History Main / FantasticNoir

* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' is made for this trope. Most of the gamelines are very suited for GothicPunk noir, with ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' probably being best for it (due to the BadassNormal nature of the [=PCs=]), and ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' going straight into {{cyberpunk}} territory with an even more noir-influenced style.
** There's a historical supplement for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' called ''Mage Noir'', set during the immediate aftermath of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which aims to evoke classic noir and goes into detail on how the war affected both the [[{{Muggles}} Sleeeping]] and Awakened worlds, for good and for ill.

* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2023'' is set up by its previews as a horror mystery game. The player faces a cast of monsters while solving a mystery with a jazz soundtrack.

* The ''Franchise/DishonoredSeries'' is perhaps the definitive video-game embodiment, combining DieselPunk, UrbanFantasy, and LovecraftLite:

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* The Juno Steel storyline of ''Podcast/ThePenumbraPodcast'' is a noir story set centuries in the future in Hyperion City, the largest city on Mars. Some cases are more traditional, while others deal with things like mind-reading pills, bionic eyes, and ancient alien superweapons.
* ''Podcast/BlakeSkyePrivateEye'' starts as your typical noir story but then takes a turn into {{cosmic horror|Story}}, complete with old forbidden tomes, costly spells, and eldritch beings.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' is set in the 1950s, with a bunch of detectives investigating a series of ritualistic murders, with a supernatural FemmeFatale at the center of it who's fighting demonic eldritch forces.

* ''Film/DarkCity'' initially seems like a normal FilmNoir, but then TheReveal happens and it shoots straight into this trope. [[spoiler:Also something of an InvokedTrope, since [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens the Strangers]] seem to have consciously modeled the fake CityNoir that humanity inhabits on the sort of cities you see in old detective movies]].

-->'''Malta''': It was another day in the city of lies. Baldur's Gate - where the people begged for justice...until they starved.
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' qualifies with its {{Steampunk}} flying city that the jaded private-detective protagonist didn't even know existed.
** The DownloadableContent ''BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' [[spoiler:(a [[StealthSequel Stealth Prequel]] to the original ''VideoGame/BioShock1'')]] is even more this, especially in the first chapter, which heavily emphasizes the HardboiledDetective aspect.

* ''Film/{{Anon}}'': Of the {{Cyberpunk}} variety. The world is a place with a corrupt police force, the entire world under surveillance with their own eyes, privacy extinct, and everyone seemingly living drab meaningless lives with the protagonist no exception. Furthermore, there's a serial killer on the loose that the government doesn't care about the murders of due to them being more interested in how they're spoofing the system.

* In contrast to [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas the previous game's]] WeirdWest aesthetic, ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has heavy film noir overtones, especially in the Far Harbor expansion. One of your companions is even a HardboiledDetective, and you can play as one yourself.

* Invoked by one NPC in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Malta, a cat in the titular city. Talking to him with the Speak With Animals spell has him narrate your encounter in the style of a HardboiledDetective.
-->'''Malta''': It was another day in the city of lies. Baldur's Gate - where the people begged for justice...until they starved.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'' has this feel, with its main arc being a morally grey AntiHero on the run from the private security force of a MegaCorp.

* ''RepeatPerformance'' from 1947, probably the UrExample. The main character is a woman who murders her husband on New Year's Eve and wishes for a chance to relive the preceding year to avoid making the mistakes that led to that moment.

* Both Ryohgo Narita's works ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' and ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' sort of fall under this trope. They both have several FilmNoir elements (such as organized crime and private eyes) that are often integrated with supernatural elements (the former has [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] characters and the latter features a [[HeadlessHorseman Duallahan]] as one of the main characters).

*** ''Literature/DaughterOfTheCyberDragons'' appears to be a science fiction action thriller but the protagonist soon finds themselves wrapped up in conspiracies, detective work, and dark pasts they want to forget.

* Creator/DouglasAdams' ''Literature/DirkGently'' series is a parody of this genre. Dirk Gently doesn't believe in the supernatural, but he's happy to pretend he does in order to fleece people who do, and then it turns out that the supernatural does believe in Dirk Gently.

* ''Stalking The Unicorn'' and the other books in the ''Literature/AFableOfTonight'' series by Mike Resnick. Many of the stock noir characters are given a fantasy twist. For example, [[HardboiledDetective John's]] partner, who often acts as TheWatson, is a famous semi-retired monster hunter, his "secretary" who also plays the part of the classic FemmeFatale is a CatGirl, and John's persistent enemy and local crime boss The Grundy is a demon.

* Creator/RobertRankin's ''The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'' takes place in a ClockPunk world where nursery-rhyme characters are real and [[LivingToys toys are alive]], but only in Toy City. The protagonist ends up getting recruited by a jaded, hard-drinking private detective who just happens to be a teddy bear to solve a series of murders, including the bear's late partner, Wee Willie Winkie.
* In ''The Imaginary Corpse'', the debut novel from Tyler Hayes, detective Tippy, a stuffed triceratops, is on the trail of a SerialKiller of {{imaginary friend}}s. It contains many of the noir trappings, but with an extra layer of heart and hope -- a hard-boiled detective who hits the (root) beer hard, in the Stillreal, where imaginary friends go when they are no longer needed.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Joyland}}'' blends this with MagicRealism as it's about a search for a serial killer at a haunted amusement park.
* The ''Literature/LeagueOfMagi'' novella ''Coldheart'', in the collection of the same name, is a noir story that uncovers monsters, mages, and possessed people.

* Idriel Ramirez spends all of ''Literature/NerveZero'' in a noir plot, despite being in the distant future on a false planet with no gravity.

* Creator/BaenBooks published an anthology titled ''Noir Fatale'', focusing on stories containing noir aspects and {{Femme Fatale}}s, with various genres added into the blend from pure fantasy to science fiction.

* ''Literature/ShadowPolice'': {{Occult Detective}}s patrol a horrifying hidden London.
* Nigel Findley's Dirk Mongomery, a PrivateInvestigator in over his head in two ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' novels, ''[=2XS=]'' and ''House Of The Sun''. Both are set in a GenreBusting world of {{Cyberpunk}}, {{Magitek}}, and [[FilmNoir Noir]].

** Literature/MorganDetectiveAgency'' is a series about a HardboiledDetective who just so happens to walk the beat of a city filled with supernatural horrors. Ashley Morgan is a BrokenAce and struggles to rebuild herself after her trauma as a vampire's slave.

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': A DefectiveDetective faces conspiracies, mysticism ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]]), and his own crippling flaws in an eerie ConstructedWorld where various continent-sized isolas, each made up of separate oceans, islands, and nations, are divided by growing regions of pure nonexistence which can only be traversed by specially-designed airships.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' veers a little more towards BuddyCopShow in some spots, but the central premise is very much a ''Series/MiamiVice'' style neo-noir story [[RecycledInSpace in space]].

* Like [[TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} the pen and paper game]] it’s based on, ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'' blends {{Cyberpunk}} with HighFantasy concepts like elves and dragons.

* ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'', heavily inspired by the above-mentioned ''Film/BladeRunner'', follows the story of a hard-boiled detective and his RobotBuddy as they investigate a conspiracy involving cyborg monsters [[KillAndReplace killing and impersonating]] the citizens of a neon-drenched MegaCity.

* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' from Creator/TelltaleGames is a noir tale set in the ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' universe, focusing on Sheriff [[TheBigBadWolf Bigby Wolf]] as he tries to solve a series of murders.

* Film/{{Anon}}: Of the {{Cyberpunk}} variety. The world is a place with a corrupt police force, the entire world under surveillance with their own eyes, privacy extinct, and everyone seemingly living drab meaningless lives with the protagonist no exception. Furthermore, there's a serial killer on the loose that the government doesn't care about the murders of due to them being more interested in how they're spoofing the system.

* ''Literature/BubblesInSpace'': The series is a combination of cyberpunk dystopia and noir detective series with many references to classic Noir detective fiction. Our protagonist, Bubbles, has a cybernetic arm and frequently solves cases related to everything from AI to cloning.