterious cases by finding clues, solving puzzles and capturing the person who is the responsible for the crime. You can gather information by examining suspects and finding evidence. A variety of levels are available each with a set of objectives that you must complete at any cost to progress through the game. You explores the environment from third-person perspective and are able to interact with environment and NPCs. According to the story, you as a private detective finds yourself up against a strange opponent. Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders offers core features such as Examinations, Mind-bending Puzzles, Timeline and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it if you want to become a detective.

Retro City Rampage DX is a Top-Down Action-Adventure, Open World, and Single-player video game developed and published by Vblank Entertainment. It offers retro-style 80’s and 90’s pop culture and the gameplay is similar to Grand Theft Auto game. It takes place in the fictional city of Thefttropolis in 1985, where the protagonist is hired as a henchman of a massive crime syndicate controlled by the Jester. According to the story, three years later, during the bank robbery gone wrong, and the protagonist runs into the time-traveling telephone booth. During the event, the booth flings the player forward in time to the year 20XX. Upon arrival, the man arrives named as Doc Choc in his time traveling vehicle and save the player as the both breaks down. The ultimate objective of the player is to collect the rare parts by navigating the world to repair the telephone booth, while encountering waves of 80s games and pop culture including the Jester, Dr. Von Buttnik, and more. There are more than fifty story-based missions available and thirty challenging stages. With superb graphics, excellent gameplay, and smooth controls, Retro City Rampage DX is the best game to play and enjoy.

Grim Tales: The Final Suspect is a Puzzle-solving, Point-and-Click, and Single-player Puzzle video game with an emphases on Hidden Object element created and published by Big Fish Games. According to the story, the aunt Gray has assisted the police officers to solve numerous crime cases thanks to her special abilities to see the events of past through the possessions of the person. As the game progresses, she discovers herself standing accused of murdering a person she doesn’t remember, when a person is killed in her home. Gray’s niece named as Jackie offers her to assist and defend her case, but Gray is not sure about the memory of the night to return. You as the protagonist have to find out who murder the person, what the dark secret behind the scenes is, and who wants to take down your grandma. During each chapter, you must investigate the crime scene, find clues and hidden objects, and effort to solve the complex puzzles to become the master. Grim Tales: The Final Suspect offers core feature such as Multiple Locations, Thrilling Gameplay, Special Abilities, Hint System and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Grim Facade: The Red Cat developed and published by ERS Game Studios is an Adventure, Puzzle-solving, and Hidden Object video game for multiple platforms. The game comes with Single-player mode only and it takes place in the breathtaking world where the murders are happening and each one announced by the brutal murderer painting an ominous red cat on the front of the victim. During the gameplay, the murderer has eluded the police force for several weeks, and finally, the police needs your help to catching and unmasking the tricky guy. You takes on the role of the protagonist, a detective who must explore the land to interact with non-player characters, investigate the scene where the crime takes place, struggle to find the clues with your sharp eyes, and combine them to solve complicated puzzles, and find the red cat and unearth his true motives or will become the next victim. There are several levels with increasing difficulty and you must fulfill the requirements of each level by finding the listed objects and earn points. The game introduces the hint system which is used to highlight the object that you feels difficult to discover. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and exciting locations, Grim Facade: The Red Cat is the best game to play and enjoy.

The Detail is an amazing Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game by Rival Games Ltd. The game allows you to be Detective Reginald “Reggie” Moore, who becomes frustrated with the defective Justice System and plans to take it down with all the responsible. Crime scene investigations, clue and object finding, capturing the accused and investigating them are the most prominent features of this brilliant game. The game takes place on the fictional location of a Modern American City and it allows you to control the main character Reggie, start from a murder case that took place because of a long lasting gang war, make toughest choices that will directly affect your life as a detective. You must solve the case and at the same time protect your family from the gang members and keep on pacing through the story. The Detail offers a gameplay that is a mixture of Interactive Comics and other story-based elements. The game offers a gameplay and mechanics inspired by the popular The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead by telltale games and features realistic crime based drama and visuals. The story of the game is more similar to the HBO hit T.V Series “The Wire” and is quite interesting to get involved in. With all the Drama, and Suspense, The Detail is one amazing video game to play and enjoy.

New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, Puzzle-solving and Hidden Object video game developed and published by Five-Bn Games. The game takes place in the historical year in 1955, when the New York City threatened by the bad guys. Bad mafia is struggling to seize power but a new force appeared and effort to take down the bad guys to save the city and restore the peace. There are five massive mafia bosses who have abducted in mysterious circumstance. During investigation, a butterfly and a strange liquid were found at the crime scene of the disappearance. Innocent children started to vanish in the city and the inhabitants of the city are scared with these mysterious scenes. You assumes the role of the protagonist with a task to explore the land, find out hidden objects using point-and-click interface, and effort to solve the complex puzzles to score the points. Uncover the dark secrets of the city and capture the boss of all crimes in the city to restore the peace. New York Mysteries Secrets of the Mafia offers core features such as Multiple Locations, thrilling Scenes, a series of Levels, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2 continues the exciting story from where it was ended in The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes and allows you to further embed yourself in the world of object/clues finding case solving. Once again the game tasks you to solve different murder cases by sending you to different crime scenes, gathering clues/finding objects and gathering the evidence. The thing that actually differentiates this game from others, is the time limit that the game gives you to solve any case by finding all the hidden objects and clues in time. If you are failed to find all the objects and clues on time, you won’t be able to solve the case and the game will never allow you to move to the next case. Hints are also provided in case you need them along with a magnifying glass that is actually the signature tool of Sherlock Holmes. The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2 is quite interesting case solving video game, you’ll definitely like it.

Criminal Minds is a mix of Mystery, Adventure, Detective, and Crime elements developed and published by Legacy Interactive. The game revolves around Hidden Object and Puzzle gameplay and lets you an opportunity to take on the role of the protagonist, who is a detective. It comes with two new cases for players to solve. It takes place in the 3D environment where you have to unleash your inner detective, struggle to solve complex murder cases where every slightest detail matters. You can play through dynamic scenes to locate items to help you in your case. At the beginning of the game, you have to investigate the crime scene, find clues and add them to your inventory, combine the hidden object to solve the mind-bending puzzles and score the points. During the gameplay, you can interrogate the suspect like the private detective, and bring him to justice. There are various crime scenes available, in which you must effort to solve the objectives to progress through the game. Criminal Minds includes core features such as become a Detective, Investigate multiple murder cases, Find Hidden Objects, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Subnet, developed by Ninteen Stone Ninjas is an Action-Adventure and a First Person Shooter (FPS) video game with a Cyberpunk theme available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X and Linux. The game is set in a futuristic era in a dystopian settlement of England and the story takes you to almost 200 years in future where earth’s population has risen to a breaking point and civil disturbance is rising to its peaks on a global level. All the communication means are destroyed that left ESOS the only way possible to communicate. ESOS is a chip that is implanted in the brain of every newborn and people can communicate Via ESOS only. With every minute passing, cyber crime is also rising and the black markets of information are thriving in the deepest pits of darkness. This is the point where the protagonist Byron Alexis gets into the game. Alexis is a technology geek who is oppressed with all the environment around him in which he is forcefully living, attempts to start a massive offense against the system by using his hacking skills and finds out that the system is far more powerful and cruel than he thought. The protagonist starts his offensive and gathers other people with unique skills and starts a war against the system. By using the system’s own back doors, he finds out the criminals and who he thinks are the cause of this state of the system and encounters them either by killing them or making them pay for their doings by virtually signing their death certificate. The game provides you with an amazingly well-written storyline, super realistic graphic details, an open world and a lot of weapons to choose between and kill your targets.

Stick it to the Man is an Action, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game created by Zoink Games and published by Ripstone. The game brings a fabulous story, revolving around the protagonist named as Ray, who lives in the world made up of stickers and papers. One day, the protagonist wakes up with a huge spaghetti arm attached to his brain due to an accident. The extra arms offer the awesome power to the protagonist, which he can use to change the environment around him by tearing it, folding it, and pulling stickers off elsewhere. The protagonist can also read the mind of the citizens, Ray (the protagonist) can hear their thoughts and use to his advantages. As the story advances, Ray has framed by a man with a brutal crime he did not commit, and now the protagonist is on the run. Your ultimate job is to help the protagonist to get out from this critical situation. Stick it to the Man includes prominent features such as Solve Tricky Puzzles, Hundreds of Story-driven Adventures, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

JYDGE serves as the spin-off to Neon Chrome and revolves around Twin-stick Shooter elements developed and published by 10tons. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as JYDGE, law enforce, whose ultimate task is to clean the dystopic and cyberpunk-themed city of crime. The player explores the environment from a top-down perspective with a task to eliminate the enemies and save the hostages around twenty challenging levels of increasing difficulty. The game takes place in the dystopian city of Edenbyrg, where the player acts as the enforcer. It offers destructible environments that let the player breach the room by smashing down a wall. During the gameplay, the player can customize and upgrade the protagonist using points obtained while playing through the stages. New power-ups and upgrades are unlocked by getting medals from accomplishing the tasks and objectives of each level. The player can play alone or with friends in two-player co-op mode. With addictive gameplay, smooth controls, and lush environment, JYDGE is the best game to play and enjoy.

The Forgotten Ones is an FPS, Action-Adventure video game that sets you up into the character of “Grobuskna Vladinov” who loses his parents during the time of “Holocaust” to a Doctor cum Mad Scientist. One day he receives an unknown phone call from a stranger that totally changes the way he thinks and encourages Grobuskna to start his twisted journey. By profession Grobuskna is a Detective and he is on a hunt of the Nazi officers that contributed to the Holocaust and are now scattered all around the world. You are required to get into the character of Grobuskna and start hunting down the Nazi officers you think were part of the Holocaust and were involved in war crimes. “The Forgotten Ones” allows you to explore the world from a First person perspective, engage in combats, melee attacks etc., find the enemies and kill them to bring them to justice. With a complex inventory system, 18 different and sophisticated weapons, horror filled environments, Vehicular combats, Multiple Game endings based up on your actions, great story and a wonderfully engaging and action-packed game-play, “The Forgotten Ones” is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.

Murder, She Wrote is an Adventure, Puzzle-based Point-and-Click, Hidden Object and Single-player video game developed by Legacy Games and published by Focus Multimedia. The game comes with five complicated murder cases that the player can tackle through point-and-click methods. It offers the exciting gameplay based on the TV series of the same name, released in 1984. During the gameplay, the player must assist the mystery author named as Jessica Fletcher to solve challenging murder cases. The player can navigate the environment, find clues and combine them to solve the tricky puzzles while cracking various cases in the exciting game. The game takes the player on an exciting journey, through a variety of cases where the player explores crime scenes and use the curiosity and wits of Jessica to find the true culprit. In each chapter, the player has to solve puzzles and find hidden items to catch the criminals. Murder, She Wrote offers prominent features such as Clever Cases, Based on TV Show, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Secrets of Pendulum is an Adventure, Puzzle, and Single-player Hidden Object video game developed and published by GamesCafe for multiple platforms. The game takes you on an epic adventure in the stunning world, following the series of clues, and join the female protagonists named as Madison and Lily. Together you have to solve the cases of murders and capture the person who is guilty. It brings the story-driven gameplay where you can investigate numerous cases of murders, find clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to progress through the game. It takes place in the exciting environment where you have to uncover hidden objects from the beautifully handcrafted scenes. You must investigate the crime scene as the detective to bring you closer to the truth. There are lots of compelling characters available each with its unique personality, and abilities. You can enjoy the exciting gameplay with friends, exchange gifts, items, assist your fellows in getting items they require to move on, and more. Secrets of Pendulum offers prominent features such as Investigate the Crime Scenes, Challenging Puzzles, Leaderboards, Secretive Characters, Bring the Killer to Justice and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Titanic Honor and Glory is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Vintage Digital Revival. The game takes place in the fictional New York City in the past year 1912. It puts the player in the role of the protagonist, named as Owen Robert Morgan, who visits his friend and mistakenly suspected of a brutal crime that the player didn’t commit. Now, the player must struggle to follows the criminals onboard to clear his name. During the gameplay, the player needs to perform specific tasks, once he is on board ship. In the game, the player has 2-hour and forty minutes to complete the challenging mystery and capture the real culprits. It has three modes such as Tour mode, Simulator mode, and Multiplayer mode. In Tour mode, the player must navigate both the city and the ship at his leisure with no restriction of the Story mode while in Simulator mode, the player has a chance to sail the Titanic ship on the massive ocean. With challenging gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Titanic Honor and Glory is the best game to play.