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
3,789 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Single-player samurai action RPG with parries and soul-absorbing powers
90% positive
17K reviews
Demo Escape Simulator
First-person escape-room puzzles with online co-op and community levels
93% positive
17K reviews
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
First-person social horror matches with a disguised traitor
87% positive
17K reviews
We Were Here Forever
Two-player escape-room adventure built around communication and asymmetric puzzles
90% positive
17K reviews
Demo Until Then
Pixel-art visual novel blending romance, mystery, and psychological drama
97% positive
17K reviews
Demo Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
16K reviews
Demo We Were Here Together
Two-player escape-room adventure built around walkie-talkie communication and teamwork
82% positive
16K reviews
Demo The Past Within
Co-op point-and-click adventure with puzzles spanning past and future
95% positive
16K reviews
Garten of Banban
First-person horror adventure in a kindergarten where everyone vanished
54% positive
Free
Demo Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
15K reviews
Demo Cyber Manhunt
Cyber detective puzzle game about uncovering secrets through online clues
92% positive
15K reviews
Demo REANIMAL
Co-op horror adventure about siblings searching an island for friends
78% positive
15K reviews
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive
15K reviews
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
A visual novel about a missing girl in a Soviet city
98% positive
Free
Layers of Fear (2016)
First-person psychological horror through a painter’s constantly shifting home
89% positive
14K reviews
Ghostwire: Tokyo
First-person open-world action against spirits in a deserted Tokyo
83% positive
14K reviews
Cube Escape: Paradox
Surreal point-and-click escape-room mystery with increasingly difficult puzzles
97% positive
Free
The Room Three
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through mechanical trials on a remote island
95% positive
14K reviews
Demo Life is Strange: True Colors
Choice-driven narrative adventure with supernatural empathy and a small-town mystery
89% positive
13K reviews
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive
Free
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
First-person horror as a night technician among active animatronics
90% positive
13K reviews
The Talos Principle 2
First-person sci-fi puzzler about robots, civilization, and humanity's legacy
94% positive
13K reviews
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Third-person detective adventure mixing London mysteries with action sequences
80% positive
13K reviews
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Side-scrolling psychological horror adventure about eviction, guilt, and puzzles
93% positive
13K reviews