Hotel Dusk and Ace Attorney games for the DS are what made me love the genre.

I think this is my favorite so far of the lists you’ve posted. ~5 per category, roughly ordered by “noob-friendliness” is a good way to go. Particularly the inclusion of “Gameplay” as its own category is helpful to separate out games with elements beyond the usual read + make choices. Super information dense, but my eyes just passed over most of the symbols the first time so it’s apparently easy to ignore the extra information if you’re not looking for it. Besides not having read most of the works here, there’s not much to comment on the game choices because they’re largely the same in all these lists, so it’s mostly the presentation of this version that I prefer.