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.
Phoning Home
Open-world survival adventure about a stranded robot seeking help
69% positive
Free
Surviving the Abyss
Underwater colony sim balancing crew survival against deep-sea darkness
65% positive
1,083 reviews
Sakura no Mori † Dreamers
Psychological horror visual novel about murders and supernatural sightings
92% positive
1,073 reviews
Old Skies
Point-and-click adventure supervising clients on trips into the past
93% positive
1,042 reviews
Lucid9: Inciting Incident
Choice-driven mystery visual novel about murders at a school
90% positive
Free
Scene Investigators
Detective puzzles about examining crime scenes and filling evidence gaps
75% positive
1,036 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
Horror visual novel about recurring deaths in a rural village
98% positive
1,029 reviews
Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1
Open-world stealth horror with puzzles and an adaptive pursuer
85% positive
Free
Minute of Islands
Hand-drawn puzzle platformer about restoring machines across mysterious islands
77% positive
1,010 reviews
Through Abandoned: The Underground City
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through deserted worlds in search of your brother
77% positive
1,007 reviews
Blackwell Epiphany
Supernatural point-and-click mystery about a force destroying souls
98% positive
1,005 reviews
Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
Chinese horror puzzle adventure shaped by Zangling Village’s marriage warning
93% positive
1,004 reviews
Sepia Tears
Romance visual novel where buried memories complicate a relationship
88% positive
Free
Turlock Holmes
Single-player mystery puzzles solved by asking questions and testing keywords
80% positive
996 reviews
Heart of the Woods
Fantasy romance visual novel about uncovering a forest ghost's curse
95% positive
987 reviews
Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.
First-person ghost-hunting simulation built around patient, repeat investigations
93% positive
987 reviews
Out of Sight
Horror puzzle adventure seen through a blind girl's teddy bear
95% positive
976 reviews
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
First-person escape-room mystery across a secret-filled Victorian manor
87% positive
957 reviews
Do No Harm
First-person doctor simulation with medical decisions and reality-warping horror
75% positive
949 reviews
Unknown 9: Awakening
Third-person action-adventure with stealth and powers to control enemies
37% positive
947 reviews
1bitHeart
Side-scrolling mystery adventure about investigating a town and making friends
91% positive
926 reviews
Project Unknown
First-person co-op horror about finding cursed objects and exorcising ghosts
83% positive
925 reviews
Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game
Cooperative deduction board game where a ghost gives picture clues
75% positive
923 reviews
Bionic Bay
2D sci-fi puzzle platformer built around physics and position swapping
85% positive
922 reviews