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.
SpyParty
One-on-one spy-versus-sniper game about blending into a cocktail party
77% positive
1,617 reviews
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
Point-and-click hidden-object mystery tracking a demonic preacher through Ravenwood Park
97% positive
1,614 reviews
Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)
Point-and-click mystery adventure with puzzles and a Mayan artifact
91% positive
1,605 reviews
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition
First-person puzzle adventure with free exploration and environmental clues
89% positive
1,599 reviews
Zardy's Maze
First-person horror: cut giant weeds while evading cornfield monsters
91% positive
Free
Withering Rooms
Horror action RPG in a mansion that changes nightly
96% positive
1,589 reviews
Children of Silentown
Hand-drawn point-and-click mystery about disappearances near a forbidden forest
87% positive
1,584 reviews
노베나 디아볼로스
Survival mystery adventure with nine days to find the human
93% positive
1,570 reviews
Cat in the Box
Pixel horror adventure about exploring and escaping a cult mansion
94% positive
1,569 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer 2
First-person horror puzzle adventure through a library and interactive tapes
83% positive
1,566 reviews
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
1990s point-and-click detective mystery following a grandfather's clues
92% positive
1,553 reviews
NOeSIS01_诉说谎言记忆物语
Horror visual novel about campus suicides and voices of the dead
98% positive
Free
Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
Hidden-object adventure investigating supernatural secrets in an underwater city
90% positive
1,538 reviews
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Branching horror visual novel about a curse and seven characters
85% positive
1,533 reviews
Mundaun
First-person Alpine horror adventure with hand-drawn art and puzzles
93% positive
1,514 reviews
Black Mirror I
Gothic point-and-click adventure investigating a suspicious death and family secrets
84% positive
1,502 reviews
9-nine-:Episode 4
Supernatural mystery visual novel tying together four parallel-world stories
98% positive
1,497 reviews
The Shell Part I: Inferno
Detective visual novel with branching choices and a dark mystery
90% positive
1,491 reviews
Nyakori's Rabbit Doll
Horror puzzle RPG about a cat-eared girl uncovering hidden memories
95% positive
1,478 reviews
Submachine: Legacy
Hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure in a deserted machine network
98% positive
1,463 reviews
The Other Side
First-person co-op ghost hunting with investigation and cleansing contracts
94% positive
1,448 reviews
Escape From Mystwood Mansion
First-person escape room puzzles inside a locked mansion
93% positive
1,445 reviews
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases
Isometric detective adventure about connecting clues in a snowbound manor
76% positive
1,441 reviews
Riven (1997)
First-person point-and-click adventure where exploration reveals clues to difficult puzzles
89% positive
1,432 reviews