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.
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly
Mystery visual novel with romance, lost memories, and branching endings
84% positive
916 reviews
Journey to Incrementalia
Top-down incremental strategy game about breaking walls with summoned minions
87% positive
916 reviews
Europa
Story-driven exploration platformer with jetpack gliding across a terraformed moon
87% positive
915 reviews
Eternal Threads
First-person puzzle game changing past choices to save housemates
86% positive
909 reviews
欺神弄鬼
Fantasy RPG with romance in a matriarchal martial world
92% positive
908 reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
Detective adventure investigating disappearances tied to Lovecraftian horror
74% positive
907 reviews
Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003)
Third-person puzzle adventure investigating murder and an ancient conspiracy
56% positive
894 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
A sound novel finale confronting a village's recurring tragedies
95% positive
892 reviews
Lamplight City
Point-and-click detective adventure where wrong conclusions change later cases
89% positive
877 reviews
FAKEBOOK
Point-and-click mystery investigating secrets across a virtual social network
91% positive
863 reviews
Eventide: Slavic Fable
Hidden-object adventure through a park of Slavic folklore creatures
93% positive
854 reviews
The Eyes of Ara
First-person puzzle adventure through a castle broadcasting a mysterious signal
82% positive
854 reviews
I'm on Observation Duty 4
Surveillance horror where you spot and report changes before dawn
97% positive
853 reviews
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2
Point-and-click horror mystery with puzzles inside an asylum at night
93% positive
842 reviews
How 2 Escape
Two-player escape-room puzzles split between a train and companion app
71% positive
837 reviews
CaseCracker2
Text-based detective puzzles link clues across separate cases
91% positive
828 reviews
Mind Snares: Alice's Journey
Point-and-click hidden-object adventure through Alice's memories and nightmares
88% positive
823 reviews
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
Hidden-object adventure with monster hunting in a gothic city
93% positive
817 reviews
I'm on Observation Duty 5
Surveillance horror puzzle about spotting changes before they pile up
96% positive
816 reviews
Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
Board-game RPG with crossover characters at a tropical summer camp
62% positive
815 reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring
Point-and-click detective adventure investigating murders across Victorian London
59% positive
807 reviews
Runaway, A Road Adventure
Point-and-click adventure about solving puzzles while fleeing Mafia gangsters
77% positive
791 reviews
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Horror mystery visual novel that revisits earlier chapters' unanswered questions
97% positive
783 reviews
Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis
First-person detective adventure solving a burglar's riddles across London
71% positive
782 reviews