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.
DEATH IN UNISON
First-person co-op horror with prison duties and walkie-talkie teamwork
96% positive
773 reviews
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood
Side-scrolling horror adventure switching between killer, detective, and avenger
96% positive
771 reviews
G-senjou no Maou - The Devil on G-String
Crime mystery visual novel about a gangster's son and an international criminal
92% positive
769 reviews
Dark Arcana: The Carnival
Hidden-object mystery across a carnival and its mirror world
89% positive
765 reviews
Methods: The Detective Competition
Detective visual novel about a competition with parole at stake
91% positive
762 reviews
The Darkest Files
Historical detective game about prosecuting Nazi-era crimes in postwar Germany
96% positive
757 reviews
A Day Out
Third-person co-op horror game about investigating and capturing cryptids
77% positive
751 reviews
Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker
First-person horror exploration tied to a mysterious inheritance in Pineville
83% positive
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Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds
Children's point-and-click adventure about finding missing kelp seeds
97% positive
739 reviews
Spectral Scream
Co-op survival horror with maze exploration and a central puzzle
78% positive
736 reviews
Yesterday Origins
Point-and-click mystery spanning centuries and an immortal's lost memories
83% positive
730 reviews
Black Mirror II
Point-and-click horror mystery about a missing friend and nightmares
90% positive
723 reviews
ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE
Sci-fi visual novel about building a giant robot and uncovering conspiracies
91% positive
721 reviews
Voxelgram
3D nonogram puzzles reveal voxel models one clue at a time
98% positive
716 reviews
I'm on Observation Duty 6
Surveillance horror puzzle where missed anomalies can end your night
94% positive
695 reviews
Backroom Company
Co-op Backrooms horror about filming anomalies and evading monsters
82% positive
695 reviews
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective visual novel connecting a postwar curse to a prewar murder
95% positive
694 reviews
Stygian: Outer Gods
First-person survival horror with Lovecraftian mysteries and RPG choices
82% positive
689 reviews
Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova
Point-and-click hidden-object adventure investigating unexplained deaths in eighteenth-century Serbia
86% positive
684 reviews
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3
Point-and-click horror mystery with hidden objects and family secrets
93% positive
677 reviews
Maquette
First-person puzzle adventure with nested worlds and shifting object scales
70% positive
674 reviews
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk
Otome visual novel with branching choices in a divided town
85% positive
663 reviews
消失的航班，还有她她她！Lost in the secret!
First-person live-action mystery adventure after a strange plane crash
90% positive
653 reviews
Paper Bride 4 Bound Love
Chinese folklore horror game about solving Yichang Town's mysteries
78% positive
651 reviews