I wanna feel like a cool, gritty detective rooting through the seedy underbelly of a city to solve heinous crimes

or even just individual levels/missions/quests of otherwise non-detective games

LA Noire

>>714663358
I don't think any of the crimes in LA noire are that dark or gritty

>>714663285 (OP)
Disco Elysium

>>714663285 (OP)
alan wake

>>714663768
he isn't cool, he does no detective work, and there is no seedy underbelly; only copypasted shadow monsters

Technobabylon

>>714663285 (OP)
The Roottrees are Dead is an excellent detective game

>>714663802
The True Detective series features occult elements. So the fact that there's something supernatural isn't a problem for me at all. But I would still recommend playing Alan Wake 2, because it's graphically more beautiful.

>>714663285 (OP)
No One wants to Die has you solving shit. Dunno if I'd call the place a seedy underbelly though, what with the premise being a society that's effectively solved for immortality.

>>714663470
A teen girl being raped by Jewish Hollywood producers is pretty dark anon

Shadows of Doubt but only if you have a tolerance for pretty severe jank at times.

>>714663470
they actually are, it's the gameplay that makes them goofy

>>714663285 (OP)
unfortunately there just aren't many games that do that even as ever present as it is in tv and fiction. point and click adventure games suffered a premature death and in the genre's heyday it was overwhelmingly goofy cornball antics.

>>714663285 (OP)
if shadows of doubt wasn't unfinished broken dogshit you would enjoy it

>>714665325
Was going to suggest Shadows of Doubt too. It's got potential but the way it's been designed, sometimes it's impossible to solve some crimes.

>>714666034
>sometimes it's impossible to solve some crimes
>Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.

>>714663285 (OP)
Observer
Kara no Shoujo

>>714663285 (OP)
The Police Quest point and click adventure games gradually get grittier and grittier with every entry, finally hitting its peak with Police Quest 4 Open Season. It's by far the worst of the original series (before it became SWAT) but it's okay.

batman arkham city

>>714663285 (OP)
Why did he do it?

>>714666827
The whole point of Chinatown is that Jake has solved the crime(s), it's just the perps are too powerful to ever be charged for what they've done.
Actually kind of similar ending in True Detective Season 1. They've done all they can, but they know there's way more going on and they have to live with that for the rest of their days.

>>714668154
Michelle Monaghan is top tier.

>>714668219
This is literally the entirety of LA Noire as well, isn't it?

>>714668409
Dunno, never played it. Wouldn't be surprised though since it's obviously influenced by films like Chinatown etc.

>>714668328
Her pussy is top tier, no doubt. But is it worth betraying your friend's/partner's trust by fucking his wife? Would you do it if you were in that situation?

>>714668553
Sometimes you just want to mow another man's lawn. It is what it is.

>>714663285 (OP)
baby, you already know the answer

I literally applied for the Federal Police after playing it and i got rejected and i pretty much drank for a week straight because their next rounds of applicants aren't enlisted until 2027 and the State Police is too scary to me, just last week i heard about a cop getting blasted over an eviction notice. I need to look into better pathways into the police force

>>714663470
>I don't think any of the crimes in LA noire are that dark or gritty
Then obviously didn't play it because there are ton of fucked up cases like the black dhalia killer