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
3,527 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Phasmophobia
First-person co-op horror built around identifying hostile ghosts
95% positive
742K reviews
PEAK
First-person co-op climbing where each mistake threatens the whole ascent
94% positive
322K reviews
Life is Strange - Episode 1
Episodic narrative adventure where choices and time rewinding shape events
96% positive
Free
Stray
Third-person cat adventure through a decaying neon cybercity
97% positive
168K reviews
Poppy Playtime
First-person horror puzzle adventure inside an abandoned toy factory
87% positive
Free
Demo DELTARUNE
Chapter-based pixel RPG with choices and bullet-dodging battles
98% positive
134K reviews
Firewatch
First-person wilderness mystery shaped by conversations over a radio
90% positive
100K reviews
Outer Wilds
Open-world space mystery driven by exploration and an endless time loop
95% positive
94K reviews
Everlasting Summer
Free visual novel about choices, romance, and a mysterious summer camp
95% positive
Free
MECCHA CHAMELEON
Online hide-and-seek party game where hiders paint themselves to blend in
87% positive
83K reviews
Content Warning
Online co-op horror where friends film monsters for viral views
93% positive
78K reviews
Persona 4 Golden
Story-rich turn-based JRPG about friends investigating serial murders
97% positive
77K reviews
Chained Together
Co-op 3D platformer where chained climbers share every mistake
89% positive
59K reviews
Demo The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Dark historical visual novel about escorting children amid famine
95% positive
53K reviews
SOMA
First-person sci-fi horror about identity in an isolated underwater facility
96% positive
50K reviews
What Remains of Edith Finch
First-person narrative adventure exploring a family's home and final stories
95% positive
50K reviews
DREDGE
Open-world fishing adventure where night brings Lovecraftian danger
96% positive
50K reviews
Alan Wake
Third-person psychological thriller about fighting darkness with light
89% positive
49K reviews
Demo Atomic Heart
Single-player sci-fi FPS in a robot-filled Soviet alternate history
81% positive
48K reviews
Demo Persona 3 Reload
Story-driven JRPG balancing daily life with turn-based dungeon battles
95% positive
48K reviews
Palia
Free-to-play fantasy life sim with farming, crafting, and shared exploration
85% positive
Free
Demo Life is Strange 2
Episodic narrative adventure where choices shape two brothers’ road trip
87% positive
Free
Demo Firework
Chinese horror mystery told through exploration and puzzles
98% positive
43K reviews
Graveyard Keeper
Medieval cemetery management RPG built around crafting and dark humor
86% positive
42K reviews