21 Criminal law video games

Accounting is a virtual reality video game by Crows Crows Crows and Squanchtendo, released on Microsoft Windows for the SteamVR platform in 2016. An updated version with additional content entitled Accounting+ was released on December 19, 2017 for PlayStation VR, and eventually on PC on October 18, 2018. It was later released for Oculus Quest on July 3, 2019. Accounting is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.

Aviary Attorney is an adventure game in the style of the Ace Attorney series. The player takes the role of a defence lawyer, and must investigate crimes and then defend their clients in court.

Crime and Punishment is a 1980s legal simulation game released for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. However, it's not based on the Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, Crime and Punishment.

D.A. Pursuit of Justice is a three-part video game series based around a criminal lawyer who is trying to convict guilty people. The three individual cases were sold separately or also as a three-case 8-CD bundle published by Alpha Software, shipped on September 15, 1997. The game is part of Legacy Software's RealPlay Series.

Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder is a video game, the first in the Santa Fe Mysteries series, followed by Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground.

Golden Gate Killer is an interactive police detective simulation developed by American studio Interworks and released in 1995, and published by Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc and 3 Prong Plus. The game is based on the real life murder case of Colvin McCright. The game was released on Macintosh, Windows, and Windows 3.x.

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law is a video game developed for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable by High Voltage Software, and released on January 8, 2008. It was published by Capcom, and is based on the Adult Swim animated series of the same name, with collaboration of the show's writers and voice actors. The game appears to borrow very heavily from Capcom's Ace Attorney series, having almost identical gameplay.

In the 1st Degree is an interactive legal drama adventure computer game released in 1995 by Broderbund in which the player plays the role of a prosecutor attempting to convict an artist for grand theft and the first-degree murder of his business partner. The player must first examine evidence, then interview witnesses, and finally go to trial to secure a conviction. The program was developed by Peter Adair and Haney Armstrong of Adair and Armstrong.

Judge Dredd is an action video game for the Super NES, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear and Game Boy originally released in 1995. The game is based on the 1995 film Judge Dredd, which was itself an adaption of the Judge Dredd strip from 2000AD.

Judge Dredd is a platform shoot 'em up video game based on the character of the same name. It was developed by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. It was released in Europe in 1986, for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

Judge Dredd is a 1990 platform shoot 'em up game based on the character of the same name. It was developed by Random Access and published by Virgin Mastertronic. It was released in Europe in 1990, for the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Judge Dredd was criticized for its gameplay, which was viewed as repetitive.

Judge Dredd is a light gun shooter video game developed by Gremlin Interactive, based on the comic book of the same name. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment for the arcades, and for the PlayStation by Gremlin Interactive in Europe and Activision in North America, respectively. The PlayStation emulated version was re-released by Urbanscan for the PlayStation Network on 24 January 2008.

Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death is a first-person shooter video game based on the Judge Dredd character from the 2000 AD comic series, developed by Rebellion Developments. It was released in 2003 in Europe, and was supposed to be released in March or April 2004 in the United States, but was held back until early 2005.

Judgment is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. A spin-off to the Yakuza series, it was released for the PlayStation 4 in December 2018 in Japan and June 2019, worldwide. A remastered version of the game, with the subtitle Remastered in Japan and Asia, was released for the PlayStation 5, Stadia, and Xbox Series X and Series S in April 2021. Judgment follows lawyer-turned-detective Takayuki Yagami and his allies as they explore a case involving corpses whose eyes have been removed. The player controls Yagami in the fictional Tokyo district of Kamurocho, where he fights thugs and yakuza while carrying out missions involving chasing, stealth, and searching for clues.

LA Law: The Computer Game is a game developed by Synergistic Software and published by Capstone Software and released for MS-DOS computers in 1992. The game is based on the TV show L.A. Law.

Lost Judgment is an action-adventure JRPG with a beat-em-up combat system developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It was released globally on September 24th, 2021. A sequel to the 2018 game Judgment, the game focuses on private detective Takayuki Yagami as he investigates a criminal accused of both sexual harassment and murder. Similar to how Yagami is voiced by Takuya Kimura in Japanese and Greg Chun in English, the game features two prominent characters voiced by two celebrities for the Japanese voiceover: Hiroshi Tamaki and Ken Mitsuishi. The game retains the action sequences from the first game but further developed while stealth elements are also revised. Like its predecessor, the game received positive reviews from critics and players.

Orwell is a series of episodic simulation video games by German indie developer Osmotic Studios in which the player assumes the role of a state operative and monitors surveillance sources to find national security threats.

Presumed Guilty! is a 1989 video game published by Cosmi.

Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground is a video game, the second in the Santa Fe Mysteries series after The Elk Moon Murder.

Syphon Filter 3 is a third-person shooter stealth video game developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PlayStation.

Tears of Themis is a free-to-play otome adventure game developed and published by miHoYo. The game was first released in Mainland China with Simplified Chinese language in July 2020 for Android and iOS. The worldwide version, which includes Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English language was released a year later.