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.
Logiart Grimoire
Picture logic puzzles with clue-based combinations that unlock new grids
95% positive
384 reviews
Creepy Shift: House For Sale
First-person horror sim about preparing a haunted house for sale
93% positive
382 reviews
Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy
Point-and-click mystery investigating threats at a girls' boarding school
90% positive
353 reviews
Nancy Drew®: Mystery of the Seven Keys™
First-person detective adventure about a stolen necklace in Prague
57% positive
352 reviews
Epigraph
Single-player language puzzle about decoding inscriptions on seven artifacts
87% positive
348 reviews
Endless Fables: The Minotaur's Curse
Point-and-click hidden-object adventure investigating a cult and the Minotaur
90% positive
344 reviews
Embers Adrift
Fantasy MMORPG with tab-target combat and group dungeon exploration
71% positive
344 reviews
Last Time I Saw You
Hand-drawn 2D adventure about growing up under a hometown curse
97% positive
342 reviews
Heart Fragment
Otome visual novel with branching endings and supernatural secrets
92% positive
Free
Nancy Drew®: Ghost of Thornton Hall
Point-and-click detective mystery about a missing bride and family secrets
93% positive
331 reviews
SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders
Hidden-object mystery in historical Japan following your husband's death
81% positive
327 reviews
Mosaic of The Pharaohs
Minesweeper-like logic puzzles reveal a giant ancient Egyptian mosaic
92% positive
318 reviews
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery
Live-action point-and-click adventure investigating murders linked to werewolves
92% positive
314 reviews
Myst IV: Revelation
First-person puzzle adventure exploring worlds and uncovering family secrets
64% positive
312 reviews
Escape Memoirs: Safe House
Escape-room puzzle game about breaking into a locked safe house
90% positive
311 reviews
Nancy Drew®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
First-person point-and-click mystery about glowing-eyed dogs in remote woods
92% positive
307 reviews
Love In The Dark
Cooperative horror game about rescuing a possessed girlfriend
35% positive
Free
Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool & Snow
Kinetic visual novel about a nun investigating an abbey murder
99% positive
304 reviews
CLeM
Eerie puzzle adventure exploring a house with crafted magical toys
91% positive
300 reviews
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
Mystery visual novel about untangling strange events inside a sealed tower
87% positive
299 reviews
HELLSEED: All Chapters
First-person horror investigation of a disappearance in 1980s Italy
72% positive
299 reviews
Nancy Drew®: Danger on Deception Island
First-person mystery adventure investigating sabotage on a Pacific Northwest island
92% positive
295 reviews
Saint Kotar
Point-and-click horror mystery with two protagonists and occult rituals
74% positive
293 reviews
MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE
Pixel-art detective adventure across four short, eerie mystery cases
80% positive
291 reviews