Still Life

Still Life 2

The Persian Carpet and The Hound Of The Baskerville are HOG (quite good in their own regard), but they also have more puzzles than most 'true' adventure games.

Also, they're not exactly developped by Frogwares, but by Waterlily, their little sister.

Would the Quantic Dream games count as 3D detective games or story based adventure?

There's also Blade Runner if you can get hold of a copy, not really that 3D but plenty detectivey

*edit* Oh Discworld Noir too!

Discworld Noir is a detective game, gut it is not 3D in the way that you can look under tables and such, but an even bigger issue is probably that you need Windows XP to run it I think it is. So unless you got a Windows XP machine you need to run Windows XP through emulation somehow.

I liked the Under a Killing Moon game with Tex Murpy. The most "detective like" adventure game I have played. But you do not go around looking all over the place in a 3D environment though.

From the top of my head: Broken Sword 3&4 and Gray Matter.

I did. I went around looking all over the place. :)

(Funny you are the second person to say UAKM is not 3D, but I thought it was - 3D environments where you have to look under tables and on top of bookshelves, to find every clue, etc)

Someone's probably already mentioned them, but all of the Tex Murphy games are a best-of-breed 3D detective series (the first 2 games are 2D though). I can highly highly recommend these, Tex is awesome!

The Sherlock Holmes game that's on GOG is also pretty awesome, it has a triple interface that you can single-key toggle from first person mode, then to third person, then to point n click rendered in 3D mode. You can play the game in whichever mode you like or toggle between them whenever you want depending on what works best for you, it's a really nice interface.

The game series which includes Post Mortem, Still Life, Still Life 2 is a great point and click detective series also which I can recommend as well.

There's also The Blackwell Bundle. This episodic game series is retro styled and quite short with each title in the series taking no more than about a day's gaming to complete. It is more cartoonish in nature than the other titles I mentioned, but might appeal to you depending on your own personal tastes. There are 5 games in the series, 4 in the bundle and the 5th title is separate (Epiphany).

Those are all games/game series I've had some personal experience with actually playing. Of the bunch, Tex Murphy is the star of the show. I liked the Gabriel Knight games as well.

If you go to the GOG "Games" page and type "detective" in the search box a tonne of other suggestions come up. I own some of the other games but haven't actually played them (Runaway series, Syberia series, Cognition, Police Quest series, Gemini Rue, Broken Sword series, Resonance to name a few.

The Nancy Drew games seem like they might be good, would like to try those some day also.

Spycraft: The Great Game

http://lparchive.org/Nancy-Drew-and-the-White-Wolf-of-Icicle-Creek/Update%201/
Why do you hate your daughter.

 
Don't forget the whole <span class="bold">CSI series</span>, published by Ubisoft and developed by 369 Interactive, Telltale Games and Legacy Interactive :

 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Miami</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Dark Motives</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 3 Dimensions of Murder</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Hard Evidence</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: NY - The Game</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Deadly Intent</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Fatal Conspiracy</span>
 
 
There's also the <span class="bold">Law & Order series</span>, developed by Legacy Interactive and Telltale Games :

 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Dead on the Money</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order II: Double or Nothing</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Justice is Served</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Legacies</span>
 
 
And the <span class="bold">Art of Murder series</span>, developed by City Interactive :

 ▪  <span class="bold">Art of Murder: FBI Confidential</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny</span>
 
 
Other games that might interest you :

 ▪  <span class="bold">Sinking Island</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">eXperience 112</span>
 
 
 
Here are some gameplay videos :

 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Deadly Intent</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Law & Order: Legacies</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Art of Murder: FBI Confidential</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">Sinking Island</span>
 ▪  <span class="bold">eXperience 112</span>
 
 
 
Notes:   ▪  The CSI and Art of Muder series are available on <span class="bold">Gamersgate</span>.
          ▪  The Law & Order series is available on <span class="bold">Amazon</span>.
          ▪  Sinking Island and eXperience 112 are available on <span class="bold">Steam</span> and <span class="bold">Gamersgate</span>.
 

I've just remembered One Late Night. It's a short, free horror game that lets you roam the offices of a small company. You were behind schedule and stayed at your desk to finish your work. Now that you're alone, 'things' are happening.

It's not puzzle-heavy, and is mostly about 3d exploration. Horror-wise, I found it much more effective than the overrated Amnesia. The controls are a bit clumsy, though.

I enjoyed it quite a lot, but haven't tried their commercial sequel (One Late Night: Deadline), which I suppose use the same mechanics.

Hey, you are right :) Strange, I just did not remember it that way.

Gonna add something not 3D, but very well made: the Women's Murder Club games (i think there are 5 of them). Unexpectedly, i had a lot of fun playing them.

http://www.gamehouse.com/womens-murder-club