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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Demo The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
Branching third-person horror adventure inside a trap-filled hotel
56% positive
4,037 reviews
Demo SchoolBoy Runaway
First-person stealth puzzle game about escaping house arrest unnoticed
91% positive
4,014 reviews
Forgive Me Father
Retro horror shooter with comic-book art and madness-powered combat
84% positive
3,986 reviews
428: Shibuya Scramble
Visual novel where choices link five parallel Shibuya stories
94% positive
3,982 reviews
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
VR puzzle adventure involving strange devices and a supernatural mystery
98% positive
3,949 reviews
Demo The Séance of Blake Manor
Supernatural detective adventure where investigative actions move the clock forward
95% positive
3,943 reviews
As Dusk Falls
Choice-driven crime drama spanning two families and decades of consequences
90% positive
3,936 reviews
Demo The Darkside Detective
Point-and-click comedy about a detective handling supernatural cases
94% positive
3,933 reviews
Quern - Undying Thoughts
First-person puzzle adventure on an island with no way back
90% positive
3,931 reviews
Aurora Hills: Chapter 1
Point-and-click puzzle mystery about missing people in an Appalachian town
94% positive
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Demo The Rise of the Golden Idol
Detective puzzle game linking strange cases to one artifact
92% positive
3,907 reviews
Until Dawn™
Choice-driven third-person horror adventure where anyone can die
82% positive
3,875 reviews
Demo Owlboy
Pixel-art action adventure with flying, platforming, and companion combat
86% positive
3,872 reviews
Press Any Button
Story-driven arcade game where you stop an AI's falling blocks
90% positive
3,848 reviews
SIMULACRA
Phone-based horror mystery about tracing a missing woman's last steps
92% positive
3,827 reviews
Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
First-person psychological horror on a weekend getaway with friends
86% positive
3,814 reviews
Monument Valley 2
A puzzle adventure through monuments with shifting, impossible pathways
93% positive
3,784 reviews
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Sci-fi detective visual novel investigating a series of half-body murders
86% positive
3,763 reviews
Demo Subliminal
First-person psychological horror with movable light and perspective-based puzzles
73% positive
3,762 reviews
NUKITASHI
Comedy visual novel about rebelling against an island's sex law
95% positive
3,726 reviews
Demo Dark Hours
Co-op survival horror where thieves must escape roaming monsters
80% positive
3,722 reviews
Thimbleweed Park™
Point-and-click mystery with five playable characters in a strange town
92% positive
3,721 reviews
INFRA
First-person puzzle adventure photographing damage in city infrastructure
88% positive
3,692 reviews
Scars Above
Third-person sci-fi shooter with elemental combat on an alien planet
77% positive
3,617 reviews