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.
Sea Chronicles
First-person puzzle adventure on a sinking ship with multiple endings
91% positive
157 reviews
PENGUIN HOTEL -Chapter 1-
First-person horror adventure with camera puzzles and penguin threats
88% positive
Free
Twilight Town
Hidden-object mystery adventure with city building and vampire-werewolf conflict
65% positive
Free
Nancy Drew®: Tomb of the Lost Queen
Point-and-click detective adventure investigating accidents at an Egyptian tomb
88% positive
141 reviews
3D Escape Room: Detective Story
3D escape-room mystery built around codes and mechanical contraptions
70% positive
136 reviews
Demonheart: The Cursed Trial
Dark fantasy otome visual novel about keeping your identity secret
91% positive
134 reviews
Saturnalia
Third-person horror adventure through a village reshaped when everyone dies
91% positive
133 reviews
Bonds of Yachiyo
Adult horror adventure with puzzles and chases through a transformed university
88% positive
129 reviews
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
Chapter-based mystery adventure about exposing disguised monsters among tenants
82% positive
122 reviews
Clink
First-person psychological horror in an old house of buried memories
74% positive
121 reviews
Mistwood Heroes
Top-down party RPG with turn-based battles and boss fights
64% positive
120 reviews
Among The Whispers - Provocation
First-person ghost investigation across a four-story haunted mansion
82% positive
119 reviews
Embracelet
Story-driven puzzle adventure with a telekinetic bracelet on a Norwegian island
94% positive
110 reviews
Grove Fisher
Idle fishing game with rare fish, treasures, and pond upgrades
70% positive
105 reviews
Cursed Bet
First-person horror adventure in an abandoned preschool with a cursed doll
57% positive
102 reviews
Button Tales
Match-three puzzles with two-sided tiles and a world to rebuild
90% positive
101 reviews
Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device
Point-and-click detective adventure about a suspicious death in a research lab
92% positive
97 reviews
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Detective adventure with live-action scenes and a branching Roswell mystery
87% positive
97 reviews
Nancy Drew® Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!
Point-and-click hidden-object mystery on a troubled Hollywood movie set
70% positive
83 reviews
Mystery P.I.™ - The Vegas Heist
Hidden-object puzzle game tracking stolen casino money across Vegas
85% positive
82 reviews
TASOKARE HOTEL Re:newal
Mystery visual novel about lost memories in a twilight hotel
87% positive
82 reviews
These Darker Tides
First-person underwater horror about monitoring cameras and fending off threats
91% positive
82 reviews
The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~
Graphic detective adventure investigating murders across Tokyo and Hokkaido
94% positive
77 reviews
Woolly Boy and the Circus
Hand-painted puzzle adventure about escaping a circus with a dog
79% positive
76 reviews