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.
Gloomwood
First-person stealth horror with freeform routes through a Victorian city
95% positive
8,431 reviews
The Wild Eight
Open-world survival crafting in Alaska after a mysterious plane crash
68% positive
8,126 reviews
Twelve Minutes
Top-down puzzle thriller about breaking a twelve-minute apartment time loop
73% positive
8,111 reviews
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Detective adventure about solving cases and choosing suspects' fates
89% positive
8,056 reviews
Cube Escape Collection
Point-and-click puzzle anthology with nine connected, macabre mysteries
98% positive
8,008 reviews
Len's Island
Open-world survival crafting across islands, with farming and dungeon combat
80% positive
7,961 reviews
KLETKA
First-person co-op horror roguelike about feeding a living elevator
90% positive
7,902 reviews
A Space for the Unbound
Pixel-art adventure exploring minds amid supernatural events in 1990s Indonesia
97% positive
7,863 reviews
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Chapter-based third-person shooter with puzzles and visual novel storytelling
81% positive
7,803 reviews
Rusty Lake Paradise
Point-and-click puzzles on an island struck by ten plagues
95% positive
7,631 reviews
The Swapper
Sci-fi puzzle platformer built around clones and body swapping
94% positive
7,585 reviews
Hatoful Boyfriend
Bird dating visual novel with branching school romances and secrets
94% positive
7,582 reviews
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
First-person walking adventure across a deserted island with fragmented narration
75% positive
7,567 reviews
THE LONGING
Underground point-and-click adventure with a real-time 400-day countdown
92% positive
7,465 reviews
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Story-driven visual novel pairing deadly choices with escape-room puzzles
93% positive
7,409 reviews
The Rewinder
Chinese folklore puzzle adventure about entering memories and changing history
96% positive
7,371 reviews
INMOST
Dark pixel-art puzzle platformer connecting three characters' stories
91% positive
7,370 reviews
The House of Da Vinci
Renaissance puzzle adventure tracing Leonardo’s disappearance through mechanical contraptions
86% positive
7,330 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer
First-person horror puzzle game with cartoon characters addressing you
94% positive
7,289 reviews
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Supernatural horror visual novel about investigating deadly urban legends
95% positive
7,278 reviews
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
Choice-driven visual novel about romance and intrigue in 1980s Japan
79% positive
7,152 reviews
Underground Blossom
Point-and-click puzzle adventure through metro stations tied to memories
98% positive
7,065 reviews
Riddle Joker
Romance visual novel about a secret agent at a psychic academy
98% positive
7,050 reviews
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Branching mystery visual novel about a supposed paradise's dark side
95% positive
7,042 reviews