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
3,529 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Vesnith Tapes
First-person psychological horror about investigating a house through old tapes
80% positive
87 reviews
Alice Mesmerizing Episodes of Neurosis (AMEN)
Hidden-object searches in a dark, symbolic take on Wonderland
94% positive
87 reviews
Demo Radiotext
Terminal-based text adventure with branching conversations across a forgotten radio network
97% positive
87 reviews
Dreamcards
Roguelike deckbuilding where everyday people and actions become dream cards
99% positive
87 reviews
Only Faces Remain
First-person psychological horror built around sound, tension, and exploration
84% positive
Free
Nepenthe
Surreal RPG where you can spare almost every monster
91% positive
86 reviews
Not in Heaven
Surreal horror adventure about a child searching for her father
56% positive
Free
Demo Our Secret Below
Escape room horror where your captor’s past holds the clues
83% positive
86 reviews
The Academy: The First Riddle
Puzzle adventure with hundreds of riddles and a school mystery
63% positive
86 reviews
Freaky Clown : Town Mystery
A horror adventure about rescuing children from a masked clown
64% positive
Free
Demo Dreambound
A psychological mystery visual novel about grief, dreams, and murder
97% positive
86 reviews
Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
Detective RPG with dice-based skill checks and story-changing decisions
85% positive
86 reviews
Demo The Last Winter Knight
Gothic visual novel about a ghost inhabiting a suit of armor
99% positive
86 reviews
Moaisland
First-person puzzle adventure about helping an island's stone statues
98% positive
Free
Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
A point-and-click mystery in an abbey whose monks remain silent
92% positive
86 reviews
Mirrored - Chapter 1
A point-and-click escape-room mystery set in your twin brother's office
65% positive
85 reviews
Deep Lake: Prologue
A Gothic visual novel with a death-obsessed former court photographer
81% positive
Free
Demo Project Tower
Third-person shooter with shapeshifting and bullet-hell boss fights
75% positive
85 reviews
Derealized
A choice-based adventure with ten different endings to find
81% positive
Free
Kamaitachi no Yoru x3
Text-based murder mysteries with branching stories and multiple character perspectives
82% positive
85 reviews
Black Light Kills
First-person psychological horror about missing people and a deteriorating mind
74% positive
85 reviews
Demo Eclipse : Special Forces
A fantasy visual novel with superpowered women and timed choices
92% positive
85 reviews
Scream under the house
First-person psychological horror about secrets hidden in your childhood home
81% positive
85 reviews
Skybound
A 3D exploration platformer built around grappling and momentum
89% positive
Free