Best Mystery games on PC
Games built around unanswered questions, hidden information, or events that the player gradually pieces together. Players explore, follow clues, and sometimes solve puzzles to uncover the story.
- Clues and hidden information
- Gradual story discoveries
- Exploration and puzzle solving
Related: Exploration, Story Rich, Adventure, Puzzle
752 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Phasmophobia
First-person co-op horror built around identifying hostile ghosts
94% positive
840K reviews
PEAK
First-person co-op climbing where each mistake threatens the whole ascent
94% positive
373K reviews
Stray
Third-person cat adventure through a decaying neon cybercity
97% positive
178K reviews
Life is Strange - Episode 1
Episodic narrative adventure where choices and time rewinding shape events
96% positive
Free
Content Warning
Online co-op horror where friends film monsters for viral views
94% positive
163K reviews
Poppy Playtime
First-person horror puzzle adventure inside an abandoned toy factory
88% positive
Free
DELTARUNE
Chapter-based pixel RPG with choices and bullet-dodging battles
98% positive
137K reviews
Outer Wilds
Open-world space mystery driven by exploration and an endless time loop
96% positive
108K reviews
Firewatch
First-person wilderness mystery shaped by conversations over a radio
91% positive
99K reviews
MECCHA CHAMELEON
Online hide-and-seek party game where hiders paint themselves to blend in
88% positive
89K reviews
Persona 4 Golden
Story-rich turn-based JRPG about friends investigating serial murders
97% positive
87K reviews
Everlasting Summer
Free visual novel about choices, romance, and a mysterious summer camp
94% positive
Free
Chained Together
Co-op 3D platformer where chained climbers share every mistake
90% positive
64K reviews
Persona 3 Reload
Story-driven JRPG balancing daily life with turn-based dungeon battles
94% positive
64K reviews
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Dark historical visual novel about escorting children amid famine
94% positive
60K reviews
Alan Wake
Third-person psychological thriller about fighting darkness with light
90% positive
60K reviews
DREDGE
Open-world fishing adventure where night brings Lovecraftian danger
96% positive
57K reviews
Graveyard Keeper
Medieval cemetery management RPG built around crafting and dark humor
85% positive
56K reviews
Atomic Heart
Single-player sci-fi FPS in a robot-filled Soviet alternate history
81% positive
55K reviews
SOMA
First-person sci-fi horror about identity in an isolated underwater facility
96% positive
53K reviews
What Remains of Edith Finch
First-person narrative adventure exploring a family's home and final stories
96% positive
53K reviews
Inside the Backrooms
First-person co-op horror with changing puzzles and lurking entities
80% positive
47K reviews
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Courtroom mystery adventure built around evidence and witness contradictions
98% positive
45K reviews
Firework
Chinese horror mystery told through exploration and puzzles
98% positive
44K reviews