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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We Were Here Too
First-person co-op puzzle adventure built around walkie-talkie communication
78% positive
9,682 reviews
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
Episodic superhero adventure where Bruce Wayne's decisions shape relationships
92% positive
9,677 reviews
Pentiment
Historical adventure investigating murders across decades in a Bavarian town
95% positive
9,596 reviews
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Psychological horror RPG with multiple ways to solve each puzzle
99% positive
Free
Demo Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Dystopian investigation game about deciding what security forces learn
90% positive
9,426 reviews
Thomas Was Alone
Minimalist puzzle platformer about sentient rectangles working together
94% positive
9,393 reviews
AI: The Somnium Files
Detective visual novel about investigating crime scenes and dreams
91% positive
9,369 reviews
Buy a Croquette!
Pixel-art mystery adventure about collecting coins for a croquette
99% positive
Free
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Third-person action thriller with light-based combat and arcade survival
74% positive
9,055 reviews
At Home Alone Final
A pixel-art horror adventure beneath a cheerful-looking surface
97% positive
Free
Rusty Lake: Roots
Point-and-click puzzle adventure tracing a family's dark history
97% positive
8,993 reviews
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
First-person mystery adventure examining deaths to find a missing boy
88% positive
8,976 reviews
Back to the Dawn
Pixel-art prison escape RPG with branching routes and a deadline
92% positive
8,912 reviews
Demo The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Historical visual novel about surviving a city besieged by demons
62% positive
8,869 reviews
Demo Lost in Play
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through childhood imagination and fantasy
98% positive
8,783 reviews
Storyteller
Comic-panel puzzle game about arranging scenes to match story titles
88% positive
8,570 reviews
Amnesia: Rebirth
First-person horror adventure retracing a missing journey through Algeria
77% positive
8,543 reviews
STEINS;GATE 0
Time travel visual novel where phone calls change the outcome
96% positive
8,481 reviews
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Chapter-based third-person shooter with puzzles and visual novel storytelling
82% positive
8,458 reviews
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Choice-driven supernatural mystery spanning two versions of a winter campus
70% positive
8,271 reviews
Cube Escape Collection
Point-and-click puzzle anthology with nine connected, macabre mysteries
98% positive
8,212 reviews
Gloomwood
First-person stealth horror with freeform routes through a Victorian city
94% positive
8,166 reviews
Monument Valley
Perspective puzzle game about guiding a princess through shifting monuments
98% positive
8,122 reviews
Manifold Garden
First-person puzzle adventure in looping spaces with shifting gravity
95% positive
8,097 reviews