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.
Hide and Shriek
Free-to-play first-person duels where invisible students trade jump scares
82% positive
Free
Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,305 reviews
Until Dawn™
Choice-driven third-person horror adventure where anyone can die
83% positive
5,295 reviews
Exo One
Physics-based exploration across alien planets using gravity and momentum
90% positive
5,282 reviews
The Darkside Detective
Point-and-click comedy about a detective handling supernatural cases
94% positive
5,257 reviews
Observation
Sci-fi puzzle adventure viewed through a space station's AI
78% positive
5,218 reviews
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
Top-down tactical RPG with demanding squad battles and stealth
80% positive
5,206 reviews
Roadwarden
Text-based fantasy RPG about investigating a dangerous, isolated peninsula
94% positive
5,193 reviews
Nocturnal
Side-scrolling action adventure where a flaming sword repels mist
94% positive
5,156 reviews
GNOSIA
Single-player sci-fi social deduction RPG built around repeating time loops
94% positive
5,147 reviews
Sol Cesto
Turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler where you manipulate random odds
91% positive
5,141 reviews
Blameless
First-person puzzle adventure about escaping a man in an unfinished house
84% positive
Free
What Never Was
First-person puzzle adventure about secrets in a grandfather's attic
95% positive
Free
Hidden Deep
2D sci-fi action commanding a rescue team beneath the seafloor
76% positive
5,099 reviews
Erzurum
Open-world winter survival against cold, hunger, and wild animals
41% positive
5,081 reviews
Syberia: The World Before
Story-driven puzzle adventure connecting two women's lives across decades
90% positive
5,053 reviews
Summer of '58
First-person horror walking simulator exploring an abandoned Soviet summer camp
89% positive
4,953 reviews
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Choice-driven story adventure about Chloe and Rachel's friendship
85% positive
4,944 reviews
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Story-driven puzzle adventure with deadly choices and fractured timelines
82% positive
4,924 reviews
Alone in the Dark
Third-person survival horror investigating a disappearance at a Louisiana asylum
78% positive
4,922 reviews
DON'T SCREAM
First-person forest horror where screaming restarts the night
65% positive
4,874 reviews
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Two-game detective adventure centered on crime scenes and logical deductions
97% positive
4,853 reviews
Syberia 3
Third-person puzzle adventure about helping a nomadic tribe migrate
51% positive
4,807 reviews
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Open-world horror adventure about investigating murders in a supernatural town
66% positive
4,780 reviews