Case File: Mystery and Investigation Interactive Arcade Game

Step into a world of clues, evidence, and deduction with an interactive arcade game that builds mystery and investigation skills through playing a Galaga style arcade game. This game is a great companion for popular ELA curricula that have a Mystery and Investigation unit.

In Case File: Mystery and Investigation, students move through five increasingly challenging levels as they practice the language and thinking of strong investigators. As they play, students work with mystery vocabulary, evidence based reasoning, context clues, inference, explicit and implicit meaning, source reliability, deduction, hypothesis, and case analysis. The game moves from core investigative terms to deeper critical thinking, helping students build both vocabulary and analytical confidence as they solve each stage of the case.

This game is especially strong for helping students practice the kinds of thinking used in mystery units, investigation based reading, close reading, and evidence centered ELA work. Students are not just recalling terms. They are applying ideas like observation, inference, relevance, reliability, motive, alibi, proof, and deduction in a fast paced format that keeps them engaged and thinking carefully. The final boss round pushes students even further by asking them to choose between closely related concepts and then learn from built in explanations.

Perfect for stations, early finishers, skill building, vocabulary reinforcement, test prep, or an engaging companion activity during a mystery and investigation unit, Case File: Mystery and Investigation gives teachers a classroom friendly way to strengthen academic language and analytical reading skills while giving students a game experience that feels sharp, challenging, and fun. 

This is a fully online html game that will play from any browser, tablet or computer. If you are a teacher and are worried about the game being blocked by your school's server, contact us; there are two easy ways to make the game available besides the direct link.

Student article and worksheet included. YOUR PERSONAL GAME LINK FOR SHARING WITH STUDENTS WILL BE AT THE TOP OF THE STUDENT ARTICLE/GUIDE/WORKSHEET. Just share and play!

One license per educator.