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.
DARQ: Complete Edition
Side-scrolling horror puzzle adventure built around walking on walls
94% positive
4,195 reviews
The Sexy Brutale
Time-loop puzzle adventure about preventing murders at a masquerade
92% positive
4,175 reviews
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Detective puzzle game linking strange cases to one artifact
93% positive
4,150 reviews
CHAOS;CHILD
Psychological horror visual novel about investigating murders in Shibuya
93% positive
4,130 reviews
SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY!
Third-person hack-and-slash action through a snowbound town with friends
50% positive
4,122 reviews
Quern - Undying Thoughts
First-person puzzle adventure on an island with no way back
91% positive
4,090 reviews
Kathy Rain
Point-and-click mystery investigating a grandfather's death in a 1990s hometown
92% positive
4,010 reviews
Obduction
First-person sci-fi puzzle adventure through worlds with displaced Earth fragments
80% positive
3,991 reviews
OTXO
Top-down roguelite shooter with slow-motion gunfights and randomized mansion rooms
93% positive
3,978 reviews
428: Shibuya Scramble
Visual novel where choices link five parallel Shibuya stories
95% positive
3,976 reviews
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Detective adventure in 1898 London with Holmes under suspicion
80% positive
3,962 reviews
Martha Is Dead
First-person psychological thriller about a twin's death in wartime Italy
79% positive
3,951 reviews
Caravan SandWitch
Third-person exploration adventure searching a desert planet for your sister
86% positive
3,939 reviews
SchoolBoy Runaway
First-person stealth puzzle game about escaping house arrest unnoticed
91% positive
3,907 reviews
Press Any Button
Story-driven arcade game where you stop an AI's falling blocks
90% positive
3,848 reviews
月影魅像-解放之羽-
Mystery visual novel with endings that unlock new choices
97% positive
3,840 reviews
RATSHAKER™
First-person horror adventure built around shaking a rat to progress
93% positive
3,829 reviews
NUKITASHI
Comedy visual novel about rebelling against an island's sex law
95% positive
3,827 reviews
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Sci-fi detective visual novel investigating a series of half-body murders
86% positive
3,780 reviews
INFRA
First-person puzzle adventure photographing damage in city infrastructure
88% positive
3,744 reviews
Digimon Survive
Visual novel and tactical RPG about surviving a monster-filled world
79% positive
3,733 reviews
Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
First-person psychological horror on a weekend getaway with friends
87% positive
3,642 reviews
Scars Above
Third-person sci-fi shooter with elemental combat on an alien planet
77% positive
3,617 reviews
Void Stranger
2D block puzzles and hidden secrets in a dangerous labyrinth
91% positive
3,602 reviews