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.
The Crown of Leaves
Chapter-based visual novel with point-and-click puzzles and supernatural mysteries
96% positive
2,242 reviews
Orb of Creation
Active incremental puzzle game about rebuilding a world through magic
84% positive
2,231 reviews
恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
Choice-driven romance visual novel about an investigation and strange forces
94% positive
2,212 reviews
Myst
First-person puzzle adventure across a mysterious island and other Ages
89% positive
2,209 reviews
Dollmare
Factory horror simulation about spotting defects in unsettling dolls
94% positive
2,176 reviews
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
First-person exploration adventure about a village whose residents vanished
68% positive
2,160 reviews
Doors: Paradox
Point-and-click puzzle game about unlocking doors across themed worlds
91% positive
2,128 reviews
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
Psychological horror visual novel about a murder predicted by an image
88% positive
2,101 reviews
DreadOut 2
Third-person horror adventure hunting Indonesian ghosts with smartphone and weapons
75% positive
2,100 reviews
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Side-scrolling supernatural adventure driven by choices and radio signals
88% positive
2,078 reviews
Knock-knock
Side-scrolling horror adventure about surviving nights in a shifting cabin
87% positive
2,076 reviews
The Unfinished Swan
First-person puzzle adventure revealing a blank world with paint
83% positive
2,033 reviews
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Point-and-click detective comedy with paranormal cases in a cursed town
96% positive
2,024 reviews
Whispers of a Machine
Sci-fi point-and-click mystery with adaptable cybernetic detective abilities
93% positive
2,020 reviews
Sinister Night 2
First-person multiplayer horror with hidden threats in a haunted mansion
87% positive
2,020 reviews
United heist
Two-player heist puzzle game with separate roles and shared clues
82% positive
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9-nine-:Episode 1
Episodic visual novel about romance and a supernatural murder mystery
95% positive
2,017 reviews
9-nine-:Episode 2
Episodic visual novel about siblings investigating supernatural murders
98% positive
2,006 reviews
Dreamcore
First-person exploration of eerie, empty spaces without a guide
89% positive
2,006 reviews
UNREAL LIFE
Side-scrolling puzzle adventure about reading objects' memories with a talking traffic light
95% positive
1,995 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
Psychological horror visual novel about recurring deaths in a village
97% positive
1,994 reviews
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Third-person survival horror where photographs ward off island ghosts
89% positive
1,978 reviews
D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die -Season One-
Episodic detective adventure investigating a murder through trips into the past
80% positive
1,978 reviews
Frankenstein: Master of Death
Point-and-click hidden-object adventure amid experiments that resurrect the dead
83% positive
1,972 reviews